http://www.michaellawson.com Michael Lawson's thoughts on todays technology and life in general! Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:45:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The other week I saw someone twittering about a friend having their Identity stolen on Facebook.  If you get a chat request from one of your Facebook friends that is requesting money sent to the UK or anywhere else for that matter, contact your friend immediately and have them let  facebook ... http://www.michaellawson.com/?p=233 This is my second post on the exciting weekend I had at Podcamp in Boston #pcb4.  I was lucky enough to be invited to this event by a friend and had a great time.  Since then I have read a few posts that mentioned that the feel from the last ... http://www.michaellawson.com/?p=225 Boston Podcamp #pcb4   Here in the northeast it has seemed like we haven’t had a summer yet so this is probably as close as it gets.  Podcamp this year focused on the use of social media and how it was being used.  Being focused on the business aspects, I learned a ... http://www.michaellawson.com/?p=218 After ordering the myvu glasses a couple of weeks ago, I thought it would be nice to see how they worked with a portable media player.  Since we had an Apple ITouch, I figured I would try out the Microsoft Zune for a change.  Over the last few months I ... http://www.michaellawson.com/?p=213 While I have been playing with Twitter for awhile for broadcasting and following interesting topics, the other day it came in useful for another reason.  One of the few things that is hard to do without nowadays is email, and mine had stopped working.  This has happened in the past ... http://www.michaellawson.com/?p=207 I don't know why I bought these, other than I thought they would be neat to try. I bought them for over 30% off at http://www.woot.com,  which is one of those daily discount sites.  These are the ones that work right out of the box with the Microsoft Zune and ... http://www.michaellawson.com/?p=170 Conficker worm is set to go off tomorrow in one of the largest Internet attacks in awhile. If you can't get to certain web sites you may be one of the millions infected. This article is one of the more detailed articles on how to remove it from your computer ... http://www.michaellawson.com/?p=141 Recently I picked up an older model Acer Aspire One Netbook. While I wouldn't recommend this as your main laptop computer it is great for taking on the road weighing less than 3lbs.  Since this was a close out model with a slow Solid State Drive and an 8.9" screen, ... http://www.michaellawson.com/?p=123 Lately it seems that the virus and malware war is escalating, but before I go any further I would like to recommend a product from http://www.malwarebytes.org/ just called Anti-Malware.  The free version's only limit is that it doesn't run in the background you have to run it manually.  This is a great ... http://www.michaellawson.com/?p=113 Since I started blogging again and joined facebook I figured I would try Twitter.  Well normally it should be a breeze to setup, but of course the day I signed up the site was having issues.  First small annoyance is that I couldn't upload an image, but the bigger issue ... http://www.michaellawson.com/?p=99