iPhone security alert: your lock screen can be bypassed!

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This YouTube Video shows how you can bypass the iPhone lock screen to make calls and list contacts. You can even browse photos if you attempt to add a photo to a contact.

While you can’t run any apps or do anything other than work with contacts or make phone calls, the facts is that anyone who watches this video can unlock a part of your iPhone without knowing your passcode.

I’m sure Apple will have a fix soon but until then, don’t let that phone go to the wrong hands!

 

My Christmas Present to You: a blinking Christmas tree for your email signature!

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Every year, I add a blinking Christmas Tree and “Merry Christmas!” to my email signature.  Consider it my way of sharing the joy of the Christmas spirit.  This year I decided to make that tree available to you and anyone who wants to use it.  It’s my gift to you.  Insert it into your email client and customize your own signature and help spread the Joy of the Christmas Spirit too!

Here’s the tree:

Blinking Christmas Tree

 

And here’s the URL to the tree: http://www.cybercominc.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/christmasTree.gif

 

And for Gmail users, here’s the instructions on how to customize your email signature. 

 

Electric Cars might go twice as far for half the cost

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Very interesting development here from GM: GM touts revolutionary battery breakthrough.

A new generation of batteries might give electric cars a 200 mile range.

iPHone 5 coming on Sept 12

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If you’re considering getting a new phone, hold on for just a little bit more until after the iPhone 5 gets released.

Apple is planning to debut the new iPhone at a special event on Wednesday, September 12, 2012, with the release date to follow 9 days later on Friday, September 21.

via Apple iPhone 5 and iPad mini event planned for September 12, iPhone 5 release date for September 21 | iMore.com.

Confirm your Microsoft Update Today

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There were a bunch of Microsoft-related security updates today Tuesday July 10, 2012. Make sure you get them. Go to Start, All Programs, Windows Updates.

Clean Your PC or Lose Internet Access

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Hundreds of thousands of PC’s are infected and they don’t know it. Read the article below for more details on this “DNSCHanger” malware. You can click over to this site to check if your PC is infected

. Don’t lose out on your Internet!

Starting this week, any users of Google’s search tools who are detected redirecting to DNSChanger’s now substituted domains will be splashed the stark warning “Your computer appears to be infected” with an accompanying link offering remediation advice.</blockquote>

via pcworld.com

Broadcast your conversations with Google Hangout

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I’ve been using Google Hangouts to conduct meetings for up to 10 people and it is simply the best thing I’ve come across for teleconferencing. You must try it.

Google just kicked it up a notch now where we can broadcast these hangouts to a YouTube Channel. I think this opens up countless opportunities for creating an entirely new class of programming. Think live Talk Show meets Internet meets YouTube and you can start to get an idea of the possibilities. Try it!

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via googleblog.blogspot.com

Google’s version of Dropbox launches

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Long-rumored “Google Drive” finally launches and you get 5GB of data synchronization free. I’m diving into this one although I must say now that I’m and iPad fan I’m disappointed that the iPad version is “coming soon”. But I’m also an Android user so the counterbalance is that I’m happy that it’s immediately available on Android devices! Please post your experiences here

via drive.google.com

Don’t buy a laptop until after this summer!

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My universal advice on buying new hardware is simple: keep what you have until it falls apart and then buy either the fastest, or 2nd fastest processor/configuration available. This assures you the longest possible life.

So if your laptop has broken apart (as mine did last year), go ahead and get one now, but otherwise you should wait until this fall. If you can’t wait and feel you must buy one now (even though your existing laptop hasn’t fallen apart) then read this article where Mossberg spells out the big upgrades coming this summer.

Think of it this way, would you rather give in to your weakness and buy a laptop now, only to have it be “old generation” in a few months, or would you keep it together and buy the latest, greatest, coolest, newest thing this fall?

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Google Launching 5GB “Gdrive” dropbox competitor

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Those of us in the Google ecosystem will be happy when this product launches and apparently its going to launch next week. All I know now is that it will come with 5GB of free online storage. Stay tuned!

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