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In this article I want to give you a warning about a threat that's going on right now, trying to take advantage of everyone's interest in the Michael Jackson death, as well as the death of Farrah Fawcett.
As you no doubt have heard, both "The King of Pop" Michael Jackson as well as former Charlie’s Angel Farrah Fawcett have passed away.
What does this have to do with computers? Well, a lot in this case.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of very unscrupulous people out there who like to take advantage of major news events such as the death of a beloved star to try to infect your computer or cause you other problems.
I want to give you a few tips to avoid being taken advantage of, to help protect you from the "Michael Jackson malware scam" and similar ones that will inevitably come in the future.
First thing to remember, is if you get a random email with attached files or links to strange websites that comes from an unknown email address, the safest thing to do is to delete it immediately, or if your email program has a "junk" or "spam" button, use that.
Keep in mind that some viruses and worms will harvest email addresses from an infected computer, and so will "spoof" the return address to look like one of those people in the addressbook in the hopes of tricking you into thinking it's from someone you know!
I suggest reading any email with a link in it before clicking the link and ask yourself "does this sound like them?"
If the wording in the email just doesn't read like the apparent sender's "voice", then it might not have been sent by someone you know, even if it says their name in the return address field.
If you use a Windows computer (i.e. most any computer made by Dell, Gateway, HP, etc. *other* than Apple) then remember it is *very* important to avoid using Microsoft Internet Explorer (the blue "E" that so many people still use to view web sites).
It has been proven over and over to be highly vulnerable to what is called a "drive by download" where a program is installed on your computer without your permission. Especially if you're using an older version like IE 6 (Internet Explorer 6, which many people still make the mistake of using).
Instead, I recommend using Mozilla's Firefox. It is a free download from Mozilla.com, and I cover step-by-step how to download, install it, and use it safely in my Ultimate Beginners Bundle for Windows (see red button on right for ordering).
If you have one of Apple's Macs, you are at much much less risk from these threats than Windows users, *BUT* you are not 100% safe.
While there are no viruses and worms out there at this time for Mac computers, there are some "trojans", which I talked about recently. These damaging programs are like the famous TrojanHorse from the Trojan War -- no matter how safe the walls were protecting the City of Troy, it didn't matter when people went outside those walls and brought the horse inside, allowing the hidden threat of the Greeks within the horse to make a sneak attack.
Trojans on a computer work the same way -- you let them in -- and even though there are only a handful of them that attack Macs, and there are thousands out there that attack Windows computers, it only takes one!
Trojans trick you into installing them on your computer by luring you with some "hook" to get your interest. In some cases it's an adult video that says you need to install special software to view it, or in other cases it's major news stories like those of Jackson and Fawcett.
So remember, be cautious when opening links in emails, or anywhere since these things target not just email but everywhere they can including social networking sites like Twitter or Facebook.
Basically they go where the people are -- but understand I'm not suggesting for a moment that you stop using email, social networking sites or anything like that. That would be like me telling you to never cross the street, when all you need to do is make sure you look both ways before crossing!
And remember these kinds of threats can start circulating for any major news story -- just because I was using the example of the Michael Jackson and Farah Fawcett deaths doesn't mean this is the first time this has happened, and it certainly isn't the last.
So until next time, stay safe, take care, and enjoy, Worth Godwin Plain English Simplicity for This Complex Modern World
P.S. if you would like to learn more about avoiding problems, staying safe, and becoming more confident and skilled with your Windows PC or Apple Mac, you may click the following link to learn more about my basic computer training CDs
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Answering a reader's question about slow video on websites
In my last post, I shared some thoughts on the social networking website Twitter.com -- I had quite a few responses from people, which is great.
I thought I'd take a moment to address some comments & questions I got via email from a couple of people who ran into issues, just in case you had any similar problems.
First, Tom from California wrote: >Hello Worth, Thanks you for continuing to keep me in >"your loop" so to speak. You perhaps already know that > there are some "bugs" in the second video by which I mean > that the video stops abruptly and then in a second or two, >and sometimes much longer, continues exactly where it left >off. I doubt it has anything to do with my computer.
I have tested the video on a couple of different computers and it played perfectly for me, loading quite quickly, so there could be a couple of reasons you might have run into this.
These things apply whenever we're talking about videos on a website (my own, YouTube, etc.), so remember to think about how this applies in general, not just in this specific situation.
