How To Stay Safe While Socializing Online on Facebook & Forums

June 14, 2011

The net is lots of fun these days. Getting in touch with childhood friends, sharing pictures with friends and family near and far, playing games like Farmville, dealing with people ‘poking’ you, virtual zombies, birthday announcements and friend requests. These things keep people returning to the social networks.
Of course the biggest social network is Facebook. [...]

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New Appointment Slots In Google Calendar Use URLs To Share Availability

June 12, 2011

Google is rolling out a new feature for the Google calendar – appointment slots that use URLs.
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The new appointment slots allow you to set aside or reserve time in your Google calendar for future appointments. This new feature is activated by just clicking anywhere on the calendar and switching from Events to Appointment Slots [...]

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How To See The World’s Most Exclusive Website Web Page URLs

June 8, 2011

What in the world is this “The World’s Most Exclusive Website” that is a trending topic on Twitter? It even has Ryan Seacrest tweeting about the site’s exclusivity.
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I checked it out.  I couldn’t get past room #1 of the mysterious website post logging in with my Twitter login.  It looks the website lets [...]

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Automatic URL link shortening on Twitter.com

June 8, 2011

Remember when you used to be able to just plug in a URL, and Twitter would automatically shorten the URL for you? Well, guess what, the feature is back. Twitter re-introduced a new automatic link shortening for the Twitter.com website.
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How Does Automatic URL Link shortening Work?
Just paste a link of any length [...]

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URL Branding, More Than Just Domain Name

June 5, 2011

Once you’ve bought an available URL for your new website, there’s another important next step to take:
Go to Twitter, and register the @yourURL that matches your new URL.  Start a Facebook page with the goal of working towards securing the unique Facebook URL Facebook.com/yourURL that also matches your new website name (You will have to [...]

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Domain Name Humor| How Women Are Like Online URL Addresses via Reddit

June 2, 2011

So this post isn’t quite URL help or tips.  Well, maybe if the type of help you need is a good laugh.
Who knew there was such a thing as URL or domain name humor?  Apparently there is …
There’s an awesome thread on-going at Reddit called, “Girls Are Like Internet Domain Names“.  A summary of the [...]

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How To Use Google “info” Command to Check URL at Auction Page Rank

May 30, 2011

Buying an expired, aged URL with existing Google PR (page rank) is a great way to start-up your new website.  A URL with PR already has links pointing to the site, which will help drive traffic to your new site.  Plus, Google favors aged domains and URLs with high page rank when they decide what [...]

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Hackers redirect the traffic from a parked domain name to any URL destination

May 30, 2011

If you have any important domains at a domain parking service, you may want to double check they go to the right place. Symantec, a leader in online security, found a hole in the security of one of the bigger domain parking services.
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Hackers have made it possible to redirect the traffic from a [...]

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What is the Difference Between Web Hosting vs URL Address?

May 25, 2011

Web Hosting and URL addresses or domain names are different services and products. However, web hosting and URL website addresses need each other to work and accomplish what each is intended to do.
A URL address is like a name or a label. You can’t store files used in the creation and [...]

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New Short URL Tools| Built By Spammers To Beat Email Security

May 25, 2011

Hackers and Spammers have started building fake short URL tools to beat email and other computer security to get more email traffic to their spam sites, Symantec has reported in its May 2011 Report.
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Symantec said they’ve seen a new security evasion technique that works by embedding a legitimate short URL, which in turn points [...]

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