17 Annoying Things People Do On Facebook

Facebook is a virtual home that is getting real. People are migrating to that home and they’re moving in droves. Facebook has something for everyone and everyone for something. Everybody, yes everybody is there, with all their annoying stuff as well.

Tag here, tag there. What’s all that for huh?
Do you think it’s easy to brush off when a friend tags you in a super embarrassing shot of you especially when you did those stupid things you didn’t have to worry about way back in high school? Or when they show your struggle with beauty at high school until you grew this long hair. Nothing hurts worse than the constant notification, something like “Henry commented on a photo of you.” You think, “Gosh! So he’s seen me that way.” I’m so sad. If you wanted the picture on FB you'd post it yourself, right?

Using the lol acronym too much…   lol.
Did people forget what lol stands for? You see this and you think that dude’s losing it. “I’m in a café...lol”, “I hate examination...lol”, “At a friend’s funeral... lol”. What’s up? Is it a period at the end of every sentence? You use lol as a verb, a noun, an adverb; a past-perfect pronoun and you've even dangled its participle. You're an lol addict. But the thing is, you just throw it in there to let everyone know that what you are saying is a joke. LOL means Laughing Out Loud. So next time you’re in a café or a funeral, please don’t laugh out loud.

The “I’m in the bathroom. Undressing. Removing my ...’kind of posts’.
Heard of twitter? Where you can let people know what you’re doing every second? The URL is www.twitter.com, free and quick registration, absolute fun getting people to follow you, and you can scribble those posts in few words. Goodbye, see you soon.

Putting absolutely nothing on your profile.
You telling me your real name is Rock Shake’EmOff Baby, your hometown is Burma Camp and you live in Kumasi and you are related to Prissy ILuvChocolate4fan . Seriously, are we here to joke? Whiles some people are really using Facebook as a tool to brand themselves, others are just exhibiting their ignorance.

Older people interfering with flow, and religious leaders too.
Hak, 21, posts “Loved last night. Best night out ever. And the girls wow! #$#@!”. Nit, 47, comments, “Wise up. Don’t be like your dad in the 80s.” Ha-ha, this member of the older generation cut off all comments. All I can do is like your post Hak.

Miss. Attention-Craving Drama Queen
This updater needs to make sure people are worried or concerned about her at all times, so she updates her Facebook status with things that beg people to respond with "What happened?" or "Are you all right?" And instead of having a real problem, she's baited you into responding because "her roommate didn't say hi to her this morning." The problem with this annoying updater is after she cries wolf with a few of these faux problems, she could update her Facebook with "I'm in the process of getting stabbed in the face, someone please help me!" and you'll a) not believe her or b) be the one who's doing the stabbing.


"It's Complicated"
Why is it complicated? It’s complicated…because you’re married? Have unresolved daddy issues? An inept womanizer? The only legitimate answer to this question is, it’s complicated because the divorce proceedings you are involved in are not moving along as quickly as you’d like, in which case, YOU’RE SOO SINGLE! But if you still think your relationship is so complicated that you have to identify it as such on your Facebook profile, get off Facebook and go fix your relationship.

FRAPE
This is where one of your friends or someone you know leaves there account signed into unattended, you then hop onto their computer and enter a really stupid or rude message into the status bar and they end up changing their entire friend’s profile.

Poke you non stop
Some people must have nothing else to do because they log on to Facebook and then sit there for hours poking their friends. In a lot of cases this is non-stop and can go on for hours.If their friend is not poking them back then they should not continue to constantly poke that person. Even if the friend does poke back, what is the point of keeping this poking session going for the next hour?

Girls taking pouty faced pictures of themselves 
We’ll never be free from these girls. Somehow, they think they’re twice as attractive with this face. When digital cameras came out, so did the lips & throwing the peace sign. I thought it was just a phase, now I know the awful truth. Just to keep from losing my mind, I imagine they’ve just ate some sour oranges just before they snapped the pic. Either that or the sour taste of their own self-image has forever pickled their palette. Gentlemen, if you ever find yourself about to be in a picture with one of these girls, it is your civic duty to back out.


