Technology: Afternoon Edition

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Most Viewed Articles in Technology 1) Facebook adopts new privacy settings Uh, about that status update on Facebook last night . . . you may want to make sure that information isn't available to more than just your friends. 2) How to Optimize Your HDTV You've bought the HDTV. You've set it up, plugged everything into it. Maybe you've even calibrated it for the best possible picture. (If you need advice on handling those chores, see " How to Install Your HDTV " and " Calibrate My HDTV ".) But you're not done yet: Fiddling with a few more settings... 3) Fix Common Windows Problems with One Click Have you ever wished for a magic wand that could make annoying Windows problems disappear? Like, say, a missing Recycle Bin icon, or those pesky Runtime Error messages in Internet Explorer? 4) French army sides with Mozilla in Microsoft email war PARIS/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A new email client unveiled by Mozilla this week contains code from an unusual source -- the French military, which decided the open source product was more secure than Microsoft's rival Outlook. 5) AOL tries to navigate the Web it helped you find Before it was AOL, it was America Online, and before it was America Online it was Quantum Computer Services, and before that it was Control Video Corp., selling online services for the Atari. Remember the Atari? Pac-Man? In Internet time, that was basically 10,000 years ago. 6) U.S. hacker pleads guilty in more store break-ins BOSTON (Reuters) - A major U.S. hacker agreed to plead guilty to federal charges linked to electronic break-ins at 7-Eleven Inc and a chain of New England grocery stores, a court filing shows. 7)  Nokia to close U.S. flagship stores HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia will close its two flagship stores in the United States, a market where the world's top cell phone maker is struggling to gain ground. 8) Guard Your Online Privacy With TrackerWatcher Firefox Addon As you browse the Web, Web sites watch you. Information is gathered about you, potentially shared with others, and possibly kept for a very long time. Which sites gather this information and which don't...and what do they do with the information? There's no practical way to know--unless you use... 9) Woods scandal a boon to Internet publications SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The Tiger Woods sex scandal has been a boon for online publications, even though it hasn't generated the same amount of Internet traffic as Michael Jackson's death or President Barack Obama's inauguration. 10) Music Organizer MediaMonkey Runs Rings Around iTunes MediaMonkey , a free music-management application that's meant as an alternative to iTunes , has been around for a while. The latest version of the software adds several important features and makes it worth a second look had you passed it up before. The biggest addition to version 3.2 is full... UNSUBSCRIBE | Additional Newsletter Services | Advertising | Subscribe to the Paper | Privacy Policy

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