LostInTechnology

If you’ve ever done research online, then you know how daunting it can be when there are literally millions of resources on any given topic.  Believe it or not though, coming up with the right resources is only half battle.

The other half is getting that research synthesized, recorded and organized. How many times have you copy and pasted directly from a web page to Word? Hit the ‘Save as Webpage’ button? Gathered a mash up of information that you were never able to find again afterwards?

It certainly is an uphill battle–if you lack the right tools, that is.

The great thing about Google Chrome is that has a large community of extension developers that are constantly finding ways in which they can make performing tasks with Chrome a smooth experience.  The task of researching, organizing and note taking is no exception.

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Think of all the personal, private aspects of your life. Your bank account, private notes, shopping habits, credit card numbers, Social Security Number. How much of that have you shared online?

Do you bank online? Use Billpay? Shop at Amazon? Share on Facebook, Twitter or Google Plus? Check your email? Can you know your password is as secure as possible?

Don’t rely on the sites you visit to protect your privacy. Even the biggest players have snafus. Recently, Zappos.com revealed their customer data had been compromised. Sony, Citigroup, even the FBI, suffered online security breaches last year. What’s left for a person to do? Go off the grid entirely, hide your cash in a jar under your bed and pay in cash only?

Depending on your paranoia level, that may sound tempting, but it’s not practical for most people.

Here are nine ways to keep your information safe online.

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One good thing that comes with every book is the table of contents and an associated index. This definitely helps readers to a great extent in navigating through the book while looking for specific content. I wish every website on the Internet had this feature too. I wish every article had a supportive table of contents to help browse through their sub-headings.

Creating links based on the table could drastically reduce user effort and time in searching for contents of their interest. In this context, we previously discussed how you could create a scrollbar of contents for easy navigation on a website. If you did not love the idea of enhancing the behavior of your browser scrollbar, here’s another method to create table of contents for any webpage.

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While there is nothing that wrong with the official mobile Facebook app, it just seems that other developers offer a much fresher perspective than the ones inside Facebook HQ. It may be because like the wise Benjamin Franklin said, ‘Paintings and fightings are best seen from a distance’.

That is, they are too busy trying to stay ahead of the tech pack that they can’t see the forest for the trees. Those not in the middle of all the work going on there may have a better grasp of what the users need in an iPhone app.

Here are 4 apps offering an interesting take on how to interact with your Facebook data on your iPhone.

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It’s been a while since I’ve posted a Weekly Links post. I could give excuses, but lets just say I was a little busy, and you can always find links I share each week if you follow me on Twitter or Google+.

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If you are using a shared computer, it becomes quite difficult to maintain privacy and secrecy over a lot of personal stuffs. Though there are many ways to protect data and documents by using  password vaults and encryption tools, it is vital to be careful and aware of other users of the machine.

In this article I will help you you can password protect your Sticky Notes using Secret Notes. This simple tool lets you password protect your Sticky Notes so that you no more have to worry about them.

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Now a days, it’s cloud everywhere on the internet. With the revolution of the cloud services available for free, if not,at a very affordable prices a regular users are preferring to keep the backup copies of their files on the cloud to avoid disastrous damages.

The average user on the internet has multiple cloud service accounts like, he has an account on Dropbox to store all his important  files; he may use Google docs to edit and save important documents, Flickr to store his photos and many more, there are different cloud services available on the internet for different purposes, it is turn for the user to choose the services according to his needs.

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One problem that most computer users face is the distraction of the internet which leads to procrastination of real work. It is extremely important for us to manage our time when our lives are centered around the Internet, and this can be done using a good ToDo application.

ToDo applications can be used to list our tasks and complete them on time. However, the ToDo application that we select should good enough in the way it functions, so that we follow it and don’t treat it as just another software to note down things that we were “supposed to do.” I have selected Wunderlist as my ToDo application after some research.

Let us take a look at Wunderlist and see why it beats all other apps in its category.

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