Following one of the biggest changes to the culture of Facebook in years , founder Mark Zuckerberg has changed his own privacy settings to reflect what’s now recommended for everyone else. “For those wondering,” he wrote this afternoon , “I set most of my content on my personal Facebook ..readmore

Filed under: OS , Software , How-tos , Leopard , Snow Leopard I always thought it would be cool if you could customize the background image of the Mac’s login screen. That’s the image you see behind the login panel when you turn your Mac on (if you have ..readmore

Filed under: Tips and tricks , TUAW Tips , iPhone As a seasoned world traveler and Apple geek, I’m always fascinated to see how others in the Mac and iPhone community make lemonade from lemons when they encounter difficulties on the road. The Mac Observer’s Jeff Gamet was recently ..readmore

Mac only: You know that sinking feeling you get when you accidentally delete your photos or reformat your camera’s memory card without first removing the pictures on it? Reach for Exif Untrasher instead antacids and rescue those pics from annihilation. Use Exif Untrasher to mount the memory card on ..readmore

Mac only: If you’re going to warble along with your favorite song, make sure you get the words right. Get Lyrical is a free app that automatically displays the lyrics of whatever song is playing in iTunes. This tiny app grabs lyrics from lyrics.wikia.com and shows them in a ..readmore

“I started panicking about a month ago,” says Jason Rosenfeld, the founder of Scenic Labs . The company makes Blu-ray 1080p “ambient discs” that include titles like “The Classic Fireplace,” “Coral Reef Aquarium,” and “Journey Through Space,” and Rosenfeld was trying to figure out how to enable Blu-ray’s forthcoming ..readmore

Everyone wants a deal. Games cost $50 to $60 new, and if you look at games that come with peripherals, the sky is the limit. Industry sales are lagging compared to last year and we’re all squeezing pennies, but no one wants to stop playing games. CheapyD, the founder ..readmore

Florida’s judges and lawyers can no longer “friend” each other on Facebook, the popular social networking site, according to a ruling from the state’s Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee. Facebook – Social network service – Florida – Lawyer – Social network

About 18 months ago, a technology blogger got fed up with the industry and forged an alliance with a startup to make his dream computer. It almost worked. tablet – Law – Apple – Business – Marketing and Advertising

RockYou is shaking up its management team after it received a bunch of funding to go after brand partners in an effort to grow its app business and ad network on Facebook. In the restructuring, Lisa Marino will move from vice president of sales to chief revenue officer for ..readmore

As the monthly Apple tablet rumors fly, there may be a bigger iPhone in your future. Originally posted at Nanotech – The Circuits Blog

The recent cancellation of Larrabee is a reminder that Intel has made major product missteps before. So where does it go from here? Originally posted at Nanotech – The Circuits Blog

The Web-browsing tablet, now known as the JooJoo, is the centerpiece of a lawsuit that charges Fusion Garage with fraud, misappropriation of business ideas, and more.

Internet rivals make their own plays in real-time search, while AOL strikes out on its own. Also: Facebook privacy and hands on with the CrunchPad, er, Joo Joo.

We reported yesterday that Facebook is aiming to get people to be more public on the site and that anyone who hasn’t changed their privacy settings will now see it “recommended” that their status updates, photos etc. be exposed to the whole web. I had a unique opportunity to ..readmore

We’ve all heard security nerds complain about the vulnerabilities of cloud computing; here’s the news they’ve been waiting for. Black-hat hackers got into an unnamed website hosted on Amazon’s servers then proceeded to install an illegal command and control infrastructure. Named America’s number one most wanted botnet, Zeus was ..readmore

Filed under: Odds and ends , iTunes The 350 million users of popular social networking site Facebook now have another application they can benefit from — the ability to purchase iTunes gift cards for other Facebook users. This timely functionality, reports The Loop , will let Facebook fans use ..readmore

Filed under: Odds and ends , iPhone , App Review In what appears to be a happy marriage, Where To? for the iPhone [iTunes link ] now talks to the Navigon GPS app. You can select a category or search for a business and then transfer that information directly ..readmore

We’ve all experienced the crush of too many programs launching at startup. This week we want to hear about the tools you use to manage the startup process so you’re not waiting ten minutes after login before your PC’s functional. What makes your favorite startup management tool so great? ..readmore

Every weekend, we comb our memories and archives to compile 10 useful items addressing a specific topic you may have forgotten about, or just happen to be excellent. Here are the 20 list(icle) posts that proved the most popular in 2009. 1. Top 10 Tiny & Awesome Windows Utilities ..readmore