Eight Easy Ways to Protect Your Email from Hackers

These tips, tools and techniques will help you defend yourself against people who are trying to hack into your email account and worse.

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You'll never know who they are, but it's important that you protect yourself from hackers who are working to get into your computer via email, phony links and subterfuge.

Eight easy tips, tools and techniques to protect your email, bank accounts and personal information from hackers.
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Do NOT Open DHL Express Email

Email is NOT from DHL and the attachment contains a virus

Do NOT Open DHL Express EmailSource: Stewart Wolpin

Do NOT open this attachment on an email that says it's from DHL Express.

Beware email from DHL Express; don't open the attachment – it contains a virus.
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Snail Mail: Letter Writing Makes a Nostalgic Comeback

Unique public arts project shines spotlight on writing letters

Sending someone a letter is like mailing them a hug.Source: Getty Images

Opening a letter from a friend, family member, or lover is the next best thing to getting a big hug.

A one-of-a-kind international letter writing project
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Verizon Ending Unlimited Data Plans

Starting Thursday, new Verizon smart phone customers will have to curb their Web surfing

Source: Stewart Wolpin
Today is the last day to get a smart phone with an unlimited data plan from Verizon. On Thursday (July 7), Verizon will offer only capped plans with penalties for surfing the Web too much.
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6 Technologies I Hate

Not all gadgets are good – some are annoying, obsessive, addictive and even dangerous

June 20, 2011

Just because I write about technology – and have been for more than a quarter century – doesn't mean I like all technology. As futurist Ray Kurzweil once noted, fire can heat and cook but also burns. Here are a half dozen bytes of modern digital life that inflame me.

I hate the telephone
I hate Facebook
I hate video games
I hate Bluetooth
I hate car stereo
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Send Photos, Video From New Wi-Fi-Equipped Camera

Samsung's SH100 lets you email or upload photos to the internet, just like a smart phone

Source: Stewart Wolpin

Why do you shoot photos with your cell/smart phone? Because it's handy – you don't always carry a digital camera with you.

But you also love taking photos with your cell/smart phone – and many smart phones take pretty good photos – because you're able to snap a picture and immediately share it with the world by attaching it to an email or text or uploading it to Facebook or some other social networking site.

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Best App: Track Your Teen's Driving Speed

Designed by a teen, Speedbump helps you track how fast your child is driving – and not just on a highway

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Speedbump helps keep the activity on the left from becoming the tragedy on the right.

In many ways, the most fascinating thing about a new Android app that helps you track how fast your teen is driving called Speedbump is not the app itself, but who designed it.

Five years ago, Lunenburg, MA, high school student Jon Fischer was learning to drive. In driver's ed class, Jon "saw a lot of news in my area about teens being injured or killed in high speed crashes on secondary roads, and decided to base my science fair project on driving safety technology."

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Facebook, Email, Texting -- and Your Kids

How to keep your offspring out of cyber trouble

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The New York Times just published a front-page story about sexting, which began with an eighth-grade girl who used her cell phone to send her eighth-grade boyfriend a full-frontal nude photo of herself. After a breakup a few weeks later, the ex-beau texted the picture to another girl — who proceeded to forward it to her contacts, with a message that encouraged them to pass it along it if they thought the girl was a "whore."

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What is 'Rude' Cell Phone Behavior?

Survey says: Others use their cell phones in annoying ways – but not you

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"In olden days," philosopher Cole Porter once musically mused, "a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. But now, God knows, anything goes."

If Mr. Porter was to point his caustic composing at today's mobile digital culture, the "glimpse of stocking" might have been "text while walking."

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Facebook Wants to be Your Mailbox, Too

The social networking service is gradually introducing a new messaging service to users that incorporates phone texts and email messages with Facebook's internal messages--and gives users an email address @facebook.com.

November 15, 2010
Facebook Messages

There's always been more to Facebook than status updates and wall posts. When you want to have less public, more personal conversations with friends and family, Facebook's instant messaging and message inbox have provided a way to do that. But then when you want to talk to people outside of Facebook, you've had to go to an email client, or send a phone text message.

Read More

Eight Easy Ways to Protect Your Email from Hackers

These tips, tools and techniques will help you defend yourself against people who are trying to hack into your email account and worse.