Adored on Facebook, ignored in life
Your friends like your status updates, your wall is full of posts, and your photos are littered with comments because you’re always updating with some kind of catchy and exotic phrases, but try making a phone call or text message to any number of these people and you’d think they were ignoring you. Newsflash; THEY ARE. Because in real life you some boring ignored character who feeds on Facebook to feel good about yourself. Stop misleading yourself you are not any celebrity. 


Misuse of the Like button
When someone says that a friend or family member has passed away it is usually recommended to comment by saying something like ‘my deepest condolence’ and not select the Like button.


They Let Their idiocies Show
What is it about Facebook that makes even cool, down-to-earth people post quotes like "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog," write status updates that read, "I am not a SWAG KING but KING OF THE SWAG," and upload photos of themselves with wannabe-model gazes that they obviously took in the bathroom mirror? Duh!! It’s the bathroom, that’s where all the nasty stuff goes on!! Maybe they think it's funny or impressive, but the behavior only makes us roll our eyes.

Random song lyrics in the news feed.
It’s actually ok some days if you just don’t have anything to say on Facebook. Maybe you just want to check in and see how your friends are doing. There’s nothing wrong with that, not at all. Some people it appears, feel they must share something so if they have nothing happening, they just put up some random song lyric that pops into their head. I’m looking at your updates, curious about how your day is going but instead, you’ve posted the entire first verse of GRENADE. In fact it took so many posts to get your lyrics out to the world that it pushed all of the other updates off the first page of my news feed.


Update Facebook profile when you’re supposedly ill 
How many times have we seen it? Someone calls the lecturer in the morning pretending to be sick and then updates their Facebook profile minute-by-minute throughout the day, documenting a day of ice cream, fried rice, movies and jumping on the bed. Get dressed and go for lectures because Prof. Kofi G.  is your friend on Facebook, that’s  if you’ve forgotten or else you’ll probably miss an impromptu mid-sem. And it’d be your own fault for adding your lecturer to be your friend on Facebook.


Unwanted Groups
One of Facebook’s more recent improvements allows other users to make their friends members of groups. When I read about Mark Zuckerberg himself getting stealthily included in a NAMBLA group, I thought it would have brought an end to this, but I recently realized that I have been added by my wannabe friends to over 20 Movement pages. The recent one being “The Sweet Mistake Movement” which I have no idea what it’s about. 

Upload drunken pictures the morning after
Have a little decency for yourself. If you go out for a big one on a Wednesday night and you happen to lose it, posting humiliating photos of you & your friends on Thursday morning is a recipe for disaster. Because when you go for that job interview on Thursday your interviewees might want to ask permission and check your Facebook profile and imagine them seeing pictures of you seriously drunk making a fool out of yourself. Yeah right we know what will happen.

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Amped Wireless High Power R10000G Router and Smart Repeater hands-on

Until now, Amped Wireless has been best known for its industrial networking gear, capable of maintaining a signal up to 1.5 miles away from the base station. Now, though, the outfit's also selling some equipment for folks with a more modest setup: theR10000G Home Router and SR10000 Smart Repeater, which promise to coat 10,000 square feet of your abode / office in robust, high-quality WiFi. Of course, we just had to test these claims out for ourselves, and see if these units really were formidable enough to leave our own router crying in the corner. We devised three simple experiments to see how they hold up in the real world -- head on past the break to find out how they fared.


When we opened the pair of boxes from Amped, we were expecting these devices to have a gravitas befitting such a fêted device. It was almost a disappointment to learn they're as light, if not lighter than most of the networking gear we've seen. Two Ethernet cables dangle from each unit out of the box, one bearing a "Plug into Modem" tag, the other reading "Plug into PC." Power users may feel patronized, but it's clear the company has taken the time to ensure no one's left out here.

