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Angry Birds Star Wars is in a Galaxy Near You! Today!

If I could mention two of my favorite things, one would have to be Star Wars and the other Angry Birds. And now they are together in the latest Rovio game! Angry Birds Star Wars is out TODAY, November 8th, on iPhone, iPad, Android, Amazon Kindle Fire, Mac, PC, Windows Phone and Windows 8 – not(…)

How many of your Twitter followers are fake?

And so it is upon us. Another 4 years later and the nation is in yet another frenzy over who will be our next President. And who would have thought 8 years ago some of the biggest headlines would be about which President has more fake Twitter followers? Mashable states Obama has 13 million fake(…)

Wanted: San Diego Geek Girls

Do you love the ocean? Long walks on the beach? 69 degree average temperature year round? Fish tacos and Stone IPA? Then you MUST be a San Diego Geek Girl! And we want you! We just started a Meetup Group to find Geek Girls in the San Diego area who might be interested in being(…)

Top 10 Reasons to go to Geek Girl Boot Camp…

Here are the Top 10 Reasons to go to Geek Girl Boot Camp on Saturday, March 19th from 8 am. to 6 p.m. at the Cape Cod Community College in West Barnstable: 10.) Not a Geek? Not a problem. It’s meant for all types of computer users; newbies, the hesitant, the self-taught, hard-core geeks, and(…)

Facebook Now Adds LGBT Relationship Status Options

To describe your relationship status on Facebook, we had the choices for so long of “Single, In a relationship, Engaged, Married, It’s complicated, In an open relationship, Widowed, Separated and Divorced”. Now U.S. residents can choose between “In a domestic partnership” or “In a civil union,” to describe their current relationship status. It was only(…)

Not Getting Your Most Recent Facebook News Feeds?

When Facebook had their new updates, things got a little weird in the way your News Feeds were being streamed. If you are having this issue, no worries. It’s a simple fix. To edit your general preference for posts you see: 1. When you are on your Most Recent News Feed view, click “Most Recent”(…)

IMPORTANT: Protect Your Facebook Data From Being Hacked

Recently, Facebook announced on their site “A Continued Commitment to Security” that they would be enabling a secure HTTPS connection, thus translating into all Facebook data will be protected. Secure connection was only used previously to protect user names and passwords. With the new security connection update, Facebook users now have the option to make(…)