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How To Avoid Common Home Business Mistakes

If you are thinking about starting a home-based business, there are a few things that you may want to think about as you decide what kind of business you want to have and how you will run that business out of your home. Thinking through these topics can help you in the long run by steering you clear of some common mistakes that home-based professionals make. The first thing that you should do in order to avoid making major mistakes along the way to becoming a home-based professional is to make a business plan. By making a business plan, you … Continue reading →

Blogging Your Health: Pros and Cons

The other day, I was thinking long and hard about blogging your health: what to say, how much detail to give, who gets to read your posts. It’s a tricky issue, to say the least. Let’s look at some positives and negatives. The advantages of blogging your health can include: Ease. Make one post/update to your social networking site of choice and all your friends get the news at the same time. It’s quick and easy — and that’s good at a time when you may not have a lot of time and energy to devote to keeping everybody updated. … Continue reading →

Blogging Your Health

We live in an age of information. Sometimes, it seems harder to disconnect from phones, email, and computers than it is to stay connected! So how much (or how little) personal information and experience do you put out there? Social networking sites have made it possible for anyone and everyone to find an audience of friends, family, coworkers, and even relative strangers. Again, the question of how much do you (or don’t you) say about your everyday life is important. This sort of thing is on my mind lately in regards to health. Do you talk about your health or … Continue reading →

Protect Your Kids! Cell Phones and Predators

Cell phones provide an easy path to your child from sexual predators. You should know how to protect them. Most parents know all about children, sexual predators and the Internet. We protect our children by installing firewalls and monitoring software and blocking software. We keep the computer in a communal area of the house and watch our kids when they are online. We think that we have done everything we can to create a wall between predators and our kids. But one think we fail to do, by the thousands, is to protect them from predators getting in through their … Continue reading →

Santa Talks Dirty, and Other Computing News for December 6th

In the headlines: Microsoft Santa Talks Dirty, New Intel Processors are Coming, and Facebook apologizes. Facebook Apologizes Facebook is in the news again regarding its controversial “social add” policy. You may remember from an earlier blog that Facebook implemented a new system that automatically tracked users interests and purchases and sent out ads to everyone in their list. Critics of the new system said that it violates users privacy and was implemented on the sly. Wednesday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg issued a small apology and talked about changed that are being made to the ad system, known as Beacon. “We’ve made … Continue reading →

Virtual Gifts Is a Million Dollar Industry

When your holiday shopping, have you ever considered a virtual gifts? These items can’t be held, touched, smelled, although they can be posted on web pages, such as Facebook or used in virtual worlds, such as Second Life. The only thing real about these virtual presents is the fact that they cost actual money. And despite the idea of paying something for nothing, virtual gifts are a hot commodity. Users are shelling out millions of dollars for the privilege of giving virtual gifts. People are becoming more open to buying things that don’t really exist. On Facebook, for example, virtual … Continue reading →

Computing Review: November 5th Through November 11th

Have you heard of GodTube or Conservapedia? These are Christian-theme websites that are quickly gaining in popularity. You’ll want to check out the article that tells you all about them. Also, we are gearing up here for the holidays. I can’t wait to offer you information and links to all of the great holiday stuff online. For now, we will just have to start with Thanksgiving. You can see what goodies are available to decorate your desktop. And now, here is the Computing Blog week in review for November 5th Through November 11th November 5th Computing Review: October 22nd Through … Continue reading →

Facebook: Social Ads and Privacy Issues

I may be one of the few people around today under age 60 who is not on Facebook. Many of my friends are on it. And there are even some people from my past. How do I know? I can look them up, even though I am not registered to the site. Of course, I can’t get any real information about them until I sign up and request their friendship. Recent news about this popular website, however, still doesn’t have me convinced I should join. Am I wrong? “Social” Ads Facebook announced, although very quietly, I’m guess so as not … Continue reading →