The installation menu is flawlessly designed, easing you through the process with little fuss. Compared to some routerswe've reviewed this year, the modest effort to make a potentially tedious setup process painless bodes well for the outfit's attention to detail. In under five minutes, we were up and running, slurping down internet from all over the house.

We began with a simple enough question: in real-world conditions, can the device actually serve enough internet to blanket 10,000 square feet? The company supplies a WiFi analytics tool for Android, so in the same way you'd go hunting for metal on a beach, we went hunting for a signal. For the purposes of this test, we compared the signal to what we got from BT's branded HomeHub 3.0, a Technicolor / GigaSet router that comfortably covers around 2,000 square feet.

The R10000G was available as a discoverable network 115 feet from our front door, but didn't offer up any tangible connection until we'd moved within 55 feet of the base station. All in all, we managed to get around 8,000 square feet of good coverage before it became too flaky to use. Given that it was passing through five walls followed by an extra 31 feet outdoors, we could get signal around three times as far as the stock BT router.

For our second test, we installed the Smart Repeater in a house across the street, with roughly 150 feet separating the two devices. It took a little prodding to get the Repeater to connect, but once we had a connection, we were able to cover the street in broadband. During the few hours we spent testing this, we could stand and surf (okay, tweet) from the middle of the street without ever switching to cellphone data. We won't lie: there's something immensely satisfying (albeit dangerous) about knowing that you could watch web video out in the middle of the road. If you've got a big back yard, the last thing you want is to be trapped inside because of a weak network extender, but that, too, is something you shouldn't have to fret about. 

For our final test, we took the gear off to a secret location: a disused Victorian courthouse and prison that's been turned into a private home. Including the cell block, there's living space of around 8,000 square feet, littered with heavy brick walls, lead-lined doors and maze-like construction. The only place the residents can latch onto a WiFi signal is the room as where their Huawei HG521 router is situated. To be clear, this test isn't in response to any claim Amped is making; it just seemed to us that a home so unfriendly to WiFi would be a telling place to put this robust gear through its paces.

We set up the R10000G in the study, at which point the internet was instantly able to penetrate all of the rooms on that side of the cell block -- previously unheard of in this house. It roughly covered around 4,000 square feet, including all of the various offices and the courthouse. However, the signal wouldn't travel beyond the cell block, so we decided to place the repeater at the farthest end of the building to see if we couldn't use it to break through the barrier. It was able to scan for the router and register it with around 60 percent signal strength, but despite repeated attempts, it simply refused to connect. The steel and iron bars, lead-lined doors and walls that encircle the wing simply too strong even for world-class kit like this.

There's something satisfying about tech that's made with care and does its job well. In this case, we're not going to gloss over the fact that the router and repeater will set you back a combined $260 -- it's a hefty commitment, to be sure. But for those of you who require constant connectivity, or have to make do with a home that isn't WiFi-friendly, then the little extra you'll pay up front will more than compensate for all the mindless web surfing you'll enjoy thereafter. 

Android this week: Instagram arrives; Sprint LTE phones soon; Galaxy Note

This week saw Instagram arrive on Android devices after a full 16 months of iPhone exclusivity. The social photo sharing app provides a number of image filters and makes it simple to snap a picture and post  it to a user’s Instagram feed. Clearly, there was much pent-up demand for the software as a reported 2,000 people were signing up through the app every minute.

Two immediate aspects of this launch jumped out at me and both of them were related to the iPhone. First, the application looks more like an iOS app ported to Android; not one that uses the typical or recommended Android interface elements. That’s not necessarily an issue, but it has some Android users grumbling.

