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Sally Whittle Downloading online - how paranoid are you?

Part of my day job is writing about the IT industry, and I was interested to see this story cross my desk this weekend.



Basically, security experts have uncovered yet another hoax that offers parents the opportunity to download the latest big movies for 'free' just by clicking on a link, or filling in a survey. There have been a rash of similar emails promising… Continue

Added by Sally Whittle on July 28, 2010 at 2:51pm — No Comments

Sally Whittle Six of the Best - Blogging Round Up Week 3

One of my favourite bloggers of recent years, Katie Lee, has been interviewed this week on Nixd Minx. I urge you to check it out and spend some time exploring Dork Adore, a brilliant site about technology, written from a female perspective.



If you've ever had iPhone envy, check out this post from Amy at And One More… Continue

Added by Sally Whittle on July 23, 2010 at 3:01am — 1 Comment

Sally Whittle Six of the Best - Blogging Round Up Week 2

It's been a busy week for parent bloggers, with some great advice from techical whizzes and business gurus. First off the blocks is Business Plus Baby, where you can download a great e-book for free, outlining what you need to have in place to start and run your own business, including some great computing tips. The site also provides some tips on marketing in this post, which asks… Continue

Added by Sally Whittle on July 16, 2010 at 4:06am — 2 Comments

Sally Whittle Six of the Best - Blogging Round Up

It’s been a busy week in the blogging community, with lots of amazing posts – here are some of our favourites that you might have missed.



Of course, the big story this week was CyberMummy, the UK’s first ever conference for parent bloggers, which took place in London last weekend. If you weren’t able to make it, then check out this post from Susanna Scott, mastermind behind the event, and the… Continue

Added by Sally Whittle on July 9, 2010 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Sally Whittle My computer scares me...

I recently bought a new PC. This involves change – and I’m not good at change at the best of times.



But perhaps the most sinister change is that my computer now appears to be trying to push me into a constant state of terror.



I turn on my computer and something pops up to tell me I must immediately update my protection. Okay. But once that’s done, I still have an icon in the corner of the screen which (if I hover over it) says “Important updates are available”. What, more of… Continue

Added by Sally Whittle on July 7, 2010 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Sally Whittle What can you do about online bullying?

I’ve been blogging now for more than six years and during that time, I think I’ve seen examples of just about every kind of online behaviour.



Unfortunately, this means I’ve seen my share of bullying, too. I know that bullying can happen to anyone, of any age – and I’m already thinking about how to educate and protect my daughter in case it happens to her.



Bullying isn’t just someone disagreeing with you, or not liking you – that’s just part and parcel of life.… Continue

Added by Sally Whittle on July 1, 2010 at 2:30pm — 4 Comments

Carol Smith Guest Post by Matt Hicks

Hi Matt kindly wrote a guest post for me on How To Avoid Online Ticket Fraud, you can find the post on New Mummy's Tips and For Those About To Rock.

Added by Carol Smith on June 29, 2010 at 7:10am — No Comments

Sally Whittle Online buying and selling

They say the world is split into people who are naturally optimistic and people who are naturally pessimistic.



I’m definitely the former. As a philosophy, I would much rather think the best of…

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Added by Sally Whittle on June 24, 2010 at 3:01am — 4 Comments

Sally Whittle How old were your children when they first used a computer?

Recent research suggests that introducing primary school and pre-school children to computers could damage their long-term brain development. Some psychologists believe that computers can damage the concentration and learning skills of young children.



Of course, there was almost certainly some research last week suggesting the polar opposite, but it did make me wonder about when is the right age to introduce children to computers.



My daughter is four and still doesn’t have… Continue

Added by Sally Whittle on June 16, 2010 at 4:09am — 2 Comments

Sally Whittle Have you ever replied to spam?



I obviously live quite a tragic life, since I always get a bit excited by new email.



But at least 20 times a day, I'm disappointed to find my new mail ping is just telling me that my filters have failed and I've received some more spam. I tend to hit delete and not think too much about it.



I occasionally wonder to myself why spammers bother. It's not like I'm ever going to read their messages about lists of doctors or cheap… Continue

Added by Sally Whittle on June 11, 2010 at 4:23am — No Comments

Sally Whittle Do you post pictures of yourself and your kids online?

Even in a virtual world, people like to put a face to a name. Apparently, if you’re on a micro-blogging site and use a photo as your Avatar (profile pic), then more people will talk to you and follow you.



Obviously, I’m anti-social so I use a cartoon as my avatar, but lots of other people don’t have my issues and happily stick photos of their smiling faces on a website. And…
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Added by Sally Whittle on May 25, 2010 at 9:00am — 1 Comment

Sally Whittle The Day My Blog Was Hacked.

It started, as these things so often do, with web content of dubious taste.



I logged onto my blog and the “loading” bar at the bottom of the page showed my browser was trying to pull in content from an Eastern European adult web site.



Slight panic.



I managed to log into the management console, and I couldn’t post new content. When I tried to add tags, the page disappeared. Nothing worked.



Okay, major panic.



My self-hosted Wordpress site had been… Continue

Added by Sally Whittle on May 20, 2010 at 2:07am — 2 Comments

Matt Hicks It's the Wednesday workshop!

Hi everyone,

Don't forget that every Wednesday we're encourgaing you guys to post any questions you might have about staying safe online, and we'll get our technical experts to provide the answers.

So don't be shy - let us know what online safety issues you'd like answers to by posting in this thread.

Best,

Matt

Added by Matt Hicks on May 12, 2010 at 4:32am — 5 Comments

Matt Hicks Help us test our new free antispam product for blogging!

Hi everyone,

As a way to celebrate the launch of Safer Surfing, we’re offering you guys to be amongst the very first in the UK to test run BitDefender’s new antispam program for Wordpress bloggers.



We want to know your opinions on how it works for you, what’s good and whether there’s anything we need to improve.



The program can be downloaded via this link:…

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Added by Matt Hicks on May 11, 2010 at 6:26am — 16 Comments

Sally Whittle Welcome to Safer Surfing

One of my all-time favourite technology stories is about the television researchers who bought a regular family computer and connected it to the Internet. They didn’t take any security precautions, and waited to see what would happen.



Within seconds, the machine was under attack. On average, the PC was hit with a new virus, worm or malicious download every 15 minutes, day and night, for a month. Had this been a real computer, hackers would have been able to redirect the user’s web… Continue

Added by Sally Whittle on May 11, 2010 at 6:26am — No Comments

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