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If you came here looking for an actual article, you'll be disappointed. The title has more words than the article, or did until I wrote this sentence. This is a joke, though I wouldn't be surprised to hear this is actually hap... read more
They try hard on this one to look legitimate, but the fact remains that nobody shares their money with strangers unless it's a charity.
This notification memo has been sent to you three times without a response from y... read more
My name is doesn't matter, a portfolio manager from Stockholm, Sweden and a custodian of the Late David Holmes certificate of deposit (CD) valued fortune. here we go I sent you an initial email with... read more
Check out an IP address here: abuseipdb.com-check. Just FYI if you're not sure a visitor or emailer is legitimate.... read more
We have two children in the home schooling setting and I am preparing to purchase materials for them from this website. I mentioned this before after I watched ... read more
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This is how I sign my emails these days to gently educate whoever I happen to be emailing. Just thought I'd mention it in case you like the idea. -- BillA mask might be appropriate if you're actively snee... read more
Like, maybe you saved an email as HTML but want to remove most of the code-gobble-de-gook.
Click here: Strip Tags Tool or use the form inserted below (assuming it shows up for you).
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A global leader with a yahoo address? I don't think so. Supposedly from Kayla Smith but address is iran.retailer? And it was not sent to me but to bonabsad@yahoo.com. Starting to look like randomly-generated "AI" names, don't... read more
"UTF-8 is a variable-width encoding that can represent every character in the Unicode character set. It was designed for backward compatibility with ASCII and to avoid the complications of endianness and byte order marks in... read more
Ah, yes, the good ol' Nigerian prince (with a Hungarian email address, for some reason) scam, "just looking for somewhere to park my money!" First of all, their numbering system is messed up. File number 180 out of 86? Anyway...... read more
How did they know we sell bicycles!? It's not mentioned anywhere on the site. Sure, we can sell you a bike by creating a link to a local bike shop and let them do the rest, if you want? Anyway, here's the latest very important ra... read more
One of our favorite scams! Our comments are interspersed in brackets and look like this.From: aam726@abocol.comHello there. Let me introduce myself first - ... read more
I'm starting to think this 163.com domain is not legit!From: salesshineo@163.comDear Sir,Lucky day to you! We ARE feeling lucky now that we've received this email! We are... read more
Hi Sir ,We have been caring about your esteemed company for a long time. Awww!!! They've been 'caring about us!' Attached our star products. We sincerely hope can help with yo... read more
I am so excited! Sounds sumptuous!Received this email the other day from Iris Holets at mrtito88.yahoo.com. I'm sure that is an actual person and address. People don't lie about these things, but I'm concerned. They... read more
The tech giant continues to police discussions about the coronavirus.
Go to Facebook removes covid 19 "va... read more
Editor's note: I believe Bing.com has caught up with Google on all of these features, if you prefer Microsoft over Google...
There are two pages every one of you might consider bookmarking:Google Advanced Search: ... read more
It worked against apartheid South Africa. Let's hope it works against other tyrants, in this case tech tyrants."Take a Stand Against Big Tech: Facebook, Google, Twitter. These tech titans seek to silence us fro... read more
If this is true, it looks like a good time to get rid of that pesky control freak of a browser, Mozilla ... read more
"To build an alternate social media website with a dissenting moderation policy, you must first invent the universe. Good luck.": ... read more
Common MySQL Queries. Extending Chapter 9 of Get it Done with MySQL 5&Up
Here's an example: Compute date from year, week number and weekday:
SET @yr2012, @wk26, @day0;SELECT StrToDate( Conca... read more
I was unaware that Facebook recently had started to add a unique click identifier to all outbound links on facebook.com. Coincidentally, one of the security measures of this server is to disallow query strings as part of the URL... read more
To remove that annoying slideshow so popular on click-bait sites, try one of the following:cluster fakedesli.de... read more
I keep joining these other social networking sites, only to be disappointed. The main problem is that they insist that I upload my contact list, which I refuse to do. Maybe this one -- ... read more
Here's an article about them. AltCensored is at ... read more
This, below, is what happens when you let greed (or desperation) rule over your sense of aesthetics. All I wanted to do was click the link and read the article. smh Good luck finding the actual article! :)... read more
This looks promising: SubscribeStar.com. Their tagline is "Create. Monetize. Prosper." I created a page for myself there... UPDATE: Denied! Never mind. Yo... read more
You will need the password for most of these.Cracking up over Lottery President (Jun 28, 2013). No password required.... read more
Question: I need my own domain name and monetization, plus things like ability to pay and schedule and stuff.Answer: Any Wordpress installation should allow plug-ins for polling, scheduling and other types of forms, in addition... read more
After the CEO of Hispanic food megabrand Goya spoke at the White House, demands to cancel the popular brand on social media have arisen met by equally furious pushback from the corporations defenders....
