Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

This is interesting: Twitter stores all tweets. All of them. All the mindless drivel, the babble, the sponsored tweets, the quotations and witty sayings, the urls, the photos, the personal data. Forever, apparently. Or maybe just for two weeks. Who can know? The New York Times paints it as a good thing (“historical”), but I [...]

It’s very risky to click on links, any links, be it in emails, in social networking sites, etc. A recent study said that there has been a 233% increase of malicious sites on the Internet, almost all propagating through social networking and emails. Yikes. Twitter is especially susceptible to malicious clicking. Because urls are shortened [...]

Oooo would I just LOVE to win a MacBook. I’ve been on the prowl for various giveaways lately. And here’s one that practically dropped into my lap this morning: the Netfirms contest that’s got an iPod Touch and a MacBook as prizes, up to $1800 in value! In a nutshell, here’s how to enter the [...]

I admit, as much as I like to participate in various social networking and tinker with technology gadgets, I’m usually pretty slow when it comes to joining them. I’m cautious, and I don’t like starting something that I am not sure I will be able to follow through. So when it came to the wildly [...]

If you use Twitter and Microsoft Outlook, you may be interested in this small software program: Twinbox. It allows Outlook users to monitor Twitter communications. If you are a Microsoft ® Outlook user, you probably have it open all the time. Now you can have a fully-featured, powerful Twitter client at your fingertips without having [...]