Second, iPhone users wasted no time ridiculing Android thanks to the new app. I’ll grant them that the iPhone 4S has a stellar camera, optics and photo software that takes great images, but not every Android handset camera is junk. And even a good handset can yield crappy images in various situations. Even worse, was an attitude of smugness or superiority from the far end of the spectrum as evidenced by this tweet below. The fact is, there are many great mobile device choices that work well for different individuals: Instead of mocking them, we should appreciate that we have choices at all.

oh, great. Instagram is now available for Android phones. now I'm going to be forced to see what poor people eat for dinner. #instagram—
m0nster (@m0nster_one) April 03, 2012

Speaking of choice, more than 5 million people in the world have chosen the Samsung Galaxy Note. I received a review unit from AT&T on Friday and handset is growing on me; not literally, which is good, given the 5.3-inch display. At CES, I felt the Note was too wide in my hand but that was with only a few minutes of playtime to film a video of the device. After using it for a single day, I’m starting to appreciate the size.

I’ll have a full review forthcoming, but in the short time I’ve used the Galaxy Note, I’m thinking it could replace both my Galaxy Nexus and my Galaxy Tab 7.7 tablet. Why? It has the features, usability and portability of both in a single device.

That’s just my gut reaction, of course, and not everyone will find the large device to their liking. But those who are asking the question of whether this is a tablet or a phone are asking the wrong question. I’ll soon have a follow up post on what’s the right question to ask when considering if the Galaxy Note is suited for you, so stay tuned.

In the meantime, Sprint users gained the promise of new Android phones for the carrier’s upcoming LTE network: The LG Viper and the Sprint EVO 4G LTE. The EVO model is already building up buzz, mainly because it’s a version of the HTC One; a consolidated product line that HTC hopes to turn around flagging sales.

Look for the EVO 4G LTE this quarter for $199.99 (with contract), running Android 4.0 and latest version of HTC Sense on a 4.7-inch 1280×720 resolution screen. Qualcomm’s 1.5 GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 will power the handset, which will also use HD Voice for improved audio quality on calls.

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Monetize your social site without annoying your users

Social sites, whether they are discovery platforms, blogs, or forums, are tight knit communities built on trust. These communities can understandably be sensitive to advertising.

However, even the most buzz-worthy social media darlings need revenue to fuel their growth and help fund administration, support and development. Without revenue (or the potential of revenue for investors), there would be no community.

Luckily, monetization efforts don’t have to be at odds with your user base. If you implement your monetization strategy with care, it’s possible to maximize revenue potential and keep members happy. My personal concern with this problem led me to found Skimlinks, so this is an area near and dear to my heart.

Whether you use sponsorships, ads, affiliate marketing, premium memberships or a combination of these strategies, the following tips will help you monetize your forum or social site.

Let members know about your monetization plans before you roll them out, so no one is caught off guard. It’s best to explain why you’re doing this, i.e. “we need to earn enough in order to provide all the services people enjoy now and add even more down the road.”

Disclosure is often required to comply with FTC guidelines that state: “The post of a blogger who receives cash or in-kind payment to review a product is considered an endorsement.” Whether you’re legally obligated or not, full transparency is the nice thing to do, and it will help you maintain the goodwill you’ve worked hard to build.

At a minimum, include disclosure text in the “About us” or “Privacy” section of your site. Even better, add a link in the footer or navigation bar to a dedicated disclosure page or acknowledgement of monetization. For example, NPR.org explains that the links on their shopping site are affiliate links and that the money they make from these links helps fund their service.

While ads may play a role in your business plan, be sure to think about how intrusive monetization schemes, such as glaring ads, will impact the aesthetic of your site and ultimately your user experience. If possible, try to place relevant ads so that they add to the experience, rather than take away.

Google AdWords is a good model. Sponsored links appear next to Google search results. Ads are related to the searches taking place, so they are often of interest to users. Because of this, people aren’t as bothered by the ads, and they’re more likely to click and make a purchase. This creates a win-win solution for Google and a business model that pays them big time — 96 percent of Google’s $37.9 billion in revenue in 2011 came from advertising.