Source: Getty Images

You'll never know who they are, but it's important that you protect yourself from hackers who are working to get into your computer via email, phony links and subterfuge.

Eight easy tips, tools and techniques to protect your email, bank accounts and personal information from hackers.
Read More

Do NOT Open DHL Express Email

Email is NOT from DHL and the attachment contains a virus

Do NOT Open DHL Express EmailSource: Stewart Wolpin

Do NOT open this attachment on an email that says it's from DHL Express.

Beware email from DHL Express; don't open the attachment – it contains a virus.
Read More

Snail Mail: Letter Writing Makes a Nostalgic Comeback

Unique public arts project shines spotlight on writing letters

Sending someone a letter is like mailing them a hug.Source: Getty Images

Opening a letter from a friend, family member, or lover is the next best thing to getting a big hug.

A one-of-a-kind international letter writing project
Read More

Verizon Ending Unlimited Data Plans

Starting Thursday, new Verizon smart phone customers will have to curb their Web surfing

Source: Stewart Wolpin
Today is the last day to get a smart phone with an unlimited data plan from Verizon. On Thursday (July 7), Verizon will offer only capped plans with penalties for surfing the Web too much.
Read More
| tech

6 Technologies I Hate

Not all gadgets are good – some are annoying, obsessive, addictive and even dangerous

June 20, 2011

Just because I write about technology – and have been for more than a quarter century – doesn't mean I like all technology. As futurist Ray Kurzweil once noted, fire can heat and cook but also burns. Here are a half dozen bytes of modern digital life that inflame me.

I hate the telephone
I hate Facebook
I hate video games
I hate Bluetooth
I hate car stereo
View Slideshow

Send Photos, Video From New Wi-Fi-Equipped Camera

Samsung's SH100 lets you email or upload photos to the internet, just like a smart phone

Source: Stewart Wolpin

Why do you shoot photos with your cell/smart phone? Because it's handy – you don't always carry a digital camera with you.

But you also love taking photos with your cell/smart phone – and many smart phones take pretty good photos – because you're able to snap a picture and immediately share it with the world by attaching it to an email or text or uploading it to Facebook or some other social networking site.

Read More

Best App: Track Your Teen's Driving Speed

Designed by a teen, Speedbump helps you track how fast your child is driving – and not just on a highway

Source: Getty Images

Speedbump helps keep the activity on the left from becoming the tragedy on the right.

In many ways, the most fascinating thing about a new Android app that helps you track how fast your teen is driving called Speedbump is not the app itself, but who designed it.

Five years ago, Lunenburg, MA, high school student Jon Fischer was learning to drive. In driver's ed class, Jon "saw a lot of news in my area about teens being injured or killed in high speed crashes on secondary roads, and decided to base my science fair project on driving safety technology."

Read More

Facebook, Email, Texting -- and Your Kids

How to keep your offspring out of cyber trouble

Source: Getty Images

The New York Times just published a front-page story about sexting, which began with an eighth-grade girl who used her cell phone to send her eighth-grade boyfriend a full-frontal nude photo of herself. After a breakup a few weeks later, the ex-beau texted the picture to another girl — who proceeded to forward it to her contacts, with a message that encouraged them to pass it along it if they thought the girl was a "whore."

Read More

What is 'Rude' Cell Phone Behavior?

Survey says: Others use their cell phones in annoying ways – but not you

Source: Getty Images

"In olden days," philosopher Cole Porter once musically mused, "a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. But now, God knows, anything goes."

If Mr. Porter was to point his caustic composing at today's mobile digital culture, the "glimpse of stocking" might have been "text while walking."

Read More

Facebook Wants to be Your Mailbox, Too

The social networking service is gradually introducing a new messaging service to users that incorporates phone texts and email messages with Facebook's internal messages--and gives users an email address @facebook.com.

November 15, 2010
Facebook Messages

There's always been more to Facebook than status updates and wall posts. When you want to have less public, more personal conversations with friends and family, Facebook's instant messaging and message inbox have provided a way to do that. But then when you want to talk to people outside of Facebook, you've had to go to an email client, or send a phone text message.

Read More

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