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CSS posters? Go for it!

Posted on: April 30th, 2012
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The images that you see here represent posters achieved entirely using lines of HTML and CSS code. You can craft such visuals directly in the browser with no need for a digital tool such as Photoshop, unless you want to create a mock version first.

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How I got a computer virus from Google images

Posted on: March 11th, 2012
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If you have a Windows based computer you probably had a computer virus before. This has happened recently in my computer lab in the school I work at. One of my students clicked on an image on Google images and her computer began acting slow. Suddenly, lots of notifications constantly were popping up in the status bar.

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Could you get email spam from somebody you know?

Posted on: February 20th, 2012
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Well, technically it can happen. Although this person did not send you anything like that, it is possible to get an email spam from somebody you know. How can that happen?
This happened to me before. I used a certain email address for school so my students were able to use it whenever they needed to send a assignment over the email. Recently I noticed that one of my students has sent me spam.

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Protect yourself from the damn spam

Posted on: January 21st, 2012
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Some junk messages manage to find their way to my email inbox and to my phone as a SMS. In spite of web filters or my ability to fight email and SMS spam, I’ve got a couple of spam SMS and email spam lately. ‘Claim your free iPhone 4, enter code at biggiftwinner.com ” and ‘Apple is looking for iPhone5 testers Go to iphone5tester.

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