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Celebrate New Year's Eve in NYC Online

What are you doing New Years? New Year’s Eve? Those are the lines from a classic holidays song, but when they wrote it, they never thought of the answer being to celebrate it from the comfort of my couch watching what’s happening in New York City from my computer.

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If you haven’t decided what you’re doing and are kind of leaning on being unsocial in the real world, but still be connected virtually, then have we uncovered the deal for you.

The Times Square Alliance and Countdown Entertainment have partnered with Livestream for the first time to offer a new, international six and a half hour web event.  From 5:50pm ET December 31 to 12:20am ET January 1, four co-hosts will cover all of the action in Times Square, including the hourly countdowns, ball raising ceremony, stage performances and special guests.  The program will stream live at TimesSquareNYC.org and Livestream.com/2010.

Sounds pretty good right? Keep the computer up and running while you’re relaxing with a few close friends playing Rock Band and some other fun games? Sounds like a plan to me.

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Taking Advantage of Facebook's Privacy

Thinking about Facebook and privacy aren’t necessarily two words you’d think about combining together and taking advantage of these days. The truth though is that with Facebook‘s new privacy features you can really do something pretty handy.

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With the new privacy settings on Facebook, you can really pinpoint the types of information you want to share with different groups of people. Whether or not you want to share you personal information, birthday, photos, status updates and more is all available within Facebook‘s privacy settings by going to Settings > Privacy Settings > Profile Information.

That’s just one part of taking advantage of these settings.

Do you have people friended on Facebook out of some sort of obligation but you’re really not interested in hearing their opinions on things or them really seeing all of your information?

Take advantage of the grouping options for friends and setup a new group for these “Blocked” friends. Move anyone you want into this friend group and then use the privacy settings we talked about before to exclude this group specifically from those information bits about you that you’d rather suppress.

What do you think?

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Use PCMover to Migrate to Your New PC

Maybe you were one of the people that got a new computer from Santa over the holidays. A new computer is always a nice thing, but making your new computer resemble your old computer’s settings and files can be less than a fun endeavor.

PCmover-migration-tool

If you’ve got Laplink’s PCmover software the process of migrating your personal files and settings from an old computer to your new computer you may have some extra time to relax over the holidays.

Just install the software on both your old and new computer, then connect the two computers to each other through an existing network, a USB transfer cable, or even a removable hard drive that both machines can read with no problems and you’re ready to go.

PCmover allows you to choose which applications, which settings, which folders and more to migrate from one machine to the other. All of the controls available to the end-user make the process as painless as you would hope.

You can move multiple users and even use the software as a potential security option by keeping a ready-to-move copy of your system in a stored state to move to a new computer you haven’t even purchased. It could be just what you need to recover from a catastrophic failure of an old machine.

Migrate to your next machine with Laplink’s PCmover.