September 2010

The New Tweetadder and Twitter

   How to get more of what you want from Tweetadder.

The new Tweetadder allows you to do even more than the old one, and with the new Twitter page currently being rolled out, automation will be taken a step further. You will be able to linking direct to your favourite social networks, Facebook, Utube, Myspace etc, without leaving your Twitter page.

I have explained in the previous articles Be a Guest Blogger   How to Use twitter effectively Tweetadder and Twitter  and Beat Twitter limits and if you have followed the guidelines you should now have a good following on Twitter, as well as the important number who have followed you from your blog, or Twitter links on your facebook or website that you haven’t followed back. The new version of Tweetadder allows you to set everything to run automatically, including searching for new prospects to target when you have run out of “id’s” to follow.

Even though you have set everything to work on Automatic, you will still need to make tweeks to Tweetadder  on a daily or weekly basis, if you want to gain targeted followers fast. To get the results you want requires a little bit of work.

Before we go any further, you should be aware of certain Twitter and Tweetadder rules..... Read the full article

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September Book Deals

  Steven Fry , a giant of a man in many ways, with 1 or 2 twitter followers, portrays his flamboyant, knowledgable self in his new book “ The Fry Chronicles ”. Have a dictionary at the ready, Steven has an amazing command of the English Language, and you will find his book exhilarating and funny. With over 50% discount for the hard back version, special deal price is only £9.35. More info with free UK delivery.

Tony Blairs’ “ A Journey ” also in hardback, is available with 50% discount and free UK delivery. An interesting read

“ Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything ” [Paperback] by Elizabeth Gilbert . 59% discount and free UK delivery only £3.27

3 special book deals for this week only :-

“ Our Kind of Traitor ” by John Le Carre, Hard back version with 57% discount . This author never fails to keep you on the edge of your chair while reading.

“ The Devil Rides Out ” by Paul O’Grady , hard back version 55% discount. Only £9.00 with free UK delivery

“ Freedom” by Jonathon Franzen 55% off with pre-order price guarantee. Free UK delivery. Good deal

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10 Blogs - 10 days

This is about the tenth blog I have written in as many days, but not published one of them. The reason being that as I finish each bog something else comes up which is more important and more news worthy.

I wrote one on the pitfalls of posting pictures to the web, in particular to Facebook. Modern camera phones embed the geo position of the picture, which is unseen without a picture reader. This enables the criminal fraternity to pin point your home with extreme accuracy. Some people are stupid enough to tell the world they are going on holiday for two weeks, the thieves know your home is empty, and where you live, and how affluent you are. It’s not the best of home comings to find your home stripped bare.

Then I wrote several blogs about the arrogance and ignorance of our ConDem government, and all the stupid announcements they make. But everybody knows they are intent on punishing the old, the sick, and those who lost here jobs during the recession, in a vain attempt to bring Great Britain to its knees.  I wrote a great blog concerning the inefficiency of our Inland revenue, and the sheer arrogance of the head, when he claimed that it was not human error on their part, neiher was it computer error.

I wrote one on the latest Google acquisition, but they seem to be buying a company every week. The next blog was about the new Twitter page being rolled out over the next two weeks.  Means you will be able to do a lot more from your twitter page to spread your tweets without leaving your Twitter home page.

There has been so much written and on television about the Pope and the paedophile scandals, that it was old news before he even landed on UK soil. The Pope made a reference to the scandals, short of a full apology, as it was his job before he became pope to cover it up. 10 out of the last 22 priests convicted of paedophilia in the UK, are still practicing Catholic priest.

The Popes right hand man, Cardinal Kaspar who has been in charge of relations between Christian faiths inside the Vatican for the last 10 years, said he thinks Britain “sometimes feels like a third world country” and suffers from “a new aggressive atheism”  just before the Pope left for his tour. The pope left him to get out of this hole himself, Cardinal Kaspar said he was unable to accompany the Pope to Britain because he was ill! But he did manage to attend a banquet thrown in his honour by the German embassy in Rome; he is retiring from his post, with the papal visit to Britain supposedly his final swan song, not the best of endings for him or the Vatican.

The Pope also mentioned the “Battle of Britain”, and paid tribute to the people who gave their lives in the name of freedom, in what we call World War 2, the war to end all wars, unfortunately it didn’t end all wars, and the holocaust seems to have been repeated in other countries and with other faiths. The world is getting smaller with jet travel and the internet; it is a pity that the population of this small shrinking planet don’t know how to live in peace.

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Your Privacy :: Have you any Left?

Now for the Really Scary Stuff

About 12 months ago Apple lost a court case prohibiting people unlocking their phones, and going with a cheaper tariff, and allowing people to run third party apps on their phones.

At the same time, Apple were applying for a patent to collect and store customer information, in order to wipe the phone clean, and disable it in the event of it being stolen. Good news you may think: well think again.

The patent will allow Apple to fit a microphone to the phone which will work when the phone is switched on, transmitting the information to Apple. Not important you might think! What about when you are having negotiations with a client for a new contract: it won’t take long before hackers work out how to record the information as well as Apple. Do you leave your phone on a bedside cabinet at night? Would you like somebody listening in? Is this really scary or not?

The phone can take a picture of you without you knowing! .....

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Stand and Deliver:Your Privacy and Your life

We all know we are continually being tracked on camera, wherever we go. Street cameras, backed by facial recognition software, were put there supposedly for our safety; the excuse about our invasion of privacy was ‘that if you are honest, you have nothing to hide! [Except your right to privacy].’ We are all aware that this information can easily be mis-used

Your mobile phone is continually being tracked, every few seconds your phone sends a signal out saying ‘I can see 4 wi-fi  networks with these signal strengths’, the response comes back ‘OK you are at the corner of High St. and  Main St.’ leaving a traceable trail of where you have been. You can get a piece of free legal software from Locate which will trace and track a mobile phone. So where is your privacy now?

But you are honest with nothing to hide!

How would you like your ‘ex’ to know your every move?

What about your employer, when you phone in to work saying you are sick?

Does your company approve of its reps being tracked by its competitors?

What about your mother tracking you when you go for a night out?

But you are honest and have nothing to hide, apart from your privacy!

  Have you ever used your credit card to register for parking using your mobile? Yes they track you, and send you texts when you are running short of money for parking. The same thing happens with congestion charges, and toll charges.

You might use a toll portion of a road regularly,  a tunnel or bridge, and have a transponder fitted to your vehicle, so you can go straight through, the transponder records you going through and will charge your credit card once a month. All tracked all traceable. You are tracked if you go through a red light; go in a bus lane, in fact wherever you go.

 But you are honest and have nothing to hide, apart from your privacy!

And of course the criminal fraternity can track you, so they know when your house is empty. If you are unfortunate to buy an expensive car from a criminal, after you phoned the advert using your mobile? The criminal keeps a spare key, tracks you to your work place, where you park your car, and very shortly you haven’t got that nice expensive car.

But you are honest and have nothing to hide, apart from your privacy!

Now The Scary Stuff.

  Do you use any of the following?   

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