1. Go to Twitter and login to your account.

2. Go to the upper-right corner and click your username. Click Settings from the dropdown menu.

3. When the Settings page appears, scroll down to the bottom. Click Deactivate my account (located beneath the blue Save button.

4. When the Is this goodbye? page appears, click the blue Okay, fine, deactivate @username button.

5. Re-enter your password when prompted and click the Deactivate account button.

6. Your account will be deactivated and will be permanently deleted in 30 days.

You can change your mind during that 30 day period and reactivate your account by logging back into Twitter with your username and password.

Note:. Yeah, I deleted mine.

1. Go to Wolfram Alpha.

2. In the search box, input the following:
BAC 7 drinks, 3 hours, male, 200lb

change the number of drinks, the period of time you spent drinking, and your weight.

3. Click the = button or hit ENTER on your keyboard.

4. The results will be displayed.

You can also get an estimate of how long it will take you to get back to the legal limit if you have had too many drinks.

1. Go to Wolfram Alpha.

2. Input the following into the search box:
Am I too drunk to drive?

3. Select the = button or hit ENTER on you keyboard.

4. A new form will be displayed. Input your information into the form (number of drinks, time, body weight, and gender).

5. Wolfram Alpha will give you an estimate of how long it will take you to get down to a 0.08 blood alcohol level (again, this is only an estimate).

Since you need to level up a bit before gaining some good power ups, we’ll start with the one basic premise that will get you quicker access to multipliers and get your score to climb easier.  When the game starts, instead of immediately looking for blocks to click, rapidly hit the spacebar until the rows get close to touching the top.  Now start finding large groups, this will be much easier than trying to find them in only 2 or 3 rows.

This should get you to 50,000 to 65,000 points which should help you level up quicker.  Once you have acquired all three differently colored bombs and can use 3 power ups at a time, you can go for the big score.  Add the red, green, and blue bombs to your available power ups.

When you start the game, only hit the spacebar until two different colored bombs appear (or you get close to the top!).  Click both bombs to eliminate 2 of the 3 colors on the screen, then immediately click the remaining color to clear the screen and receive a clean sweep award (mega points).  Repeat this again.  After you do it twice, it will get more difficult to do this so use a combination of bombs and the other strategy of using the spacebar to add lots of rows to the screen.  The result is high score over 1 million points (I hit 8 million last week).

It seems that the latest way for websites and software to make money with their 3rd party advertisers is to give them collected about you. The first place I ran across this was Facebook and the Instant Personalization. This was where Facebook partnered up with some websites to provide us with “great, personalized experiences the moment you arrive.” Translation – we are sending information about you to these sites so they know about you and your friends. Needless to say, that was immediately disabled on my Facebook as well as everyone else’s in my household (if you haven’t done so yet, follow the steps outlined in this tech-recipe!). The next place I came across it was Amazon.com, which again wanted to give you “personalized ads on Amazon.com and its affiliated sites” as well as other 3rd party sites. Another site that needed this feature disabled (good grief!). Amazon states that you are in control, yet I never saw anything notifying me that my information was being given out unless I opted out of the service (you can disable it by following these instructions at Tech-Recipes). Finally, today I downloaded Skype to install on my Windows 7 machine. After installing the software and opened the application. I went through the options and privacy settings and found out that once again I had “opted-in” for giving out my information. Luckily it was “non-personally identifiable information,” or I’d be worried (sarcasm). So, that meant making changes to the software and writing yet another article to make sure others were aware of it being there and how to change the settings.

Is this how things are going to be from here out? Shouldn’t we be notified, up front, in a straight forward manner instead of fine print or deceptively placing the settings in some obscure place? I understand that these sites and software need to make money, that’s why they are in business in the first place, but when you are playing with the privacy of your users, I think that you are going too far. I hope this isn’t a pattern that we all need to look out for, but at this point, it doesn’t look good.

A buddy of mine shared some cheats for StarCraft 2, Blizzard’s latest real-time strategy game.   I thought I’d share the wealth. 

