The 6 Biggest Facebook Scams – Techlicious

Do you use Facebook?  Of course you do.  Have you been scammed -very likely.  Were you aware of it?  Probably not.  But the downstream effects were likely felt by others in your friends list.  Check out this article by Christina DesMarais and learn NOT to click on all those enticing links that appear on your page…

‘Facebook now has a billion users, with more than half of those people signing on every month. Unfortunately, crooks and scammers are also part of the social network’s population—they figure at least a certain percentage of users will fall for their shenanigans.

According to Chester Wisniewski, senior security advisor at the security firm Sophos, the number of Facebook scams in play seems to be holding steady. And while Facebook is trying to tackle the problem, the scammers don’t give up easily when they can profit off unsuspecting people.

How do you spot a Facebook scam? Be wary of unlikely promises, Wisniewski says.

“No one is giving away an iPad to every person who fills out a survey and you aren’t likely the specially chosen winner of the Nokia, Microsoft or Coca-Cola lottery, because there isn’t one,” he says. “The best practice is to avoid clicking links on Facebook at all. It is generally safe to click links from trusted pages of companies, bands and groups you like, but avoid clicking links from your friends’ walls and chat messages.”

Here are popular Facebook scams you should watch out for.’  Read on…  The 6 Biggest Facebook Scams – Techlicious.

On line? Check this: Basic Security Online Courtesy of Google

Here it is.  The simplest possible intro to the absolute basics of online security.

If you’re looking at this -you should know this.  You should be practicing this NOW!

It’s not rocket science. It’s as old as the web, but so many don’t do it -the right way.

There’s more.  No doubt about it.  There’s stuff you need to know about the added dimension of Social Networking, keeping your identity safe on Facebook, Twitter, et al.  But this you need to get right first.  I’ve written about this a lot on this blog, and so have many others, but in my day-to-day activities I still see so many who do not practice safe computing.  Read, learn and start doing what you see on this video and the odds against being compromised in your online activities will be lessened -heaps!

2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 6,000 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 5 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.

Chrome currently fastest browser, according to benchmark – Neowin.net

Interested in browser speed?  Check out this from Neowin.net –but read the whole article and note that the Fox still has the top spot for daily use and popularity.  There are a few gainsayers in the comments, but by and large it’s Firefox all the way in the usage stats.  Not that the Mozilla boys don’t bungle from time to time, as with the browser cache thing, but it seems to have been well sorted now.  For my part I feel their password management has faltered –it just doesn’t work the way it used to as far as I can see.  But, overall security is still hard for the others to beat –and Chrome, well I don’t think they’ve figured out how to spell the word.  But for quick browsing, as Neowin point out, well, it’s the front runner …for now.  Oh! One other thing, if your a speed freak the new version of Peackeeper gets a good press…  Read on. 

Chrome currently fastest browser, according to benchmark

John Callaham 04 December 2011 – 00:23 72 Comments Hot!

• Futuremark, the company known for its benchmarking software, has released a new version of its Peacekeeper software that’s made specifically to test the performance of web browsers. This new version has been made to use the latest HTML5 standards. The program can be used on any Internet connected device which means browsers on the PC, Mac, smartphones and tablets can be measured.

Futuremark states that since the first version of the Peacekeeper was released in March 2009, the program has tested 3140 different browser versions. While Apple’s Safari browser was the fastest when the benchmark launched, Futuremark says that Safari is now the slowest of the web browsers that are tested on the PC and Mac platform. Google’s Chrome has been the fastest web browser tested on Peacekeeper since May 2009 for the PC and Mac. However, it notes that the Opera web browser has been closing the speed gap.

The most popular web browser among those who have used Peacekeeper is Mozilla’s Firefox. Nearly 30 percent of all of the software’s benchmark results come from versions of Firefox.

In terms of their browser performance, Apple’s iPad 2 is the fastest among tablets and smartphones, according to Peacekeeper. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet is second followed by the Acer Iconia W500 in third place, Apple’s iPhone 4S in fourth place and the Samsung Galaxy S2 smartphone in fifth place.

Chrome currently fastest browser, according to benchmark – Neowin.net

‘Third Church’ China’s New Face of Christianity

China today continues to surprise.  Christianity is alive, well and thriving in the Orient today.  From the house church of the 70s and the 80s we are now seeing a new movement – young people in their 20s, urban professionals, highly trained and articulate, are turning to Christ and preaching the gospel to a new generation of Chinese people. 

While the government has made it possible for young people to achieve education and professional employment, there is a spiritual void that the new ‘status’ of the urban professional cannot fill.   Only Christ can fulfil the highest aspirations of the human heart.  Read how an encounter with the living Christ meets this need in the heart of the up and coming Chinese university trained young professional class.

Read more by clicking the link below… 

BEIJING – Christianity in China began decades ago in the countryside, but today, a dramatic shift is happening…  this is a report by George Thomas, CBN News Sr. Reporter. 

You might also like to visit The Most Important Thing in the World and read more about the transformation a personal encounter with the living Christ can make in the hearts of men and women today.