Isn’t this genius? The creativity in people today is fantastic.  However, I always believe to give credit where credit is due, so please visit the original author of this gem.

I get these a lot in magazines, but I never use them.

Might as well give them to you guys.  Enjoy!

I’m anxious to get a Google Plus invite, and I hope that is what we’ve been looking for in a Facebook alternative.

Most people don’t realize this, but when you browse Facebook, and even login to Facebook, all of your information is being sent in the clear.

What’s this mean? You are browsing their site on an “unsecured” (http: rather than https:) connection.
Which is typical for most websites, but with Facebook drawing the line with privacy as it is, you’d think this is something they would’ve embraced awhile back.

Considering 54% of computer users now admit to stealing or “piggy backing” an unsecured wireless connection, this could cause some serious problems for users who hijack an internet connection controlled by a hacker.

The new feature is found in your Account Settings, and allows you to browse Facebook on an encrypted (HTTPS) connection.

Whew, that’s a relief.  But wait… there is a stipulation… of course!

Although you are now allowed to browse Facebook securely, you aren’t allowed to play games this way! But wait, you’ve got to be kidding me? I’m not.

Whenever you click on one of your favorite games (We’ll use Family Feud for this example — one of my most played games!) you’ll see this dialog:

It appears that for whatever reason, Game Developers either haven’t embarked on the HTTPS option, or aren’t allowed too — yet.  Whenever you try to play a game, Facebook basically tell you “Either switch back to a normal connection — or don’t play your games”.  That’s not very nice.

So it would appear that once Facebook does a good deed for a change, there’s still a drawback. I guess it’s up to the user to decide to risk throwing out their information in the clear, or staying secure and being an anti-gamer.  Although, I’ve only tested this with games — I would imagine the same applies for Applications as well.

Yes, I know, this isn’t really something important for me to complain about. However, I just figured I would share with you something that has happened. After all, isn’t that the point of this whole online blogging thing? And with Twitter slowly ruling the world like it is today (along side Facebook — only a few years ago it was Myspace ruling the web…) I figured what better place to talk about Twitter and twitter related issues than on my site!

On another note: I received a few emails regarding Kids Show… I am thinking about putting Kids Show 1 & 2 back up, but I do not know just yet.

Something that amuses me:

I am using Posterous now to upload pictures, videos, etc to my blog (in hopefully, what I consider, to be much faster than the traditional way) and so far everything is working out great. You email whatever it is you want posted, and away it goes.  You can then set up whether or not you want people to be notified via Twitter, Facebook, along with many other social networking sites.   The whole idea is a great concept, amazing idea, and really handy.

Except one thing: I’m an idiot. On my Posterous account (Along with Twitter & YouTube) you will see where I uploaded a video, sent via email to my posterous personalized email address. Everything went right, Twitter was notified. YouTube uploaded the video. So why didn’t it show up on my blog? Just like I said before, I’m an idiot. You can even figure out what I’m talking about by just watching my video.

In order to allow Posterous to post anything on my blog, I had to create a username and password that only they knew to get into here.  Well, it doesn’t do much good when their role is at Contributor. That is where I made my big mistake. No wonder anything I tried to post never would make it here.  The role has now been set as Author, so Posterous should will now be able too  post whatever I see fit to my blog. Hurray!

For those of you using WordPress and made the same silly mistake I did, maybe you should remember this:

• Administrator – Somebody who has access to all the administration features
• Editor – Somebody who can publish posts, manage posts as well as manage other people’s posts, etc.
• Author – Somebody who can publish and manage their own post
• Contributor – Somebody who can write and manage their posts but not publish posts
• Subscriber – Somebody who can read comments/comment/receive news letters, etc.

Ah, life.