Your friends have been receiving spam email apparently from your Yahoo/Gmail/Hotmail/etc address?

What does this mean?
At least one of three things may be going on:

1. Your email account may be compromised. In other words a spammer has gotten a hold of your account password and is using your account to send spam to your contacts,
2. A virus/malware has infected one of the computers you use login to check your email and is accessing your account, or
3. A spammer is using an email list that has both our addresses in it and just happened to faking an email from you

What to do?
Although #3 is the most likely (and is actually quite common) you should:

• change your email account password ASAP just to be safe
• make sure your computer has the latest updates (whether Mac, Linux, or Windows). Eg run the Windows update to make sure everything is up to date
• if you have a virus scanner, make sure it is up to date
• scan your computer for viruses/malware
• speak with whoever is in charge of the computers at your work or other place you check your email from about a possible infection

A Facebook Spam App is one that tricks you into installing then proceeds to post unsolicited messages onto your wall, your friends’ walls or sends messages.

Note: no Facebook app can tell you anything about who visits or how many people visit your profile. Any app that makes these claims is fraudulent.

How to remove an app

1) log into Facebook

2) click your Account menu in the top right corner of your page

3) select Privacy Settings

4) on the bottom of the Privacy Settings page select Edit your settings

5) in the Apps to use area click the Edit Settings button

6) look for any suspicious app that you have installed recently (or any other app you don’t trust) and click the X to remove it

Bloggers blog for many different reasons–rarely though is it for direct financial gain. So what should you do when visitors inquire about contributing financially to your blog? Even if you find yourself disinterest in receiving financial contributions from visitors, accepting such offers can be a way for your visiters to feel acknowledged and connected to your site.

The biggest hurdle for bloggers is how to facilitate this outpouring of gratefulness, especially when such outpouring takes the form of small donations, while maintaining a certain level of anonymity. There are several different ways to receive small donations from your blog visitors:

PayPal

PayPal is the most flexible and universal way for visitors to send money/donations. The transaction is free if visitors send a personal payment. To send a personal payment one must:

1) log into their paypal account
2) select the send money tab
3) select the personal payment tab

(there is a credit card fee if the visitor uses a credit card:  the visitor decides whether he/she pays this fee or whether it comes out of the donation he/she is sending).

Alternatively you can make a donate button ( ) on your website. Users will be directed to login or create a paypal account. Transaction costs for payments through a donate button are 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction.

My recommendation generally is to write a short blurb about personal payments: If you would like to support my work through a donation, please feel free to send me a money gift from your paypal account to myemail@address.com.

Other payment options:

flattr – neat micro payment scheme that is starting to take off (flattr keeps 10% of what you make)

pledgie – make a fundraising goal and allow visitors to pledge (uses paypal 2.9% + $0.30 per donation)

gift cards - visitors can buy new or load top up e-gift cards (eg starbucks, amazon, chapters)

online wish list - nice visitors might buy you books (eg amazon, chapters)

Other ways to monetize blog traffic:

ads – post ads on your site; ad companies pays per click (eg adsense)

affiliates – companies pay commission for sales/customers sent to them from you (eg netflix, cafepress, amazon, etc)

sell custom merchandise  (eg cafepress, zazzle, etc)

Unfortunately Droid phones (and many other phones running Android) cannot sync with Outlook through USB. It is possible to sync your phone with Outlook by first going through gmail however, this is not always desirable.

Luckily there is third part software!

http://www.companionlink.com/androidusb/
http://www.markspace.com/products/android/missing-sync-android.html
http://www.wavestore.co.uk/index.php/products/mylink-access.html

When I provide proofreading or editing services I will almost always use the “track changes” feature in Word so that you can see what changes I have suggested and what comments I have made in your paper. If you are not sure how to use the “track changes” feature please have a look at this instructional video or the instructions on this webpage.

These instructions explain how to add prompts for information in an MS Word document and automatically update certain fields in the MS Word document with this information. There are three main parts to accomplishing this:

1) inserting Ask fields
2) inserting Ref fields
3) updating the fields in order to input new information

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The easiest way to post files from your computer to wordpress is to upload them with wordpress’s built in Media Gallery.

1) Upload a File to Wordpress
2) Link to a Previously Uploaded File

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