If you choose to monetize in a way that complements the style of your site, you should be in good shape. Facebook has done very well with a clean interface and ads that are more social in nature. Contrast this to MySpace, which was a bit chaotic and overwhelming in their ad presentation.

When implemented thoughtfully, affiliate marketing can be a win-win-win for the marketplace, with sites making money from content, merchants making money from sales, and consumers finding new products, as well as enjoying free services with minimal intrusion.

If you sense that your community is particularly sensitive to advertising, introduce it in stages and test it first with different groups. 

By implementing your monetization strategy in stages, you can monitor user reactions and identify any issues prior to a full-scale launch. Creative solutions include using only affiliated links and showing ads to non-logged in users, or perhaps only doing so on older posts.

When you roll monetization to a wider community base, encourage users to give constructive feedback, both positive and negative. Then tweak settings as necessary. If you’re monetizing a forum, make sure the moderators fully understand your plans and intentions ahead of time. When questions arise within the community, moderators can respond quickly and provide support for your decision to monetize.

Inevitably, a handful of users will be opposed to any monetization in the community, and it’s important to resist the temptation to react emotionally to a small number of complaints.

Instead, inform your community that you are actively listening to all their feedback and reiterate the importance of monetization to your ability to provide — and enhance — the services they love. Be careful to not let a tiny but vocal handful of individuals affect your company’s decisions.

If applicable or possible, you should allow members to opt out of certain monetization programs. For example, if you’re using affiliate links in your community, give members the ability to disable links if they prefer. Announce this capability to everyone in your disclosure or privately communicate it to members with complaints.

Often, it’s only a handful of members who object to monetization and giving them an opportunity to opt out can diffuse potential issues. At the end of the day, monetization — whether by advertising, affiliate marketing, or subscription fees — is the only way a site can afford to provide peoples’ favorite services.

If you roll out a solution that allows you to monetize without changing the user experience or compromising editorial integrity, your community will likely accept your decision — as long as you keep them in the loop.

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Humans Made Fire Earlier than We Thought

Scientists have been speculating and arguing about when hominids mastered the art of producing fire for a long time. Estimates ranged from a few hundred thousands years ago to two million years ago. But now hard evidence of a one-million-year-old cave fire has emerged.

The new evidence comes from South Africa’s Wonderwerk Cave. Archaeological investigations there in the 1970s through 1990s turned up Acheulean tools—stone handaxes and other implements that were likely produced by Homo erectus. In 2004, Francesco Berna of Boston University and his colleagues began new excavations. They found several signs of fire, including tiny charred bone fragments and ash from burned plants. They also found ironstone—which the hominids used to make tools—with telltale fractures indicative of heating. Using a technique called Fourier transform infrared microspectroscopy, which examines how a sample absorbs different wavelengths of infrared light, the team determined the remains had been heated to more than 900 degrees Fahrenheit, with grasses, leaves or brush used as fuel.

The shape of the bone fragments and the exceptional preservation of the plant ash suggest the materials were burned in the cave—not outside and then transported in by water, the team reports this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Spontaneous combustion of bat guano was also ruled out (apparently this sometimes happens in caves). That left hominids as the most likely source of the fire.

The age of hominid fire is important, because fire is a crucial ingredient of the theory that humans developed bigger brains due to eating cooked food (previously at Neatorama). Read more on this discovery at Smithsonian’s Hominid Hunting blog. Link

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Gritty new ‘Star Wars 1313′ has fans buzzing

LucasArts is turning to the Dark Side for its next Star Wars game.

Not the Dark Side of the Force, mind you. It's done that several times already. Nope, this time the publisher is hoping to explore a darker, more mature side of the sci-fi universe in a new game calledStar Wars 1313.

The third-person action romp is set on "Level 1313, a ruthless criminal underground deep below the surface of the planet of Coruscant," according to the company. Players will assume the role of a bounty hunter taking down targets and searching for the truth behind a criminal conspiracy.

