Sunday, February 12, 2012

Sleazy Scammers


Just a quick note today regarding safeguarding yourself for the experienced and the beginner computer person. 
Oh by the way, I love you guys.

Safety begins with being educated about scamming.  You can check out questionable offers at sites like scambuster.org and the community message boards at scam.com. Remember these and use them for you will get scammed at some point in your computing career. 

If you are intrigued by a pitch that pops up, use your search engine to investigate. And do not simply accept the first link that pops up in Google: get several points of view.  If something is not quite right you will know soon enough.

The rest is common sense. As you have been told and read time and time again, keep your antivirus up-to-date, don't just click on links in email, and unless you look like George Clooney or Angelina Jolie, do not respond when you see that "someone" on Facebook has a crush on you message. Come to think of it, you should ignore those links even if you are George Clooney.

And in case you were wondering, it is still a bad idea to take candy from strangers. But you knew that already!

Have a great day and I will be back with some things you may or may not know. Until then, happy computing and safely surfing.

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Thursday, February 9, 2012

Computer Efficiency Expert

Become an Efficiency Expert

Computer World had some great services they found and it is worth sharing. These will help you work more effectively at home or office, sharing with family or friends.

Openoffice.org is a great program if you do not want to pay out hundreds of dollars for MS Office. You can download this program for free.

Want to create web-based multimedia presentations with a great  service and share with clients or family? Try flowgram.com

This next service is going to help you keep track of to-dos, projects, phone calls, and more.  You can use it for your personal life as well with gubb.net.

As you well know, many people like to create pdfs without software.  It can work with documents of more than 300 types or web sites.  This great effective service is called PrimoOnline.

This service with registration,  you can remember to do anything..even buy bread and milk and is suitable for many  platforms, including Blackberry, iPhone, Gmail and Windows Mobile. Become more effective with rememberthemilk.com. 

Try one of these great programs today.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Streamline Your Social Sites

Social networking is great for keeping up with your friends and relatives, but what about all the time you sink into it?  The effort you devote to social networks can consume your day faster than you can pick up pals on Facebook.  Here are seven ways to make your experience less complex.  Digsby is great for combining your entire online social life, Wrapping social networking, IM, and email into one tight little package.  this i a great little multitasking download that integrates AIM, Facebook, Gmail, Twitter, and tons more all form the comfort of one unified system tray application. www.digsby.com 


It seems this one is used by everyone but me, however, I would if I needed it. Google Latitude acts like a Lo Jack for their loved ones.  Accessible from your cell phone or browser, Latitude displays where all your friends are located on a Google Map.


It is always exciting for me to see that someone has written a comment on my Facebook wall, but if you are doing actual work at some point in time during the day, the deluge of e-mail notifications from social networks can be a huge time hole.  Nutshellmail consolidates messages from the likes of Facebook, Twitter, and secondary email accounts into one Scheduled digest, so you can get a quick look of your popularity. nutshell.com


Want something that is all about managing your status? ping.fm(registration required) is what you are looking for.  Set up this with your Facebook and Twitter accounts, for example and a single update automatically posts a new status update on Facebook as well as a new tweet to Twitter. Multiply that function by more than 30 supported social networking sites, and you could save some serious time. 


If you are crazy addicted to the popular social networking and micro blogging service Twitter,  you have probably outgrown using Twitter's Web interface to write and track tweets.  TweetDeck.com  is a no cost download that puts Twitter on steroids, letting you easily track particular search terms, group your friends, shrink URLs and more, all from one centralized window. 


Below is a video regarding using NutshellMail.

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