Robert Weiner

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Digital Wallet Helps Prevent Phishing

Robert Weiner

Without thinking too much about it, I clicked on the URL and was taken to a fake Twitter homepage asking me to log in. Roboform knew this wasn't a real Twitter page, and so wouldn't log me in. Here's the deal: I got a message from a friend with a link. That made me realize that I was being scammed. Thanks, Roboform.

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Free Digital Storytelling Online Event

Robert Weiner

We will help you learn how to maximize the impact of your organization's message with online audio, video, and images. Follow the action on Twitter #tsdigs. Follow it on Twitter at #tsdigs. There are lots of ways to participate: Join a webinar. Engage with the experts in the TechSoup Forums.

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Fundraising Via Social Media: Pros and Cons

Robert Weiner

I’ve already mentioned Beth Kanter’s extensive discussion of Twestival , an attempt to raise $500,000 for the group charity:water using Twitter. Beth titled her post Are Fundraising Groundswells A Massive Opportunity or Distraction for Nonprofit Organizations? and didn’t reach a conclusion either way.

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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

And the integrated help doesn't give clear explanations for what every setting does. Most don't have any Help entries. But the large screen is vastly easier to read than the Palm Pre's. Too many options for configuring the phone. After 2 weeks I'm still tinkering with settings.

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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. I finally had to call their support line -- not a toll free call, BTW.

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