Internet Word of The Day

Mososo is a mobile app that supports a social network. According to Wikipedia, “It enables users to find one another, in a particular vicinity and time, for social or business networking.” This word has been around along time, you just never hear it applied. I guess the iPhone’s “There’s An App For That” campaign has clearly blown this jargon out of the water.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mososo

Lost In The Shuffle, A Social Networking Site

My Year Book was was launched in 2005 and the site’s population has grown slowly. The site reminds me of MySpace two years ago. The main focus of the site is to connect people and gaming is large focus. If you like playing games, then you may like this site. As always, we suggest you adhere to site safety standards and be safe online.

http://www.myyearbook.com/

Getting Back Deleted iTunes

If you lose all your music off your iPod, what are you supposed to do?
1) Reload your songs from iTunes from the machine you downloaded them on
2) If you used Wifi, then the sync feature you should see a list of what you bought and restore this way
3) If you didn’t sync-up you most likely lost your songs and have to buy them again. In the future if you can get a service like Mozy or MobileMe to back-up you files so it doesn’t happen again

First Chief Technology Office of the U.S.

Are you familiar with Aneesh Chopra? He is the first appointed Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the United States and his vision is coming to life. Since appointed earlier last year, Chopra is funding ideas like iphone apps to teach kids math and technology to improve infrastructure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneesh_Chopra

Simple Ways to Protect Your Computer

Sheryl Harris from the Plain Dealer wrote a great article a few months back about simple ways to protect your computer. Below is quick synopisis plus few extra I added. The holidays came and now you have that new computer, but have you thought about protecting it?

5 Tips To Protect Your Computer
1) Enable your firewall
2) Download a safe browser like Mozilla
3) Enable anti-phishing projection on your browser
4) Get anti-virus software – staysafeonline.org/content/free-security-checkups
5) Install updates

http://www.onguardonline.gov