Disable Facebook Places

From Wired How-To Wiki

 

 

Facebook now lets you share your whereabouts with your friends by "checking in" to a location through Facebook Places.

But Places does have an odd quirk -- even if you don't want to share your location everywhere you go, your Facebook friends can share it for you. Just like they can tag your face in a photo, causing that photo to be associated with your account, your Facebook friends can tag you as being at a location, "checking you in" to a place on your behalf. The fact you're at a location will show up on your Wall, and your friends will see your face appear on the Facebook page of that bar, restaurant or strip club under a list of "People here now." You'll receive a notification that you've been tagged (just like a photo) and you can go into Places and un-tag (un-check-in) yourself.

But if you don't want to share your location at all, ever, with anyone, you can opt-out of Places entirely. Here's how to turn off Places in Facebook.

This article is part of a wiki anyone can edit. If you have advice to share, or if Facebook updates its Places privacy settings and these instructions have changed, please log in and contribute.

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5 Epic Apple Fails | by foreverGeek.com

ForeverGeek.com reviewed 5 famous Apple failures in history. Good times haha

 

5 Epic Apple Fails

Monday, Jun. 28 2010 | Author: Robin

iMac. iPod. iPhone. iPad.

Everything Apple touches turns to gold. Or does it?

Apple’s history is filled with mistakes and outright failures — products that even the most ardent fans shunned, and that Apple itself would rather pretend never happened. We can all forgive Apple its missteps, because you can’t achieve the peak of coolness without shooting some blanks along the way. But it’s still pretty fascinating to look back and see how such a powerful company can get it so very, very wrong.

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You can find my Tech comments on O'Reilly Answers now too
 
 
I will now be posting my tech notes and tutorials on the wonderful O'Reilly publishing area, O'Reilly Answers, so I can help contribute to the world of knowledge sharing better. I love that publishing company, get almost all my books solely from them, they have the best services and excellent quality technological books, for all levels.
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DropBox Tip for Mobile Users

For those of you who use DropBox as religiously as I do, I have some tips I would like to share with you guys, which may aid you in your day-to-day workflows. I store all my important documents on there, which I have and use remotely. For example, tickets that I purchase online, travel agendas and so forth I store in folders and sub-folders, organised as you can see. 
 

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