TurnTable dot FM is the new Pandora!

 

Turntable is my new favorite startup currently, in Private Beat right now but if you have a facebook friend that is already a member, then your in!!!

Come Check it out and hang out in the Dallas Beats room

http://turntable.fm/Dallas_Beats

 

QuiBids – Just me, or a Big scam?

 

 

Is it just me, or does anyone else think this site is a Huge scam?  The way I rate websites being a scam is when I’m at my parents house and they think they have found a great deal.  If you havent heard of them yet, it’s a penny auction site that lets you bid on items a penny each time.  Except for every penny you bid, really cost you 60 cents and after every bid, the auction time goes back up.  So for every object sold, like a Samsung 55 HDTV maybe worth $2500 sold for 87.50 to the bidder that won.  Now, calculate that out, $87.50 is eight thousand seven hundred fifty bids at 60 cents a bid.  That’s $5250 they have made for the price of a $2500 3D HDTV.  Plus the $87.50 that the winner has to pay on top of that, and lets face, they probably got that TV for way under list price, like maybe $1200.  Now it’s officially legit to do all this, but the way they advertise the site is buy stuff here for 90% off.  Thats after you have wasted a LOT of other money on auctions you didnt win.

My Advice, Stay away, stay FAR AWAY!!!

QuiBids – Frequently Asked Questions – New to QuiBids?.

We All Suck at Passwords Giz Tells you how dumb you are

 

People, you got to get better at creating passwords…  These numbers just posted on Gizmodo are Staggering to me.  The worst is seeing the number of people who had the same password on Sony’s Site as the passwords that got released by Gawker!  That means, even after receiving an email from them, people STILL did not change their password on other sites…  That is just asking for someone to steal you life and turn yours into a living hell.

 

 

Of the 37,608 released passwords, only 4% had three or more character types, with half made up of just one character type. Of that half, 90% used all lowercase. Less than 1% of all users used even a single a non-alphanumeric character. Among the accounts that made appearances in both Sony directories, 92%!! reused their password. And to hammer home the point, Hunt makes a callback to Gawker’s brush with the Hacker Kingdom to report that a full 67% of shared users used an identical password in the Gawker and Sony systems.

via We All Suck at Passwords – Gizmodo.

Gmail Hacked, Friends Email hacked, time to get secure

 

I Love Gmail…  LOVE Gmail. I use it everyday!!

I have it, lots of friends have it, and even my parents.  When my parents use a service, I can guarantee you its ease of use.  Anyway, it’s all being HACKED!!..  Gmail, hotmail, yahoo, all of them.  Lot’s of Viagra Pushers out there, and they want you to buy!

So why Care?  Well, your main email gets hacked, well, you’re pretty screwed and pretty fast will things get out of hand.  Let’s take me for example.  Get into my main email, you can do a search for all kinds of websites including Bank sites and see what I registered with, just search for “thank you for registering” ALL KINDS of emails will come up.  Then they know all kinds of sites your email and password will work on.  If you remember when Gawker got their servers hacked a while back, I was one of the accounts that got hacked.  It was one of my less secure passwords but hacked none-the-less.  How did I know?  The night it happened, I was already twittering about buying acai berry supplements to my friends.  I just figured my twitter account was hacked and didn’t know about Gawker at all yet.  It was almost impossible to remember where all I have used that email and password combo.  Turns out, a LOT OF SITES.  Especially stuff you can’t remember, like that time you were wasted in college and registered at papajohns.com to order a pizza because you lost your phone at the bar.  You’re credit card is tied to ALL kind of sites you don’t remember. 

So what do you do?  Secure that shit up!!!  Yes, I cursed to get your attention!  You need a separate password for your email then any other site.  No, you can’t use you cats/dogs name and whatever you use, you need to symbol that up!!  Example.  you were born in September, and you want that as your pass, that’s fine, but now you need to symbol and number that.  Let’s do September and Me, easy to remember, but now with symbols and number and capitols looks like this S3pt3mB3r@M3!    After that, you read this article and set up two factor authentication!

Ensuring your information is safe online 6/01/2011 12:42:00 PM The Internet has been an amazing force for good in the world—opening up communications, boosting economic growth and promoting free expression. But like all technologies, it can also be used for bad things. Today, despite the efforts of Internet companies and the security community, identity theft, fraud and the hijacking of people’s email accounts are common problems online.

via Official Google Blog: Ensuring your information is safe online.

Safely Unscrew a Broken Lightbulb with a Bar of Soap

 

 

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Safely Unscrew a Broken Lightbulb with a Bar of Soap

 

Adam Dachis — Your everyday bar of soap can be used for a lot more than you’d think. Aside from keeping you clean, home and garden blog Gomestic suggests it’s a great way to safely remove a broken lightbulb.

via Safely Unscrew a Broken Lightbulb with a Bar of Soap.

A look at a Super Rich Future!

Interesting Video of different types of reflective glass.

Take a note from me, you want to buy NoteSlate

If you are like me when it comes to desk clutter, then this is a must buy coming in June.  My desk has a million sticky notes, paper I stole from the printer, and notepad sheets galore all over of just various things that I write down, not really that I need to reference it, but writing will make it stick in your head.  This sweet little INEXPENSIVE device will be your saving grace.  Whether or not you need the notes you write down or not, you can now store millions of them and clean up that messy desk.  The NoteSlate is set to release in June and is very inexpensive starting at 99 dollars for the first released basic models.

NoteSlate /// intuitively simple monochrome paper alike tablet device.

Alien Space Craft Caught on Tape in Dallas TX SnowStorm

This is Video of a Alien Space Ship caught on tape trying to use the cover of the recent Dallas snowstorm to come and abduct as many Dallas residents it can.  This is DEFINITELY a UFO and not at all a crane that is building the new Perot science and nature center…  It’s a UFO

YouTube – Alien Ship in Dallas during SnowStorm.

Reviving New York’s rivers — with oysters! | Video on TED.com

I Love my TED Talks iPad app, Top 5 favorites.  You can jump on browse through the hundreds of TED presenters recorded and posted free on the web.  Over the weekend I read about Kate Orff.  Kate is trying to revive New York’s polluted rivers with the use of Oyster’s.  Quite an interesting talk and very informative about oysters and the role they play in cleaning polluted waters.  The Video is short and I invite anyone with an extra 12min to check it out.

To learn more about Kate and what she is doing click here

Reviving New York’s rivers — with oysters! | Video on TED.com.

More Free Energy?

A Shocking New Pump

NASA engineers are well known for their skills overcoming obstacles encountered when designing space missions; but they are also able to provide solutions for more down-to-earth problems. Just ask Hydro Dynamics, Inc., of Rome, Georgia, which benefited from the helping hand Marshall Space Flight Center was able to provide.

Hydro Dynamics’ patented device, the Hydrosonic Pump,^TM (HPump) kept running into problems with the bearings needed to operate a rotor inside the device. In search of an answer for how to fix the problem and make the device marketable, Hydro Dynamics turned to Marshall. Through a Technology Transfer Agreement, Marshall scientists and engineers were able to examine and analyze the problem and provide some solutions for the company.

A Shocking New Pump.

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