The SilverMarc Quasi-Periodical Send-Sheet

SilverMarc Send-SheetYou have so little time to read… I have so little time to write!

The SilverMarc Quasi-Periodical “Send-Sheet” is sent from time to time to our colleagues and clients. It is purposely kept short and on-point to provide interesting Internet-related articles that are suited for “the rest of us!”

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Password Please

March 9, 2008

Password PleaseBetter Safe Than Sorry… PC Magazine reports that these are the 10 most used passwords, ranked in order: password 123456 qwerty abc123 letmein monkey myspace1 password1 blink182 (your first name) I’d bet yours isn’t on this list, but you might use a similar “weak” password – even for your most sensitive information or financial [...]

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You Are Your Data

February 4, 2008

You Are Your Data When it goes, you go… What would happen if you forgot your printout of the presentation, or the notes you planned to use for an important meeting? You’d call the office to have someone email or messenger it to you. What if you realized you left your briefcase in the cab, [...]

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The -Final- Word on Spam

January 14, 2008

The Final Word on Spam And that word is… Spam is so pervasive that this is my 3rd article about some aspect of it. And it should be my last article about spam because I’ve stopped mine. And you can stop yours. Here’s how, in one word: Gmail. Sign up for a free Gmail account [...]

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Spam-Proof Email Addresses

December 24, 2007

Spam-Proof Email Addresses Outwit the Spam Harvester Robots Automated programs scour the web looking for email addresses to “harvest” for email lists that eventually will be used to send the unsolicited emails we all know as spam. It’s simple for one of these programs to recognize an email address – if it has the “@” [...]

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You’ve Got Spam!

December 3, 2007

I’ve been approved! That mortgage I never applied for has been approved! This is one of the more family-friendly email subjects we’ve all received. If you get Spam emails regularly, you’re already familiar with the way the subjects seem to ebb and flow. This week, I started getting those cryptic emails filled with unrelated words: [...]

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Phishing for Phools

November 7, 2007

Hi there! We’re your friends at PayPal. You know it’s really us because the PayPal logo is at the top of this page, and here’s real proof – our big Verification Symbol! Something happened and we lost your access info. We need to get this info from you again or we’ll have to suspend your [...]

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Meta Tags for Search Engine Magic!

October 20, 2007

Want to get a top ranking in search engines? No problem! All you need to do is add a few magical “meta tags” to your web pages, and you’ll skyrocket to the top of the listings. If only it were so easy. Let’s make it clear: Meta tags are not a magic solution. Meta tags [...]

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