Talking tech again, David Bradley

• Lower the critical battery level to 1% in Windows 7 – With specific hardware configurations, Windows refuses to let you change the Critical Battery Level below a specific point. If you’ve got a big battery, this prevents you from using every last bit of juice. Thankfully, there are two easy workarounds.
• Prevent GMail from auto-adding contacts to your address book – Each time you send, reply or forward an email message to someone through Gmail, it automatically saves the email address of that person to your contacts list. Here's how to prevent GMail from doing that.
• A very good reason to use DropBox instead of Amazon Cloud Drive – All of the headlines, features, and promises have caused the public to overlook a disturbing section of the fine print in the lengthy legal agreement. As a part of using the Cloud Drive, Amazon reserves the right to look at your files. They don’t have to ask or notify you. They can even keep files you delete. A good enough reason for me to recommend DropBox over Amazon Cloud Storage, even if you don't get the media player. Anyway, AudioGalaxy allows you to stream your music without actually having to upload the files!
• Sciencetext Twitter favorites – Sciencetext Tech Talk updates on Twitter via my Sciencebase account, there you will see both the technology and science news and views links. I also “favorite” quite a lot of tweets, particularly if they mention Sciencebase or Sciencetext and the widget below, shows the most recent of those Twitter favorites
• Slow Firefox add-ons – Ten Firefox add-ons that lower the browser's overall performance, particularly wrt startup times.
• Location, location, location – Precise geographical data that pinpoints your whereabouts at any given time should be legally defined as sensitive data on a par with one's genetic information, according to legal experts in Denmark. The EU is investigating what kind of data should be covered by legislation and the team argues that so-called "geo data" must be included in this assessment.