To turn off Twitter's new tracking:Log in to Twitter and visit your account settings page.Uncheck the box that says "Tailor Twitter based on my recent website visits."Uncheck the box that says "Tailor ads based on information shared by ad partners."Scroll down and click "Save Changes."If you have Do Not Track enabled in your web browser, you'll see the checkbox like mine above that indicates it's enabled and neither of the boxes should be checked.On the bright side, at least Twitter is being above board with its changes (unlike Facebook when they started doing the same thing)—they say that users won't see more ads on Twitter, just better ones, as a result of the tracking.At the same time, it's one thing to use data collected while someone uses your service to improve your advertising—it's another to continue collecting data when someone leaves your service in order to improve your advertising. Still, opting out is easy, and we suggest you do it as soon as possible. For more tips on how to protect yourself from this kind of tracking, check out our guide to stopping everyone from tracking you on the web, and the best browser tools to protect your privacy.Experimenting with New Ways to Tailor Ads | Twitter Blog via Boing Boing
What to do if your keyboard on the screen. And if there are dozens of screens: At CES, the Russian design Art Lebedev, the company shows upcoming Optimus Aux Optimus popularis keyboard with a mini and a series of six unique keyboard for data input devices on the key to the home screen.
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Thursday, December 26, 2013
Twitter Wants to Start Tracking You on the Web, Here's How to Opt-Out
In a blog post today, Twitter announced that they're "experimenting with new ways of targeting ads," which is their way of saying they're planning to track you around the web—even when you leave Twitter—and relay that information to advertisers to craft better ads. Here's how to opt out.If this sounds familiar, it should. Twitter started experimenting with this kind of off-site tracking a year ago, only then it wasn't explicitly opt-out. Twitter already uses things like Follow buttons and social widgets on websites to see where its logged in users go after they leave Twitter itself, but now they're putting it in print, and that's actually a good thing.To turn off Twitter's new tracking:Log in to Twitter and visit your account settings page.Uncheck the box that says "Tailor Twitter based on my recent website visits."Uncheck the box that says "Tailor ads based on information shared by ad partners."Scroll down and click "Save Changes."If you have Do Not Track enabled in your web browser, you'll see the checkbox like mine above that indicates it's enabled and neither of the boxes should be checked.On the bright side, at least Twitter is being above board with its changes (unlike Facebook when they started doing the same thing)—they say that users won't see more ads on Twitter, just better ones, as a result of the tracking.At the same time, it's one thing to use data collected while someone uses your service to improve your advertising—it's another to continue collecting data when someone leaves your service in order to improve your advertising. Still, opting out is easy, and we suggest you do it as soon as possible. For more tips on how to protect yourself from this kind of tracking, check out our guide to stopping everyone from tracking you on the web, and the best browser tools to protect your privacy.Experimenting with New Ways to Tailor Ads | Twitter Blog via Boing Boing
To turn off Twitter's new tracking:Log in to Twitter and visit your account settings page.Uncheck the box that says "Tailor Twitter based on my recent website visits."Uncheck the box that says "Tailor ads based on information shared by ad partners."Scroll down and click "Save Changes."If you have Do Not Track enabled in your web browser, you'll see the checkbox like mine above that indicates it's enabled and neither of the boxes should be checked.On the bright side, at least Twitter is being above board with its changes (unlike Facebook when they started doing the same thing)—they say that users won't see more ads on Twitter, just better ones, as a result of the tracking.At the same time, it's one thing to use data collected while someone uses your service to improve your advertising—it's another to continue collecting data when someone leaves your service in order to improve your advertising. Still, opting out is easy, and we suggest you do it as soon as possible. For more tips on how to protect yourself from this kind of tracking, check out our guide to stopping everyone from tracking you on the web, and the best browser tools to protect your privacy.Experimenting with New Ways to Tailor Ads | Twitter Blog via Boing Boing
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Lifehacker Twitter Wants to Start Tracking You on the Web, Here's How to Opt-Out | Gawker Rupert Mur
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Thursday, December 5, 2013
The Best Dashboard Apps to Start Your Morning Right
