Protect Your PC from the Gumblar/Martuz Worm

You may have heard that there’s a nasty PC worm making the rounds on the web, called Gumblar.cn, or more recently, Martuz.cn.  This worm can infect your computer by your merely viewing an infected website  – no clicking necessary, also known as a “drive-by” infection. Users of Internet Explorer are particularly vulnerable, but all PC [...]

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Weekend Blog Picks: Unitaskers, Twitter Fixes & The Pope’s iPhone App

As Im trying to take it easy this Memorial Day weekend, I thought I’d share snippets of some of my favorite blog articles from the past week… The always-informative Andrea Kalli posts about those pesky  Twitter background upload issues… and I thought it was just me! Andrea compares the two most common fixes. Formspring’s blog [...]

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Twitter Is Not EMail

Most who know me also know I’m a huge Twitter fan.  It’s not only a social media, it’s a genuinely useful and flexible tool that can be adapted to almost any purpose.  As Twitter is everywhere in the media these days I notice new users (and some not-so-new users) venting about suffering another’s apparently bad [...]

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Website Spiffed-up for Summer…

I’m putting the final touches on my latest re-decorating of this website (again). This site runs on WordPress, which makes it a snap to do…two hours start to finish. I was inspired by summer fabrics, beach umbrellas & the like… hence the stripes in sea-blues and aqua. The new look  (and all the extra real [...]

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Boost Your Blogging Brand with A Gravatar

If you have ever been reading your favorite blogs and wonder how their authors and commenters get those little square pictures to appear next to their comments, you should get yourself a Gravatar – (short for Globally Recognized Avatars). Gravatars allow you to to link a little square image to your email address, so that [...]

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