Reasons a video on a website may "stutter" or stop-and-go when playing:
1) Your computer is too old, or too slow for a different reason (like a virus, not enough memory, etc.) to play the video properly I am going to assume this is not the case with Tom, since he's been a student of mine for quite some time and never has had any problems playing any of the CDs he's ordered as I recall.
2) Your Internet connection is too slow, like if you're using dialup access, which is incredibly slow compared to modern "broadband", and is just not suited to watching videos online (but doesn't matter for videos playing from one of my lesson CDs for example, since that's coming from your CD drive, not the Internet)
Using dialup to watch videos online is like trying to fill a swimming pool with a drinking straw.
Maybe you could do it's but it's sure going to take a long time if it works at all.
Again, I don't think this is the case with Tom, but I'm just going through the main options for everyone's benefit.
3) You might have tried playing the video when the website was being flooded with visitors and it got bogged down.
Kind of like it's trying to walk, chew gum, and draw a picture all at the same time.
4) The website wasn't overloaded, but there was Internet congestion either in your neighborhood, or somewhere between you and the website.
This is like rush hour traffic -- the speed limit may be 55mph, but there is so much traffic on the road everything slows down. This happens on the Internet the same way it does on the highway.
These last two usually clear up by just waiting and coming back later.
Another trick that can work in a lot of situations is to click the pause button on the video: looks like the pause button on your VCR, DVD or Blu-Ray player remote -- a pair of vertical lines like
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After you pause it, wait for the progress bar at the bottom of the video to move along a ways while it loads more of the video (this is called "buffering") then unpause it once it's gotten a fair way along the bottom of the video.
Hopefully these suggestions will be helpful to you.
Lastly, I will quote one more question I got in response to my last email, this one from Lynn Wilson, who wrote:
> Received your email re Twitter. I tried for several minutes > to register at Twitter.com, but could not get past the page > which requires a user name and password. Since I not yet > registered, I have neither of those. I am stymied. If you can > help, I would appreciate it very much.
Well, hopefully I can. My guess, without having seen the problem, is that you may have "gone down the wrong path" so to speak, on the website.
When you go to Twitter, you want to click the "Join" button and then type in your name, your email address, a username you'd like to use (can be your name without spaces) and the password you'd like to use.
Then you can create the account and join me and the millions of other people using Twitter.
Remember, the first of the two videos you can watch by using the links below will show you step-by-step how to sign up for a free Twitter account.
If you want to get all of the Twitter lessons, just order any of my sets of easy video lesson CDs and I'll throw in a month of free Gold Club membership, which will include all of the lessons on the basics of Twitter I recorded this month.
Here's the links to the two free video lessons again:
Remember to say hi on Twitter when you sign up and follow me! There's a button to take you to my Twitter account page near the top right of this page.
Tomorrow I'll share a quick email about why I'm proud of my dad since it'll be Father's Day (already is for a lot of you) until next time, take care, and enjoy,
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As you may know, I recently flew home to visit my family so we could celebrate his 80th birthday.
What you may not know is that my dad is a singer and voice professor who has an amazing voice that, if anything, sounds even better than it did when he was young.
I'm so glad I was able to make it so I could see the performance he gave on his birthday. Fortunately, we recorded the entire thing on CD, and got one song on video as well.
Help me wish my dad a happy Father's Day by clicking through the video to go to YouTube and if you like what you hear, use the stars on the page to rate it, and feel free to leave a comment wishing him a happy Father's Day or saying what you thought of the performance.
It may not be your style of music (he's singing a traditional spiritual in this case) but at least stick it out to 1:28 (1 minute 28 seconds) which is the best moment in the song.
Unfortunately the recording does not do his voice justice: his sound is so big at that moment, I swear it blew my hair back, and he wasn't using a mic or amplification of any kind -- just his natural voice.
And remember, this was on his 80th birthday!
My dad is amazing.
Happy Father's Day, Dad!
Worth Godwin Plain English Simplicity for This Complex Modern World
P.S. If you click through the link, I also have a number of video lessons available on YouTube which you're free to watch too. Just click on the link titled "videopublish" next to my image to the right of the video and you'll see a list of the lessons I have there.
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How to Follow on Twitter: Easy Video Lesson Shows How to Follow Someone on Twitter
In my last blog post I shared a video lesson how to Twitter where I showed you how to join Twitter so you can join in on this amazing service. Also, if you missed my previous article on how Twitter is empowering people around the world, click the link to read it.
