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Facebook

Watch Facebook’s Live Event Tomorrow: “The White House Conference on Bullying Prevention” @ 12pm EST

If you are interested in the growing discussion around the issue of Facebook bullying and the impact it’s having on kids and our society as a whole, then you don’t want to miss this “Facebook Live” event that’s coming up tomorrow (Thursday), at 12:00pm EST live from the White House. The event is being called […]

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Facebook

*NEW* Get Email Notifications For Facebook Fan Pages (How To)

UPDATE:  Here’s how to enable email notifications for your Facebook Fan page as of April 2013.  The article below is now obsolete :) I’ve written previously about How To Get Email Notifications for your Facebook Fan Pages, but this was sort of a hacked work around that worked, but was  bit cumbersome to stay up […]

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Technology

The NASDAQ Was Hacked – But No One Knows Who Did It

This is a little bit scary, I must admit. According to the Wall Street Journal, hackers have successfully penetrated the computer systems of the NASDAQ over the past year. And this has not been just a one time occurrence. The NASDAQ computer systems have been successfully hacked and penetrated repeatedly over the past year, according to […]

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Android

Google TV Has Been Hacked, And Google Is Excited About It

Google to pay hackers $1000 for successfully hacking the Android OS running on Google TV. Google TV, and the Android OS running it, has been successfully hacked, and Google is actually excited about it. According to Google developer Howard Harte, “this means we now have a complete Android development environment for the Google TV.”  And […]

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Technology

6 Browsers & 3 Operating Systems, Too Much You Think?

As a blogger, I obviously spend a lot of time in front of my computer. Doing things like writing new articles, tweeking websites and other web projects, and providing consulting to others has caused me to use multiple browsers. I use multiple browsers primarily because I want to see that the CSS styles I change […]

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Politics

*Hilarious Photo* President Barack Obama & Sarah Palin on Dancing With the Stars

Here’s something to help brighten your day up a little bit. Somebody did some good Photoshop hacking to produce this bad boy… It’s President Barack Obama and Sarah Palin cutting it up on Dancing With The Stars.

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Facebook Security Technology Twitter

Rise of Firesheep and the Vulnerability of Wi-Fi

The casual coffee shop visitor who whips out his or her laptop to enjoy some free Wi-Fi service has more reason to be concerned these days.

Developer Eric Butler has produced a web browser add-on called Firesheep that makes viewing and using people’s private, sensitive information over wireless networks easy for even complete novices.

Butler reportedly had good intentions in creating this very dangerous tool. Because of its ease of use, Firesheep’s potential for doing damage is huge. Butler explains that “it’s extremely common for websites to protect your password by encrypting the initial login, but surprisingly uncommon for websites to encrypt everything else. This leaves the cookie (and the user) vulnerable.” Because of the widespread exploitation of such security holes, Butler contends that he created Firesheep “to demonstrate just how serious this problem is.”