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Beware this phishing email – It’s spyware
Well, here’s another one. I just received an email from a domain registered in Russia, claiming to be an Adobe application update. Don’t be fooled by this one. Just take a look at the “whois” info for the domain name: Domain name: ADOBE-MAILER.COM Registrant ID: TAACTMK-RU Registrant Name: Kenny James Registrant Organization: Kenny James Registrant Street1: 102 Avenue Street Registrant City: New York Registrant State: NY Registrant Postal Code: 10023 Registrant Country: [...]
Facebook Privacy Settings – Protect Your Personal Info Today
Facebook Privacy Settings The First Critical Setting: Instant Personalization and Public Search These two items enable individuals, companies, organizations, and pretty much the world at large to glean information about you from your Facebook account and activity while on Facebook, and also when you visit websites that are partnered with Facebook. This creates an odd level of familiarity, where you may visit a site and it instantly pops up a message welcoming you by name, and even [...]
How to Add Your Facebook Page to the Top of Your Profile
If you want to optimize your Facebook Profile for your business, this simple (yet effective) tip can help you do just that! By now we all have a reasonable understanding that we each have a personal facebook page, but we also have a second page specifically for our group, business or professional presence on facebook. Now; on our personal page, we list our employer in the general info we share, because of course we want to publicize [...]
Default Email Problem Solver
I’ve found a solution for an everyday problem that causes mass frustration for everyone I know. You know those times when you click on a “mail-to” link on a webpage, only to find that you’re directed by Windows to a desktop email program like Outlook, Windows Live Mail, or any other program you don’t use? Well, now there is a solution! Previously, you could have worked through the process to configure and use the default program, which [...]
Time For a Little Spring Cleaning!
Time for a little spring cleaning! At some time or another we’ve all tried to clean out our duplicate files and make room on our computers. This can take hours if we try to do it manually- sifting through the document files looking for random copies. You’d better settle in for that task since you’ll be there a while. The answer is a freeware assistant – a free download program that will identify all your duplicate files [...]
The Virtues of Creating a System-Repair Disk
You never know when a disaster may strike: suddenly your computer just won’t boot. Rather than screaming and pulling your hair out, why not prepare for this all too often occurrence in advance, so that if the problem ever (knock on wood) arises, you can just pop in a disk and get going again. Sounds good, right? Few vendors bundle operating-system disks. Thankfully, it’s quite simple to build one yourself following these simple steps: Click the START [...]
How to pick colors for your site
Selecting good colors for you web site is often a tough decision for people. This can be made a little easier with the help of some online tools designed to help you select good color choices or see professionally designed color schemes. Some sites to check that should help you in that search for the perfect colors include: These first two include a number of color palette ideas to choose from: Color Combos Colour Lovers Color Hunter [...]
How to create content for your online marketing efforts
I read a great blog post over at business.com on recycling your content to create a variety of content which is so critical to success in your online marketing efforts these days. Check it out at http://blogs.business.com/b2b-online-marketing/2010/ck It gives you variety of ideas on how to take content and information you already have and repurposing it for the web marketing. Trust me when I say this is much easier than creating it all from scratch.
Fake Amazon Product Email is a Phishing Scam
I just got a really sneaky phishing email today. It looks like a PERFECT copy of the Amazon.com emails promoting products, except it has a hot babe in lingerie, and it says “get ready for erotic monday”. But if you mouseover the link that says “learn more”, it will pop up a “tool tip” of the real link and you can see it goes to dengebims.com which is going to probably be some kind of malicious site. [...]