This time it’s a letter purporting to be from the FDIC (it’s not), warning that if users don’t provide their bank account information online they will lose their insurance protection, citing the Patriot Act as a threat. Again, this is a scam — spread the word.
RSS feed of the day
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I have used My Yahoo! as my portal for some time now. I think Yahoo’s product is far and away the best of the entry portals — it features a large number of different resources, which you can customize in any number of ways.
Now comes word that Yahoo! is introducing RSS headlines for users…
Goin’ Anti-Phishin’
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Every now and then I mention a new “phishing” scam, where individuals receive spoofed e-mails purporting to be from legitimate websites. Now you can keep up-to-date on the latest in phishing over at Anti-Phishing.org, which features daily headlines on new scams.
The latest edition of…
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…the Internet Legal Research Weekly is hot off the presses, ready for your review. Highlights:
Blawg of the Day
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New music releases, delivered to your desktop
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Since I got my iPod last November, I have been a regular visitor to the iTunes Music Store — every Tuesday is “New Music Tuesday,” and dozens (and sometimes hundreds) of new albums and songs are made available for download.
If it’s a pain to remember to visit iTunes every week, and if you have…
A cleaner keyboard
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Remember the January 4 issue of the newsletter where I discussed how to clean your keyboard? It turns out a keyboard and mouse can harbor more bacteria than a toilet seat.
That’s why Fellowes has introduced an anti-bacterial keyboard — a substance injected into the plastic that forms the keyboard creates an environment where
Blawg of the Day
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A federal appellate clerk in the South, known only as Publius, brings us Legal Fiction, described as an “unconventional look at law, politics, and culture from a southern, non-Federalist Society law clerk.”
Google Results that come to you
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GoogleAlert has been around for awhile, but it’s still a tool worth mentioning, and Chris Sherman does so in today’s SearchDay. Just enter your search query, and GoogleAlert will e-mail you when web pages with those terms are added to Google’s database. It’s like a newsclipping service for web pages.
Or if you want…
An online file cabinet
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Having trouble keeping track of your web research? Are articles moving into archives or disappearing entirely when you try to locate them again? Furl to the rescue. Furl is an online filing cabinet for all of those web pages you want to save — just add a link to your toolbar, and click it when…