We've seen our share of cool

free applications

but

Google Goggles

is among the most versatile. With Google Goggles, you can use your Android's camera to

scan pictures of objects

and

retrieve information

. Use it to

scan QR codes

or

scan bar codes

. Take a picture of a landmark to get location-specific information or

scan a business card

to instantly add details to your address book.

In this tutorial we'll show you a way you can

export your friends' contact information

out of Facebook to either a .csv file or to Gmail. This process involves using a

Google Chrome Extension

called

Facebook Friend Exporter

but can be a handy way of fetching your friends' info and putting it into one

contact list

.

If you

use Google News

, then you might not know that there's a way to

customize Google News

to meet your preferences. Just

sign in to your Google account

and you'll be able to

add news sections

and

rate topics

according to your interest. You can even edit your location to get news from around the world or from around the neighborhood.

In this episode, we introduce you to

Google Knol

, a service Google offers that is

similar to Wikipedia

. On Google Knol, users can

contribute articles

about various topics and can

edit Knol entries

that others make. This makes Google Knol a good place to look up information on a wide range of topics.

We explain a little bit about

Twitter hover cards

and how they can be used to

get information about Twitter users

. You can

view users' latest tweets

and easily choose to

follow or unfollow users

using these menus.

In this episode, we show you yet another

Twitter Top Secret

: the ability to

add locations to your tweets

. This

location information

will tell your followers where you are when you

post a tweet

and can be turned off at any time.

You can use MapQuest to

map a location

so you'll know how to get there quickly and easily. In this episode, we show you how to

search for a location

,

get information about locations

and

places of interest

and even

read location reviews

. If you're logged in, you can also

access frequently used addresses

.

If you're going to be doing a lot of

shopping on Amazon

, you'll need to enter

credit card information

and keep your address information accurate. Here, we'll show you

how to enter multiple addresses

and also how to label a credit card as a

1-Click credit card

in order to make purchases faster.

Once you have a

Pandora account

, you'll want to know how to

change your account settings

. By clicking on account, you can

change your information

like your

email

,

password

and

profile information

. You can also upgrade to a

pro version of Pandora

for a fee.

In this last part of our series on privacy fixes when

using Facebook

, we'll go over some of the more important

privacy settings

and how to

keep your account secure

. We'll explain how to

customize your settings

to your liking so that you feel more secure on Facebook.

There is a way to

protect your private information

from applications when

using Facebook

. It might take a little bit of time, but by going through your

Facebook application settings

you'll have your

privacy protected

in no time.

If you've

installed applications

when you're

using Facebook

then you may be unaware that you've been

sharing information with those applications

. That includes all of your

profile information

that you might have thought was private. We'll tell you more in this tutorial.

In our last episode of our 10-part series on

how to make a family tree

we'll show you

how to print your family tree

using MyHeritage.com

It's fairly straightforward and gives you many options to

customize your family tree

printout including granting you a variety of fonts, borders and colors with which to

personalize your family tree

!

One of the cooler things about

using MyHeritage.com

is the fact that you can

add information about family members

. This would include everything from

adding their date of birth

,

adding a graduation date

and much, much more. All of this information can be viewed by family members or changed by members of that family tree.

Once you've successfully added family members to your tree, you can

view your family tree

and see if they've uploaded photos. If they have not, you can

add photos of your family

members

using MyHeritage.com

. You can even

add relatives for your family

if you'd like in order to

expand your family tree even further

.

The first step to

creating an online family tree

using MyHeritage.com

is to

create a MyHeritage account

. Here you will be told to enter certain details such as your gender, name, year of birth and email address. You'll also be asked to enter your parents' last names as well.

There are codes known as QR codes that look like two-dimensional

bar codes

. You may have seen these unusual looking codes either on the Internet or on the street and wondered what to do with them. It turns out that they are

codes used to retrieve information

and we'll show you

how to use QR codes

in this tutorial!

Finding your way around your

foursquare

profile is easy. In this episode, we'll show you

how to view your foursquare history

as well as

view your foursquare badges

and mayorships. You can also see your Friends list and

view pending friend requests

.

If you have kids or are planning to in the future then

looking up schools

around your future home is a must. There are many resources online to help you

find a school

that meets your needs and we'll walk you through a couple of them in this episode. GreatSchools.org allows you to search for schools by district and see if schools are open for enrolment and Schooldigger.com will give you school ratings.

Finding a safe neighborhood

should be one of your top priorities when you're thinking about relocating. Fortunately, there are several online tools to help you do just that. Crimereports.com is one site that can show you

crime statistics

on a particular neighborhood and will break them down by type.

Finding a home is even easier

using Yahoo Real Estate

. You can

browse homes by location

and features and then save them to your Yahoo account so you can easily find them later. You can choose to browse foreclosures in a specific area, all homes for sale and more. You can even

see the education statistics

, unemployment rate and other statistics about the neighborhood!

How would you like to learn where your audience focuses on your images and web pages? Would you like to find out how to increase ad sales, simplify site navigation, or plan for the zombie apocolypse? Stacy Reed explains how you can do all this and more with colorful visualizations called heat maps.

Stacy Reed takes us on a visual journey through

5 interactive sites that provide various forms of musical data

. See how lyrics and artists relate to each other, get to know more about the

musical interests of your friends

, find out how you can install music visualizations and graphs on your own website, and even how to develop your own for free.

Every note in your

Evernote notebooks

has attributes. These can be added to, altered, and searched for. It's yet another way for you to quickly and easily

find your notes

in Evernote.

In honor of Earth Week, Stacy Reed continues the Green Computing series with a look at some of her favorite green-themed blogs. These blogs offer everything from insight into minimizing our respective environmental impact to delicious organic recipes and everything in between.

As you travel around the Internet there are lots of things that you see that might be of interest. A tidbit here, a quote there, and perhaps an address or phone number you need to grab for later. Corkboard gives you a great way to grab these things and hide them away till you need them.

Processes are programs that run on your computer. They often have cryptic names like wmicpa.exe. Many of them are things that you want and need to be on your computer. Things for your operating system, your printer, your mouse, and more. But, lurking in the shadows there may be processes that shouldn't be there, and it can be hard to tell the good from the bad.
ProcessScanner utilizes the huge, online Process Library created by Uniblue Systems to let you know what IS running on your PC.

In your busy life it's sometimes hard to stay up-to-date on key things. Using Jott Feeds you can get news, weather, technology information and plenty more right from your phone. It'll even read the news to you so you can focus on driving.

If you're a frequent

Facebook user

then you'll want to watch each of these 10 episodes, plus the bonus! We go over

Facebook community features

, how they affect your

personal privacy settings

, how to

prevent applications from accessing your information

and more! Stick around for each of the episodes and

protect your privacy

!

If you have a large family it might be tough

keeping track of extended family

members. However, you can make a family tree online

using MyHeritage.com

. This will make it easy for you to

add family members

and

add pictures of family members

while allowing other family members to do the same. You'll also be able to

add personal information

and even

manage upcoming events

!

In this

Sweet Stuff series

we show you some

Twitter top secrets

. We tell you all about how to

save your searches

and

add locations to your tweets

. We also show you how to

follow trends

,

manage your lists

and get information about other Twitter users

using hover cards

.