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we're scoring a touchdown against comet trolls I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update YouTube is hoping to reduce its troll population by offering a way for users to go by their real names while in your YouTube account head on over to settings click advanced and you'll be able to start using your google+ account as your YouTube identity before you make the change you can review your past activity and delete any comments you rather not associate with your real name and those of you that enjoy the past time of writing cruel commentary and cursing like a sailor can continue to hide behind your existing handles and if you do switch over you can always switch it back if you change your mind video game publisher Electronic Arts has had a monopoly over pigskin holding the exclusive rights to create games with the teams of the NFL and the NCAA but those days may be numbered back in two thousand eight EA was sued for making these deals with all the big leagues and it was argued that this violated antitrust and consumer protection laws and that it lit yay overcharged for games like madden well four years later those lawyers say EA has agreed to a settlement which includes giving up the exclusive rights to NCAA games for at least five years and this settlement still needs to be approved by the court but if it's passed it also means anyone who bought an e a football game could get a refund of about two dollars to seven dollars a game and that's even for old GameCube games in other news if you bought a new mac computer on or after June eleventh you can get a free upgrade to the mountain lion operating system which is expected to be released this week for everyone else it'll come as a twenty-dollar download from the mac app store facebook will be announcing its first earnings report as a public company on thursday afternoon analysts will be hanging on to every word about its plans for mobile and how it can make more money and in the latest speculation over the next Apple product hard to keep track of there are so many one analyst says we should expect the ipad mini to be revealed in September around the same time as the new iphone there's only a few weeks left of summer before school starts up so time to get prepared for the iPad toting college bound you'll want to get familiar with some note-taking apps like Evernote which lets you add voice oats or draw sketches and the paid version allows for larger file uploads if you have a stylist paper let you draw diagrams and sketches of what's being taught in lecture or you just write notes in your handwriting and on cnet you can find an extensive back-to-school gadget round up to help you find all the devices you need to start the year right then all the details in today's show can be found at cnet com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey