How to Protect Your Online Privacy Using Chrome

Now, with all the hullabaloo about online espionage and unwarranted personal data breaches, you could be asking yourself: How do I keep my privacy online when I’m out enjoying the world wide web? Well, fortunately for Chrome fans, there’s a way.

To note, however,  your gadget is not the issue here. So it just doesn’t matter whether you’re tinkering on your dependable Android gadget or making headway via a Windows PC. Or as the case maybe, lost in another digital dimension in a classy i-tablet perched on its sleek iPad mini keyboard.

If you’re surfing the net (or doing whatever it is you want to do online), the following extensions will help protect your privacy - assuming you’re using Google Chrome, of course:

Disconnect
Disconnect is the good guy. It is like a tracking police that does away with third-party resources vent on tracking your browsing activities in various sites and web apps. With these trackers stopped, you get to enjoy faster browsing as your bandwidth is freed from trash.

Well, it may have been a cliche but “Information is power.” Not only that, data is money in the making - especially when it lets in on the buying habits or the market’s behavior.

Most - if not all - of the websites that you come visit and perhaps “get lost into” over the internet, tracks your browsing history, and various bits and pieces of data that become valuable market insights when taken together. As a result, these information play a large part as a vital building block in the advertising efforts of major enterprises. And they are willing to pay much to get it.

Do Not Track for Chrome (DNT)
Do-Not-Track also gets rid of these pesky tracking devices, acting like an opt-out mechanism in the process. Chrome may have built-in settings to toggle the Do-Not-Track HTTP header, but this seemingly puny extension is powerful enough to roll out the tracking without getting your hands dirty with the browser settings.

However, hold your horses. Before you jump for joy or cry out loud “Eureka”, be warned: Do-Not-Track may not be totally observed by some of the companies you encounter daily on the web. Among them, Google and Facebook.

Don’t Track Me Google
This one could be the answer you have been waiting for as you are on the lookout in your searches. When you utilize Google as you most often will, Google keeps tracks of the links that you have clicked upon, among other search statistics. With the Don’t Track Me Google extension, Google tracking is disabled so tracking cookies are not set  and targeted ads while you browse are also incapacitated.

In other words, this useful extension tells Google to stay away from tracking you as you try to find your way products and services you want.

Keep My Opt-Outs
To note, this handy mechanism come from the sweat and Google’s brow, so relax.

Keep My Opt-Outs is a handy extension that lets you as a user opt-out of behavioral data tracking and its twin sister, personalized advertising. With this, you’re off the grid. Companies who want to advertise and look into your search and browsing history are swept aside, their hands tied behind their back.

How to Watch Super Bowl Live on Any Device

Now that the Super Bowl XLVIII is but days away, the question is how do you get in on the action while it’s hot and live. Man, there is but a handful of sports events on American soil that draws over 100 million in TV viewing alone. Surely, you don’t want to be out of the discussion.
Eat your heart out, amigo. Here’s a definitive guide on how to get an eye-feast: super-charged Peyton Manning’s Broncos vs the defensive fortress of Russell Wilson’s Broncos, February 2 at MetLife Stadium. And yes, you don’t need a $500 ticket (the least-priced) or get the best seats with a whopping $10,000 pass. Just your fave device.

Here’s how to have Super Bowl XLVIII delivered right straight at you - live!

Traditional

First stop, let’s just stay with what many would still go to: cable TV.

Well, for cable that’s really a no-brainer. Chances are, Comcast and Time Warner have already set their services to it and many have it on schedule - for a fee, of course. Then, it’s just a matter of tuning in to your  local Fox station on the day itself and you’re good to go.

But if you’re already become a fan of cord-cutting technology, you may still access Fox over-the-air using your television antennas. Or get Aereo subscription service, instead.

Aereo could give you the shot you want – though CBS may not be too eager about it (i.e., CBS and Aereo are locked in a legal battle).

From Just About Anywhere

Thanks to the advance of technology you can view the big game from anywhere and through any device - a glorious iPad on its iPad mini keyboard or a South Korean tablet, sans the non wi-fi ready ones, of course.

