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Saturday, July 9, 2011

Just Show Me: How to create new profiles on your PlayStation 3 (Yahoo! News)

Welcome to Just Show Me on Tecca TV, where we show you tips and tricks for getting the most out of the gadgets in your life. In today's episode we'll show you how to set up a new profile on your PlayStation 3.

Profiles are a great way to let multiple people play on one PS3. Each person can customize his or her PS3 gaming experience, and even use their own credit card to buy online games and movies. Parents can also assign parental controls to limit the PS3's abilities on their kid's profiles.

As usual, if you have any requests for something you'd like Just Show Me to cover, we want to know about them! Please be sure to let us know in the comments what you want to know.

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Microsoft begins moving Xbox 360 profiles, game data to the cloud (Yahoo! News)

Cloud storage will make gaming on the go even better

We first heard about Microsoft's plans to move Xbox 360 profile and save data to the cloud at the company's E3 press conference early last month, and today those plans are beginning to take shape. An update is slowly being rolled out to Xbox 360 consoles that moves gamer profile data and game saves for certain Xbox Live Arcade titles to a cloud storage space, allowing it to be accessed from any console.

Moving game saves and player information to a non-local storage space offers several benefits. Gamers who purchase new consoles, perhaps to upgrade hard drive space or simply because their previous system died, will no longer have to mess with complicated transfer procedures. Simply signing in to your Xbox Live account will give you access to all of the data you need in order to continue your games right where you left off. It also provides an extra level of security, as Microsoft's servers will (hopefully) be an ironclad vault and offer added protection against data loss.

Currently, only certain Xbox Live games are set up to save to the cloud. This slow and steady approach is likely Microsoft's way of preventing any possibly snafus that might be created by dropping the full weight of the Xbox 360 library onto the service at once. Additional titles are expected to be added in short order, though no timeframe has been revealed for when specific games will make the leap to the cloud.

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All Google Profiles to go public as of July 31 (Yahoo! News)

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Google's new social network push, Google+, is gaining momentum. Though it remains in closed beta, the service is already becoming the favorite social networking spot of many internet denizens. In order to ensure that everyone with an existing Google account is ready for the public launch, the company is requiring all Google Profiles to be public, and anyone with an existing private account will see their information purged as of July 31.

If you use the Gmail web-based email service, YouTube, or any other Google-based internet property, there's a pretty good chance you created a Google Profile at some point in time. These profiles contain things like your real name, gender, and any additional information you may wish to link to your online identity. The push towards making all profiles public is aimed at making Google+ a more social experience and should allow you to locate friends much easier.

If you're not sure what type of Google account you have you can simply sign in and click on "View data stored with this account." From there, you can manage your privacy options and control what contact information is available to the public. If you wish you have your private profile removed, you can also do so via this menu, or simply wait for July 31 when all such profiles will be automatically deleted from the system.

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