Have you conquered the beginners’ and intermediate users’ Pinterest tips? Are you a Pinterest ninja? Take a look at these tips for advanced Pinterest power users.

5 Pinterest Tips for Advanced Users

• Introduction
• Add Right-click Pin It Functionality to Your Surfing
• Automatically Populate Descriptions for Pins
• Perform a Google Search on Pins
• Hack Your Pinterest Boards

Once you have Pinterest set up and you’ve gone over all the basics of it, take a look at these 4 tips to get more out of this new social media platform. Learn some tricks on pinning different types of content, and set up some security features. 

Get More Out of Pinterest: 4 Tips for the Intermediate User

• Introduction
• Turn Text into Pinterest Images
• Block People from Pinning Your Content
• Retouch your Photos
• Pin Images from Websites

Beginning this week, Chrome browser users will have the convenience of syncing their tabs, bookmarks, extensions and even back buttons across their devices. So if you use a computer at work, you can pick up your browsing at home right where you left off.

And if you have a phone running Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich,” you can sync Chrome on that device, too. (Google hasn’t said that Chrome will come to earlier Android versions.)

You must be signed into Chrome to sync. Go to the wrench icon in the upper right of the browser window and sign in with your Google account. Here, you can choose to sync everything or use the advanced settings to select from a list of items, including apps, history and themes. Or just use the “everything” default setting.

Google said that while all users will be updated to the new version of Chrome over the next several days, the syncing-across-devices feature will roll out more slowly over the next several weeks. Read the rest of this entry »

If you’ve ever taken a laptop on a work trip, here’s some troubling news: The FBI and national cybercrime agencies are warning people traveling abroad to be wary of shady scammers planting malware via insecure hotel Internet connections.

In an advisory issued yesterday (May 8), the Internet Crime Complaint Center(IC3) notes that malware perpetrators are masking their cybercrime weapons as popup software updates travelers see when setting up their Internet connections. (The IC3 is a partnership between the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center, and funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance.)

“The popup window appeared to be offering a routine update to a legitimate software product for which updates are frequently available,” the IC3 explained. “If the user clicked to accept and install the update, malicious software was installed on the laptop.” Read the rest of this entry »

 On our third day at CTIA Wireless 2012, we dug deep into all the new features of the upcoming Galaxy SIII halo phone from Samsung and learned when Sprint will begin to sell a new 4G LTE smartphone. As always, the coverage isn’t just about handsets, we also found a new ubiqutous messaging app for Android phones, a snazzy dock that rivals the iPhone in minimalist design, and a future-minded tech that may let you charge your devices by setting them on a coffee table.

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Samsung Galaxy S III Hands-on: Smartest Android Phone Yet

Yes, this sequel to the hugely popular Galaxy S II steps things up in the specs department with a bigger and sharper 4.8-inch Super AMOLED display and a swift quad-core Samsung Exynos processor. But Samsung has made sure you can do with more with all that power. The list of unprecedented tools includes clever tricks like picture-in-picture video inside other applications, smart gestures, and a camera that remembers faces and auto-tags them across pictures.

Samsung Galaxy S III Hands-on: Smartest Android Phone Yet

Despite the fact that social media is an integral part of the marketing mix for many companies today, plenty of business owners still hesitate because of concerns about what could go wrong.

Clarissa Windham-Bradstock, chief operating officer of AnyLabTestNow, discovered firsthand just how bad it could get, she told attendees of FranCamp2012, held May 4 in Atlanta.

A hostile former franchisee and vendor whose services Any Lab Test Now had decided to stop using began cyber-stalking and cyber-harassing Windham-Bradstock in an apparent attempt to make her and the company look bad. The man began by posting negative comments about her and Any Lab Test Now on an open Internet forum.

Next, friends and colleagues started getting friend requests from a Facebook profile bearing the same picture as Windham-Bradstock’s, but with a slightly different name. The fake profile included her home address and children’s names as well as pictures of the children themselves.

Windham-Bradstock said she thought she could keep ahead of the perpetrator by changing her profile picture to distinguish her real profile from the fake one, but he kept getting the new picture and updating the fake profile to keep it as similar to the real one as possible. Read the rest of this entry »

MasterCard is making it easier for you to make purchases from any Web-enabled device with its newly announced Paypass Online. The service allows users to create a single virtual wallet for their credit and debit cards which they can use to pay for items purchased online with just one click. MasterCard has also released an API for the service to developers for inclusion in their apps. Paypass Online will be accessible through participating websites via the standard checkout page.

We spent some hands-on time with a beta version of the service running on both a laptop and a Samsung Galaxy S II, and we were impressed with how easy it was to use. When users first sign up for Paypass Online, they enter each of the debit and credit cards they would like to associate with the account. The one caveat is that you’ll need to make sure your bank supports Paypass Online in order for your card to work with the service. Next, you enter a shipping addresses. Read the rest of this entry »

Verizon and Color are teaming up to bring video sharing to your next 4G LTE smartphone. According to SFGate.com, Verizon and Color inked a deal that will bring the video app to its 4G LTE smartphones. The app allows users to share 30-second video clips shot using their smartphone cameras.

If the name Color sounds familiar, it’s because a previous iPhone-only version of the app, which allowed users to share video and photos with others within a 150-foot radius, famously felt flat after raising $41 million in funding. A revamped version of the app running on Facebook’s Open Graph has been slightly more successful, but not a huge hit. Read the rest of this entry »

Have you ever gotten in trouble for something your friend posted on your Facebook? Or maybe you shared way too much information about your own life that your family would care about. Your whole life does not need to be on the Internet, and even if you disagree, the people around you might not. Get a better grasp on your privacy with the help of these 12 tips. 

Check out all the tips:

• Introduction
• Manage Your Activity Log
• Edit/Remove Timeline Events
• Manage Who Can See Posts on Your Timeline
• Manage Timeline Apps
• Keep Friends From Checking You into Places
• View Your Page from a New Perspective
• Add Friends to a Group
• Enable Secure Browsing
• Turn on Login Approvals
• Remove Recognized Devices
• End Active Facebook Sessions
• Reset Your Password