Like it or not, the first thing a lot of us look at in the morning is our phone or tablet. To that end, a slew of different apps have popped up that seek to get your morning off on the right foot. Here are the best depending on what you're looking for.If you're hooked into the Google system with Gmail, Calendar, Maps, or any of its other services, the Google Now (Free) is easily the best option you have for a morning dashboard.Google Now lives inside the Google Search app. With Google Now, you'll automatically get a dashboard of up to date information about your day, the weather, and a ton of other things you care about automatically. Just load up Google Now, pull up the cards, and everything you need is right there in front of you. It's perfect if you're deeply invested in Google's ecosystem because it'll show you everything relevant to your upcoming day. That said, if you're not big into Google, it's a pretty worthless feature.SMorning for iPad ($2.99) is probably one our favorite direct alternative to Google Now because it manages to emulate a lot of what Google Now does without requiring an account. Like Google Now, you get access to pretty every upcoming event in your day on a single screen.Unlike Google Now, Morning requires that you set it up a little. You have eight options for your main dashboard, including weather, to-dos, calendar appointments, stocks, news headlines, commute and travel time, the current date and time, or a countdown timer. You can customize the app within those options so you're only shown what matters to you. The basic idea here is to get you just the information you need as quickly as possible.The problem with Morning is that it's not particularly powerful and you can't really do much else with it. That's part of what makes it great, but power users are going to wish it could do a bit more.Status Board for iPad ($9.99) is a powerful dashboard app that has a ton of customization options so you can use it however you want. Like most dashboards, you get access to email, tweets, to-dos, the weather, or mail, but you also get great visualizations of all that data so you can really understand what you're looking at.If the standard old info on Status Board isn't enough, you can also graph your own data if you'd like, or create your own HTML snippets. Essentially, you can turn Status Board into the perfect dashboard app if you're willing to do a bit of work.Status Board also has output through Apple TV or HDMI, which means it's great if you need to display a bunch of information to a group of people and not just yourself. It might be a bit excessive for the common user, but if you need the extra features and power, Status Board offers enough customization that you can serve up all kinds of data on the screen at once.If you're looking for a completely different way to start your morning, Pindolo for iPhone offers just that. Instead of supplying you with a ton of useful information about your day, Pindola serves up inspiration quotes, songs, and more.It might sound silly, but we've seen before, cuteness can actually make you more productive, so Pindola's not totally off the mark. Instead of boring you with your email or the weather, Pindola gives you an inspiration quote, or a song and happily sends you on your way.
SMorning for iPad ($2.99) is probably one our favorite direct alternative to Google Now because it manages to emulate a lot of what Google Now does without requiring an account. Like Google Now, you get access to pretty every upcoming event in your day on a single screen.Unlike Google Now, Morning requires that you set it up a little. You have eight options for your main dashboard, including weather, to-dos, calendar appointments, stocks, news headlines, commute and travel time, the current date and time, or a countdown timer. You can customize the app within those options so you're only shown what matters to you. The basic idea here is to get you just the information you need as quickly as possible.The problem with Morning is that it's not particularly powerful and you can't really do much else with it. That's part of what makes it great, but power users are going to wish it could do a bit more.Status Board for iPad ($9.99) is a powerful dashboard app that has a ton of customization options so you can use it however you want. Like most dashboards, you get access to email, tweets, to-dos, the weather, or mail, but you also get great visualizations of all that data so you can really understand what you're looking at.If the standard old info on Status Board isn't enough, you can also graph your own data if you'd like, or create your own HTML snippets. Essentially, you can turn Status Board into the perfect dashboard app if you're willing to do a bit of work.Status Board also has output through Apple TV or HDMI, which means it's great if you need to display a bunch of information to a group of people and not just yourself. It might be a bit excessive for the common user, but if you need the extra features and power, Status Board offers enough customization that you can serve up all kinds of data on the screen at once.If you're looking for a completely different way to start your morning, Pindolo for iPhone offers just that. Instead of supplying you with a ton of useful information about your day, Pindola serves up inspiration quotes, songs, and more.It might sound silly, but we've seen before, cuteness can actually make you more productive, so Pindola's not totally off the mark. Instead of boring you with your email or the weather, Pindola gives you an inspiration quote, or a song and happily sends you on your way.Friday, November 15, 2013
How many of you Windows 8 users actually use the Start screen?
