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Online Free Touch-typing Tutor
Typing is becoming a part of a person’s literacy indicator today. If you cannot touch-type, all of your computer-based tasks will be more difficult not to mention slower.
www.sense-lang.org is a very good free on-line typing tutor. It has a decent set of standalone typing tutorials. It also has a classroom learning mode for teachers to set up and use it with their students in a controlled mode. It also has lessons for seniors.
The site is very powerful in terms of typing tutorials but a bit awkwardly designed in terms of web aesthetics. Nevertheless it is very useful and free.
You can find it at:
online free touch typing program | keyboarding tutor | Free Typing Games.
Tara Brabazon: Information Obesity – MDX Play
Tara Brabazon offers a striking look at information obesity. An analogy she uses with great insight and accuracy to demonstrate the state of academic information intake. I think the same applies to business and even the public information consumption.
Source: Middlsex University Play (MDX Play): Tara Brabazon final – MDX Play.
The Evolution of CRM to Social CRM
Social Media Globetrotter has an excellent article on the now emerging concept of Social CRM (Customer Relationship Management). This is clearly becoming a new powerful paradigm for CRM by applying social networking concepts.
More at the Source The Evolution of CRM to Social CRM.
Common Email Sending Mistakes
When sending a message to more than 3 people especially if they do not know each other, please put everyone in the BCC field instead of TO or CC. This way no one will see the other recipients’ emails.
Also if you receive a message that includes compelling well-crafted information asking you to forward to all your friends 99.999% of the time it is a fake or a hoax.
Most likely it has originally been sent by spyware, virus and spam writers to collect people addresses. When you forward it to everyone, this message contains all of our addresses as well as the addresses of previously forwarded people.
If one of the recipients has a virus or spyware program, it will collect all of those precious valid and verified email addresses and send them to the virus owner. They will sell it to spammers. and spam all your friends and you too.
So please make sure to ask an expert first about these messages before sending to everyone you know.
Tip: 5 things you may not know you can do with attachments in Gmail
Google Stops Using Windows Internally due to security concerns
According to the Financial Times:
“Google is phasing out the internal use of Microsoft’s ubiquitous Windows operating system because of security concerns, according to several Google employees.The directive to move to other operating systems began in earnest in January, after Google’s Chinese operations were hacked, and could effectively end the use of Windows at Google, which employs more than 10,000 workers internationally.”
More at the source via FT.com / Technology – Google ditches Windows on security concerns.
Protect your site from spammers with reCAPTCHA
This is a good article on using reCAPTCHA. It has a video introduction to reCAPTCHA for non technicals as well. Very good value.
via Protect your site from spammers with reCAPTCHA.
Panopticlick: How Unique and Trackable is your Browser?
What fingerprints does your browser leave behind as you surf the web?
Traditionally, people assume they can prevent a website from identifying them by disabling cookies on their web browser. Unfortunately, this is not the whole story.
When you visit a website, you are allowing that site to access a lot of information about your computer's configuration. Combined, this information can create a kind of fingerprint — a signature that could be used to identify you and your computer. Some companies are already using technology to try to identify individual computers. But how effective would this kind of online tracking be?
EFF is running an experiment to find out. Panopticlick will anonymously log the configuration and version information from your operating system, your browser, and your plug-ins, and compare it to our database of many other Internet users' configurations. Then, it will give you a uniqueness score — letting you see how easily identifiable you might be as you surf the web.
Adding your information to our database will help EFF evaluate the capabilities of Internet tracking and advertising companies, who are in the business of finding as many ways as possible to record your online activities. They develop these methods in secret, and don't always tell the world what they've found. But this experiment should give us more insight into the future of online tracking, and what web users can do to protect themselves.
Is your browser configuration rare or unique? If so, web sites may be able to track you, even if you limit or disable cookies.
Panopticlick tests your browser to see how unique it is based on the information it will share with sites it visits. Click below and you will be given a uniqueness score, letting you see how easily identifiable you might be as you surf the web.
Test yourself at: https://panopticlick.eff.org/
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Your Best Options for Hosting your Startup Website
An old friend of mine was contemplating hosting his own website and asked me about my recommendations in terms of technology. I asked about his requirements and use cases. his response was:
“The start up will be educational and tutorials for anyone. Later it will grow to sell software programs, technologies and ideas“
If you happen to have a similar set of needs, I suggest at the start that you use a service either free or paid. The following services are the most viable solutions:
- www.squarespace.com (paid)
- www.wordpress.com (free+paid)
- http://sites.google.com (free)
WordPress and squarespace are both blogging platforms as well as great web publishing tools. Squarespace is more consumer friendly for web publishing but both can do the job nicely and easily.
When you start selling we will use other augmenting services including google checkout. Paypal and authorize.net. Squarespace is my number one choice. WordPress is more viable if you want to start free the upgrade later. All these services import from each other and can export to other formats. You can also
use the wordpress platform on the other hosing providers as your Content Management System (CMS).
When you start selling we will use other augmenting services including google checkout. Paypal and authorize.net. Squarespace is my number one choice. WordPress is more viable if you want to start free the upgrade later. All these services import from each other and can export to other formats. You can also
use the wordpress platform on the other hosing providers as your Content Management System (CMS).
All these are very easy startup solutions that you can elegantly use and grow. They require no learning curve. They require no admin and security hardening and defense. which are all time wasters. I am aiming at conserving your time to concentrate on your core work not on web admin, security or content management technologies.
If you still want to run your own server, then I suggest:
if you need to run your own software on a server not just traditional hosting, you can use their virtual server options instead of the traditional hosting packages.
Finally if you have lots of money and hate to keep it, you can get your own dedicated server at www.rackspace.com the ultimate in availability and reliability. too much for a startup in my opinion.
There are other technologies like Amazon’s Elastic Computing or Google App Engine, but these are suitable for more interactive online apps and services.