Why The Hell Did You Click That?
Simple Technological Explanations
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Posted by Manuel Somohano in News, Tech News on 29. Mar, 2011 | No Comments
Have you fixed your Adobe product vulnerability?
It was announced last week that a new vulnerability (CVE-2011-0609) was found in some of Adobe’s products. This is a dangerous scenario for many non savvy experts because sometimes they don’t even know that they have such applications installed on their machines.
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Posted by Karen Martínez in General on 24. Mar, 2011 | No Comments
Staying on top of technology is exhausting!
Don’t you agree? I mean, I love to read and learn, those are my favorite sports but, sometimes I can’t help but ask, how do geeks do it?! In these days where people are so busy with life and responsibilities it’s hard to find the time to stay current on
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Posted by Manuel Somohano in Internet, Security on 04. Mar, 2011 | No Comments
In Google We Trust?
A great number of Internet users in free societies across the globe have trouble remembering a time before Google, especially when a search engine was a nice to have and not a must have — and you could only get your site crawled if you submitted it manually. I remember
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tagged: blue screen of death, computer problems, error tracking, Event Viewer, EventID.net, pop up, troubleshooting, WindowsNo Comments
There is a pop up on my screen. What do I do? Part 1: (Error Messages)
Posted by Manuel Somohano in Processes, Systems
If I had a penny for every time I’ve seen or heard somebody panic just by getting a tiny little pop up, I’d be rich. A pop up in Windows does not always mean malignancy. Some of them are actually good and necessary. There are certain things you need to
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Nov
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tagged: brand interaction, brand monitoring, corporate socail media strategy, featured, Katie Paine, peer recommendations, PRSA International Conference, Social Media, social web, TwitterNo Comments
An Introduction to Social Media: the Great, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Part 2)
Posted by Karen Martínez in Social Media, Social Web
This entry will give you an insight on how businesses can benefit from social media. The reason why I divided the article in two parts is because although the social media forms are the same in both cases, from a business point of view it’s a completely different approach. You
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Nov
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tagged: Biz Stone, Evan Williams, featured, follow, Hootsuite, Jack dorsey, microblogging, Social Media, social network, Tweet Deck, Twitter, unfollow, URL shorteners, web 2.0No Comments
What is Twitter?
Posted by Manuel Somohano in Social Web, WebApps
The Web app series will focus in some of the most useful tools currently in the Internet. The majority of them are free, others will have ‘freemium’ formats. All are relevant for people that want to stay current with what’s going on online, those interested in the global interaction and
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Oct
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tagged: Chad Hurley, channels, Google, Jawed Karim, Steve Chen, upload, video editing, Video Hosting Platform, YouTubeNo Comments
What is YouTube?
Posted by Manuel Somohano in Social Web, WebApps
The Web app series will focus in some of the most useful tools currently in the Internet. The majority of them are free, others will have ‘freemium’ formats. All are relevant for people that want to stay current with what’s going on online, those interested in the global interaction and
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tagged: byte, giga, kilo, mega, Peta, Petabyte, Terabyte, unite of storage, Yotta, ZettaNo Comments
What comes after terabyte and what does all that mean?
Posted by Manuel Somohano in General
We’ve all heard the terminology. We’ve heard it increases at a slow pace and that every time it changes, it seems to pick up speed. What the hell does all this mean right? They seem to have something in common: they all end in ‘byte’. However, they have different beginnings
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Oct
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tagged: Change Password, HTTPS, leisure accounts, little secrets, login, methodology, Password, personal accounts, professional accounts, security, username, websiteNo Comments
Why Do I Need To Change My Password?
Posted by Manuel Somohano in General, Internet, Security
You hate it, I know. You hate every time somebody tells you not to use your dog’s name as a password, that you need to mix letters and numbers or that you have to change it every couple of weeks. You feel like ignoring it, changing the subject or anything
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Oct
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tagged: Ajay Bhatt, Blogger, Department of Defense of the USA, Internet, Outlook, Ramanathan V. Guha, Real Simple Syndication, RSS, RSS Reader, Tim Berners-Lee, Wordpress, XMLNo Comments
What is this RSS thing I keep hearing about?
Posted by Manuel Somohano in Internet, Social Web
I’ll give you the definition straight out. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. The end. Ok, I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that wasn’t the simple explanation you were looking for and before you go clicking away elsewhere to who knows where, I’ll tell you
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tagged: communication shift, content sharing, Facebook, Foursquare, human interaction impersonal, Instant Messaging, LinkedIn, RSS, Social Media, social web, spelling deprivation, Twitter, YouTubeNo Comments
An Introduction to Social Media: the Great, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Part 1)
Posted by Karen Martínez in Social Media, Social Web
So, maybe you’ve heard about this social media thing going on but, what exactly is it? Who uses it and why? This article will give you an insight on social media used mostly for individual purposes. An analysis on social media from a business point of view will follow soon,
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Sep
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tagged: 500 million users, Facebook, feed, Mark Zuckerberg, personal details, social networkNo Comments
What is Facebook?
Posted by Manuel Somohano in Social Web, WebApps
The Web app series will focus in some of the most useful tools currently in the Internet. The majority of them are free, others will have ‘freemium’ formats. All are relevant for people that want to stay current with what’s going on online, those interested in the global interaction and
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Sep
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tagged: Accounts and Imports, activity on this account, Change Password, data safe, Gmail, Hotmail, online email, security, Sign out all other sessions, WHOIS IP, YahooNo Comments
Is Your Online Email Secure?
Posted by Manuel Somohano in Internet, Security
As I’ve mentioned before, the reason I’m able to share with you some of the security flaws and issues out there is because I sometimes, encounter them myself. Earlier this morning something happened for the first time during my almost six year run using Gmail. I got a message in
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