Merry Christmas Everyone!
Monday, December 20, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010
Just for fun....
Network world put together a fanboy field guide to help you identify what type of fanboy you are dealing with.
The ones listed:
Apple/Mac, PC, Linux, Blackberry & android.
I hadn't heard of the blackberry fanboy before, but after reading, I definitely know some of them!
Another interesting site: fiverr.com. a site where people post 'gigs' they are willing to do for $5. Some seem useful -- there are people who will edit resumes or presentations, create logos, photo shop pictures... cool/semi-useful stuff like that. But some of the others -- there are a ton of gigs where people will send you a postcard. Who pays $5 to get a postcard from someone they don't know??
The ones listed:
Apple/Mac, PC, Linux, Blackberry & android.
I hadn't heard of the blackberry fanboy before, but after reading, I definitely know some of them!
Another interesting site: fiverr.com. a site where people post 'gigs' they are willing to do for $5. Some seem useful -- there are people who will edit resumes or presentations, create logos, photo shop pictures... cool/semi-useful stuff like that. But some of the others -- there are a ton of gigs where people will send you a postcard. Who pays $5 to get a postcard from someone they don't know??
Monday, March 8, 2010
more Facebook phishing
lately, I have seen notifications for a facebook group called 'See Who's Spying on Your Profile' and another called 'See Everyone who Views Your Profile'. The idea here is that you presumably want to know who is looking at your profile. I am not completely clear on whether these are friends/network connections or completely random people who are looking at your profile.
Sophos blogger Beth Jones looked into these two apps to see what was going on. She found that both work a bit like a pyramid scheme: for the first, (you have to suggest 50! of your friends before you get to the supposed good stuff), after this you have to take a marketing quiz and finally, you have to give the application your username and password for facebook. The second wants ou to install a toolbar, but it also needs your facebook username and password so it can nmonitor your profile.
When I checked today, I could not find the 'See Everyone..' group anymore. But there were two 'See who's spying..' groups - one had over 100,000 fans. who are these people who are willing to hand over their account credentials??
Sophos blogger Beth Jones looked into these two apps to see what was going on. She found that both work a bit like a pyramid scheme: for the first, (you have to suggest 50! of your friends before you get to the supposed good stuff), after this you have to take a marketing quiz and finally, you have to give the application your username and password for facebook. The second wants ou to install a toolbar, but it also needs your facebook username and password so it can nmonitor your profile.
When I checked today, I could not find the 'See Everyone..' group anymore. But there were two 'See who's spying..' groups - one had over 100,000 fans. who are these people who are willing to hand over their account credentials??
Monday, February 8, 2010
Online Password Safe
DataInherit (a Swiss company that provides online safes) announced that it will be providing online password safes as well. There is both a free and paid-for version of the safe. The free version has less storage space and can save fewer passwords (50 max).
One very nice feature is the Data Inheritance system. You can set up a beneficiary that will be given access to your account in the event that something happens to the owner of the account. The beneficiary must provide an activation code, and the company will attempt to contact the owner via email and SMS message. If the owner does not respond within a specified amount of time, the beneficiary will be given access to the account. So if something happens, your beneficiary would be able to access your online accounts such as bank and credit card accounts!
Part of the free version also includes a document safe that would allow you to store up to 10MB of documents.
The advantage of this solution over other passwords safes such as KeePass is that you do not need to keep the file with you -- you access the passwords through a website. The site also states that it does not have access to the passwords either -- all data is encrypted.
http://www.datainherit.com
One very nice feature is the Data Inheritance system. You can set up a beneficiary that will be given access to your account in the event that something happens to the owner of the account. The beneficiary must provide an activation code, and the company will attempt to contact the owner via email and SMS message. If the owner does not respond within a specified amount of time, the beneficiary will be given access to the account. So if something happens, your beneficiary would be able to access your online accounts such as bank and credit card accounts!
Part of the free version also includes a document safe that would allow you to store up to 10MB of documents.
The advantage of this solution over other passwords safes such as KeePass is that you do not need to keep the file with you -- you access the passwords through a website. The site also states that it does not have access to the passwords either -- all data is encrypted.
http://www.datainherit.com
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Words of Wisdom for 2010....
A group of 70 other innovators, writers, and bloggers to participate in a project called What Matters Now. Each suggested one word — literally one word — that all of us should think about in 2010, and then took one page to explain why and how that word matters.
Very interesting to read. Some of my favorites are:
Ease -- basically, we all need to relax a bit more!
Strengths -- focus on what you are good at "till the purple cows come home!"
Change -- similar to the strength one -- focus on what does work!
read the rest -- http://www.scribd.com/doc/23711234/What-Matters-Now
Very interesting to read. Some of my favorites are:
Ease -- basically, we all need to relax a bit more!
Strengths -- focus on what you are good at "till the purple cows come home!"
Change -- similar to the strength one -- focus on what does work!
read the rest -- http://www.scribd.com/doc/23711234/What-Matters-Now
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