During gameplay, press Enter on your keyboard and then type:

• terribleterribledamage  – God Mode
• moredotsmoredots – Build units without unit cost
• whysoserious  – 5,000 Credits
• medieval man  – Technology Upgrades
• game over man  – Infinite Energy
• food for thought  – Disable Food and PSI Requirements
• war aint what it used to be  – Lift the Fog

Press Enter again to confirm.

Ctrl+X:  Cut
Ctrl+C:  Copy
Ctrl+V:  Paste
Ctrl+Shift+V:  Paste Special (remove or keep formatting)
Ctrl+A:  Select all text
Ctrl+Z:  Undo
Ctrl+Y:  Redo
Ctrl+B:  Bold
Ctrl+I:  Italics
Ctrl+U:  Underline
Ctrl+H:  Strikethrough

Ctrl+S:  Save
Ctrl+P:  Print
Ctrl+N:  Create a New Post
Ctrl+O:  Open Drafts and Recent posts
Ctrl+Shift+P:  Publish post

Ctrl+K:  Insert hyperlink
Ctrl+L:  Insert image
Ctrl+F: Find word or phrase
Ctrl+Shift+C:  Set category

F11:  Switch to Edit view
F12:  Switch to  Preview view
Shift+F11:  Switch to Source view
Ctrl+F11:  Toggle theme

1. Open Firefox.

2. Right-click the Bookmarks Bar and select New Bookmark.

3. In the Name textbox, input Google Buzz.

4. In the Location textbox, input the following:

https://m.google.com/app/buzz?source=mog&gl=us&force=1#~buzz:view=following

5. Check the Load this bookmark in the sidebar checkbox.

6. Click the Add button.

The first time that you go, you will be greeted with this page:

click the Continue on an unsupported device link.

First, you should to go to the Marketplace and get the Dolphin Browser.  You could do this with the web browser that comes with the device, however it will not allow you to change the name of the video when you are downloading it. 

You will need to add the free online video converter service, BenderConverter as a bookmark on your browser.  You will need this to perform the conversion and downloading of the video to your device.

Now you are ready to capture any YouTube video that catches your attention. 

1. While in the YouTube application and viewing the desired video, tap the Menu key on the device. 
2. Select Details.

   

3. Select the small, circular arrow button that is located beneath the thumbnail of the video.

   

4. Select the Copy URL button.

   

5. Open the Dolphin Browser application (or the Android Browser).
6. Go to your Bookmarks and select the BenderConverter bookmark.
7. When the webpage finishes loading, select the iPod / PSP / iPhone Movie (.mp4) radio button.
8. Long press the Video page link textbox and select Paste to input the URL of the YouTube video.
9. Check the I agree with the Terms of Use checkbox.
10. Select the Convert button.

    

11. When the service has finished with the conversion, select the DOWNLOAD button.  If you are using the Dolphin Browser, it will allow you to change the filename of the video.  Do so and select OK.  If you are using the devices regular browser, the video will start downloading, with a generic filename.

    

12. Once finished you have completed the task.  You can open Gallery to find your downloaded video.

    

1. Go to Facebook and then access the My Town applicaton.

2. When the My Town app has finished loading, go to the top and right-click the Free Gifts tab.

3. Select Open Link in New Tab. Repeat this step a few more times so that you have 6 or 7 tabs open to the Free Gifts page.

4. Go to each tab and select the GIFT that you want to send (they can be different or all the same). Do not press the Send Gift button yet!

5. After you have selected a gift on each tab, go back to the first tab and click the Send Gift button. Repeat this for each tab.

6. Go to each tab and select the My Town Friend(s) to send the gift(s). Do not click the Send MyTown Gift Request button yet.

7. After you have selected the intended recipients for each tab, go back to the first tab and click the Send MyTown Gift Request button. Repeat this step for each tab.

8. Go back to the first tab, you will see the MyTown Gift request that you have created. Click the Send button. Repeat this step for each tab.

You can now close your browser. The gift request will all be sent and your friends will be quite happy!