Go to ... read more
Here you see your color converted to 17 different color formats like RGB, CMYK, HSV, HSL, CIELab, Android, Decimal, and YUV.
Convert multiple colors at once or get Conversions and Harmonies via the REST API.
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When is that spelling- and grammar-checking feature coming to Facebook, Instagram, etc.? Oh right, they probably don't want to insult 90% of their users. Never mind. It's not that my own (or anyone's) grammar and punctu... read more
Just thought I would start a running list of internet-web technologies websites I have found useful, below...
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Could be useful. See (this one's for Windows, but there's a version for Mac and Linux, too) inkscape.org... read more
A couple of good ones. onetwo... read more
Just thought we'd mention OpenDNS.com (or .org) which we use here at FriendsNews.com. It's a good parental control as well as an easy way to filter your Internet traffic.... read more
The Friends of Humanity website. Don't know anything about it, but like the sound of it. :) "Friends of Humanity is active in the defense of human rights, ed... read more
I've used this and liked it, FYI: privateschoolreview.com. This link shows an actual comparison.We have had good results... read more
You might find this as useful as I just did: expandurl.net ... read more
Note: I am no longer on Twitter or Facebook, but here's what I've managed to salvage from back then.
Go to Operation Detour book on Facebook... read more
Useful site here to opt out of various online ads: yourchoices.com. Some of the biggest name brands always seem to be conveniently unavailable.... read more
Useful site to see if it's your connection (or firewall) or the site itself that's hav... read more
Makes me laugh when Facebook asks why I think something is funny or amazing. I'm thinking "Bite me. I don't have the time or inclination to teach your artificial 'intelligence' algorithms what it means to be human.&q... read more
Note: I am no longer on Twitter or Facebook, but here's what I've managed to salvage from back then.
Every time Facebook shows me one of those notices saying something like "Hey there, we've been going through all of... read more
Here's a cool website I just learned of:atlasobscura.com"In an age where everything seems to have been explored and there is nothing new to be found, we ... read more
If you're looking for an alternative to ... read more
Some headlines Google News mistakenly thought I'd be interested in ...Is Jeb Bush Right About Barack Obama and Donald Trump? - The mainstream (pro-Bush-Clinton) media keep pretending Jeb is relevant.Kanye We... read more
Note: I am no longer on Twitter or Facebook, but here's what I've managed to salvage from back then.... read more
I just had to share this comment someone left here on FriendsNews.com. Read it, absorb it, digest it, lather, rinse and repeat it. Then let me know what the %$# it means! Here it is:"I comprehend that is genuin... read more
No, not that kind of "lost" (knock on wood). But, don't you hate it when you're walking along talking to someone, it's crowded, you hear a muffled scream but think nothing of it, only to realize several blocks dow... read more
"Brandon Raub's case exposes the seedy underbelly of a governmental system that continues to target military veterans for expressing their discontent over America's rapid transition to a police state," said John W. ... read more
Cool! But bad news for locksmiths? "keyme" stores a copy of your house key in the cloud Not cool... read more
I'm as guilty as anyone about trying to add content to my blog just for the sake of content (because search engines look for and rate highly based on how "fresh" your blog's content is). But someone whose blog-newsletter I subscr... read more
Name Generator - Cool Name ideas at the click of a button!I thought this, above, was kinda cool for generating a pseudonym. You can also generate a Medieval name, a Twitter name,... read more
If you were on a deserted island with an Internet connection and a pug, but could only access ONE website, which site would it be?(BTW, the pug is irrelevant, I just like pugs!)Facebook - 3 votesGoogle - 2 votesKindle -... read more
