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Idaho Falls Consumer Technology Show
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to the newsletter or RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Someone should organize a consumer technology trade show in Idaho Falls. The purpose would be to raise technology awareness among southeast Idahoans, to teach some beginning and intermediate technology skills, and of course to sell technology products.
Seminars [...]
Why did blogging pass Idaho Falls?
Hey Idaho Falls, it is time to introduce you to a phenomenon called blogging.
The term comes from web-log, which is a written log/journal/diary posted to the Internet. Some people expose their deepest emotions, some write to let family members keep up to date, some write to explore their professions, some write to further their political [...]
Beware of Internet Explorer security holes
Stop using Internet Explorer for browsing! Stop right now, at least for the next few weeks, if not forever!
The reason is a major security hole that allows hackers to execute harmful code in your computer. This code is being found on numerous websites, including normally safe sites like ticket-booking or insurance sites. The reason is [...]
Idaho Falls teens on Myspace: sexy pics, drunken brags, and phone numbers
Myspace has been making several headlines lately, and our own Local News 8 tried a surface-level report recently.
I had always ignored Myspace until the nationwide reports started surfing. Mass media news mostly focuses on scare stories, but Myspace.com has become one of the top 10 Internet sites and was recently bought out by Rupert Murdoch’s [...]
Find sex-offenders in your neighborhood
We linked to this a long time ago, but after seeing a sex offender from my neighborhood in the public library Saturday I thought I would post it up front.
Mapsexoffenders.com allows you to punch in your zip code, and the little red baloons represent the locations of all registered sex offenders in your neighborhood. You [...]
How to create an online classified ad
The days of paying for classified ads are over! This two-part article will describe how to create a free, online classified ad. First, I will demonstrate how fast and easy it is to first register at Expo.Live.com, then in a few days how fast and easy it is to post your free classified ads.
First, [...]
Protect yourself by signing rather than using PIN
There are news reports all over of a huge fraud against debit card users. Apparently some retailer hasn’t been properly purging PIN numbers from their records and a bunch have been stolen (won’t they fry once we find out who screwed up?)
In the meantime, everyone is encouraged to check your bank statements and ensure the [...]
Caller ID spoofing wil fool you
If you have never heard of Caller ID ’spoofing’, welcome to a new term in our vocabulary. We are all aware of the Caller ID technology with our modern phone systems. You see a caller’s name and telephone number because the information is included with the calling signal sent from every phone. Imagine you can [...]
Ever wanted to be a banker?
Now you can, and from the comfort of your own home. I heard of this concept several months ago, and wondered if it would ever get off the ground. It has, and it’s called Prosper.
Essentially, it’s like eBay for money lending. You can lend money to other people, and can restrict your loans to certain [...]
Free Office 2003 for Small Businesses
You’ve got to hurry and register for this, but you can get a free copy of Office 2003 by listening to at least 3 webcasts over a 4 day period in mid-March an submitting brief evaluations of those webcasts.
This is an easy way to earn some great expensive software. I know this is not [...]
Local Students Can Submit Teacher Feedback
This may cause some local disruption, but life’s short, right?
District 91 is near the end of their second trimester, so it seems a good time to let students in our area know they can give feedback about their teachers at a wonderful site called ratemyteachers.com. Local college students can rate their professors at a similar [...]
There is life before Digg, and then life after Digg
You say you want a revolution?
Something big is happening, and you will regret it the rest of your life if you fail to take notice and take part now. That’s a big statement, and I don’t normally make such bold claims. This is different, though.
The revolution is Digg.com, a social news site. What is social [...]
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