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Iphone and Facebook Scams

Image by ibeginz via Flickr OffferPal Media and SuperRewards and now Google, are powering scams with SMS-subscription offers that trick users into putting long term subscriptions on their mobile phones. Tap Defense, an iphone game created by TapJoy, contained multiple version of the SMS subscription scam. The SMS offers were being run by Offerpal. While on other platforms users are offered virtual currency in exchange for answering a quiz or some other seemingly harmless offer. Bu...

Twitter Passwords Backdoored Via Torrents

Image via CrunchBaseTwitter has just announced that the reason for the recent password shuffling comes from torrent related websites. Someone for a long period of time was “creating torrent sites that require a login and password as well as creating forums set up for torrent site usage and then selling these purportedly well-crafted sites and forums to other people innocently looking to start a download site of their very own.” Twitter goes on to say that “however, these sites came with a littl...

Google Gives You 1 gig storage for FREE!!!

You can soon upload any file type at all to Google Docs, not just the dozen or so Office formats that the service allowed as of yesterday. Video files. Images. Audio Files. Even Zip files. As long as those files are 250 MB or smaller, you're good. The new feature will roll out over the next several weeks, says Google. Like other documents in Google docs, files can be kept private, made public or shared with a few users. Google Viewer can be used to view many file types, with the notable excep...

Windows 7 into GodMode

Image via CrunchBase” God Mode ” allows you to do is change every setting and administrative option in Windows 7. So at least you get “Godly” powers over your Windows 7 machine. All you have to do is the following: 1. Create a new folder on your desktop or anywhere ( right click on a blank space – new folder ) 2. Then rename it to the following ” GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} ” The folder icon will then automatically change itself to the control panel icon ...

New Twitter Scam Spams Your Followers

Image via WikipediaA new worm that promises the gift of more followers is spreading quickly on Twitter. Unfortunately, the only thing that the sites involved seem to do is use your account to spam your followers. One of the sites involved asks for your Twitter (Twitter) username and password and appears to be associated with the Twitter account @GetFreeFollowers, which has been suspended by Twitter. Another that I came across may be far more damaging, as it appears to be spreading malware thr...

Cheap battery backup for iPhone/iPod that works!

I got this for Christmas and its awesome. Check out the video and you can grab one at most electronics stores for less than $20. Share any great Christmas gadgets you got here as well.

More Free Xmas Music

Get a FREE Download of BLONDIE performing the holiday classic, "We Three Kings" at www.blondie.net and look for a NEW album from Blondie in 2010! http://www.blondie.net

Apple busts 1000+ Iphone Apps

Image via CrunchBase 1,000 iPhone  applications are gone from the App store  amid allegations that the developer behind them planted positive reviews about its products. Molinker is the company is responsible for a vast number of applications which are mostly .99  many of them travel guides receiving rave reviews from users while being very poorly written. The authenticity of those reviews surfaced this weekend, when British blogger Glyn Evans of iphoneography wrote about the...

Your Personal Info Not Safe on Yahoo

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Looks like the govt can get anything on your yahoo account they want. "Yahoo charges the government about $30 to $40 for the contents and e-mail of a subscriber’s account. Yahoo charges $40 to $80 for group contents." http://digg.com/d31C2QY Related articles by Zemanta Yahoo! Extends Facebook Integration (sociableblog.com) Yahoo Launches New Privacy Tool (techdailydose.nationaljournal.com)

Do Not Call 6314032022

Image by KB35 via Flickr The latest holiday scam is the facebook spam going around to call this number for a $250 Best buy gift card. DO NOT CALL You call this number after getting the suspicious text or message and you hear this ramble about how to entertain an idiot. It registers your phone number for a pay per month service that sends you one (1) text per month with the same message you originally recieved and unless you request to be taken off the list or have it removed by your car...