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Using Roboforms On Screen Keyboard

PaulMay 12, 20094 Replies

I’ve had someone ask about the On Screen Keyboard, and I thought I would show you how to use it:

As you can see with Roboform, you have a option to use for on screen keyboard. Just clicking the button on the right will do this:

As you can see you can use the On screen keyboard to put in your master password, this is great for those who have the portable Roboform and use on several different systems. Although the on screen keyboard is available on all versions of Roboform. I’ve got the Pro version of Roboform but have the unregistered version of the Portable app and can only have 10 passwords a time, it at least lets me use on the road.

Roboform now has an option to back up your passwords on there website. It is however requires you to have a Pro account this helps let you have your passwords on the road. If you want to learn more about the specials that Roboform has just go check it out yourself. If you would like to see other screenshots by all means see if it is right for you.

See my [intlink id=”2646″ type=”post”]review of Roboform[/intlink] to read it or download it directly.

Email from Inspot : STD? I don’t think so!

PaulMay 12, 2009

The Email looks like this:

[ad]It looks to be from Inspot.org. I thought it was some malicious site with software but I couldn’t find it. I imagine this is trick because I’ve been faithful to my wife since we got married and I’ve seen the doctor and gotten blood taken from me.

This is most likely an awareness, if you have a regular family doctor and you want to get tested that would be my suggestion. You don’t have to go to this place. I am sure I don’t have an STD because if I have it my wife would and she had 3 Kids so they would of found out. I know of only one person I had had contact with before my wife and I also know where she lives, she had kids also. So I would of found out way before this like 5 years ago.

Anyway this is most likely a trick if you see the last line “Internet Notification Service for Parters or Tricks.” That tells me this a joke but If you are worried go see you doctor, just to be cautious. Although this isn’t security related it is always good practice to get a checkup from time to time.

Identi.ca here I come!!

PaulMay 11, 2009

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With Twitter being really Challenging I have switched from Twitter to my new Micro-blogging home. Identi.ca, and Have also changed my updates to go to my Ident.ca profile and no more Twitter. Thanks to some searching around for a WordPress plugin to go to the Identi.ca Server, It will post automatically.

I encourage all my users to switch from Twitter to Identi.ca but if you can fully switch you can still use your Twitter account with Identi.ca and have SMS with Identi.ca also. So you can use it like you did with Twitter and still have what you like.

On a Side note, all the [intlink id=”3222″ type=”post”]Cricket Phone[/intlink] users who want to use twitter with your phone, it looks like you can have both with Identi.ca by using Ident.ca twitter integration you can use it to send messages back and fourth on twitter. I have interrogated Identi.ca with my Cricket phone and it works now I don’t know about Twitter because of [intlink id=”3509″ type=”post”]what happened[/intlink], but the identi.ca updates are coming my way.

There is also Friendfeed that I have been using more and more for people who want to subscribe to that instead. If you want to talk to me these are a way to keep in contact with me!! With Identi.ca you can keep updated with my updates by RSS. If you don’t want to create an account, this is one way to keep up to date on what I am blogging or saying but I would like to continue my Conversations on identi.ca.

Twitter Suspends my Account

PaulMay 10, 2009

It seems someone got mad at Twitter or at least someone wasn’t to happy:

As you can see when I log into my account this pops up. I am sure my ratio is normal:

extremely imbalanced follower/following ratio

aggressive following (a large number of people are followed in a short amount of time)aggressive following (a large number of people are followed in a short amount of time)

aggressive following (a large number of people are followed in a short amount of time)

account contains links pointing to phishing sites, malware, or other harmful material

links in updates disguise the real content of a link given in a misleading or deceptive way.

Now these are the ones that I would not due and am quite confused why Twitter has suspened. I also like how they have an outdate link to there suspended account section of explaintion on getting your account reviewed or finding out why it was suspended. The link they send you to when the RED Stop Sign Appears is:

http://twitterhelp.blogspot.com/2008/08/suspended-accounts

Which is not valid they need to add a .html to the end of the URL to fix the problem. I know I’m not the only one to have come accross that invalid link but that is beside the point. It isn’t my fault if people start following me because of my website content. Please tell Twitter to fix this problem.

I start talking about what is wrong with Twitter and they shut me down? That is the only explaination I can come up with. I hope they fix this or I won’t be staying there much longer, I’ll go to the Indentica Servers and use them instead!! See my other posts about Twitter and you can decide if they did this on purpose or not.

TweetTornado and What that means to Twitter

PaulMay 10, 2009

I had an interesting person follow me today and I want to talk about How Twitter Needs to fix this problem:

[intlink id=”3501″ type=”post”]In my previous post[/intlink], I talked about Twitter needing to fix spam problems and here’s why. It’s Called Tweet Tornado and you pay $100 for this program a Month. On the Page, they talk about downloading this software and using it:

[ad]Now as you can on there website this plainly states this is SPAM. I wouldn’t install this software or even use it because of the possibility of having a Virus, Trojan, or even Malware attached to the program. I can say now that what I’ve seen of this website is that Twitter needs to come up with a way to fix this problem. I must warn you that if you do start using this software, you might end up with not internet or even worse if Twitter decides to come after you for damages to bandwidth. This software violates Twitter TOS:

You must not abuse, harass, threaten, impersonate or intimidate other Twitter users

You must not modify, adapt or hack Twitter.com or modify another website so as to falsely imply that it is associated with Twitter.com .

You must not create or submit unwanted email to any Twitter members (“Spam”)

As you can tell by using this software you are using a Bot that one probably is Spamming by means of either your current users or creating accounts and using the account to post a message with keywords. This will ultimately come down to Twitter to fix problem because this will create more bandwidth problems for Twitter and will start costing money for Twitter. Twitter users want this to be a free service but sooner or later if Twitter doesn’t do anything Twitter users will start paying for their mistake. Twitter will need to Modify it’s Terms of Service to Help prevent spam on the network because they have a Duty to it’s users to make this a safe place for teens and young children because some of these sites as you’ve seen on [intlink id=”3501″ type=”post”]my previous post[/intlink] are not safe for kids. Twitter needs to consider that there are Young people on their service Teens and Kids over the age of 13 unless Twitter wants to make it so you have to be an Adult to use there service. That could happen but I am sure this will not happen.

I also did not directly link to the website and I also made it so you can’t find the website easily but If twitter wants to know the website they can email me and I’ll share them the website, I have no problem tell them! I post this to show how Twitter needs to think about changing there TOS and also implement changes to ways to help prevent spam.