Phishing Phishing is a word that refers to doing things to gain access to sensitive information. In the last article, we discussed tactics hackers and hacker bots use to guess passwords. Now let’s discuss the preferred method of hacking – persuading you to provide all of your sensitive information willingly. Phishing begins by baiting you [...]
My dad just received a phone call from the church secretary. “Mr. Snipes, did you know you are sending us emails for Viagra?” Imagine that. Deacon George sending Viagra ads to all his friends and church associates. I thought it was funny, but he was hacked. In every sense of the word. We’ve all seen [...]
How to transfer Facebook files to Google+ photos. To move photo albums from Facebook to Google+ photos, you need to transfer them to Picasa and then share the albums. One great feature of Picasa’s integration with Google+ is the ability to share specific albums with specific circles. I created an album called ‘Google+’ to post [...]
Is Google+ the Facebook killer? I don’t think so, but I do believe it will overtake Facebook in dominance for social media. Back in May, I gave my reasons why Facebook was putting itself in a position to be overtaken, and that the only thing preventing Facebook’s fall from dominance was a viable competitor. Now [...]
I originally posted this on May 14, 2011. Now that Google is launching Google Plus, this almost looks prophetic. Before the Internet was available, we pre-web surfers used what was called a BBS (bulletin board service). In the BBS era, there were lists of phone numbers we could call via modem and play games, exchange [...]
Okay, this isn’t exactly a tool ONLY for writers, but it’s a great tool nonetheless. It’s called Square. The reason I consider this a tool for writers is because it provides a payment method not normally available at book signings and conferences. Have you ever been to a conference or listened to a speaker, liked [...]
For reading blogs, my favorite tool is Feedreader. This tool is freeware, simple to use, and can even function as a portable application. I like it because it has a simple layout. It shows my subscriptions in the left pane, available posts in the center pane, and a blog view in the right pane. Plus, [...]
“I just don’t get Twitter,” a friend of mine recently said. It’s a statement I’ve heard at least a dozen times by various people. In fact, I said it myself when I first tried Twitter. I created an account, poked around, saw nothing that made sense, and forgot about it for the next year. Over [...]
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