This second lesson shows you how to "follow" me on Twitter, so you can get updates including tips to avoid computer problems, easy lessons like this one, and more from me instantly after I send them out. The same basic steps will also work no matter who you want to follow on Twitter.
Note: the video lessons on my easy computer training CDs are bigger and with a sharper picture than what I offer on my website.
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How to Twitter - Easy Video Lesson Shows How to Join In
I decided to share with you a sample of some of this month's lessons that all of my Gold Club members will get on CD in the next monthly shipment. If you missed my previous article on how Twitter is empowering people around the world, click the link to read it.
This video computer lesson introduces the social networking site Twitter, explains briefly what it's for and how to Twitter, then shows you step by step how to join.
When you're done watching this lesson, you can watch the next one: how to follow Twitter
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How Twitter Can Empower You and Make Your Voice Heard
What I want to share with you today are two video lessons on how to Twitter, plus a few thoughts on how it's pretty literally changing the world. First the article, then you'll find the links to the video lessons at the bottom.
You may use Twitter already, or you may have only heard of it. It’s even possible you may never even have heard of it before, but you'd almost have to go out of your way to avoid hearing about it these days.
Twitter is a "social networking site" (a website devoted to helping people connect with friends both new and old, family, business contacts, and more) and it is so immensely popular that from February of 2008 to February of 2009, the number of subscribers went up from 475,000 to 7,038,000 -- that's a 1,382% increase in a year!
Social networking sites used to be mainly popular among teens and people in their early to mid 20s, but they have become increasingly popular amongst people in the older demographics including people in their sixties and older.
Personally, I haven't always been the biggest fan of social networking sites, for a few reasons (most of which I outlined in my special report on social networking sites and how to avoid privacy and security problems while using them that I recorded in May - available to current Gold Club members, and which I will probably add to the Ultimate Beginners Bundle in the future).
I was very dismissive of Twitter in particular when it first came out a year or two ago, because it seemed like it would be nothing but people posting tedious, self-absorbed updates (called "Tweets") about what they were doing moment-to-moment.
And sure, a lot of it can be like that, but it's evolved into something more.
If you watch the news at all right now I'm sure you're aware of the situation in Iran revolving around the election.
What you may not fully realize is how incredibly important Twitter (and to a lesser degree, other social networking sites like Facebook) have been in getting news of what's going on over there out to the world.
The government there has been actively trying to suppress all news of the protests and everything else going on over there, and it is almost entirely because of Twitter that people have been able to get word out to the rest of us about what's happening.
Twitter lets you update what's going on with you in an incredible variety of ways -- from a web browser, to text messages from your cell phone, to special programs specifically designed to work with the service.
Because of this, the Iranian government has not been able to suppress the voice of the common person who just wants to be heard. It's really pretty amazing, and could never have happened even just a few years ago.
So basically we have seen the end of the era when a government can suppress the voice of the common person.
Think about that for a moment.
This is why I love technology and this amazing time we live in.
I hope for a lot of reasons that the situation over there ends as peacefully as possible, but all we can do in other parts of the world is wait and see, and continue with our lives.
So I'd like to help you join in on Twitter if you've been missing out by sharing two quick video lessons I'm posting to my site. These two lessons are part of a complete set of lessons I'm doing on Twitter which will be coming on the next set of my Gold Club member lesson CDs.
The two lessons I'm sharing today will show you how to sign up for Twitter and how to "follow" me on Twitter.
Now maybe I won't have anything to say that is as important as what's happening overseas right now, but I will share quick thoughts, links to lessons and articles I've written, as well as links to articles, videos and more that I think might be of interest and value.
Not everything will be specifically computer related, as it's also a place for me to share my personal thoughts, etc. but it's easy to pick out the info you want and will benefit from.
These are things which I can't send out to my newsletter when I run into them because it would just be too much email flooding into your inbox, but Twitter makes a great place to share them. So click the link below and watch the video lessons and join with the millions of people already using Twitter and "follow" me if you'd like to learn more.
Current Gold Club members will get the complete set of lessons on how to use Twitter when the next set if monthly CDs goes out in July, and I'll make them available to purchase in the future.
The first video lesson is how to join Twitter and the second lesson is how to follow on Twitter. You can watch them by clicking the links:
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Well, it's been a little while since I've had a chance to write a new newsletter (if you're a new subscriber or ordered my CDs recently, you may not have noticed).
