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Think you are safe on the net because you are surfing on your phone? Think again. This is what a recent report from the Toronto Star had to say: “Recent research from computer training firm SANS found that 85 per cent of users were not scanning their mobile devices for malicious programs running on the devices. Of the 15 per cent who were, 18 per cent found mobile malware, higher  [ Read More ]

The changes to Google’s search algorithm was announced late Thursday. The goal is to stop websites and blogs that jus copy content from the real creators and then try to benefit from it. According to Matt Cutts a Google engineer this is a big change that will affect many search queries. The proposed benefit is to drop low-quality websites in search results while moving website that contain original content up  [ Read More ]

It is the end of an era, the era of space shuttle missions to space is going to end this year. NASA is under presidential direction to retire the shuttle fleet this summer, let private companies take over trips to orbit and focus on getting astronauts to asteroids and Mars. What is the future of space exploration? It looks like the James Web Space Telescope and other observatories for the  [ Read More ]

Technology has added many good things to our world, but many bad side affects as well. One of the worst is pollution. Finally a great option to reuse the plastic that is such a problem in the world today turn the plastic back into oil! window.fbAsyncInit = function() { FB.init({appId: “138278956230893″, status: true, cookie: true, xfbml: true}); }; (function() { var e = document.createElement(“script”); e.async = true; e.src = document.location.protocol  [ Read More ]

The internet and social media are a daily reality, the question is how do you keep yourself and your family safe? I have some tips and I would love to hear what works for you as far as protecting your family on the internet. The first thing I recommend is don’t give out personal information on the internet and train your kids to do the same. Don’t say when you  [ Read More ]

Gone everything is gone! Not a good day or a good feeling when your computer crashes and all your work, your records, the great American novel it is all gone. What can you do at this point can you ever see it again? Most likely, ( I say cautiously )you can see at least some of that data again. The usual cause of such drama is a software issue, especially  [ Read More ]

Social media management is now a mainstream job. If you know how to create relationships using social media that is now valuable job experience. Like was shown in this news cast, you can earn 50,000 dollars a year updating Facebook and Twitter accounts as well as monitoring what people are saying about the business that has hired you. Think you have what it takes? Try posting your experience on Monster,  [ Read More ]

Admit it, you would love to know who’s is looking at your Facebook profile. Your ex, a friend, co-worker, who could it be? This scam promises to let you know that information, it shows up as an advertisement or a message on your wall from a friend ( It’s not really from a friend ) and promises to do just that. If you try to use it you could be  [ Read More ]