Joe the Web Guy Hints, Tips, Solutions, and Warnings from a Web Geek

11Mar/110

Update on the 32GB Flash Drive Giveaway

To all those who entered to win the 32GB Kingston thumb drive, I haven’t forgotten you! I’ve had a perfect storm of increased work load and a family emergency that came one after another. Rest assured, the winner will be selected in the coming days! Thank you for your patience — and your prayers and [...]

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8Mar/110

Are the pictures from your smartphone making you less secure?

I recently received an email that stated the following: The photos you take on many smartphones encrypt the GPS location that the image was taken at onto the photo. This allows anyone who is viewing your photo to locate where it was taken. Thus a photo of your child, taken inside their bedroom, can be [...]

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18Jan/110

T-Mobile’s Carly Foulkes Behind the Scenes Special Video

T-Mobile’s 4G spokesmodel has a special message for all her online fans…

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14Sep/101

Dead on the Microsoft Vine

Remember Microsoft Vine? No? Honestly, I’d all but forgotten about it. Lemme ‘splain… no, there is too much. Lemme sum up. Vine was basically Microsoft’s attempt to combine Messenger with Twitter-like functionality. It never came out of closed beta, and now, based on the information they just emailed to me, it never will. Thank you [...]

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25Aug/102

What is Twitter?

I often get asked why I tweet, or “what is Twitter?” Good questions… hopefully this video will explain it… If Hollywood can make an overly dramatic film about the early years of Facebook, why can’t we make an overly dramatic movie about Twitter? Or at least the trailer to that movie! (Via Mike Dopp)

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