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How To Protect Your Website Security Against Brute Force Attacks

April 15, 2013 — Leave a comment

What would you do if your website was hacked and infected with malicious software, or worse yet, destroyed all together? Score of websites are currently undergoing brute force attacks on their security. You’re even more susceptible if you’re using WordPress or Joomla because those sites are being targeted due to their popularity.

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If you’ve never taken the time to install security precautions, there’s no better time than now. I spent my Saturday morning reading bout and making various security upgrades with the help of the crew over at wpbeginner.com.

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Encrypt Your Info on Public WiFi Networks: Deter Hackers

December 20, 2012 — Leave a comment

Do you connect your phone, laptop, or tablet to a public WiFi network? Would you have a problem with someone watching everything you did on your device over your shoulder? This is just the sort of thing a hacker can do when you are connected to a public network.

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More and more places are offering free WiFi. Most airports, hotels, restaurants, and coffee shops have free WiFi. Even retail stores are getting in on this because they know you may want to research a product online while you are in the store. It’s a low cost way to attract your business and people are beginning to expect more places to have a WiFi connection.

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Cheaply Tether Your Laptop To Your Phone – tether.com

November 28, 2012 — 2 Comments

How would you like to be able to tether your laptop to your smartphone and avoid the ridiculously expensive monthly tethering data plans charged by your cell phone carrier? Now you can.

Tether.com uses HTML5 to create a connection on your phone that supplies Internet availability to your laptop (tethering). This is great for situations where you don’t have a WiFi connection or when the rates are outrageous. When I am attending a convention with my company, many exhibit halls charge as much as $99 per DAY! With Tether.com, you can connect for $29.95 a YEAR. That’s a savings of about a billion dollars or something (I didn’t actually do the math right there).

Registration is amazingly simple. A free 14 day trial is included. Cancel during this period and your credit card won’t be charged. With the growing availability of free WiFi Continue Reading…

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How To Stay on Task (And Off Pinterest!)

August 15, 2012 — Leave a comment

Has the situation below ever happened to you? You have the best of intentions, but you decide to check Facebook “real quick”. Or maybe just take a peek at Pinterest? It only takes a second, right?

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Believe me, I know the feeling. Regular breaks can be a good thing, but you have to stay in control of those breaks. There are numerous methods for this such as the Pomodoro Technique, or simply setting a timer to reminder yourself to step away for a few minutes. A business coach I once worked with suggested taking a five minute break every ninety minutes. I find this keeps me refreshed, but also gives me something to look forward too without too much of a wait.
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Evernote To Organize Your Life

July 9, 2012 — Leave a comment

How many projects are you working on? How many others would you like to work on “if I only had the time”. You probably had three, four, five, maybe even 20 things just run through your head. Now, where do you keep all of those organize and what is your strategy for making any of them happen?

I have become an avid user of Evernote for organizing not only my projects, but also my writing, and my document storage. Evernote can be used to organize just about anything you can image. I use if for the multitude of projects I work on, but I will eventually be adding things such as keeping track of (and storing) all of my documents such as health records, business receipts, and tons of other things that I am now keeping in file folders in a drawer.

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It’s Not Your Parent’s Browser: Rockmelt

July 2, 2012 — Leave a comment

When you’re surfing the web, do you find that you always have a tab open for Facebook? What about Twitter? And are you one of those people that hasn’t adopted RSS feeds for all the websites you read regularly? Want to be able to see everything in one place, without needing multiple tabs or software programs open? Then I have a solution for you.

I used to keep open a tab for Facebook and a tab for Twitter. I like this because I could easily switch back and forth to check for updates. Then I discovered Rockmelt.

What Is It?

Built on Chromium, Rockmelt has all of the features of Google Chrome with few additions. Most notably is the integration of social media.

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You can post to Facebook and Twitter directly from the browser window without the need to open either one of those sites. Now only do you have your social media at your fingertips, there are numerous apps that can be added to the browser to make everything more convenient.

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Sync MOBI files to Your iPad

May 29, 2012 — Leave a comment

One of my favorite writers, bloggers, and speakers is Michael Hyatt. Last week he released his latest book, Platform, and I bought it almost instantly. I jumped on it because it was something I eventually wanted to read, but he was giving away a TON of free stuff to those who purchased by a certain date, so I went ahead and snagged my copy (great marketing job, Michael!). I should have my hard copy in my hand tomorrow.

One of the items in the long list of “freebies” was a .MOBI version of the book to load onto my Kindle. The problem is, I used the Kindle software on my iPad. I scoured the web for a way to get a book not bought on Amazon downloaded to my iPad in Kindle format. (I bought the hard copy on Amazon, but the Kindle version was downloaded from a link on MichaelHyatt.com.) Not easy. I even downloaded the go-to software for converting and transferring ebooks. Nothing. Then I stumbled on a discussion thread about transferring .MOBI files to iPad via iTunes. Still took a little doing, but now it’s amazingly easy.

To save you the trouble, here are the quick and easy instructions.

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