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Friday, December 10, 2010

Email Scam Involving PayPal

Today I received an e-mail in my inbox, I immediately recognized it as a scam, having seen so many and almost fallen for one that looked like it came from my bank. I wondered how many people there are that might not recognize this scam. The e-mail looks like it comes from PayPal.  First and and of foremost importantance, DO NOT fill out and submit this form. The information will not go to PayPal it will go to the scammers. And as soon as they recieve your information they will quickly drain your PayPal account of all funds! If you want to know if there is a problem with your PayPal account go to PayPal.com and log in and check for messages from PayPal.

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Friday, December 3, 2010

Learn IT - How to use Google Alerts to Get auto Tweets

Although intended for affiliate and Internet marketing purposes, this article can be used to learn how to supply twitter content, or any other destination web site that can accept RSS feeds irregardless of the topic or subject.

There are many reasons to want to auto-tweet your Twitter page. The basis for the example below is affiliate marketing and the goal is to create a quality Twitter page that is not only used to sell but one that is also informative as well.

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Software - vBulletin - You Cannot Start New Threads or Post Replies

Description of Problem: After you create an account on a vBulletin based forum you cannot start a new thread or post a reply to an existing thread. The problem is that your account has not yet been activated. You activate your account by clicking on the link in the confirmation e-mail that was sent to the e-mail address that you supplied as part of the registration process.

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Software - vBulletin - How To Add A Hyper-Linked Signature To Your Posts

Log in to your account on the vBulletin based forum. On the menu bar click on "USER CP". This will show you your user profile. Next, locate "Edit Signature" along the left under  then menu labeled "Your Control Panel". You will see a What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) editing box.

In the box type the text that you want in your signature. If you want the text in your signature to also be a hyper-link then highlight the text then click on the "Insert Link" icon on the editors toolbar. The "Insert Link" icon looks like a globe with a link of chain at the bottom of it and overlapping the globe. In the pop-up box that appears type the URL for which you want the text to link.

Example: I have a blog it's URL/web address is http://mrcomptech.blogspot.com. The text I want in my signature is 'Blogger.com: MrCompTech', so in the editing pane I type 'Blogger.com: MrCompTech' (without the quotes). Then I use my mouse to highlight 'MrCompTech' in the text that I just typed. Next I click the "Insert Link" button/icon on the toolbar. In the pop-up window that appears I type 'http://mrcomptech.blogspot.com', again without the quotes.
Lastly, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the 'Save Signature' button.

That's it, now when you go back an look at your posts you should see you new signature. Depending on how the forum administrator configured the forum this may apply to all posts, even if they are old posts.

This article is from MrcompTech's web site.