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photo courtesy of Canva.com by Carl E Reid, Evernote certified consultant This is a do it yourself (DIY) project, with 3 instructional videos. Submitting a credit freeze protects you from thieves attempting to steal your identity by creating NEW credit accounts in your name. I have tested this several times by applying for credit cards, applying for a loan and opening new bank accounts. Each time the new...

Clicking on ANY links in these types of emails can potentially cause irreparable damage to your computer or information stored on your computer network. Did I mention the part about possible identity theft can be accomplished from these types of emails too? Please familiarize yourself with the tonality, typos and poor grammar of the 3 sample phishing emails that provide clues below. This is a reminder to be Suspicious of emails telling...

With the Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook passwords leaks, I thought this might be a good tutorial to share with staff, to make your technology customer support team's job easier. Modify as you feel appropriate.  How To Smartly Create Passwords  Don't re-use passwords. One ultra-secure one won't be any good if someone finds it. While combining upper and lower case passwords with numbers to alter a memorable word - M4rsin$pace...

Society lives in a different world than we did 20, 30, 40 or 50 years ago.  A childhood car ride to the airport included my father being able to take us right up to the boarding area just to watch planes land and take off.  Today, only ticketed, ID verified, bare foot, metal detector frisked passengers are allowed to go to the airport boarding area. Airport lines are longer, no more back packs at running / marathon races, metal...

I just mailed my HD box back to the cable company and canceled my service, while still being able to view TV shows and movies at a tiny fraction of the cost. My personal board of directors (my family) is happy about the new income windfall due to the yearly savings. Unless cable TV providers upgrade their business model, they may disappear with black and white television. 4 years back I bought a Sony Play Station 3 (PS3) to entertain...

Did you know Twitter engagement rates are higher on Saturday and Sunday? Below is an excellent infographic provided by Linchpin SEO, which provides the clues needed to crack the mystery of how to really engage people on Twitter.   As I mention to my clients, having a social media presence is not enough. Converting social media presence into "influence" is the challenge. Social media Influence is what really translates into sales leads...

Back in 2007 our article Replace Incandescent Bulb with Fluorescent Bulb talked about how the U.S. Clean Energy Act of 2007 makes the incandescent light bulb go away, saves quite a bit of money on electric bills and creates awesome opportunities as the same time.  We failed to mention the bizarre things people might do to continue using those energy hogging incandescent light bulbs. From a Business Week article, on January 1,...

So I'm driving south on the New Jersey Turnpike for a meeting in Trenton.  I passed several digital highway signs flashing a Silver Alert with a license plate number.  For the life of me, I could not figure out what this Silver Alert was about. After doing a little research [not while driving], I found out “Silver Alert” or “Senior Alert” programs help identify and locate missing seniors with cognitive impairments (i.e. Alzheimer's...

A game-changer is a term used to describe something that has the potential to alter the outcome when brought into an activity. In business, for something to be a game-changer, it has to produce an advantage. I will show why I think Apple’s iPad2 is a game-changer that can produce such an advantage.Much has been written on the technological prowess of the iPad2. Articles have appeared on its specific use such as point-of-sale...

Most email software (i.e. outlook, gmail etc.) has a type-ahead feature. This is also referred to as auto-complete. This function remembers and stores addresses you send to. When you start typing names of a previously stored contacts, your email software will recognize it and offer suggestions for completing the name text for you. Facebook has a similar type ahead feature, when posting "comments", on a "wall" or in a group.  As you...