Kevin Rose steps down as CEO of Digg.com
and is now starting up a new venture.
He is still on board of directors. He is not totally gone, but not responsible for day to day decisions.
So digg might be taking new paths and Kevin may introduce plenty of innovation to a new market.
This comes a year after the announcement of diggnation ending. but now they seem to not be talking much about diggnation ending any time soon.
so now the strongest ever social network (who has been on a downward for over two years now) may see new changes. Digg facelifts, digg functionality, etc.
Author: TruXter
The Facebook Virus takes a 180
The Real Post about the Face Book Spider Bite scam video
From what I see, everyone is calling this one the “Facebook who blocked you virus”.
Pretty simple I guess, explains it very well. Another method of getting a virus on Facebook
The facebook virus we all saw last month that said ” Wow I can’t believe I can really see who looked at my profile”, has now taken a complete turn around and now says
“Just saw who deleted and blocked me on facebook”
and then shows three faces with pad locks on them says 3 mutual friends, 1 mutual friend 6 mutual friends
and then below it says
“Check who has deleted or blocked you
See who your friends really are !
Check it at link in description”
Below the link is another image of the facebook logo with a circle with a hatch mark through it showing that it is anti facebook.
Then there is a bit.ly link. When you click that link. It’s over. Faster than you can hit the back button, your account is stolen and spamming the link out.
You will see this image on a person’s facebook page, and the virus of course tags the image with the name of every user who is a friend of the owner of the page, into this image, so you click it to see why your name is in that image, plus all of your friends see that you are tagged in an image so they look to see what the heck it’s all about, down below the image is a link to a virus that takes your account.
NEW FACEBOOK VIRUS
That, I would have to say is pretty spiffy of the hackers. Very creative. To bad they didn’t think of it before everyone predicted this would happen.
and another version where it tags your friends is like this
Try and not be so vain next time.. will ya
How to fix the Facebook virus issue.
Please start with running a virus scan. Any of a good selection of virus scanners will do. If one virus scanner does not find the Facebook virus, try another. There are many listed on that page.
If you can access another computer, please change your Facebook password from another computer while the scanning goes on.
and delete any posts that link to the virus. GO TO YOUR PROFILE TO SEE ALL THE POSTS YOU MADE. You have to delete them to do your part in containing the issue.
****Update****
This one has grown and morphed and changed to a photo tagging with a linked below it. making friends of everyone who is tagged, susceptible to getting the virus. They call it the facebook photo tagging virus.
Technically it’s not a virus until you click the link below the image. but really, a lot of people trust what’s going on in facebook.
And the team at facebook have started disabling the images and the links. but it kind of crashes a bit. It will still show the image for a while. click the ex to hide the image, but instead select “report spam”
Newer than the photo tagging is messaging someone’s page and saying they can get free stuff while it lasts. i think it’s apple or mac stuff. you know…. useless junk.
***update***
Commodore 64 is back, with the same ol’ look but modern insides | Technology | Los Angeles Times
Commodore 64 is back, with the same ol’ look but modern insides | Technology | Los Angeles Times.
Story is tha the comodor 64 is back but with teh same look. Well there is something that looks like the comodor 64. but the fact is if it is being released with today’s tehc, then it isn’t actually 64… It’s something greater than 64.
But as a computer lover I want my hands on this computer.
:-)
iPhone 5 release date: Big FAKE
iPhone 5 release date: Big buzz, few facts – CNN.com.
Apple executives have already confirmed that the iphone5 rumors are fake. There is no current release of the iphone 5 going to happen.
Be real everyone. The Iphone 4 was released less than a year ago. Apple will continue to sell those for as long as people are stilll buying them. Heck the Iphone 3 is still selling like crazy.
So do not expect to see an iphone5 for anywhere less than two years from the original release date of iphone 4
Email From Capitol One About Epsilon
This was sent to a girl I know that has a capitol one account. She says it is different from what you see in the news.
Of course this pertains to the breech of epsilon by hackers.
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Dear Capital One Customer,
As we have communicated over the course of the last week, Epsilon—a marketing vendor that sends e-mails on our behalf—notified us about unauthorized outside access to files that included Capital One® customer e-mail addresses.
The information obtained was limited to the e-mail address of some customers. No account information or other information was compromised. We’ll continue to provide updates when we have important new information to share. And, we’ll let you know what impact, if any, these developments will have on you.
Protecting our customers’ information is always a top priority for Capital One. We’re working with Epsilon and law enforcement, and we’re thoroughly investigating this incident to help prevent future ones like it. Epsilon is also conducting its own comprehensive investigation in cooperation with the appropriate authorities.
It’s always a good idea to ignore any e-mail that requests your confidential account or login information. And don’t forget, if you get an e-mail you think is suspicious, don’t click any of the links. Just send it to us at abuse@capitalone.com. Then delete it.
We apologize for any inconvenience this unfortunate incident has caused and appreciate your patience. For more information, please visit our Web site at www.capitalone.com.
