Robert Weiner

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Lame spam of the day: Facebook notifications

Robert Weiner

Similar to the notifications from MySpace, Habbo, Tagged, and Foursquare I got a few weeks ago, I'm getting lots of fake Facebook notifications. Here are a few examples: Sender : Facebook (confirm+robert@ig.com.br). Text: You recently requested a new password for your Facebook account. Thanks, The Facebook Team.

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Lame spams of the day: Fake Facebook notifications

Robert Weiner

Lots of spammers try to use fake Facebook notifications to trap the unwary. All but the last one used graphics that made them look like the came from Facebook. Senders: Facebook [update+fqqrnmjhudim@atse.org.au]. Facebook [update+dxyfrdccslte@csj.g12.br]. Facebook [updateV995O9DZ34L9@facebookmail.com].

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Lame spam of the day: Raw spam merge text

Robert Weiner

{In my opinion|Personally|In my view}, if all {webmasters|site owners|website owners|web owners} and bloggers made {just right|good|excellent} {content|content material} as {you did|you probably did}, the {internet|net|web} {will be|shall be|might be|will probably be|can be|will likely be} {much more|a lot more} {useful|helpful} than ever before.|

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First impressions of the HTC Rezound smartphone

Robert Weiner

The phone came with Facebook, Google Maps, Gmail, Kindle, Weather, YouTube, and lots of navigation and entertainment apps. And the integrated help doesn't give clear explanations for what every setting does. Most don't have any Help entries. It's hard to see the screen in bright sunlight.

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So You Want to Be a Consultant?

Robert Weiner

“Scope Creep&# - your client goes off the framework of the contract, i.e. “and by the way, will you help us with…&# Some consultants are ok with it, but it’s good to learn how to say no gracefully (it’s not in the contract and I can’t fit it in yet/now…). Be extremely flexible.

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Impressions of the Palm Pre

Robert Weiner

The Help documentation is stored online. And if you're in airplane mode and have a poor wi-fi connection, the Help entries can take forever to load. I've got it working, but found it unintuitive at first, and the documentation wasn't much help. For instance, there's no Share option for Facebook entries.

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