Fingerprinted for Selling Your Music CD’s?
By DanB | May 8, 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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Topics: Technology, privacy/security | 4 Comments »
TSA Loses Hard Drive…
By DanB | May 5, 2007
Story on how a portable hard drive with information on 100,000 people was gone missing at the TSA.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070505/D8OTUCJ80.html
How do these things keep happening? And why isn’t the first thing we here something like “Don’t worry. We keep that sort of data encrypted and the chances of an outsider are slim.” Why don’t we hear that? Rather the companies offer to pay for one of year of credit watch or credit protection.
If you have sensitive data on your hard drive do the right thing and keep it encrypted except for when you are actually using the data. It is the right thing to do.
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TNPC One crucial security tweak…
By DanB | May 3, 2007
TNPC Newsletter
by Dan Butler
02 May, 2007
Hello
We have entered the “interesting” weather time of year here in
Texas. Tornados, thunder storms, hail, high winds, and more. It
certainly keeps things interesting.
This issue an easy to implement security tip, a helpful website
indirectly related to your productivity, and a helpful Word for
Windows tweak, a book review.
Coming soon - a special teleseminar on Identity Theft. What
concerns and questions do you have for my special guest? Let me
know here:
Click here to share your question…
First go read and comment on the previous issue at the blog:
http://www.tnpcnewsletter.com/blog/category/newsletters/tnpc/
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Topics: Technology, TNPC News | 3 Comments »
When Urban Legends Become True
By DanB | April 5, 2007
For years emails have been passed around claiming that forwarding email will generate money for your or some popular cause. One of the more popular ones claims that if you forward a message Bill Gates or Microsoft will send you money. You can read more about this at Snopes:
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/nothing/billgate.asp
Now it looks like urban legend becomes reality. A new initiative called i’m from Windows Live™ Messenger will share advertising revenue from the conversations you start with various charities.
When I first saw the announcement I thought it was a variation of the urban legend I mentioned above. But this appears legitimate.
This is bringing the Google AdSense model to the masses. Adsense shares advertising revenue with websites in exchange for the website displaying the ad on their site.
So use Windows Live™ Messenger, watch the ads, donate to charity. If that interest you read more by clicking this icon:
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Running Outlook 2000 on Microsoft Vista
By DanB | March 31, 2007
When you run Outlook 2000 on Windows Vista you receive the error:
” ERROR OPENING WINDOWS ADDRESS BOOK. UNABLE TO FIND WAB.DLL”
Scott’s Blog has the answer:
Click Here to read Scott’s answer
Use Explorer to navigate to C:\Program Files\Common Files\System
Copy wab32.dll and wab32res.dll to C:\Windows\System32
I had to open Explorer in Administrator mode to copy the DLL’s. How do you do that? Hold Ctrl-Shift while clicking in Explorer or the Drive letter you are opening.
If that doesn’t get Outlook 2000 running on your system visite Scott’s blog at the link above for more details.
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Topics: Email, Vista | 1 Comment »
Peek inside the Audio Video Membership site…
By DanB | March 29, 2007
I recently told you about Jason James new site that shows you how to create, edit, and publish your own audios and videos to the Internet. He even shows you how to make sure lots of people see your videos and gives you an easy way to count the views.
I made a short video (one of my first) that gives you a peek inside the private site. You can see that video here:
Click here to watch the preview video
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Time sensitive and two quick notes…
By DanB | March 29, 2007
TNPC Newsletter
by Dan Butler
29 March, 2007
Hello
Quick issue today covering just a few topics. More in the follow
up tomorrow. First a time sensitive note on the audio video site
I mentioned last week, a pointer to my first web video, how to
get a refund from Microsoft, and some notes on snafus over at
Yahoo Groups.
** Time Sensitive **
I recently told you about Jason James new site that shows you
how to create, edit, and publish your own audio and video
recordings to the Internet. He even shows you how to make sure
lots of people see your videos and gives you an easy way to
count the views.
Many of you expressed interest in the site. You should know he
is raising the price tomorrow 30 March 2007. If you are
interested act today and save yourself some money. I like the
site and use it myself.
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Microsoft Retail Refund Guidelines
By DanB | March 26, 2007
Have you purchased a Microsoft product at the store and find yourself unhappy with it? They have a retail refund policy. You don’t hear much about it but you may find it useful some day. Note this policy is for retail purchases and not bulk business purchases.
Found this helpful page at Microsoft’s web site. It details how their refund policy for retail purchased products:
http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/productrefund/refund.asp
No guarantees the URL will be good in the future - Microsoft likes to change their URL’s frequently.
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TNPC Dan little things can make a big difference…
By DanB | March 22, 2007
by Dan Butler
22 March 2007
issues has been a big hit but a little dated. Look for more
goodies in future issues. I point to another neat tool today.
First Al briefly talks about fonts, templates, and user
interfaces.
lot of time with the past week learning some new skills.
——- Recommended Resource ———
Audio and Video are the current big thing on the Internet.
YouTube, Google Video, personal websites, vacation videos,
sports teams and more. Jason James has put together a really
cool site that teaches you how to create web based audio and
video and how to make money with them if that is what you want
to do. The site has hours of video instruction on how to create,
edit, publish, and promote your videos and audios.
I like this course a lot - you will too. Go take a look now:
http://zcat.com/qpp/x.php?adminid=8&tid=37
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Practical Backups
By DanB | March 14, 2007
This recording is from a teleconference on 6:03 PM 8 February 2007. We talked about ways to backup your critical working data. This information is not about keeping a full backup of your system and data. The focus was on ways to have your critical data available quickly when you are unable to access your main computer.
The recording is around 28 minutes and 19 seconds.
Topics included:
- Learn why I chose 6:03 PM instead of 6:30 to have the last teleconference
- How to use Gmail for offline storage
- Experiences of people using online backup storage
- How to store a sensitive file almost in plain site.
- and much more.
This call was prompted by my experience of having my computer crash the night before I went out of town for a one week hospital stay with one of my children. My backup systems allowed me to keep working using a public computer at the hospital.
Have a tip to add? Just leave a comment.
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