Sincerely,
Capital One
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If you have no idea what this is about. Epsilon a large company that handles lots of large companies has been hacked. The rumor is that lots of innocent people have their credit card information stolen with this mess.
Problem with Ebay
I sold my G1 phone on eBay because I need the cash right now. At start I saw the prices they offered for the listing. I selected to start the auction at $90 with $9 shipping. Only one person bid on the phone. So the phone went at $90 and $9 shipping. The money went to my paypal account. Instantly PayPal (owned by eBay) charged me $5 for the transaction. Two days go by and eBay charged me $8 on top of the $1 they originally stated. So now I am down $13 of the $99 received for the sell and the shipping. Now i have to pay $9 for the shipping.
Of the $99 I’m now down $22.
This makes my take on the sell of my cell phone $77. Along with the wait in line at the post office on my lunch break. Because well. I didn’t want to make the buyer wait 1 or 2 extra days while the post office gets around to picking up the package from my house and i didn’t want to shell out more money for the shipping labels provided by eBay. Because really. I just sold one item.
$22 dollars to make less than $100 and the advertisement ran for three days. Heck it took 5 days for the money to transfer from PayPal to my bank account, but just seconds to to transfer from my bank account to eBay to pay off the fees for the listing.
Considering the last time I ran an ad on eBay I got hassled by a scammer who kept sending me payment confirmation emails but no payment was ever transferred.. Really for eBay to be so unsafe, they sure do charge quite a bit of money for you to sell one item and use a max of about 200kb of storage and maybe the same in bandwidth.
So now I plug my own website. My alternative to eBay.
On My Front Lawn is my Garage sale site where I now sell everything i want to sell.
Selling Custom Gaming Computer
Have to sell off a great gaming computer. Plays most of the toughest high graphics games to date.
custom computer 3 gig 3 core amd 4 gig pc6400 500gb hd
Custom Pc Image
Xfx 750 a motherboard Black Edition
Amd 3 core 3 gb processor
4 gig pc6400 ddr2 memory
500 gb sata hard drive
Nvidia 250 gts 1gb video card
Slightly custom case with hard drive cooling and front temperature sensor fan speed knob that also doubles as light dimmer
Custom Cooling
No operating system
Sellling My HTC G1 phone with 8GB mem
Selling my Google HTC g1 android cell phone, the first Android.
If you have any questions about the phone, you can ask me here or ask me on ebay. Please enjoy the G1. I did.
I have placed the HTC G1 on EBAY
I am in need of $$ because it’s getting close to time for my house to close SO I am selling off my android phone.
Hope you enjoy the G1.
Please respond below how you enjoy it.
T-Mobile G1 1gb Mem
I have placed the HTC G1 on EBAY
Still has factory Screen Cover. it didn’t have any writing on the factory screen cover so i never removed it when I took the phone from the box.
Phone is reset back to factory. All games and applications I tested on the phone worked perfect. Many useful applications. Tip calculators, grocery lists.
Do a search in google for “android g1 truxter” and see all of the reviews I have done about this phone and it’s software.
This is a very lovable phone. It’s like a small laptop.
Battery Is good compared to most people’s experience with the G1
Included with your purchase is:
- HTC G1
- Battery
- Home Charger
- USB Cord
- 1 GB Memory card
- Car Charger
- 2 carry cases ( 1 factory pouch 1 leather Reiko flap )
Update..
This phone sold for $90 +$9 shipping.
I am going to miss my G1.
The first Android phone type.
I hope the purchaser enjoys this Cell Phone.
Smartphone Social app
Color is an app for Iphones and Android phones. Color is a social network for smartphones.
Oh the irony of that concept.
Ever mess with your phone while you are flirting? Not very social… is it?
To the makers of Color, I have something to say
Colors APP
WTG…. I wonder if the app is hand written. ” see if you fold the corners of the paper like this and write colors here and there and then add numbers here and there, you have our fortune telling app”.
Enjoy your Color App.
YAWN..
Did Comcast Houston Get Slower?
Last year we were getting 28mbps Using Comcast internet, with an upload of 2.5 mbps. Some crummy local AT&T sub-contractor TM Construction or something like that, cut our live and refused to care. So I patched the line with a splice. I think it was a holiday 3 day weekend. SO I had to do it myself. We still got 28 mbps down and 2.5 up. Our internet was fine. A couple months later, TM construction came back out and wouldn’t you know it, they cut our line again. So this time we had Comcast come back out and replace the whole line with this heavy duty orange cable. Our internet was peaking at 30mbps. We held out for a few months.
But here recently our internet speeds have drop tragically. We are now getting 3 mbps down and oddly enough our upload speeds increased to 3.5 mbps down.
I was told a couple months ago that the speeds are supposed to increase to 50mbps near Humble area.
I can only assume that right now they are upgrading the cables or whatever and right now there is a crummier connection.
How is your internet speeds in the Spring and Humble areas? What is your bandwidth in this area?