This is partially because I wanted to give everyone a bit of a rest after the extra emails I was sending out during my "Help Worth go home to celebrate his dad's birthday" sale from the beginning of the month, but also because things have been even more hectic for me of late than usual (which is saying something, believe me!)
By the way, thanks again to everyone who got involved in my sale to raise money to visit my family. He still doesn't know I'm coming yet (I have a few relatives who are signed up for my emails, so don't tell him!) but he will get such a great surprise when my brother and I show up for his 80th birthday.
I also appreciate all of the emails I got from readers wishing me luck and wishing my dad a happy birthday.
But let's get back to what you guys signed up for -- computer lessons!
So I was going through the email folder where I keep emails from subscribers like yourself to try to get caught up with some of the backlog, and I came across a great question that had gotten buried in a ton of other email. The question comes from subscriber and new Gold Club member Dodie, who wrote:
>Dear Worth, > >I have a question if you can help me with Craigslist. When >I want to reply to someone on Craigslist who does not leave >their phone number you have to highlight the address and paste >it on someplace so you can e-mail them. Whenever I highlight >the address and try to paste, I get a window with an e-mail >tablet but when I try to send the e-mail I get a response of >"make sure your server is correct - SMTP unknown" I can >never send and e-mail to get a hold of the ad. What am I >doing wrong? > >Dodie
Well, Dodie, first off, you are not doing anything wrong, so don't be critical of yourself. A lot of my clients tend to beat up on themselves for not understanding everything about the computer, but it's not your fault! So if you or anyone else reading this feels like a dummy sometimes, it's OK. Be patient with yourself and take things one step at a time.
I know exactly what you're running into here; let me explain what's going on and give you a tip or two that might help.
OK. The basic problem is Dodie is using something called "web mail" which is where you are reading your email on a website. In her case, AOL.com.
The other way to read your email is using something called an "email client" or an email program. This is the method I prefer, personally, but web mail is pretty popular because it's often free and can be read from any computer with an Internet connection.
On the downside, if you use web mail, you run into problems like the one Dodie has run into, plus it's impossible to read your email if you are away from your Internet connection or the Internet connection isn't working at the moment.
One way to think about it is when you use web mail, it's like you're reading your mail (think real mail here, not email) at the post office, then storing anything you want to keep there in your post office box.
If you use an email client, you're "bringing it home" and storing it there.
So if your car breaks down and you can't make it to the post office, you can still read any letters you've already received if you're bringing them home with you, but if you keep them all at the post office, there's no way to read new or even old letters until you can actually get to the post office again.
Does that make sense?
So what to do about Dodie's problem?
It sounds to me like when you are trying to copy and paste the email from the page, you are accidentally clicking the email address and that is trying to open your email program to send it. But because you don't use an email program, your computer is not set up to be able to send email that way.
So you've got a couple of options:
1) Use your right mouse button to click the email link and in the menu that appears there should be an option similar to "copy email address" (or similar words). Click that option and then go to your email, click on the To: line and then go to the edit menu and chose "paste" to paste the email address in so you can send it.
Mac users who do not have a two button mouse can do these same steps by holding down the Control key on the keyboard and clicking on the email link instead of right clicking, then the rest of the steps are the same.
2) Alternatively, you could set up an email program to check your mail that way, or at least set it up so you can send from it. To do this, you need a couple pieces of information including the "pop server" (for incoming email) and the "smtp server" (for outgoing email).
Since you use AOL, Dodie, I don't think you have the above option, unfortunately, but you could contact your Internet Service Provider, and you should have an email account that came included in your Internet service, and they can help you set it up.
Another option would be to sign up for a free GMail account, since GMail (Google Email) gives you the ability to send and receive your email not just through web mail, but also using an email program like Outlook Express (not a great choice) or the free Mozilla Thunderbird, which I highly recommend to Windows users, or the Apple Mail program that comes on Macs.
Dodie recently ordered my Ultimate Beginners Bundle of easy computer lesson CDs, and so she can find the steps to do all of this, including getting Thunderbird for free & setting it up to be used, and she also has lessons on how to get a free Gmail account and set Thunderbird up to use it.
I also recommend listening to my audio CD called "Understanding the Internet", since it goes into more depth explaining a lot of these concepts than I can realistically do in this email.
