Tweet Everyone loves YouTube! Well, just about everyone I guess. Here are a couple of interesting facts about the YouTube site: 1. YouTube is a social network, much like Facebook. You can have your own channel, subscribe to people, “Friend” people, and communicate directly through the site just like sending a Facebook message. 2. YouTube [...] Read more »
Tweet It used to be you could go to YouTube, browse some videos, and just enjoy the content that you like. Whether the video was of an opera singer performing, or a skateboarder doing a face plant, you could watch the entire video without having to be annoyed by any commercials. Not any more. [...] Read more »
Tweet [google1 count="on"] It’s true. I made my mom cry. But before you start thinking what a terrible son I must be, let me tell you what happened. My brother and his family live in South Carolina. This summer they came down to our area for a brief visit. When they went back home, [...] Read more »
Tweet Thanks to my friend Eileen this week for alerting me to a fantastic add-on for viewing content on the web: Readability. If you get your news from the internet, you know that it comes with a price. Not a monetary price necessarily, but an “annoyance” price. All you want to do is read [...] Read more »
Tweet This past week was interesting. Several hundred people got my new guide to computer security, and one of my friends emailed me asking about what appeared to be a scam email that he received. I confirmed to him that it was indeed a scam, and thought it would be good to mention it here. [...] Read more »
Tweet It’s a simple fact: some websites are secure, and some are not. There’s no problem with that in itself; some sites do not need to be secure. This blog post is not “secure”, but that’s fine because I am not asking you to enter any critical information. But what if a website is selling [...] Read more »
Tweet YouTube has a huge variety of videos. Some funny, some bizarre, and some are actually educational and entertaining. Sometimes you might even want to watch a particular video more than once. One option is to just save that video page as a Bookmark (in Firefox) or a Favorite (in Internet Explorer). However, this doesn’t [...] Read more »
Tweet Recently I have seen a warning being circulated, mostly on Facebook and through email. It reads like this: There’s a site called Spokeo.com that’s a new online USA phone book w/personal information: everything from pics you’ve posted on Facebook or web, your approx credit score, home value, income, age, even credit card #’s. Remove [...] Read more »
Tweet I’ve been using Paypal for years. It’s almost universally accepted as a way to pay for online purchases, and you can accept credit cards using your Paypal account, even if the payer doesn’t have an account. To pay for that convenience, Paypal’s fees are higher than a typical merchant account. Now Paypal may have [...] Read more »
Tweet Now that the internet has become a big part of our day to day lives, privacy is a concern that a lot of people have. This even comes down to doing a simple Google search. Did you know that when you submit a search term to Google, some of the information you send is [...] Read more »
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