Could that bounty hunter be fan fave Boba Fett? LucasArts isn't saying, though the company will further showcase the game next week at E3, announcing things like platforms and a release window. Gamers previously played as Boba's dear old dad Jango Fett in the 2002 action game Star Wars: Bounty Hunter.

Also in question is the target age rating. With its universal appeal, Star Wars titles typically enjoy an 'E' (for everyone) or 'Teen' rating. Star Wars 1313, however, may well net a 'Mature' rating, which would be a first for the Star Wars game universe.

But wait, a Star Wars game without light sabers and force pushes? That might sound shocking to today's legions of wannabe-Jedi knights, but a blaster-based game that presumably has some stealth elements could help energize fans. And, as the enduring love of "The Empire Strikes Back" shows, the Star Wars faithful really love it when the universe takes a dark turn.

They're certainly interested in this one. 'SW1313' became a top trending topic overnight on both Twitter and right here at Yahoo!, proving there's still quite an appetite for cool Star Wars fiction.

"Star Wars 1313 dives into a part of the Star Wars mythos that we've always known existed, but never had a chance to visit," said LucasArts president Paul Meegan.

Lucas is throwing its full weight behind the game, relying on input from its various tech divisions, including LucasArts, ILM, Lucasfilm Animation, and Skywalker Sound. Clearly, the Force is strong with this one. Let's just hope the gameplay is, too.

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Tiger's Memorial win rekindles magic

