Another attempt on your privacy by Facebook זהירות פייסבוק

במקרה ולא ידעתם פייסבוק משתמשת בתמונת פרופיל שלכם למטרות פרסום אצל משתמשים אחרים (מהרשימת חברים).

אז לכל מי שלא יודע הנה הדרך לבטל את ה “אישור” האוטומטי שהבאנו לפייסבוק.

יש ללחוץ על Settings בצד ימין למעלה.

ללחוץ על Privacy – Manage

ללחוץ על News Feed and Wall

ללחוץ על הטאב Facebook Ads

כעת בדרופ דאון (רשימת בחירה) לבחור באופציה: No One

In case you didn't know, Facebook sometimes uses your profile picture in advertisement impressions shown to other Facebook users.

You can control the exposure of your picture from your settings, but by default Facebook is allowed to do that.

If you want to protect your picture from appearing in Facebook ads, this is what you have to do:

Click on Settings up at the top right corner (where you see the "log out" link).

Select Privacy - Manage.

Select News Feed and Wall.

Select the tab that reads Facebook Ads. There is a drop-down box - click it and select No One.

From Mobile Internet

Firefox Add-ons – Better GReader

If you are using Google Reader (post about Google Reader in Hebrew) as an RSS reader and Firefox as you browser, you should try Better GReader add-on for Firefox.

The add-on adds the following functionalities to Google Reader:

1. Preview web pages inline in Google Reader
2. Collapse the header and sidebar for more reading area
3. Add favicons to feed subscriptions
4. And a few more features like skins, hiding unread count and more...

Customization options for Google Reader

Skins for Google Reader

1. Install from Firefox add-ons
2. Better GReader site

Firefox Add-ons – IE Tab

Even these days when the share of Internet Explorer is declining, there are sites that weren't built according standards, but were built, designed and tested specifically for Internet Explorer. I really hate those sites. If you are building a site don’t just limit your visitors to be IE users. Build it using the web standards and it will work for the modern browsers (IE 8, Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera).

For now there is a workaround for those sites that work only in IE. If you use Firefox there is add-on called IE Tab. When you visit a site that works well only in IE, just click on add-on IE icon and Firefox will change the current tab to IE that is embedded in Firefox.

Same site in Firefox. Left displayed in IE Tab, right regularly.

Sites Filter	General Settings
Context Menu	External Application

Get IE Tab

Firefox Add-ons - Flashblock

We are starting a series that covers Firefox add-ons. Firefox add-ons is one of the best features that come with firefox. You can browse through a vast collection of add-ons here, and start benefit more from your browser.

Today we will show you a must have add-on called flashblock. This add-on replace all the flash animations in the site with an empty white box and “play” icon inside. Only when you click on the play button the flash animation start to play. That way all the CPU-hungry flash advertisements are removed from the site, and the page loads much faster. When you click play then you see your desired flash animation. Another feature when you are tired on clicking play is the ability to add a site to a white list so each time you enter this specific site flashblock will be disabled and all the flash animations will work regularly.

Install flashblock and enjoy cleaner (ads-free) and faster internet browsing experience.

Google Gmail – drop it to label!

אופציה חדשה נוספה לשירות הדואר החינאמי של גוגל גימייל.

עד עתה כשהיינו רוצים להעביר פריט כל שהוא לתווית היה צורך בפעולה הצורכת מס’ קליקים היום לאחר שידרוג קטן של גוגל בגימייל הפעולה כל כך פשוט, להקיש על ה- :: ליד הפריט (סמן העכבר יהפוך לצורה של יד) ולגרור אותו לתווית הרצויה או להפך, להצמיד את התווית הרצויה אל הפריט.

גרירת פריט לתווית

גרירת תווית אל הפריט

 

Drag and drop
You can now drag messages into labels, just like you can with folders. This does the exact same thing as "Move to" -- it labels and archives in one step.

You can drag labels onto messages too. It's the same thing as using the "Label" button. To label or move many messages at once, first select the messages and then drag and drop the label.
It's also possible to drag labels into the "more" menu to hide them and vice versa. If you only want to move a couple labels around, I've found it quicker than going to Settings.
All of these changes also mean the end of Right-side Labels, an experimental Gmail Labs feature. This is the first Labs feature we're retiring. (The idea behind Labs was always that things could break or disappear at any time or they might work so well that they become regular features. More on that soon...) Now that labels aren't in their own little box and take up much less space, moving them around the screen didn't seem as important. We realize quite a few of you used and liked Right-side Labels, so if you feel strapped for left nav screen real estate without it, try turning on Right-side Chat in Labs instead.

From Gmail Blog