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Posted on Apr 14, 2008 under Internet Tips |
Like many people, my Inbox gets saturated with phishing requests daily. Each one claiming to need access to my MySpace, eBay or CitiBank account. They keep on coming and most people just delete them. The thing is that I don’t feel these types of email should be taken lightly. Somebody made an attempt on your account! And it was illegal! So what do you do to try to fight back? Well these are good email addresses to know whenever you get a request. Just forward the email to the proper place if it involves any of the following entities.
Sites:
Amazon - stop-spoofing@amazon.com
America Online (AOL)- abuse@aol.com
eBay - spoof@ebay.com
Facebook - abuse@facebook.com
MySpace - abuse@myspace.com
PayPal - spoof@paypal.com
Yahoo - mail-spoof@cc.yahoo-inc.com
Banks:
Bank of America - abuse@bankofamerica.com
Citibank - emailspoof@citigroup.com
Charter One - abuse@citizensbank.com
Citizens Bank- fraud_prevention@citizensbank.com
Household Bank - bib@us.hsbc.com
Key Bank - emailfraud@keybank.com
Regions Bank - phishing@regions.com
South Trust - callcenterwebmail@southtrust.com
SunTrust - abuse@suntrust.com
TCF Bank - emailfraud@tcfbank.com
Washington Mutual - spoof@wamu.com
Bank One - fraudreport@bankone.com
Chase Bank - abuse@chase.com.
U.S. Bank - faud_help@usbank.com
Visa - phishing@visa.com
Washington Mutual - spoof@wamu.com
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Posted on Apr 14, 2008 under Internet Tips |
Social Ads on Facebook is a feature that tailors ads to your friends. For example it might tell your friends when you have rated a movie 4 stars. Here’s how to disable this feature that some may find intrusive.
1. Login to your account.
2. Click privacy in the upper-right corner.
3. Click News Feed and Mini-Feed.
4. Click the Social Ads tab.
5. Set the drop-down menu for Apearance in Social Ads to No one.
6. Click Save Changes.
Posted on Apr 07, 2008 under Internet Tips |
How to delete a friend from Facebook.
1. Login to your profile.
2. Click Friends at the top of the screen.
3. Find the friend you wish to delete and click the X in the upper right corner of the box for that friend.
4. Click Remove Friend.
Posted on Apr 06, 2008 under Internet Tips |
iLike is a great little application for Facebook that allows you to add your favorite music and dates for your favorite concerts to your profile. You can also use it to get free MP3 files. It’s probably the most popular Facebook application. Here’s how to add it to your profile.
1. Login to your Facebook account and click Privacy in the upper-right corner.
2. Click Applications.
3. Click the Edit applications page link.
4. Click the Browse More Applications button.
5. iLike may be listed there already, if not you can search for it and then click the iLike link.
6. Read this page if you need to learn more about how to use iLike to add music to your page. When you are ready, you can click the Add Application button toward the upper right corner of the pages.
7. Set the items you wish to allow or disallow the application to have access to. Click Add iLike when you are ready, and you’re done.
Posted on Mar 24, 2008 under Internet Tips |
Spammers are able to send spam calendar entries to your Google Calendar if you have it set to automatically add them. Here’s how to disable this feature.
1. While you are in Google Calendar, click Settings in the upper-right corner.
2. Select the General tab.
3. In the Automatically add invitations to my calendar section.
4. Select No, only show invitations to which I have responded.
5. Click on Save.
Source: Spammers Are Taking Over Google Calendar, Noooo
Posted on Mar 08, 2008 under Internet Tips |
Did you know that you can add your AOL Instant Messenger buddies in your Gmail Chat? You can, and here’s how.
1. In Gmail, click the Settings option in the upper right corner.
2. Click the Chat tab, and you will see the AIM options toward the bottom.
3. If this is your first time using this feature, click Sign into AIM link. You may also have an option to Change AIM settings.
4. Provide your AIM username and password and click Sign in.
5. Now you will have AIM buddies added to your Chat list. AIM buddies are displayed by the little AOL icon man.
Currently I cannot figure out a way to add AOL Instant Messenger to the separate GoogleTalk application. This should be planned in the future. If you know of a way, please share your solution in the Comments section below.
Posted on Nov 30, 2007 under Internet Tips |
Firefox has been locking up on me lately. I get to a point in my day where I have more than 8 tabs open and it just freezes. I can’t switch to another window or another tab in Firefox.
One of my tabs is usually Yahoo Mail since I like to check my email throughout the day. I noticed Yahoo pages serve a lot of animated Flash ads and they were animating very slowly. I found these ads have been the culprit in slowing Firefox as well as my machine down quite a bit.
So what do I do? Uninstall Flash and suffer when I need it to play games or whatever? Well I found a workaround, albeit it’s not practical. Everytime one of these ads load and start locking up things, I can right-click on the Flash ad and select Quality > Low.
Doing this has made makes problem with Firefox go away immediately. However, I have to do this each time the problematic ad loads. Annoying, but a workaround for now.
Posted on Nov 26, 2007 under Internet Tips |
People constantly ask me about ways they can get to the Facebook web site if it’s been blocked by their work or college. Here are three that I know about.
1. Use a proxy server. Here are a few that I know about:
Proxify
Hidemyass
Satanproxy
Guardster
Anonymizer
Dontfilter
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Posted on Nov 26, 2007 under Internet Tips |
I chat with people regularly on Google Talk. I don’t like that my chat messages get stored automatically forever. Here’s how to disable the storing of chats in Gmail.