DUBLIN, Ohio -- The focus has never been on this number. Tiger Woods always hoped to eclipse it along the way to immortality, adding it to a list of surreal accomplishments, more résumé fodder to ponder. The poster on his bedroom wall as a kid concerned major championship hardware, specifically the outrageous standard set by Jack Nicklaus. But getting to Nicklaus' mark of 73 PGA Tour victories is nice, too. And to do it at Nicklaus' Memorial Tournament, with the Golden Bear himself sitting behind the 18th green watching Woods fire a shot at the flag and drain the clinching birdie putt, is about as good as it gets. SportsNation: Woods wins Memorial Tiger Woods won his fifth career Memorial, but what does a victory mean for Woods heading into the U.S. Open? • Comment and vote! "He had to rub it in my face right here, didn't he?'' Nicklaus joked Sunday. That's Tiger. You have to appreciate his flair for the dramatic, even if it has been lacking to a large degree over the past few years. But there he was at Muirfield Village, charging up the leaderboard with four front-nine birdies, falling behind with a couple of bogeys, seemingly out of it with a few holes to play. Woods was all but dead when his approach went over the 16th green. Then he somehow got that chip shot to drop in for a birdie that shook the central Ohio ground. Nicklaus called it one of the best shots he's ever seen under the circumstances, and who are we to argue? Who could get that ball close, let alone hole it? But Woods did, setting up his second victory of the year and tying Nicklaus at 73 wins on the PGA Tour, nine behind all-time leader Sam Snead. "It was phenomenal,'' said caddie Joe LaCava. "And the roar was unbelievable.'' The par-3 16th was playing 201 yards over water to a back left pin made more difficult by a left-to-right wind that Nicklaus suggested was too difficult for such a position. Just four players birdied it, but Woods was the only one among the top 10 to do so. His 8-iron approach -- an 8-iron from 200 yards, mind you -- was aimed just a bit to the right and went over the green. From there, Woods was faced with a 50-foot flop shot that he admitted he hoped to get within 8 feet of the hole to have a putt at par. "It was just so downhill and running away from me,'' Woods said. "It just fell in. I didn't think it was going to get there at one point. Kind of like 16 at Augusta, I thought I was going to leave it short somehow, and then it fell in.'' Woods referenced the birdie chip he made during the 2005 Masters, where he aimed away from the flag, bumped the ball into a slope and saw it roll back ever so slowly into the cup. "This was one of the hardest ones I've pulled off,'' he said. Bear Of A Milestone Tiger Woods tied Jack Nicklaus (at Jack's own tournament, mind you) for second on the all-time PGA Tour wins list. Career Wins on PGA Tour Players Wins 1. Sam Snead 82 T-2. Tiger Woods 73 T-2. Jack Nicklaus 73 4. Ben Hogan 64 5. Arnold Palmer 62 -- Source: ESPN Stats and Information "You [would] hit a good shot to get it inside 10 feet,'' said Rickie Fowler, who played alongside Woods. "And it came out perfect, landed kind of right on the crown of that ridge there, and the rest is history. "He loves being in the moment, and that's where he kind of gets down, focuses and hits those shots. It was fun to see.'' Nicklaus, the tournament founder who designed Muirfield Village and redesigned the 16th two years ago, said Woods had little room for error. "If he leaves it short, he's going to leave himself again a very difficult shot. If he hits it long, he's probably going to lose the tournament,'' Nicklaus said. "He lands the ball exactly where it has to land. It doesn't make a difference whether it went in the hole or not. Going in the hole was a bonus. But what a shot. "I don't think under the circumstances I've ever seen a better shot.'' That shot, of course, is what will long be remembered in Woods' fifth victory at this tournament. He matched Nicklaus at 73 wins at age 36 -- 10 years prior to the Golden Bear's final win at the 1986 Masters, when he was 46. Woods also moved to No. 4 in the world, the top-ranked American behind Luke Donald, Rory McIlroy and Lee Westwood in the global standings. But perhaps more important to Woods is the way he played this tournament. It was vintage Tiger from a ball-striking standpoint. He led the field in greens in regulation (53-of-72) and hit 13 of 14 fairways Sunday, missing his only one at the ninth, where his ball was a few inches into the fringe. He managed to win despite being just 41st in the tour's "strokes gained-putting" category. Woods shot 5-under-par 67 in the final round to win by two over Rory Sabbatini and Andres Romero. Woods played the last four holes in 3 under par. "Not that he putted bad, but if he would have made anything he would have won by 6 shots,'' LaCava said. "That's how good he hit the ball. He played so well tee to green.'' Fowler, who shot 84 to get beat by 17 shots, has played several times with Woods at home in South Florida and said a few weeks ago at The Players Championship that Woods was not taking the same game to tournaments that he showed behind closed gates. That changed this week, and was apparent on Friday and Saturday when Woods played solidly in blustery conditions. "He was hitting some solid golf shots, and it was fun to see him finally out there making some swings like he does when we're at home,'' Fowler said. "He looked very comfortable and hit a lot of good shots, and the times where he's in the moment and in the heat of contention is where he really shines.'' Get all of ESPN.com's latest news, highlights and commentary about the world's most talked-about golfer. Tiger Tracker Woods said he didn't miss a shot all day and felt much more comfortable practicing at home last week. He won the Arnold Palmer Invitational in late March with some solid play, then had the worst three-tournament stretch of his career, tying for 40th at the Masters, missing the cut at the Wells Fargo Championship, and again tying for 40th at The Players Championship. A trip earlier this week to the Olympic Club, site of the U.S. Open in two weeks, only emboldened his confidence. "If I can hit the ball well there, I just basically carried that into this event and hit it great all week.'' The U.S. Open is the next test, and Woods will arrive in San Francisco having gone four years since his last major victory. And that is the Nicklaus number that matters the most. Jack's 18 majors still stand tall, with Woods four behind at 14. A win at any of the remaining three major championships this year would renew such chatter. But Woods wasn't talking about that Sunday. Woods praised Nicklaus at the trophy presentation, and again sitting beside him in a post-tournament news conference. "He means a lot to all of us players,'' Woods said. "We all looked up to him, and he's the greatest champion who ever lived.'' Woods, if the Memorial was any indication, will still have something to say about that. Original post found at - http://espn.go.com/golf/story/_/id/8000273/tiger-woods-rekindles-magic-memorial-tournament-win