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With the ever expanding social media outlets, people are spending more and more time online. Updating status, posting photos and chatting with friends is very common. Along with making your lives easy, social media is risky also in terms of privacy.

How do you measure the value of your social media efforts? Social media is now a vital aspect of today's business world. Regardless of industry, businesses and corporations are taking to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and a host of other platforms in order to engage with customers and boost brand awareness.

The Oake Media team travels around Asia-Pacific coaching clients who have mastered their professional lives but need help communicating that knowledge to the press and the public.

Why it's a good idea to own a USB-to-SATA adapter The USB-to-IDE/SATA adapter the most indispensable tool in my PC repair kit. Just this weekend, it once again proved itself worthy of that title. In a nutshell, the adapter allows you to connect an internal hard drive to your PC-externally. What would an internal drive be doing outside your desktop or laptop? Funny you should ask. About a week ago, my media-center PC starting displaying this message during boot-up: "Hard drive failure imminent." And you know what? It was. In short order, the machine wouldn't boot at all. Long story short, I had to replace the drive, reinstall Windows, etc. But I wondered if I could salvage any/all of my recorded TV shows. To find out, I connected the old, non-booting drive (now "naked" outside the system) to a USB port via my adapter. Huzzah! The machine was able to read the drive and copy over the recordings. Except for the hassles (and expense) of actually replacing the drive, no harm done. There's another reason to keep one of these adapters on hand, and that's if you're planning to upgrade to a solid-state drive (SSD). Unless you buy a kit that comes with an adapter, you'll need one so you can image (i.e. clone) your existing drive to the new SSD. Then you'll remove the old drive, install the new one, and presto, you're back in business. (Much faster business: SSDs rock.) Unless you have a pretty old desktop or laptop, you can skip buying a USB-to-IDE/SATA adapter and just go for USB-to-SATA. At the same time, I recommend one that supports USB 3.0. You may not need it now, but it's a good bet your next PC will have USB 3.0 ports -- and that'll make for much faster copying between drives. Trust me: When the time comes that you need to upgrade or replace a hard drive, you'll be glad to have a USB-to-SATA adapter on hand. By-The Xpert Crew @ http://techvedic.com

Xbox owns your TV Voice commands will be a big part of interacting with the One. While we can assume youll still be able to navigate via your controller or Smart Glass app, Yusef Mehdi, Microsoft's senior vice president of interactive entertainment, demonstrated how to navigate the One using voice commands and gesture control with the updated Kinect sensor. Xbox One Users can instantly activate the One by uttering "Xbox On." The Xbox will be able to differentiate the user's voice and automatically remember where that particular user last left off in the dashboard. One of the most impressive features demonstrated Tuesday was Xbox One's Instant Switching, which moves between functions with little latency. Like the current Xbox Kinect, users can switch between functions with voice commands such as "Xbox go to music" and "Xbox go to game," but the One is able to do it with the ease of switching between television channels. One of the biggest additions is the introduction of live television streams into the Xbox experience. Users can instantly switch to live TV via a prompt of "Xbox Live TV." The One even features a TV Guide-like "Xbox One Guide," which shows what television is available right now alongside on-demand content. Additionally, users will be able to organize media content by "favorites" as well as by what content is currently trending in popularity. Borrowing a trick from Windows 8, the One's new Snap Mode will allow users to multitask between different apps and functions on the same screen. For example, if youre watching a live sporting event, you can prompt the One to access your updated fantasy league stats or search the Web for using Explorer-all in one screen. One will also offer Skype integration and allow users to video chat using the network directly through the Kinect sensor. In effect, Xbox will make any TV it is attached to a smart TV-smarter and more functional than almost any TV we've see

Soaring mobile Internet penetration has given new success dimension to the social network usage. Facebook, has recently reviled that 488 million users regularly use Facebook mobile, and a leading digital media firm Socialnomics has admitted that 23 percent of Facebook's users check their account 5 or more times daily. But a sad news is that, taking clues of the popularity, Internet attackers have targeted 54% of Social Networking Customers, claimed Barracuda Networks, a web security company.

Yontoo Trojan, detected by noted security company Dr. Web is blamed for tracking the browsing behaviors across a range of popular browsers like Safari, Chrome, and Firefox. It may pretend as a media player, download manager, or other plug-in, thereby directing you to some maliciously crafted Web sites disguised as sources for file sharing and movie trailers.

The social networking firm will live stream a slate of Cheddar's programmes focused on technology, media, and business.

Want to add information on your new Tab page in Chrome? Here is a solution with OneFeed. With OneFeed, you can add custom newsfeed as well as get alerts from your social media accounts.

Shipping PR firm Jeanius Consulting picked up Marketme's #SmartSocial award earlier this year for its innovative use of social media. Managing director, Jean Winfield, discusses the best way for shipping firms to improve their social media strategies, why numbers aren't everything and the reasons the industry has lagged behind.

For Windows 7 and 8 users, this tutorial is suitable to add an external drive for large music collections.

Hacking cases are increasing day by day. There are several tricks played by hackers to steal your personal information online.

Any cinema-goer will know that Kevin Bacon "don't like waiting for anything" - but what of us, the British public? We are now constantly wired into the internet, streaming videos and updating social media profiles, and 4G is a big part of this. CBR rounds up the biggest 4G data bundles out there.

News: Up to 20 editorial articles likely to be put up on the site initially, with plans to publish up to 40.

News: UK Department for Culture, Media & Sport to carry out consultation for reviewing the network's credibility as a public broadcaster.

Taken from the list of the top 20 most influential new media figures under the age of 30 this year, CBR has compiled the top 10 who are directly involved with technology. After a survey of Birmingham University students, it was revealed that the founder of Snapchat, Evan Spiegel, came out on top.

A selection of tools and tips to get the best out of your device. Since its launch in March, Google's Chromecast device has been widely received by media fans across the country. Costing just £30, the USB-drive shaped device connects your TV into a multi-faceted broadcasting device, giving you access to hours of entertainment streamed in great quality.

Societal and commercial shake ups from the Internet, big data and social media will continue. Technology companies pride themselves on their ability to "disrupt" industries. The buzzword is one that every geek in Silicon Valley aspires to - and not without reason, given the amount of money to be made.

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