Solutions problems solved this issue 42 at Work • Learn how to set up accounting software 44 office • Learn hidden tricks in OpenOffice.org 46 security • Keep your smartphones secure
48 tips • Find your toolbar in Word for Mac • Align image in Word • Tweak default start times in Outlook’s calendar • Improve Power-line performance • Turn your cell phone into a modem • Take shortcuts to Internet searches
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Use Speed Dial in Firefox Get the best HDTV image quality Choose the right HDTV ports Properly place your speakers Calibrate your camera’s monitor
keep it private Before you start posting anything, go into your privacy settings and decide whom you want to be able to see your photo albums, videos, profile, status updates, and so on.
Staying Safe on Facebook Grown-ups, take note! Here is what you need to know before “friending” your first Facebook connection. By Bill Dyszel Recent news stories have reported a litany of Facebook horror stories from geriatrics—you know, people over age 30—who dented their dignities, if not their careers, through careless social networking. Some people think that the post-collegiate crowd is simply too fuddy-duddy for Facebook. Others insist that the site is now as essential as e-mail and phone service, if not air and water, and nobody of any age should be discouraged from squandering time on 40 PC MAGAZINE DIGITAL EDITION APRIL 2009
Facebook. Even Bill Gates is reported to have a half-hour-a-day Facebook habit. A typical Facebook humiliation scenario involves having someone post something questionable to your “wall,” the public Facebook page, and then having that item inadvertently and automatically blasted to everyone you know via Facebook. That group often includes business associates and other people with whom you’ve cultivated an illusion of respectability. Horrors!
Because the Internet offers so many paths to public humiliation, it’s not entirely fair to single out Facebook. In the site’s defense, you have to be a Facebook member to see all of the truly embarrassing items on another member’s page. Besides, Google can reveal more dirt about a person than Facebook does, and that includes material over which an individual has little control. But if you have a professional reputation to protect, a Facebook account creates
