Recently Facebook has been working on finishing their roll out of the new Timeline profile to all of its users (including us.) While Facebook and its 3rd party apps may be less secure than they used to be, the new profile view is, frankly, beautiful. The two-column display shows your photos in all their (relatively sizable) glory, and highlights what Facebook thinks is major events in your life, making them more prominent on your page. Profiles are much more attractive this way, but they also feature a new capability that may leave some uneasy, myself included.

Facebook’s Timeline features just that, a timeline, on the right hand side of your profile. Friends can now click through by date to view your history. While this makes sense for Facebook, and is pretty cool in theory, it might be slightly less so in practice. When I heard about Timeline, I was really, really excited. I love innovation on the web, and this seemed like some real change for Facebook. Additionally, it looked gorgeous, and I like that. What I didn’t realize at first though, was that this doesn’t just enable what I’ve deemed advanced, super easy Facebook stalking. It actually almost forces it. And that’s the part I’m not a fan of.

Today, I am a different person than I was yesterday. More to the point though, today I am an extremely different person than I was 1, 2, 3 or more years ago. While looking at my photos, this isn’t much of a problem. But when you start to look at individual wall posts, comments, etc. that are all being taken completely out of context (no, I don’t think you can get  feel for where I was in my life at the time by reading a few surrounding posts…) you could get a picture of me that is not at all who I am now, and possibly not who I wanted to be. We’ve talked before about how this can be a problem, particularly when applying to college or a new job.

That being said, Facebook doesn’t give you any particularly easy way to remedy this. You can go to your Activity View, and go post by post, deleting what you don’t want, but if you’re like me and have 5+ years on Facebook, this is just not an option. The good news is, there are ways to get this done satisfactorily, and I’m here to show you them. So read on for the beginner’s guide to cleaning up your Facebook Timeline.

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Have you ever wanted to watch a movie on your iOS device, but not wanted to spend money in the iTunes Store?  Maybe you just don’t know the best way to encode your movies to not just work on your iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, but also to have them look pretty good.  People struggle with this all the time, as Apple doesn’t really provide any easy way for you to do this.  Luckily though, with this simple tutorial (and a couple extra apps) you’ll be able to view your DVDs on any iOS device.  So keep reading and follow these instructions to help you save money and enjoy your favorite movies on your iPhone! Read the rest of this entry »

Steve just added an awesome video to our YouTube Channel, TechTimeWithCS, where he shows you how to create your own Widgets for you Mac’s Dashboard.

Check it out at the link below, and be sure to subscribe to our channel to make sure you see everything we upload!

Watch it here!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PWIri6GKUE

We all know the feeling of a new computer…Everything is super quick, and there are no bugs or problems to be found.  Even if you have a Mac though, which are by reputation more durable than a PC’s (if only for their relative sparse nature on the internet,) you often still find that a year later, that feeling is usually gone, only to be replaced by an entirely different one.  This one is often frustration and confusion.  How and why did this premium computer I bought get so slow, and how do I fix it?  Plenty of services will do it for you for $50 or more, but why pay someone else to do things you can easily do yourself?

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