Great discussions are par for the course here on Lifehacker. Each day, we highlight a discussion that is particularly helpful or insightful, along with other great discussions and reader questions you may have missed. Check out these discussions and add your own thoughts to make them even more wonderful!For great discussions any time, be sure check out our user-run blog, Hackerspace. If you've got a cool project, inspiration, or just something fun to share, send us a message at tips@lifehacker.com.Happy Lifehacking, everybody!Saturday, November 9, 2013
Commit a Set Amount of Time to Learning a New Skill Before You Start
Learning a new skill isn't easy no matter what, but sometimes the hardest part is pushing yourself through those first moments when you're failing a lot. Author Josh Kaufman recommends deciding on a number of hours to pre-commit to a skill before you start to help you over the hump. In an interview with BoingBoing, author of The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything...Fast! Josh Kaufman shares the reason why he thinks the time commitment matters:20 hours isn't some magic bullet number. The idea here is that you set aside the amount of hours you're going to commit to learning a skill, and then you actually meet that goal. Doing so for around 20 hours helps you get over that hump where you're terrible and into the realms where you're actually capable of making something. Head over to BoingBoing for the full interview. Interview with the author of "The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything... Fast!" | BoingBoingPhoto by Rob and Stephanie Levy.Rapid skill acquisition, as a process, is quite simple: Decide what you want, then break complex skills down into smaller sub-skills. Do a bit of research to identify the sub-skills you’ll use most often, then practice those first. Remove unnecessary barriers to practice by changing your environment to make it easy to avoid distractions. Pre-commit to completing at least 20 hours of practice to push through early frustrations and avoid giving up before you see results...
The 20-hour precommitment, in my experience, is key. The first few hours of practice are always frustrating. Deciding to invest a certain amount of time before you begin makes it much easier to persist long enough to see improvement.
Monday, July 1, 2013
Start Your To-Do List with Things You've Already Done
Getting started—and continuing—on a project is tough. To get into a productivity streak and build the momentum you need to keep going, trick yourself by backfilling your to-do list with what you've already accomplished today.This tip comes from TaskRabbit engineer Zack Shapiro, who says that creating and sustaining momentum is the key to fighting our many environmental triggers (other than using sheer willpower). Momentum, his blog post title states, is a hell of a drug.Psychologically, this is like Jerry Seinfeld's Productivity Secret (don't break the chain!), and tactically, it's like using a "done" list to keep you motivated. In this case, though, you begin by reviewing what you've already accomplished and using those checked off tasks to give you a running start. As Fast Company notes, this productivity hack could also include reviewing (or even retyping in author Joan Didion's case) all the work you've already completed so far. "When you think about it, productivity is velocity."Momentum is a hell of a drug | Zach Shapiro via Fast CompanyPhoto by Courtney Dirks.When we see that we're on a streak, our brains want to do more to continue the streak. The longer the streak, the greater the disappointment if we break the streak.
If you've done something for 61 days in a row, don't you want to hit 62? Wouldn't itsuck to start over again at one?
So today, I encourage you to take the first step in starting a streak.
Make a list. Backfill it with things you've already done today.
Now do the first item on that list. Maybe you do the second one too. Keep it going and don't stop.
Excellence is momentum.
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