A review of Reader's Digest tips published in the April 2009 issue.
How to hide anything.
From all those people in your past you never want to see again.
Readers Digest suggests you go to the following websites and opt out.
http://anywho.com/help/privacy.html this is not an active link, so I searched around the site and found this: http://anywho.com/help/privacy_list.html this is a help guide that tells you how to opt out, and they prefer you use option one, so I am trying that. It was very easy, I checked all variations of my name and removed all variations of me.
Now to the next one http://www.acxiom.com/general-consumer-opt-out, not so easy to use, you have to follow another link that leads you to a form to fill out and then they will mail you a form to fill out then you can remove your name from the list.
Next they recommend you go to http://www.google.com/help/pbremoval.html which works fine if you know who you are.
Next http://www.whitepages.com/cust_serv/removal_form, this is the site I found me in several times, and lost of my personal history. It is not easy to use, first you need to go to there main page: http://www.whitepages.com/ and do a search for you, once you find you and all your varitions, open a new tab or window and go to http://www.whitepages.com/cust_serv/removal_form and start filling in the form and and start removing you.
Hide your identity from thieves when you are traveling.
They talk about the radio frequency that most new credit cards and debit cards put out these days, and recommend you buy a wallet that is designed to do prevent the signal from being broadcasted. I recommend you use the old fashion way, traverels checks and a more modern way prepaid visa cards.
Your eMail Address
This one I have done and is a very good one, you can go to http://www.guerrillamail.com/ and get a temporary eMail address that will recieve eMails for 15 minutes for you and send them for 60 minutes for you, then poof they are gone, and so is all your information about who that eMail address you used belonged to.
Your Tracks Online
They recommend you go to http://www.torproject.org/ and download there free software that helps block your ISP (Internet Service Provider) from tracking what you do online. Good idea if you ask me. So I did it. TOR is easy to install self installs to Firefox, and easy to use. I like it.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Internet TV for Full Timers
So, everyone keeps telling me, you can watch TV on the Internet, so while I have the chance I wanted to conduct this experiment for you guys and see if that's really true.
First thing you should know, if you are using a wireless air card with limited broadband usage, your already in trouble if you want to watch TV on the Internet, I used 6 GB last night conducting this experiment, most like Verizon, Sprint, AT & T limit you to 5 GB, secondly you really need a 3G connection to make this work, you need speed, (if you are on dial up, forget it), and last but not least be careful, I have seen Verizon bills from 400 to 2400 dollars when people start exceeding there bandwidth limit and most companies do not have an accurate way to measure you usage.
Step one in this experiment, google, I googled "watch free TV on the Internet", here is what I got, and what I learned. The goal of this experiment is to able to watch full length TV show and one full length movie.
First on the google list was www.fancast.com a multichannel site, with several very good possibilities, so I clicked on a CSI Miami Episode to see what happens. I got sorry that video is no longer available, OK, lets try another one on fancast, lets try another CSI episode, so navigating through their web site was easy and I picked another to discover, that one was no longer available as well, patients is a virtue my mother says, so pick another, I am happy to report the third one played, well sort of, it did feature a way to pop it out of the screen and into full screen mode, so the picture was very good. The buffering was terrible, so lets pause it and see how long it takes for the buffering to get ahead of your downloading so you can actually watch it without the breakup of buffering, waiting, waiting, waited 10 minutes (fancast is not commercial free by the way, but free TV, well they have to make money somehow). Still the buffering did not allow me to see a TV show non stop, so on to the next one.
www.wwitv.com who advertise over 3000 + shows to watch, ok lets see if we can watch one, first you have to pick what country you want to watch TV from, then all they are is a linking site to other TV stations that have online webcasts, and they are covered in Advertisements, so next.
www.hulu.com, ok let's see what they are about? It's still loading (10 minutes now), is a good choice for random episodes of various current TV programs, they do not carry all the episodes but the clearity is good, the buffering is good, and the commercials are limited and entertaining. But no movies so on to the next one.
Next www.freetvonline.com, nope, you have to install special software to watch and it's loaded with spyware.
Next www.joost.com,
First thing you should know, if you are using a wireless air card with limited broadband usage, your already in trouble if you want to watch TV on the Internet, I used 6 GB last night conducting this experiment, most like Verizon, Sprint, AT & T limit you to 5 GB, secondly you really need a 3G connection to make this work, you need speed, (if you are on dial up, forget it), and last but not least be careful, I have seen Verizon bills from 400 to 2400 dollars when people start exceeding there bandwidth limit and most companies do not have an accurate way to measure you usage.
Step one in this experiment, google, I googled "watch free TV on the Internet", here is what I got, and what I learned. The goal of this experiment is to able to watch full length TV show and one full length movie.
First on the google list was www.fancast.com a multichannel site, with several very good possibilities, so I clicked on a CSI Miami Episode to see what happens. I got sorry that video is no longer available, OK, lets try another one on fancast, lets try another CSI episode, so navigating through their web site was easy and I picked another to discover, that one was no longer available as well, patients is a virtue my mother says, so pick another, I am happy to report the third one played, well sort of, it did feature a way to pop it out of the screen and into full screen mode, so the picture was very good. The buffering was terrible, so lets pause it and see how long it takes for the buffering to get ahead of your downloading so you can actually watch it without the breakup of buffering, waiting, waiting, waited 10 minutes (fancast is not commercial free by the way, but free TV, well they have to make money somehow). Still the buffering did not allow me to see a TV show non stop, so on to the next one.
www.wwitv.com who advertise over 3000 + shows to watch, ok lets see if we can watch one, first you have to pick what country you want to watch TV from, then all they are is a linking site to other TV stations that have online webcasts, and they are covered in Advertisements, so next.
www.hulu.com, ok let's see what they are about? It's still loading (10 minutes now), is a good choice for random episodes of various current TV programs, they do not carry all the episodes but the clearity is good, the buffering is good, and the commercials are limited and entertaining. But no movies so on to the next one.
Next www.freetvonline.com, nope, you have to install special software to watch and it's loaded with spyware.
Next www.joost.com,
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