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“How to Photograph Fireworks Displays” plus 1 more: Digital Photography School

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This is a link to a nice article on how to shoot fireworks, Normally this is a July 4 topic in the USA but some may have opportunity on New Years so enjoy...

Sparty - Anything For Love

Saw this at the MSU Game last weekend. This is a great clip! The crowd went crazy at the end! Very funny.

Microsoft to Expand Free Security to (Very) Small Businesses

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Microsoft is making their very good Security Essentials software available to small businesses with 10 or fewer PCs.  Its pretty good antivirus antimalware software and you can't beat the price!  I run it on all my home PCs and recommend it to friends.  If you run a small business its worth taking a look at.

Microsoft to Expand Free Security to (Very) Small Businesses - SuperSite Blog

Windows Shortcut Exploit Protection Tool

This is a tool that will protect you from the recently discovered Windows shortcut problem, where the shortcut file can be modified to run malicious code on your system. This affects ALL versions of windows, old and new. There is currently no real fix for this (other than disabling all/most of your icons on your computer so they just show up as white squares) and there are confirmed attacks out there using this issue today. This tool is a clean install/uninstall so when Microsoft does fix the issue you can uninstall this tool.

The tool basically checks links in shortcuts before it is passed on to the operating system and prevents the malicious code from executing if it exists. You can read more details about the tool at the Sophos site and you can read more about the exploit on Security Now! Episode #258

Safe Eyes Software

I've been using SafeEyes software for a couple of years and it does a very nice job protecting our information and keeping info we don't want out of our house (read computers).  We've got it installed on all of our computers (Mac/PCs) and each family member has their own account, which auto loges them in when they log on to their computer (or their side on the shared computer).  It logs everywhere everyone goes, its very configurable but very easy to use.  We use it in conjusction with opendns.org which is a free DNS filter and together they do a very nice job.  We even have a timer setup in SafeEyes to limit the amount of time each child has available to them, and the hours they are allowed on the internet, cause we all know what mom says, " nothing good ever happens after midnight!" :o)  If you're interested they have a FREE 30 day trial. 

Marketing: Study Says Most Brands Still Irrelevant on Twitter - Advertising Age - Digital

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I've always thought that the media and companies over-hyped Twitter. It works for them cause its a one place for information gathering but its not great for marketing if only 7% of the consumers are even on twitter(of course they don't say 7% of what, could be 7% of all people on earth and that would be completely different than 7% of the US popluation with computers).

Marketing: Study Says Most Brands Still Irrelevant on Twitter - Advertising Age - Digital