Your Own Personal Online Library
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Getting out of the house from time to time is essential, but sometimes you’re just not in the mood to go out or perhaps the weather is bad. If you’ve got some downtime and want to pick something to read to escape, then you should consider Manybooks.net.
As the name implies, they have a ton of online books for your reading enjoyment. As of this writing, they have 18,624. There’s bound to be something of interest for even the most scrutinizing of readers.
This free collection of online books can be downloaded in a number of formats so you can choose how you want to read them: PDF, ebook reader, PDA and others.
I can see this coming in handy for homework when classics are being studied like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, or the Adventures of Tom Sawyer. But, of course, there’s always the rainy day reason.
[tags]free,online books[/tags]
Family Fun At Halloween
Halloween is a time to be creative and have a little fun. In the days leading up to the spirited day, families can spend time indoors decorating and playing all sorts of activities. Here are a few ideas to get you started.
Spooky Halloween Stickers — print them out and attach them walls, refrigerators, windows, you name it.
Spooky Graveyard — compare the two pictures and find what’s different about them. (I loved this kind of activity when I was a kid.)
Spooky Memory Game — Your little goblins can test their memory skills with these print-out cards where they have to remember where the matching card is.
Hidden Picture and Coloring Page — another childhood favorite, you spot hidden items in the drawing. And when you’re done, you can color it.
Halloween Fright Site Coloring Page Creator — your little ghosties will have fun not only creating their very own scenery online, but will get a kick to print it off and take it with them for coloring.
[tags]halloween,coloring,fun,family,activities[/tags]
Fight Spam With MintEmail
Somewhere, somehow our email addresses always seem to make it to a spammers list. And that means it will most likely be sold to another spammer for their list. Filters are improving, but they’ll never be perfect, so you end up having to either fight the spam or change email addresses.
MintEmail is a temporary email address creator that can help you fight off spam. It’s by no means the cure to spam, but like other disposable email services, it can definitely help. When you first access their site, a unique email address is generated automatically. You don’t even have to copy it because it’s already saved to your clipboard when you get there!
When you use that email address, all the email that’s sent to it will appear on that Web page. Don’t worry, it’s not meant to show to the world, but if you’re like me, you’ll want the extra convenience of having the email forwarded to another one of your email accounts.
You can also choose the amount of time the address will “live”. By default the generated addresses last four hours, but you can choose to have it expire from one hour to one month. And you can customize the address somewhat. Why would you want to do that? It can be helpful to modify the address to something that will help you remember what you’re using it for. So if you’re registering an account on “companysite.com”, then you can enter “companysite” before the “@mintemail.com” and you’re set.
[tags]email addresses,spam[/tags]
Would You Like A Free Account With Family Secure?
This is not a paid-post.
It has been estimated that 500,000 children were the victims of identity theft last year. Not only do I find that number staggering, but the fact that it’s children who are being affected is doubly so. To think that one’s identity could be stolen as a kid is not only heart-breaking, but speaks of the desperate and despicable behavior one will go to make a buck.
Family Secure is a website that focuses on providing parents with the means to protect their children’s identity from being stolen. It has the backing of ConsumerInfo.com, which belongs to Experian — the people who work with credit reports.
The thing about identity theft is that it could be years before the criminal is found out. And only when it’s too late does the victim learn about the wake of damage that has been left behind. Not only that, but when you’re talking about a child who is the victim, you’re talking about someone who is facing a long road ahead of them before they even enter adulthood.
One of the things Family Secure does is alert you when someone opens an account or applies for credit in your child’s name. Plus, they’ll do it when there is a significant change in your credit report.
There’s more to tell you, but I’d like you to find out for yourself by giving you one FREE year of their service. Yes, I have SIX promotional codes that I will give to the first six commenters to this post.
With one of these codes you will get one full year of FREE service to Family Secure instead of paying $19.95 a month. This means one parent and their child(ren) can enroll.
When leaving a comment, you’re required to enter your email address anyway. This is how I will contact you. Don’t worry, I hate spam, too, so your address is safe with me. 
Go To School For A CyberSecurity Degree
Cybersecurity is a growing industry requiring top minds to strengthen online defenses, bring criminals to justice, and yes, even fight terrorism. Utica College is one of a handful of colleges in the U.S. that offers an online cybersecurity degree. For those of you who are about to enter college or perhaps someone who is looking for a change, this opportunity could be for you. Because it offers this undergraduate degree online, it’s perfect for people with busy schedules or have limited travel options available to them.
Protecting the American data infrastructure is an important job, and to do that you’ll learn about vulnerabilities that exist and the variety of methods used to exploit those weaknesses. Not only can you earn this bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, but there’s also a follow-up master’s program in cybercrime investigation.
The economic crime degrees that Utica offers will help you safeguard against the following cybercrimes that government and corporate networks face every day:
- credit card fraud
- intellectual property theft
- terrorism
- hacking
Though not listed above, but just as important is the fight against pedophilia. I’ve written here before about the twisted minds that are out there who wish to do harm to a child. What a rewarding feeling it must be to know you’d be part of a team protecting children in danger like that.
[tags]cybersecurity,college,degree[/tags]
A Phishing Attempt On Capital One
This is a phish scam if I’ve heard one:
Customer ID : 0000-122235432-65AGUEW14386-PSITA
This e-mail is to inform you that your account will be suspended within 48 hours due to your Account Inactivity. You will have to confirm certain Account Information in order to continue your account subscription.
Click the link below to verify your information
[link snipped]You can help us provide you with the most relevant information by taking a moment to tell us your e-mail preferences. And of course you can unsubscribe at any time.
Remember, CapitalOne is committed to your security and protection. To find out more, take a look at our Information Security section under Privacy and Security on the Web site.
Wow, looks and sounds professional, but one thing I couldn’t show you was the return email address they used. It was from Yahoo! Geesh, you know times are rough when a company as big as Capital One has to use an email service from Yahoo. 
The URL that I removed was nothing but an IP address. Oddly enough, the underlying link was the same as the one displayed. So they put all that effort into making professional and worrisome message, but didn’t care about the URL.
Just be careful when you receive emails having anything to do with your money.
Where’d The Website Go?
Before Family WebWatch became a blog, it was a website found at www.familywebwatch.com. Over the years, there was a natural gravitation toward making a more interactive community that provided me the ability to write more frequently without having to deal with coding so much. That’s when Family WebWatch Blog was born.
I own three blogs and contribute to two others. As I became more involved with those, I had to divert my energy away from the site. So I made the decision to take the site down and move this blog in it’s place. If you’ve come here expecting to see my site, that’s why you’re now looking at my blog.
But fear not, I think it’s a change for the better. Granted, posts have been few and far between on FWW and I don’t like that. It’s an issue of time management, but rest assured, I’ll continue to pump new content here.
Thanks for hanging with me. Blogging forward!
