Optimize your Facebook, Google+, and Twitter accounts

Optimize your Facebook, Google+, and Twitter accounts Time to spruce up your social-media accounts! If you don't know when you last changed your password, used one of your connected apps, or even logged in, then it's time to do some cleaning. Twitter on the Galaxy Note 3Photo by Nicole Cozma/CNET Hopefully you're in full spring cleaning mode, because it's time to do a bit...

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Two ways to get Facebook Messenger on your desktop

Two ways to get Facebook Messenger on your desktop Desktop and laptops users can access their Facebook messages without the rest of Facebook at Messenger.com, and Mac users can opt for a standalone app. Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET Facebook separated messages from the rest of its mobile app last summer, and Wednesday it did the same for laptop and...

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Spring cleaning: Keep your apps, device software up-to-date

Spring cleaning: Keep your apps, device software up-to-date As companies look to improve and fix products through software patches and updates, it’s more important to ensure that everything is up-to-date. Jason Cipriani/CNET Security revelations about new vulnerabilities both on our smartphones and computers seem to occur on a regular basis. Last year it was Heartbleed,...

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How to survive with only one USB-C port on your new MacBook

How to survive with only one USB-C port on your new MacBook Apple's 12-inch MacBook has only a single shared port. Here's how to connect data, video, power and more to it. If there's one thing about Apple's new 12-inch MacBook that seems to drive people crazy, it's that the slim, 2-pound laptop has only a single shared port to handle data, power, video output...

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