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August 17th, 2006 - Newsletter by Jerrold Schiff
Headlines:
1) Dell Notebook Battery Recall
http://www.dell.com/
(DO NOT click on links - instead, open your browser and type in the link!)
2) Dell 19 inch flat panel on special
Yes, I STILL recommend Dells - despite recalls
- despite no longer allowing phone support after warranty expires
3) Refer a friend - get 1 hour free tune-up
4) BACKUP your software. NOVASTOR backup software reviewed.
5) GPS receiver ("Tell me where I am" travel buddy)
6) The THREE levels of email "control" (to help limit spam)
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1) no details necessary
2) Dell $691 (Business Division only)
- 19 inch flat panel on special
- 1 gigabyte of RAM
- Dual Core (2 cpu's!)
- 1 year warranty
(more details available)
ASK ABOUT MY PRE-INSTALL DE-CRAPPIFIER service - (AOL removed etc)
3) Refer a friend - get 1 hour free tune-up
Yes - the special is back!
Get a free ONE HOUR tune up for your computer.
Guaranteed to run faster without all those hidden temporary files and programs!
Just refer a friend (make sure they said you told them to call me)
and get one hour free.
4) BACKUP your software. NOVASTOR backup software reviewed.
I recently downloaded a demo version of NOVASTOR (Novabackup)
and found the product to be extremely easy to use, convenient,
and best of all: You can set it for certain folders and
to be run when YOU want it to be run.
Read more at http://www.novastor.com/
5) GPS receiver ("Tell me where I am" travel buddy)
Saw this listed in "Computer Shopper".
Great for people who get lost and need a toy map.
Asus My-pal A636n.
And on the same page:
Space Case - a glossy carbon fiber padded notebook pad.
However, there was no mention if it catches on fire from Dell Notebooks.
(Just kidding - Although one customer showed me a fried power adapter!)
6) The THREE levels of email "control" (to help limit spam)
1 - Use a totally bogus email account when asked
In order to "go to the next page" and get information,
a lot of web sites ask for your email address.
Why not give them a funny address? Like noemail@noemail.com
Have fun. Make it up.
If it gets you to the next page - heck - go for it!
2 - FREE Verification email accounts - create 'em - forget 'em
Some web sites require an email account to be verified.
They will send an email to that email account, and you need
to read the email and respond by proving you are a live person.
Free accounts are things like:
yahoo, hotmail, and gmail (others exist of course).
Use these accounts when you don't really care if your email
is lost - or if the account becomes a target of spammers.
Do not post personal information.
Here is an example: funnyemail@hotmail.com
Greenville, SC 29615 phone: 864-111-1111 Birth: Jan 1, 1910
3 - Serious email account - for banking, friends and family
This is the email account to be coveted. Only give it out
to people you trust. And never enter your password on a web site.
- IMPORTANT: Do not trust links or favourites to get to a web site.
Instead - type it yourself. And test it using your email
AND a phony password. If it lets you go to the next page,
then the web site has been phished (faked out).
There are programs that help move spam to spam folders.
ie Norton Anti-spam, Earthlink verification, Mcafee Anti-spam.
Even programs to "pre wash" your email - ie Mailwasher.
But because spammers are targeting ALL email (1,1,1,1 thru 256,256,256,256)
you will always receive spam. Sorry!
The advice above helps limit spam.
Oh, and if you want to INCREASE the spam emails that you get:
- post your email address on as many web sites as you can
- post your email address in FORUMS and Message Boards
- don't forget Newsgroups
- forward emails to all your friends, include your email address
- do not use "BCC" (blind carbon copy) - never hide your email address
- sign up for newsletters, especially those that highlight distribution lists
(the exception is my newsletter, of course ;-)
- register your "good" email address on manufacturer's web sites,
photo web sites (try snapfish - it SEEMS to sell your email address)
- open any email address TO YOU FROM YOU (spammers insert your email
into the FROM container - but you may not remember what you sent yourself!)
