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Looking for a more hands-on way to share photos online? Flickr earlier this week introduced a new feature called Photo Session that lets you share a real-time, collaborative slideshow with up to 10 people. Any of the 10 can navigate the slideshow, which offers chat and drawing features. All viewers will see the same photo as the group browses through the slideshow.

To start a Photo Session, go to your Flickr Photostream or open one of your photo sets. Click the Share button in the upper-right corner and choose Start a Photo Session. From here, you can invite people to join your Photo Session. They'll get an e-mail inviting them to join.… Read more

The Chrome browser doesn't support the capability to sort bookmarks in any manner but manually. If you're tired of dragging and dropping bookmarks by hand, we can help. Here's how to sort Chrome bookmarks by name:

Step 1: Install the SuperSorter Chrome extension from the Chrome Web Store.

Step 2: Right-click on the SuperSorter button and select Options.

Step 3: Choose the options you prefer, including whether you want your bookmarks sorted in ascending or descending order, then click Save options.

Step 4: To sort your Chrome bookmarks, left-click the SuperSorter button. When it's completed sorting, … Read more

Along with Facebook's design overhaul comes a host of new privacy settings that can protect information you'd rather keep private, and prevent third parties from accessing your information.

In classic Facebook fashion, these important settings are hidden beneath a newly designed site, making it difficult for users to control their data.

After some exploring, we found several important Facebook privacy settings that you might otherwise miss on your typical visit. Watch the video for a complete walkthrough and check out the instructions below.

With the new redesign comes an interesting policy called "frictionless … Read more

In the past, adding pictures to Flickr from your phone meant using third-party apps that integrated into the Android gallery or could cross-post to your Flickr account. Now there's (finally) an official app from Yahoo! for its Flickr photo sharing service. It's still obvious that the app is brand-new, given the appearance of some bugs, but it is a good step in the right direction. Here's how to get started using it:

Step 1: Grab Flickr (by Yahoo!) from the Android Market and log in to the app. If you don't have … Read more

Mark Zuckerberg wants you to have "serendipitous experiences" with the new Facebook. Facebook Music is one of the ways he hopes to help you achieve this. With it, you can listen, share and discover music with others, all from within Facebook. If you're ready for the experience, here's how to use Facebook Music:

The idea behind Facebook Music is that whenever you or your friends listen to music from one of Facebook's music partners, the music gets published to your Timeline for friends to see. The details also show up as … Read more

We all have two or three playlists on Spotify we would prefer our listening habits of be left private. With the recent changes to Facebook and the new integration with the various music services, hiding your guilty pleasures has become somewhat of a hassle.

Up until now, the only available solution to prevent your music selection from being displayed on Facebook is somewhat permanent. Thankfully, Spotify has rolled out a Private Listening feature to its desktop clients, allowing users to temporarily stop their music selection from being broadcast all over the Internet.

To enable Private Listening in Spotify on a … Read more

If you spend a lot of time perusing sites like eBay or Craigslist, you know what a pain it is to open each individual link for a sale to take a look at the pictures and information. Whether you open the link in your current tab and press Back often, or are a multi-browser-tab master, there has to be a better way to do this, right? Google found a better way by incorporating previews into its search results, so why not use that same idea across the entire Web? That's where the ezLinkPreview extension for Chrome comes in handy. … Read more

Do you go over each credit charge every month to make sure that all of them are legit? You're not alone if you don't, but you might be missing ongoing fraudulent charges that pop up on tens of thousands of bills every month. That can add up to quite a lot, so every little bit of help can make a real difference. BillGuard is a free service that aims to democratize fraud monitoring; once you let it watch out for you, it takes others' reports into account when deciding what to flag. This should put a serious dent … Read more

Let's say you need to pick up an old friend from the airport--or that you're holed up in an airport lounge yourself, guarding the perfect Wi-Fi spot while you wait for your plane. You know you can do better than constant Web refreshes to get the info you need, right? If you've got an Android device, check out FlightAware. It's free, it's fast, and it's simple. Here's how to use it: