I received another beautiful phishing scam today. I’m used to receive those from fake Paypal emails, from fake Facebook emails or from a fake bank, but this was actually the first time I saw one within Facebook itself. Giving that Facebook now has more then 600 million users, and that the site itself is incredibly viral, those kind of fraud could be amazingly successful. This is why I think we need to talk about it as much as possible so we can educate as many people as we can.
Another fake Paypal email
21 décembre 2010 par · Laissez un commentaire
I was surprised this morning to see in my inbox, a receipt for a payment I made with Paypal. I have a few subscriptions setup so it’s normal that I receive those every month. But the title of the email said: Receipt for Your Payment to Plimus Ltd. Primus ? What is this ? I opened the mail and it really looked like a legitimate email from Paypal. It got the Transaction ID, the Order #, everything was telling me that this was a real transaction.
Fix Hootsuite Ext: Chrome Extension to improve HootSuite
17 décembre 2010 par · Laissez un commentaire
I’m always looking for ways to improve how I’m doing things. To be able to do more, with less effort. I’m lazy, I know ;-). This week, I found a nice little extension for Chrome that improves a few features on Hootsuite: Fix Hootsuite Ext.
The extension allows to customize a few things in HootSuite, basically to get rid of the things you don’t need and leave more space for what you actually care: the tweets… Here are a few interesting options (and there are others):
Copy-paste on a Mac is not the same as on Windows
9 décembre 2010 par · Laissez un commentaire
For one week, I have been struggling with a weird problem. Let me summarize. I had an SVN working copy of WordPress. I needed to update this site to the latest WordPress. So I did the same as I always do: downloaded the latest WordPress, extracted it, went inside the wordpress folder, selected all files and folder, copied, then went into my working copy and pasted. I was then asked if I wanted to replace the content and blablabla, I said Yes.
Then, I went in Eclipse to commit my updated working copy, but then I was always getting an error. Something like « … containing working copy admin area is missing ». I googled the problem, and the solution always seemed to be to delete the problematic folder and do an SVN update after. Which I did, and then I copied back the new WordPress files on top of my working copy. Then the same problem was occurring over and over again.
Testing Seesmic to manage my social media life
8 décembre 2010 par · Laissez un commentaire
I have been a happy user of Hootsuite for a few months now. Previously, I was using TweetDeck. I started using Hootsuite mainly because it was a web application and not a desktop app. And still today, I’m pretty satisfied with it. But like a real geek that I am, I’m always looking for the next best thing :-).
I’ve been hearing about Seesmic for a while now, but never had the time to give it a test run. Well, last night, I was not sleeping, so why not test Seesmic instead of simply wasting time ;-).
Fraude sur LesPac
30 novembre 2010 par · 29 commentaires
Depuis quelques temps, nous utilisons le site LesPAC pour vendre des trucs dont nous n’avons plus besoin. Nous avons ainsi réussi à se débarrasser de plusieurs gros meubles et équipements encombrants dont nous ne nous servions plus et qui ne rentraient pas de toute façon dans notre nouvelle maison. Je reste en général satisfait du service offert par les PAC. Par contre, le site est la cible de nombreux fraudeurs et c’en est devenu vraiment emmerdant! À chaque nouvelle annonce publiée, nous recevons très rapidement plusieurs courriels de gens qui se trouvent dans un autre pays et qui tiennent absolument à acheter notre bien. Généralement, ils prétendent venir de Côte d’Ivoire.
Entering the Mac world
27 novembre 2010 par · Laissez un commentaire
That’s it! I switched to Mac! I have been a happy Ubuntu user for nearly 2 years now. Happy, well, maybe not from the fact that I was using Ubuntu, but more due to the fact I was no more using Windows… However, since the beginning, there always were a few annoying glitches I learned to live with, but which were there, sleeping, always….
For example, I never got the language correcter to work in Open Office. The Linux version of Skype sucks. My printer scanner was half working. The soft phone I wanted to use with my VoIP provider never worked, etc… A lot of little tiny annoying things which, when I think about it, made me unhappy..
Cannot add a Facebook page on HootSuite for iPhone
10 septembre 2010 par · Laissez un commentaire
As I explained recently, I love HootSuite :-). It makes my life easier and it has almost all the features I need to manage my social accounts properly. One of the great things about HootSuite is that it has a very good iPhone app. It made me uninstall the TweetDeck app immediately ;-). Unfortunately, I had a problem that I found the solution for today. [Lire plus…]
Plaxo for iPhone – not with Google Apps ?
8 septembre 2010 par · Laissez un commentaire
I received an email this morning announcing Plaxo for iPhone now with Address Book Sync for All Plaxo Members. Cool! I’ve been a member of Plaxo for many years, but I never really used it much. It’s yet another social network / contact info service. But an iPhone app could definitely be useful and surely worth a shot.
Marc-André talks about ImpressCMS and Microsoft Web App Gallery
25 août 2010 par · Laissez un commentaire
A few weeks ago, ImpressCMS was included to Microsoft Web App Gallery. This was a great news for the project as it can now be downloaded and installed automatically with only a few clicks on a Windows Server.
Back in May of this year, Marc-André attended Make Web Not War, Canada’s first cross-plateform web conference showcasing the latest techniques and technologies available to the ever-evolving web community. During that conference, Marc-André explained how ImpressCMS came to be included in Microsoft Web App Gallery (also called Web PI).
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