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Quickly delete multiple Facebook messages in Chrome
Instead of deleting messages one thread at a time, grab this Chrome extension to streamline the process.

by Nicole Cozma June 1, 2012 3:43 PM PDT
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With all of your private Facebook communication now happening in the Messages area, clutter can build up quickly. Looking at the list of messages you'll see an option next to each one for Archiving. Unfortunately, this doesn't actually delete the message, it just removes it from the main list. If you want to permanently delete a message, you have to open the thread, click a button at the top and then delete.
Instead of visiting each message thread, check out Facebook Fast Delete Messages, a handy extension for Google Chrome. Here's how to get started:
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Step 1: Download a copy of the Facebook Fast Delete Messages extension.
Step 2: Log in to your Facebook account and head to the Messages area (you'll want to view them all at once).
Step 3: Click the small Red X next to each message to delete the entire thread without having to open it.

Before installing the extension.
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After installing the extension.
(Credit: Screenshot by Nicole Cozma/CNET)
The only thing this extension is missing, as mentioned on Guiding Tech's coverage, is a confirmation pop-up for deletion. Additionally, a toggle for the confirmation dialog would be useful. However, this extension still makes message deletion faster than Facebook's method.

Hits and misses in Windows 8 so far....

As Microsoft approaches the home stretch for finishing Windows 8, we take a look at what the OS does well, and what it must fix to be a success.

With the Windows 8 Release Preview finally available, Microsoft has taken a major step toward putting its chips on the table for its biggest gamble ever. While we may start seeing some of the hardware that will run Windows 8 as early as next week, we know enough about the operating system itself to say what's surprisingly good and what needs help, STAT.
What we liked so far:
The Metro interface comes at app icons from a different angle than Apple and Google. Live tiles are actually useful, updating the stock ticker concept for a modern, mobile world. You can create tiles for individual e-mail accounts, or follow updates from specific contacts, and it presents a nearly non-existent learning curve.
Semantic zoom is the ability in Windows 8 to access different levels of content via zooming. On the Start screen, zooming out gives you a bird's eye view of your tile groups. In an app, you can zoom out to see different kinds of related content -- in the Bing Travel app, you'll see categories like Today, Featured Destinations, Panoramas, and Articles.
Picture password has never failed to impress. Everybody loves it. You create a series of gestures on a photo of your choice, and use those to login instead of a typed password. It's an obvious win for touch-screen devices, and you can choose the photo from almost anywhere -- your Facebook account, SkyDrive, Flickr, or locally stored.
The three S's: search, sync, and share provide a solid skeleton to hang much of your Windows 8 activity on. Search is intuitive, and although the search tool lives on the Start screen, it lets you drill down into Apps, Settings, or Files with ease. Sync will synchronize enormous chunks of what you do in Windows, from browser history to settings to apps. Share lets you share content across apps with little effort, powered by Microsoft's innovative Share API. App makers only have to code for that API, and other apps will be able to "talk" to it for sending content. A great example of this is the Evernote app, which you can now create a note from a Web page in only two taps.
What's new in the Windows 8 Release Preview (pictures)

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What will frustrate you:
Learning Windows 8 doesn't take long, but it will require a quick tutorial for most people. You won't intuitively know that the Charms bar slides out from the right edge, or that zoom takes you to a different layer of content. However Microsoft decides to teach people how to use it, nearly everybody who gets a Windows 8 device is going to have to be taught.
Mousing through the Metro interface feels daunting, despite Microsoft's efforts to make it accessible. Until you get used to it, it feels like running through a herd of elephants looking for a small and possible flattened dog. That's a shame, because it's not bad with a mouse. But hot keys are faster.
Sync, again. While I did say that Sync will synchronize enormous chunks of what you do in Windows, it doesn't do it all yet. Apps and Start screen tile groups don't sync yet, and nor does your super-cool picture login. Microsoft promises that it'll be a fully operational Death Star of Sync by the time Windows 8 is shipped, but it's not a Jedi yet.
Jumping to Desktop mode is jarring. Microsoft has kept it for several official reasons, but it's really about easing the transition from Windows 7 to Metro. I don't see what they can do to fix that, because they are two diametrically opposed designs. The company seems to think that killing off the translucent Aero program borders will help, but we won't get to judge for ourselves until the final version.
Apps, where art thou? It's a nice OS. It'd be a shame if anything happened to it. Where we stand now, there's little risk of anything happening to it because there's so few native apps to test on it. Like Sync being finished by the final version, Microsoft says that there will be plenty of apps for you to play with by the time it launches in the fall. But now? Aside from the default apps like Mail, People, News, and Travel, you've got Evernote, Slacker Radio, and Cut the Rope and a handful more. It takes time to build a deep bench of apps, and Microsoft's on a tight schedule.
Originally posted at Windows 8

Most advanced malware found

Computer and web security firm Kaspersky Lab has announced the discovery of a new malicious software program considered the most advanced threat yet.

The malware, which at 20MBs is some 20 times larger than the infamous Stuxnet virus, is used as a cyber weapon in several countries, according to Kaspersky.

The malware was discovered by Kaspersky Lab during an investigation prompted by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

The malicious program, detected as Worm.Win32.Flame, is designed to carry out cyber espionage.

"The diverse nature of the stolen information, which can include documents, screenshots, audio recordings and interception of network traffic, makes it one of the most advanced and complete attack-toolkits ever discovered," a press statement read.

Findings suggest that Flame has been "in the wild" for more than two years - since March 2010.
"The Flame malware looks to be another phase in this war, and it’s important to understand that such cyber weapons can easily be used against any country. Unlike with conventional warfare, the more developed countries are actually the most vulnerable in this case," Eugene Kaspersky said.