Tis the season to send and receive greeting cards. Some people are starting to send e-cards instead of paper ones. We thought it would be a good time to remind you to be careful when you receive a greeting card notification in your e-mail because it could be a trick.
Make sure the e-mail says the first and last name someone you know. If it is generic, don’t open it. For example, if it says you have received a greeting card from a friend. Don’t open it. If it says you have received a greeting card from Fred, don’t open it. These types of e-mails may contain attachments that are infections or links to websites with infections and your computer could become infected.
Conversly, whenever you send an e-card, make sure you use your first and last name so the person on the receiving end of the greeting card knows it’s from you.
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Just In Time For Christmas – Online Wish List
Every year around this time friends and family start asking me what I would like for Christmas. Throughout the year I occasionally see things and think, "I would like that. That would be a good thing for someone to get me for Christmas." But by the time Christmas shopping season arrives, I have, of course, forgotten all of those things. If you have a smart phone or a PDA, you could keep a list there and e-mail it to everyone. But now there is a really cool website that helps you with this. Lots of e-tailers like Amazon.com allow you to create a wish list, but the problem there is that you are stuck with only what Amazon.com sells.
The website is called, TheThingsIWant.com. With this FREE service, you can create a wish list. Simply create your free account, install their web button, and then go shopping online. When you are shopping online and find something you want, simply press the web button in your browser, and you can add the item to your wish list.
You can e-mail your friends and family a link to your wish list. The cool thing about doing it this way as opposed to e-mailing them a list is that you can continue to change your list. Each time your friends and family view your list, it will have all of the latest updates!
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