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10 email scams to watch out for coming year
Posted by: jcms on: December 23, 2009
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Got this great article at Techrepublic website on 10 email scams to watch out for. In short, the 10 email scams are Fake Facebook “friend” messages Fake admin messages Fear mongering messages Account cancellation scams Bogus holiday cards Phantom packages Threats from the Government Census survey says… In Microsoft (or Apple or Dell or HP) [...]
Scarewares – what you need to know
Posted by: jcms on: November 20, 2009
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Overview Throughout the last couple of years, scareware (a.k.a. fake security software), emerged quickly as the single most profitable money-making strategy for cybercriminals to leverage on. Due to aggressive advertising practices used by the cybercrime syndicates, thousands of users fall victim to the scam on a daily basis, with the syndicates themselves earning loads of [...]
Convert youtube flv movies to mp4 and other formats
Posted by: jcms on: November 3, 2009
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Youtube website contains a great wealth of useful and entertaining movies for the home and corporate consumers. However, it is not easy to download and play FLV movies directly without a FLV player installed on your desktop computer. Moreover, you may not be allowed to install such a player in your corporate computers. One good [...]
Adobe Acrobat Alternative at less than half of Acrobat price
Posted by: jcms on: September 22, 2009
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Portable Document Format (PDF) had undoubtably become the de-facto portable document format used world-wide. Although there are freewares on the Internet that can do basic conversion of documents into PDF formats, most people would still rely on the traditional Adobe Acrobat software for more complex functions like PDF editing, anotations, document merging, document splitting, form [...]
USB Internet Radio and Storage Stick
Posted by: jcms on: July 4, 2009
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16,000+ radio stations on a USB storage stick… a portable radio jukebox that you can bring with you anywhere in the world where you can access a internet-enabled computer. This handy little device contains a internet radio software that can play radio stations from more than 150 countries, and you can even schedule the recording [...]
Internet surfing lesson for seniors and elderly folks
Posted by: jcms on: June 20, 2009
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Here’s another interesting clip I found on youtube:
Secure your home wireless network router
Posted by: jcms on: June 17, 2009
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For those of you who are clueless about securing your home wireless networks, here’s a list of resources you can make reference to. In short, here’s a checklist to secure your home wireless network and router. Secure your access to the admin page of your router with a complex password. A complex password contains a [...]
Condron.us – A blog surfing website
Posted by: jcms on: May 27, 2009
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Today I came across a blog surfing website called condron.us. It’s a blog surfing website that automatically picks out blogs from wordpress and blogger blogs and displays them to the reader. The blog display would rotate from one random blog to another. If any blog interests the reader, the reader can stop the rotation and [...]
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