Not to sound too antisocial, but the new chat feature on Facebook is driving me a bit wacky. Every time I'm on Facebook now, people are bugging me. Is there some way to turn it off?...

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I often have long, complicated mail threads in my Google Gmail account and get frustrated when I want to respond to the person sending a particular message, but not the rest of the people on the list. Is there some snazzy shortcut for doing just that?...

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Okay, so I hear my friends talking endlessly about Twitter and figure it might be time for me to jump on the wagon too, however begrudgingly. How do I get started, Dave?...

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I travel a lot and often find myself needing to chat with colleagues back at the office via instant message (usually MSN but sometimes Yahoo). Problem is, I really don't want everyone else in the café using the open wireless network from sniffing the discussion. Is there some secure solution that's easy and portable?...

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