Some Facebook users 'dislike' being used in online advertising ... read more
Care2 - largest online community for healthy and green living, human rights and animal welfare."You Care. We Care2. Be a part of the world's largest community for... read more
Just the other day I had bought a second wi-fi router from a seller on Craigslist to daisy-chain the two together (somehow) to improve the wireless signal throughout my house. No, it's not a big house. Anyway, last night our powe... read more
Simply upper-casing your password can frustrate a hacker's attempts: ... read more
It's a very old hoax. Anything with a headline like "Plleeaassee reeaadd! It was on Good Morning America!" and mentioning Microsoft, AOL and Good Morning America in the same email almost HAS to be a hoax these days, and this one is. ... read more
For those old gadgets you'd just as soon get rid of:gazelle.com My old ... read more
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Use them as your search engine, and they give to charity:goodsearch.com-"Yo... read more
I got an error in a program that was in some foreign language I didn't even recognize, let alone understand. I went to translate.Google.com and typed in one of the words and chose "Detect language" in the "Translate from..." box. I... read more
In Nashville, anyway, it seems you can get around their proxy system (those outlets that use it), simply by using Google Chrome and maybe Firefox. It might be as simple as using any browser other than Internet Explorer. Us... read more
NoPawsLeftBehind.org"The No Paws Left Behind web site is here to help you through some tough times."... read more
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Keep an eye on who's keeping an eye on you at ghostery.com... read more
Google: Fake antivirus makes up 15 percent of all malware Tech News on ZDNet... read more
Hackers leak 6.5 mln LinkedIn passwords Time to change your LinkedIn password. eHarmony, too, apparently.... read more
None of these links work anymore. A couple of useful sites here for downloading videos for later viewing. I know I often want to watch a video later, not right then and there. Anyway, here are a couple of links: ... read more
Just visited these sites, and my antivirus popped-up saying it had blocked a Trojan Horse coming from there (or one of their links): --thefrist.org --fixi... read more
Question There was a couple parked on the curb on Wed from 8am to 12pm on Wed. The girl was like a look-out, it seemed. When I was going to work she gave me a suspicious look, so I drove around in a circle and drove by them... read more
I hate to promote Google since they already rule the online world, but they do some things very well, e.g., their "unsubscribe" feature in Gmail. In a message, click on Show Details and you should see the option to "... read more
Got a tip, thought I'd share it here. Add the following to your HOSTS file ("C:WindowsSystem32driversetchosts"): #fix for ytimg.exe browser hang problem74.125.162.39 static.cache.l.google... read more
Thanks to GoDaddy phone support, I discovered this very useful site: megaproxy. One of my domain names was not resolving correctly from home. I went to the website above a... read more
QUESTION: How do I set email (Outlook 2003) to forward to someone else while I'm out?ANSWER: In Outlook, click on Tools, Out of Office AssistantClick "I am currently out of the office…" and type your outgoing message, ... read more
Down for everyone, or just me?. I LOVE this service!... read more
Cuil.com (pronounced "cool"). And here's a good reason to use it (or StartPage) instead of Google... read more
Still a huge problem
Beware of this scam. Don't bother trying to get them to help you unlock your pc: hackers-gang-russian-bust. The fix... read more
I'm trying out this online backup system called Nordic Backup. So far, so good. Click ... read more
FAST & FREE security scan for your PC : Kaspersky Security Scan.... read more
Here's a long list of alternative news sites, rather than the mostly-fake "mainstream" media from which you might get your news:"... read more
