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Friday, May 29th, 2009

A few days ago I sent you a strategy for leveraging your signature file. Do that and you will save time with every email you reply to. If you missed that email I’ve put it on the blog here:
http://www.tnpcnewsletter.com/blog/2009/05/24/how-is-your-signature/
A few people wrote and asked if this only worked with Outlook. Every email program I’m familiar [...]

Two Quick Things

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Hi {!firstname_fix} ~
It’s a hit! Two quick things. A reminder about the Internet Archive
and an easy fix to a perplexing Firefox issue.
Yesterday I told you about the Internet Archive. Based on the
emails that are coming in it is quite popular.
If you visited the Archive or used the WayBack Machine why not
share what you found by [...]

Here is one of my favorite tools…

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Thought I’d share a website that I find super useful. It is easy
for me to assume that you already know about all the cool useful
sites but as I talk to other people I find out that just isn’t the
case.
This week Archive.org came up as a solution to several challenges
we encountered. Any way you look at [...]

How to Reset your Voicemail password with AT&T

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

My wife has an iPhone. We had to get it replaced under warranty. Only problem was she couldn’t access her voicemail. I did a quick search and found the helpful instructions at Steve Cooley presents. The instructions are for iPhone but it will work with any AT&T cellular account. You can find that post here:
http://somejunkwelike.com/wordpress/2007/12/05/password-for-iphone-voicemail/

Don’t let this happen to you…

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

It’s scary. Here you are just looking for information on the Internet and the next thing you know your computer is infected with something nasty. Even worse maybe your computer has become a Zombie on a Botnet. You install programs to combat this and they slow you down even more. What can you do?
First take [...]

I almost fell for it…

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

It’s scary how easy is to be snared in an email “phishing” attempt. I have told you how to avoid phishing attempts several times in the past. Now get this - I almost fell for one of these scams just last week.

Pegasus Email Client Being Flagged as a Trojan…

Friday, May 18th, 2007

Over the years I have highly recommended the Pegasus email client. I still do if you are an advanced user.
David Harris the creator of Pegasus sent this email that talks about Norton Antivirus flagging Pegasus as a Trojan. It is not. If you use Pegasus and Norton read this note carefully and protect yourself.
The Pegasus [...]

TNPC More on Security…

Friday, May 18th, 2007

TNPC Newsletter
by Dan Butler
17 May 2007
Last issue we talked about routers in general and default
passwords in particular. The advice to change your default
password carries over to everything you do. Bank accounts,
online accounts, email accounts, your ISP account and many more.
Always change the default password in any account. You should
also consider your PIN numbers as passwords [...]

Just How Widespread are Security Breaches?

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

Here is some interesting data on what is happening to your private information. etiolated.org shows graphs and other statistical data on security breaches. You will find it interesting.
http://www.etiolated.org/

Fingerprinted for Selling Your Music CD’s?

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

Interesting article at ars technica on laws popping up around the U.S. concerning the sale of used music CD’s to Pawn shops and used music stores. It is really a bit depressing. I’m all for avoiding piracy of digital goods but at some point it just gets silly.
Read this article for yourself here

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