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until next time, take care, and enjoy,
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In this basic computer lesson I will be covering two things: the basic steps for how to eject a CD when everything's working normally, plus what to do if your computer isn't working right and the CD drive won't eject.
I'm going to include a video where I demonstrate and explain it, plus a partial text description below, but the main lesson is in the video which should start playing if you click the image below:
CD drives come in two basic types. Most desktop and laptop computers have a "tray loading" CD drive (where the CD sits on a small tray that slides out of the computer). Some computers, especially a lot of Apple's Macs, use a "slot loading" CD drive instead where you just slide the CD in label side up.
Opening the tray or spitting out the CD on a Mac is just a matter of pressing the eject key in the upper right corner of the keyboard.
On a Windows PC, you do the following:
On most computers you just look on the front of the computer (not on the screen, but the big "box" that a lot of people incorrectly call the hard drive). On the front of the computer should be a rectangular panel that most likely either says "CD", "CD-R", "Compact Disk", or "DVD" (depending on the make and model).
On the right side of this panel should be a small button for ejecting the tray you put the CD on. The button may have the eject symbol under it (the eject symbol looks like a triangle with a line under it, just like on a DVD player, a CD player, a VCR, etc.)
Push the eject button and the tray should come out that has a circular depression in it that you put the CD into, label side up. Then press the eject button again to close the drive.
CD won't eject? Just watch the video lesson above to see what to do in most of the common situations where you're having problems ejecting a CD.
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I wanted to share with you the story of one of my Gold Club members named Ian, who lives in the UK and discovered my site some time ago and who was kind enough to write me and let me know how things had been going for him with my lessons.
I have to admit I absolutely love hearing back from my students since I have put so much time, effort, and care into my lessons so they really could make a difference for people, it makes my day when I hear from a student who has been getting results, especially when they started out feeling pretty bad about their chances of learning the computer before they found my site.
Now in Ian's case, and I'm sure he's not alone in this, he understandably had some doubts beforehand as to how legitimate my website was, but as he put it, he "took the plunge" and ordered my lessons and has been growing more confident and less frustrated, and in fact has gone from wanting to avoid the computer to the point where he's enjoying it so much more that he has to make point not to spend too much time on it!
It really does made my day when I get emails like this, so if you have a success story of your own, please share it with me and with your permission I'll share it with everyone.
Here's what Ian said:
> Hi Worth; > > Many thanks for all your emails which do contain for me a host of helpful information; > and the Gold Club which is again most useful. > > I certainly do bless the day, after being persuaded to buy the computer by my wife, when > I trawled through the web in desperation to find some form of assistance and I dropped > across your advert. > > I didn't fully believe all that was contained therein at the time - I am well aware, through > 35 years in Consumer Protection within this country, - that it is on lots of occasions > appropriate to treat the content of advertisements with the proverbial 'pinch of salt'. > It was not without much heartsearching and reading and rereading the content of what > - on the face of it seemed 'just too good to be true'. > > I finally took the plunge for two reasons: > > (a) I attended a one day course and came away very dejected - I seemed to be not on > the same wavelength as others who were obviously far more au fait with the > computer than I was - and I wasted my money due simply to the fact that I was > getting more and more wound up and learned precisely nothing. > > the (b) reason - here I felt maybe more humiliated. My 11 year old grandson came > over to see 'the computer' and being, as kids are now, computer literate, was highly > impressed with it, but seeing how I was floundering about; went downstairs and > pronounced to those present (he didn't realise I could hear) that it was a brilliant > computer BUT 'far too technical for Grandy to come to use - he'll never > understand that'. > > Well I was shattered and low as I had ever been, but I vowed that I would prove him > wrong. Well I havn't yet, but I am on the way, due only to your lessons (which are excellent) > and to the way you run the system which gives me almost free access to you and your > knowledge. > > I will succeed, but not with courses where, as you say, you are submerged with > information and if you don't pick it up and I didn't, well too bad -- unlike your CDs > where I have the advantage that I can go over and over again until I get it.. > > So now as you see I have jumped on the bandwagon and I do feel, on occasions that > I am making progress, and talking with others about their problems, I feel on occasions > that I know a bit more than them. > > That's what I wanted to say to you Worth; to heap some praise on you for the material > you have placed within the range of those who care to join your club. I do feel that I > could spent a lot more time up here in my den than I do - but one has to be fair on the > 'missus' (wife). Do keep up the good - nay - excellent work. > > Best wishes Ian Forsyth, Braintree, Essex
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