Looks like there is a new scam out there.

Just got this email.  Or is this real???????

Hello,

I wish to inform you that the long awaited “MOU” between The British High commission and the African Union has been endorsed for a scheduled compensation of scam victims. Your email was listed as a beneficiary in the 2010 compensation scheme.

You are hereby requested to file for compensation if you have been a  victim of internet fraud/scam.

NOTE: All applications “MUST” be submitted on or before 10-02-2010 for on-ward review, prior to acceptance and payment.

Tony Gaunther

Allied Trust INC.

Guess What I am getting???

Some tutorials for Wave

Originally posted at 73 Wire Business and Technology

I have some basic tutorial videos for some of the applications for Google Wave. These are basic videos on how to change your name and avatar, adding a youtube video, and adding a website using the iframe gadget. I could do a whole week or more of the uses for Google Wave, but I thought that I should do some basics for people just getting started on Google Wave.

I would advise you to maximize the videos to view them

First to change your name and avatar
you go to the top of the Contacts box and click on your name:

and your profile box willl come up:

Now I will show you on the video how to go from here:

Click on pic for video

Now how to add a youtube video to Wave:

Click on pic for video

Adding a Website to Wave:
You use the iframe gadget that you can find here
along with many other gadgets, bots and extensions.

Click the pic for video

This will probably the first installment as I play around more with Google Wave. This is just the basics, along with the post I did before on Google Wave and collaboration and Brain Storming.

Google wave

originally posted at 73 Wire Business and Technology

OK now that I have been playing around with Google wave for a while now, I will give my thoughts on it.

Google WAve looks to be a very useful tool for collaborating and Brain storming

Collaboration: Google Wave can be used much easier than regular email. You can have everyone on the same wave and interact in real time, instead of waiting to receive an email. With Gmail or any other email system you have to wait until the email is received in your inbox, but with Wave you can see the others typing in the wave. This makes Collaboration very easy and very fast. Also another great tool or extension for collaboration is the iframe extension. With this you can add a google docs page into the wave and have everyone edit it in real time, instead of sending it back and forth over email

Clicl here for the video showing it in work

You can also use the iframe extension for embedding any website, such as Google.com, a blog or a news site. http://wave-ide.appspot.com/iframe.xml

Brain Stormimg: Another great extension that you cna use now is the Brain Storm extension. This is good way to collect people’s thoughts on a project: http://www.madin.jp/gadget/index.xml

click here for the video

There are a whole lot of ways you can use Google wave in a collaborative blogging situation, news site situation, educational situation and many more uses.

There are some downfalls as of right now. It is slow at times since it is on a server used by google for everyone. In the future you will be able to host it on your own cloud. There are still some bugs in the system also. Sometimes you can not see if someone is online or not. And the invite only it is hard to get everyone you want on it.

But in all I think it will be a very useful tool for collaboration. education and various other situations in the future.

I will keep on playing around with it some more and probably have some more reviews later on.

Adult Apps

Originally posted at 73 Wire Business and Technology

One reason to get a Android phone now is the ability to get adult applications. No I am not kidding, MiKandy is going to be the Adult App store for anyone using an Android phone.

via Mashable

Family Guy and Windows 7

originally posted at 73 Wire Business and Technology

Earlier this year, Microsoft was going to use the cartoon Family Guy to help advertise their new Windows 7 operating system. They eventually backed out and did not air on TV the advertising, but they have put the ads on their Youtube Channel.
Here they are in all their glory:

Now I can see why they pulled the plug on these. I like Family Guy, but do nto think that advertising on their cartoons would be an advantage or even really worth it. Family Guy is better for spoofing companies than actually advertising for them.

Wahat do you think about them????

via Mashable

Internet Explorer Exploit

Originally posted at 73 Wire Business and Technology

Well, another day and another exploit on Internet Explorer. IF you have an older version of Internet Explorer, you need to update it now. And only go to reputable websites.

A new exploit targeting Internet Explorer was published to the BugTraq mailing list yesterday. Symantec has conducted further tests and confirmed that it affects Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7 as well. The exploit currently exhibits signs of poor reliability, but we expect that a fully-functional reliable exploit will be available in the near future. When this happens, attackers will have the ability to insert the exploit into Web sites, infecting potential visitors. For an attacker to launch a successful attack, they must lure victims to their malicious Web page or a Web site they have compromised. In both cases, the attack requires JavaScript to exploit Internet Explorer.

The exploit targets a vulnerability in the way Internet Explorer uses cascading style sheet (CSS) information. CSS is used in many Web pages to define the presentation of the sites’ content. Symantec currently detects the exploit with the Bloodhound.Exploit.129 antivirus signature and is working on new signatures now. Symantec IPS protection also currently detects this exploit with signatures HTTP Microsoft IE Generic Heap Spray BO and HTTP Malicious Javascript Heap Spray BO. A new IPS signature, HTTP IE Style Heap Spray BO, has also been created for this specific exploit. To minimize the chances of being affected by this issue, Internet Explorer users should ensure their antivirus definitions are up to date, disable JavaScript and only visit Web sites they trust until fixes are available from Microsoft. (Symantec)

Or change your web browser to FireFox, Opera, Chrome or many others that are safer than IE Explorer.

via Slashdot

Youtube Movies

Originally posted at 73 Wire Business and Technology

Most people think that only music videos and silly videos are on Youtube. But you can watch full feature movies on Youtube, just like HULU.

Fistful of Dollars:

Animal Farm:

There are many more to find. You can check out the listing here.

Conservative News Hub

Check out the new Digg like site for conservatives.   It looks pretty cool.

Here is what it is all about

About Conservative News Hub:

Conservative News Hub was formed to provide conservatives and those who want to know more about conservatives with a source for the best news, commentary, and discussion on conservative issues that the Internet has to offer. Conservative News Hub is a “social media” website which means that it lives and breathes based on the input of conservatives such as yourself. Our stories come from people like yourself who submit, comment, and vote on each submission to determine which stories are truly noteworthy of our readers.

We take great pride in managing this site and making it a pure resource for conservatives. The stories that you find here should deepen your knowledge of the current political landscape from local politics to federal politics and throughout worldwide politics and the true conservative argument.

Instant Messenger

I am testing out a IM gadget for the blog .  Check it out her and  on the sidebar.  Click on the button and it opens up the IM client.

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