Over internet. Well, Fox has been mighty generous these days we should be calling the broadcasting company Santa Fox. The good news is you can have live streaming for free. Yes that free all-caps, F-R-E-E. Regardless who provided you with internet service, enjoy the content at FoxSportsGo.com. Just make sure you log at exactly the right time: from February 2, 12 a.m. up to the next day, February 3 a.m ET.

On any device. Customers of Verizon may download the app of the moment: NFL Mobile app. This comes across all platforms (e.g., Android, iOS, Windows, Blackberry). It’s free to get scores and highlights but comes in with a $5 subscription charge for full access to the Super Bowl. Well, that’s a far cry and many times over a $500 ticket.

You may also make use of the Fox Sports Go mobile app, and should be able to savor every twists and clashes of the game. However, this one’s only for iOS devices. Due to Verizon-NFL agreement, Fox won’t give the streaming live on all smartphones.

Well, another solution for you is through the Slingbox-way. The media device is designed to stream every little thing you have on your  home TV to just about any device - Android, iOS and the rest of the gang.

However, Slingbox may come in a little pricey (i.e.,starting at $180 plus $14.99 for the app). You may contemplate on getting the games right where it is, in New Jersey, if that’s your cup of tea. But then again, that is a decision you alone can make.

How to Best Increase Productivity

Increasing productivity is a tall order, no doubt. Especially if you’re just starting out, having less hands to share the burden can truly bite. Fortunately, whether you’re growing a business or wanting to achieve more in the workplace, there are effective ways and means to get the job done. Bringing you outstanding results, in the process.

However, it’s easy to lose your way in your search towards greater productivity. For instance, you may choose to get on the high road and contemplate on the best methods - like a Tibetan monk. But it may take you ages to arrive at practices that have already been in use for years. Same thing if you’re an internet-savvy professional - devouring information on a daily basis. Take a stand. It’s about time you separate the unpredictability of theory from things that actually work.

Below are timely productivity tips. Combine them with tried-and-tested tools provided and you have a potent potion that should pull your productivity a notch higher - way higher. Now, all you have to do is give them a shot to realize the wisdom behind.

1.    Maintain a place to take down notes.

Note-taking can easily be misconstrued as trivial. But it stands at the heart and soul of greater productivity. As
Albert Einstein famously quips, “I write so I free my mind.”
Don’t get caught up in the jungle of the details, write the essentials. Only then can you truly enable your mind to reach its best working potential: to come up with solutions.
In this regard, your smartphone - Android or what-not - or your i-tablet (complete with an iPad mini keyboard) could be your best ally. Put on Google Keep, Zoho Notebook or Evernote.

2. Shorten your To-Do list.

Five would be a good number on a daily basis; more than that and your to-do list would border into the insurmountable. When your energy is focused on too many things, you end up tired, unable to finish anything.

3. Learn to type faster.

Many a-budding entrepreneur have spent hours finding their way on a keyboard - wasting precious time in the process. Get over it.  Improve your typing skills. There are a lot of free typing software available (e.g., keybr.com). A few minutes each day is all you need and you’d be on your way in no time. Beep! Beep!

4. Maximize on the hi-tech.

Why spend so much time fiddling through numbers for instance when a free iPad app can do it in record time?
Don’t let the routine take your precious hours away - hours that you could spend on other more important matters like business development or sales for example. Instead, use apps like Shoebox to do your receipts.

5. For time-driven projects, employ a tickler file.

You can’t overemphasize a tickler file. It may not be super hi-tech but the organization by tasks is heaven-sent. And using them is a cinch, just make sure you put your projects under the right file.

6. Store inspiration well.

At times, articles may catch your interest but your hands are full. The solution is to store them for later. Making a habit of doing away with inspiration could be disastrous.  All enterprise - tech giants or start-ups - started as an idea in its infancy. So buckle up. Apps like Pocket or Instapaper for instant storage could be your best bet towards that million-dollar break.

7. Take time to evaluate your performance.

Stop. Take a bird’s eye view on the things that you do on a daily basis. Evaluate areas of strengths and weakness and come up with solutions to get things better. Do this once a week, and you’ll see the wonders of continuous improvement unfold before your very eyes.