Facebook to let users tag friends in status post

Sep 13 2009

facebookAccording to product manager Andrew Huang, one can tag their friends over his/her status updates.Expect this feature to be out by the next couple of weeks.

Here’s how it works. Let’s say someone post he’s having lunch at a particular place, now he can tag his friends’ name. This will make it easier for people to search for posts mentioning those particular friends.

This feature is pretty much similar to those found in photos, notes and links.

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6 techniques to reduce camera shake

Sep 11 2009

Natalie Norton of DPS shares with us a great tips of how to reduce camera shake. I find it very useful for all kind of photographers.

For those who can afford VR (Vibration Reduction) or IS (Image Stabilization) lenses, you are always blessed with this feature. But there are times when you want a very slow shutter speed, but you have no tripod with you. Thus, hand held is your option.

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Jessica Biel tops Brad Pitt as Internet’s most dangerous search

Sep 09 2009

jessica_bielActress Jessica Biel has overtaken Brad Pitt as the most dangerous celebrity to search in cyberspace, according to internet security company McAfee Inc.

For the third consecutive year, McAfee surveyed which A-list celebrity was the riskiest to track on the internet after Pitt topped the list last year and Paris Hilton in 2007.

Biel, 27, who shot to fame in the TV show 7th Heaven and most recently starred in Easy Virtue, was deemed the most dangerous, with fans having a one-in-five chance of landing at a website that has tested positive for online threats, such as spyware, adware, spam, phishing and viruses.

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How Facebook ruins friendship

Sep 07 2009

Notice to my friends: I love you all dearly.

But I don’t give a hoot that you are “having a busy Monday,” your child “took 30 minutes to brush his teeth,” your dog “just ate an ant trap” or you want to “save the piglets.” And I really, really don’t care which Addams Family member you most resemble. (I could have told you the answer before you took the quiz on Facebook.)

Here’s where you and I went wrong: We took our friendship online. First we began communicating more by email than by phone. Then we switched to “instant messaging” or “texting.” We “friended” each other on Facebook, and began communicating by “tweeting” our thoughts—in 140 characters or less—via Twitter.

All this online social networking was supposed to make us closer. And in some ways it has. Thanks to the Internet, many of us have gotten back in touch with friends from high school and college, shared old and new photos, and become better acquainted with some people we might never have grown close to offline.

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Why people who work with computers have a lot of spare time

Sep 05 2009

This picture explains it all.

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Sauce: Eviljaymz

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