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I came across this article which I must definitely share with you guys as I'm very interested to know your thoughts on this. In a nutshell, Facebook has just introduced a searchable function on their site which will allow people to search through many of its 2 trillion posts, and if you do not handle your privacy settings properly (aka not limiting your future AND past posts to PRIVATE), YOUR Facebook posts will be amongst the 2 trillion posts being searched by ANYONE. For your convenience, I have copied the excerpts from the article here that explains what this function does exactly:

"Welcome to Search FYI. With over 1.5 billion searches per day and over 2 trillion posts in our index, search is an important, long-term effort at Facebook. The team’s goal with Search FYI is to share our progress more frequently.

When something happens in the world, people often turn to Facebook to see how their friends and family are reacting. Today, we’re updating Facebook Search so that in addition to friends and family, you can find out what the world is saying about topics that matter to you:

• Better search suggestions: When you tap into the search box and start typing, we’ll now offer timely, personalized search suggestions. As you type, we’ll highlight things that are happening right now so you can follow popular stories as they unfold.
• Search results with public posts and posts from friends: When you search, you’ll now see the most recent, relevant public posts along with posts from your friends. Search results are organized to help you cut through the noise and quickly understand what the world is saying about a topic in the moment. You also can pull-to-refresh and see the latest public posts.
• Find public conversations with search: When a link gets shared widely on Facebook, it often anchors an interesting public conversation. Now there’s a new way to quickly dive into that discussion. With one tap, you can find public posts about a link, see popular quotes and phrases mentioned in these posts, and check out an aggregate overview of sentiment. This feature is a first step—we look forward to people using it and giving us feedback so we can make it even better.

The diverse experiences and perspectives that are shared on Facebook can’t be found anywhere else. Your search results are personalized and unique to you and, as always, you can only see things that have been shared with you. Likewise, you control who can see your posts on Facebook and it’s easy to change the audience of your past posts any time."

I don't know about you guys, but I immediately checked my own settings to make sure that all past and future posts are only limited to my friends only. You can do so by watching this tutorial.

I have also included some screenshots of my own tutorial using a notebook on where you should change the settings for future AND past posts just in case you don't understand the tutorial from Facebook.

For future posts, look for the padlock icon on top right of your Facebook profile. Click on it and you will see the screen below. Click on the 'Who can see my stuff?'

For future posts privacy settings, just click on the drop-down selection and choose wisely.

For old/past posts privacy settings, look for the arrow down icon at the top right of your Facebook profile and click on 'Settings' followed by 'Privacy' and you will see the following screen. The first option 'Who can see your future posts?' is the same as the above tutorial. Now for past posts, look for the 3rd option 'Limit the audience for posts you've shared with friends of friends or Public?' and click on the 'Limit Past Posts'.

You will see the following screen, just click on 'Limit Old Posts' and confirm the selection.

What do you think?

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Ever since I started kindergarten at 6 years old, I have been attending public schools (main language is Bahasa Malaysia) and during my earlier years, I mixed around with a lot of Malay friends and even spoke Bahasa with my elder brother at home (he also attends public schools), even to this day. So Bahasa Malaysia used to be my main language other than Cantonese and later on English (brushed up more when I met my hubby then boyfriend through snail mails, I had to practise and brush up my English as he doesn't speak Cantonese) Anyway, I think it is fun to be able to practise back and sharing what I know with those of you who are interested.

And so, here goes our next lesson: I Love To Cook

For those of you who are more often on Facebook, you can also find the tutorials on my Facebook fan page. I have created a "Let's Learn Bahasa & Cantonese!" album to store the phrases. Enjoy learning!

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I saw a YouTube tutorial on how to turn your smartphone into a 3D hologram and was having a bit of a challenge thinking what I could use to substitute one of the main components required for this project.

In the YouTube tutorial, you need the following items to make this project: graph paper, plastic transparent CD case, tape or super glue, pen, scissors, smartphone, knife or glass cutter.

I skipped through most of the items required and decided to MacGyver-ised my own stuff. I totally omitted the graph paper, the CD case and the knife or glass cutter. Instead of using the CD case (which I don't have actually hence the need to turn into a McGyver), I thought of using one of the things I have in my study room. A lot of it actually. Was thinking about it in my head and decided to give it a try.

So anyway, instead of using a CD case and knife or glass cutter to cut the case, I use a laminating pouch sheet. I know I am so clever hahahahaha... I looked up a printable template for the trapezoid shape and print out a copy of it on an A4 size paper. From there I flipped open the laminating pouch sheet and trace out the trapezoid shape from the printed A4 copy earlier. I used up as much space I can have on the laminating sheet and once done, let it run through the laminator machine.

Once laminated, just use a scissor to cut out the shape and fold according to the dotted lines.To secure the trapezoid shape together, just cut a tiny bit of loytape and close up the 2 sides together.

Then go search in YouTube for holographic videos and put your DIY trapezoid shape onto your smartphone and voila.... enjoy the 3D show! When the minions popped up in the hologram projector, our 4 year old girl can't resist and want to touch the figure hahahah!

So I repeat, this is a tried and tested working success quick project that uses the following items:

• A piece of transparent laminating pouch & laminator machine
  

• A piece of A4 paper (for your trapezoid template)

• Printable trapezoid template (go to this website for her template, I don't know what language is that but just download the PDF in the link shown)

• Scissors and pen to trace the trapezoid shape
  

• Loytape

• Smartphone
  

Of course, if you don't have laminating pouch or laminator machine, another alternative you can try is those plastic toy packaging. You know these toy packages often have transparent plastic covers? Cut those up and recycle it! I don't have them hence I use laminating sheets which is pretty much as thick as those plastic covers anyway.

I am really excited and happy with our results and not to forget, my MacGyverism LOL! Here are some of the ones we got. Enjoy!!

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