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Something great is coming!

Paul

 

From Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Big Surprises coming!

Yes I know this is something you probably haven’t heard from me for a while.   I do however have some bing plans coming in the following weeks.   I am unsure when this will happen but you can be sure it will be a great challenge for most of my readers.   I’ve been in talks with a company or two about something that you will love to talk about and also maybe get in the near future.

If you haven’t already!

If you haven’t already subscribed to my mailing list, this would be an excellent time to jump aboard.   This mailing list is going to be the launching for this Big surprise, so you will know before anyone else.    So If you haven’t, you should.   It is also my newest attempt at keeping you up to date on what is going on.   Whenever I post something new to my blog you will receive an email the next day.   So you will never have to worry about missing a post.  I will also be adding special stuff in this email list from time to time so you will always find those nuggets of wisdom from my list.

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Thats about it, I will see you on the flip side. Have a Good Day!!

Paul Sylvester

 

Microsoft Keynote CES 2009

Paul

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Some Key topics talk about in this Keynotes are:

Windows 7 — Lighter, Faster, and Reliability. Windows 7 Should boot quicker and faster, and enables cool new interface touch.

Windows 7 — Beta will be available Worldwide on January 9, 2009 and will be available for download on MSDN and Technet.  Also it will be available at : http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7 For those who want to download it from Microsoft directly.

Windows Live Essentials — Windows live Messenger, Mail, and Photo Gallery works with Windows XP, VISTA, and Windows 7. It is available for download worldwide. Dell will also be putting this on their consumer and small business computers.

Windows Mobile — 11 Different Mobile phones.

Verizon Mobile —  Windows Live Search will be available through Verizon and it’s a partnership with Microsoft.

Demo of Windows 7, Live, and Mobile:

Windows 7 will have Windows touch and be able to use net books with Windows 7.

Windows 7 has been designed with the Touch DNA in mind.

Windows Mobile demo with an Panoramic display.

Windows Live Demo —  Various things they discuss here including Photo’s and Silver light.

Windows XBOX:

[ad#ad2-left]Halo Wars — Strategy game and will Available February 28, 2009. The Bungie Will have a demo version February 5, 2009 and will be available for download.

Halo 3 ODST — Will be available in the Fall of 2009. New Characters, new events and will be like Halo 3.

Various stuff about Xbox Live 360

These were just the main things that I thought was important to let people know what was mainly the important highlights of this keynote. I will recommend everyone to go and watch it for yourself, I am sure I’ve missed something that someone would consider very important and understand that. This however is a personal and will be different in everyone. I watched this and am excited and can’t wait for windows 7 to be released so I can get my hands on this and see how it fairs with a Vista CPU and GPU. So only time will tell. I hope you enjoyed this little run down. Please feel free to leave a comment and talk about this or anything else in the Disqus community.

Setting up Email Filters for Twitter Phish — Getting Phishing out of the way

Paul

Ok So we’ve all had the problem of having to deal with this twitter phish, and you can see there are more and more twitter spam.

So how do you start Filtering out the Bad twitter spam?

I’m using Mozilla Thunderbird so this will not be a complete way for people who use other email software.

Select Tools and then Message Filters

Once You find your way to this menu you would click new and then you do this:

To get here in Thunderbird Tools From the Menubar and select Message Filters

Now once you’ve named your twitter filter, I named it “Twitter Spam” but you may name it whatever you would like.   I then selected to “Match all of the Following”, if you don’t do this it will send all direct messages to your spam folder.  You’d get no direct message from anyone about anything.   I told the filter if it was from “*@postmaster.twitter.com”.   Once you done that you would click the plus sign to add [ad#ad2-right]another row and then I selected the “Subject”.  I selected that to filter whatever is in the subject body of the message and filtered for “http://*.access-logins.com”.  Then I clicked Move Message to Spam Folder.  You can move it to your own twitter spam folder, it is just nice to move it away from the important stuff.   You also if you like can Mark it as read also by clicking the Plus sign and selecting “Mark as read” so that you don’t have to worry about reading each and every one.   For people who are wondering the Asterisk is a Wild Card which means it does not matter what is in there that is import to prevent getting spam from people you know or from sites you know are phishing.

Some people might like to do this for Google Mail and I see no problem in people doing this before you even get the email but if you’re not using Google mail and would like to do this for your email hosting account by all means follow these steps and you shouldn’t get much phish direct messages.  I will say if they us another Free hosting account you’ll get it for the time but it won’t be constant.   I hope this helps people get this out of there way.  Soon this will be in the past.

If you suspect you will get more blogspot.com links also you can set up a seperate filter to filter for “http://*.blogspot.com” just follow the instructions just like you did but use that instead of the other internet address.  I’d also tell people to not Direct message you about a site  if it is important to look at to reply to you but don’t direct message you. 

Twitter Spam bots are hot to trot: http://gentai.com/revenge1

Paul

Ok so I was curious why I all of the sudden got people joining my list. each one I look at just to see who these people are have only one twitter message saying this from two different accounts:

twitbot3

and this one also

twitbots2

and once you click that link it takes you to this website and see what they want you to do:

twitterbots

These people are trying to get you to click on there links and [ad#ad2-left-1]get you give them email accounts.  This has been socially engineered to look like it is real.  I gave them a 10 min email account to see what they sent me.  It was a link to there porn site.  Wanting me to give them my credit card or checking account information and to join there site.  I don’t think so, not this old dog.   Anyways if you get this spam from a user you might just want to block these people.  Some of these people have followers.  Hmm I don’t know about these people.  I guess they want you to send an email to other people to spam them also.  How nice of them to social engineer this scheme so you can make your friends and family mad at you and probably not even talk to you.   So that is why it is good not to auto-follow people when they subscribe to your twitter account.   Some people have that set.  Some people just don’t learn. I am sure some people will like this site for other reasons but please don’t spam people with this little site. Please don’t put people on that list.

Panatech PX-500 PCMCIA Sprint EVDO BroadBand Card

Paul

[ad#tmi-right-1-1]The Pantech PX-500 wireless mobile broadband card for Sprint gives you data communication access for your PC laptop anywhere you roam on the Sprint network at faster speeds than ever before. EV-DO rev A compatibility gives you download speeds of up to 3.1 Mbps and beefy upload speeds of up to 1.8 Mbps. Simple to use, the Pantech PX-500 wireless mobile broadband card lets you surf the Internet, send and receive email and text messages, and connect to corporate networks from just about anywhere.

Technical Specs:

  • Dimensions – 4.57 in x 2.13 in x 0.51 in

  • Weight – 1.8 oz

  • Data Download Speed – EV-DO rev A (Up to 3.1 Mbps Down/1.8 Mbps Up), EV-DO rev 0 (2.4 Mbps Down/153 Kbps Up), 1xRTT

  • Download Protocol – CDMA 850, 1900

  • Compatible Carrier – Sprint PCS

  • Network Compatibility – CDMA 850, 1900

  • 3G Data Speeds – Yes

Compatibility Features

  • Device Supports Data Plans – Yes

  • Available For Purchase Without Service Plan – Yes

Saw this card and did a little digging.  I looks like the newest updated software and drivers for this card can also make it Vista and Linux compatible.   Although with any card you will use up more battery life but it is a small price to pay to check email and surf the web. Also if you have an newer laptop or am about to upgrade I’d suggest Getting a Sierra Wireless Compass 597 USB Modem from Sprint! This is good for anyone who wants to surf the web and not have to buy the hardware to do it with.  Both are free to buy and ship with a two year contract. If in doubt please get the USB card that way you know you know you will be able to use it.