IRS scam now world's biggest e-mail virus problem

If you get one of these e-mails from the IRS with a subject of "Notice of Underreported Income," or something to that effect, be aware it is a scam. If you are lucky, it will show up in your Spam or Junk folder. This article, from computerworld.com is worth reading.

Note the sentence in the article that includes "and they encourage victims to either install the Trojan attachment or click on a Web link in order to view their "tax statement." In fact, that link takes the victim to a malicious Web site." You can read the article here:

IRS Scam e-mail

Protect Your Privacy on Facebook and Twitter

If you are a Facebook or Twitter user, this PCWorld article is must reading.

http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,172604/printable.html

New Blog Site

It is very nice not to have to worry about issues with blogging software. Thank you Google! I was using a free program called Wordpress, but for all that I wanted and needed, it was overkill, and the release I had installed (I had to install it on the servers at my hosting company) very soon was out of date. I didn't need all that, so here I am. It took me about 15 minutes to migrate all of my posts from the old site to Google. Very nice indeed.

Thanks for looking and I hope you will bookmark this site and visit often.

Tom

Picasa 3.5, now with name tags and more

I know that many of you use Picasa to manage and edit your photos. It's a heck of a lot cheaper than Adobe Photoshop Elements for sure (at $0), and it comes from a good home (Google).

I was just reading in Google's official blog (I never knew they had one) that there is a new release of Picasa with some nice new features.

Here is a link to the Picasa Announcement

Also, here is a link to the official Google Blog, worth bookmarking IMHO.

Official Google Blog

Google’s CHROME Disappoints - Again

I just posted this in a Google Chrome help blog:

I just downloaded and installed the latest Chrome version, 3.0.195.21.

I had tried Chrome a year or so ago and uninstalled it immediately when I realized I could not display my bookmarks in the same manner as Firefox, IE, and virtually any other browser does, meaning down the left hand side of my display. 

I find it hard to believe that Google has not responded to the public outcry to add this simple "feature".

I am now going to uninstall Chrome again, and maybe I'll try again in a year or so to see if Google has finally seen the light.