For users of the Google Talk client application in Windows
1. In Google Talk click the Settings link in the upper right part of the screen.
2. Click Chat on the left column.
3. Check the option for Don’t save chat history in my Gmail account.
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Posted on Nov 26, 2007 under Internet Tips |
The tools available in Gmail by far trump the tools in any other web based email system. My problem is that I have been using Yahoo Mail for years. Friends and family will forever send to my Yahoo account as they have for the past 10 years. I recently decided though that Yahoo no longer has a place in my heart. I would officially migrate to Gmail. I was relieved to find that I could manage my Yahoo Mail through Gmail. Here’s how it’s done.
1. Login to Gmail and click on the Settings link in the upper right corner.
2. Click on the Accounts tab under the Settings area.
3. Here you can click to Add another mail account.
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Posted on Nov 26, 2007 under Internet Tips, Windows Tips |
How to import Google Calendar into Windows Calendar in Windows Vista.
1. Go to Google Calendar
2. Click Settings at the top right corner.
3. Click Calendars right under where it says Calendar Settings.
4. Click the calendar you wish to import into Windows Calendar.
5. Under Calendar Details, where it says Calendar Address, right-click on the ICAL button and select Copy as Shortcut.
6. Launch Windows Calendar.
7. Click the Subscribe button on the toolbar:
8. Right-click on the text box and select Paste the URL into the text box, then click Next.
9. The Calendar Subscription Settings screen will appear. Select the options you desire and then click Finish.
You’re done! Your Google Calendar entries will now be imported into your Windows Calendar. They will also sync if you chose an Update Interval.
Posted on Nov 26, 2007 under Internet Tips |
You get an error message in Internet Explorer:
Sorry! Content Advisor will not allow you to see this site
An administrator may have locked you out of certain web sites using Content Advisor. Content Advisor can block specific web sites or automatically block sites that contain certain words or phrases set by the person (usually and administrator) that enabled it.
You will need to disable Content Advisor if you wish for this behavior to not occur.
To perform the following steps, you must obtain the supervisor password that Content Advisor was enabled with from the administrator.
1. In Microsoft Internet Explorer, click Tools > Internet Options.
2. Under the Content tab, click Disable.
3. Enter the supervisor password, and then click OK three times.
Posted on Nov 19, 2007 under Internet Tips |
How to import your Outlook Contacts into your Google Gmail account
1. Open Outlook and click File > Import and Export.
2. Click Export to a file, and click Next.
3. Click Comma Separated Value (DOS), and click Next.
4. Select the contacts folder you want to export, and click Next.
5. Save the file to a location on your computer such as the Desktop and click Next.
6. Click Map Custom Fields.
7. In the From box, drag the field that you want to convert onto the Outlook field that is listed in the To box.
8. Click Finish.
9. Open your Gmail account.
10. Click Contacts.
11. On the right side of your screen, above the message count, click Import.
12. Under Import Contacts, click Browse.
13. Select the file you saved and click Open.
Posted on Nov 19, 2007 under Internet Tips |
Everybody sells on eBay now, and chances are that your auction will compete with many others for the sale. You need to gain an edge and make your auction look better than every other auction that’s selling that same old Dukes of Hazard ash tray. Taking the time to optimize your eBay auctions can pay off at the end of the auction.
1. Make the most of the title
The #1 mistake I see eBay sellers make is with the title. What every seller should know is that you don’t make the title of your auction simply the name of the item. In fact it shouldn’t be treated as a title at all. This is where you use search terms for your item. You want to use words that people are likely to search for on eBay.
Instead of:
Super Nintendo Gaming Console
Use:
SNES Super Nintendo Video Game Console NES
This way you will gain audience from people searching for SNES, Super Nintendo or even the older NES. Who knows, maybe that person searching for an NES will decide to but your SNES.
You can even purchase a subtitle if you need more than 55 characters.
2. Get to the point
Keep your item description brief. Nobody cares to read about your business. The people that use those fancy borders and graphics are also missing out on people that only have a 56K connection which most web users are still on by the way. The more a potential bidder has to scroll down the page to read your babble, the worse off your auction is.
If you have too many terms and conditions, nobody is going to bother reading them, or bidding on your item for that matter. You lose trust if you have too many stipulations.
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Posted on Nov 19, 2007 under Internet Tips |
Can’t get to MySpace from work because it’s blocked? Here’s something you can try.
Many of my friends are constantly searching for ways to get to MySpace from their workplace because they have been blocked. MySpace is the most commonly blocked web site on the net. I have recently introduced them all to proxy servers such as the one here.
A proxy server like this one can communicate with MySpace, or any other site and redirect everything back to you instead of your computer directly trying to access MySpace or whatever site you like. Thus allowing your computer to see pages at MySpace.com. Unless your work has the proxy server address blocked, you usually can usually use this method. You can search on Google for “myspace proxy” and find a great deal of other proxy servers you can use as well.
Another method I have told people to use is to get a remote control account such as GoToMyPC account or a free LogMeIn account. Using such a service allows users to access their home computer from work. The home computer then can be used to get to MySpace since your workplace can’t block the web sites your home computer visits. In addition to being able to view MySpace pages, the remote control software will allow you to access all the resources on your home PC as well.
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