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I have published the October 30 2009 COOLSITES Newsletter #241 Mark Donaldson.
The following is an excerpt from this weeks newsletter. To see the full newsletter with all of the COOLSITES links please click and bookmark this link:
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October 30 2009 COOLSITES Newsletter #241 Mark Donaldson
Now with online Google Translator
Major changes to this newsletter are coming soon
Google is discontinuing Google Pages and will be moving my archive to Google Sites. However their hosting rules will also change. My html files will not be allowed due to "security reasons". This means I would have to use Google's online webpage creation program which would be more time consuming for me and bigger webpages that load slower for you.
I have checked other free hosts and can not find any that will allow me to continue as before without cost. Therefore I will have to change things. What this will mean for subscribers is very little difference. What this will mean for non-subscribers who view the newsletter online and people accessing old newsletters, "Just The Links" and "Specialized Search Engines" webpages may be drastic. I will keep you informed. Mark.
Subscribers who don't receive the newsletter, due to stupid filters, may use a private link to download the newsletter in the text ( .txt ), html ( .html ) and the MS Word Doc ( .doc ) format in a zip file. I will upload the zip files to my archive site right after I send out the newsletter on Friday morning. If a subscriber doesn't receive the newsletter, by 9am ET, they can quickly download it, unzip it and peruse it offline. You can also read it online from there.
If you are a subscriber and don't know the private link you can email me for it. These zip files are less than 40K which is smaller than the 100K or more for the newsletter.
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COOLSITES is a list of safe, fun, useful, informative and just plain cool websites and programs that are FREE, FREE and FREE. All of the programs and websites I list are free. If I list anything that is so good but isn't free I will list the price with it.
My website is Dialup Friendly. All pages except "Just The Links" and "Specialized Search Engines" load up in under 15 seconds.
Wherever you go if you see the user name LUEM42 that's me
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Pirillo's Picks for February 13 2007
"And if you think that's a lot of links, you should see how many
http://luem42.com/ collects every day. It's enough to make you wanna never leave the house again as long as you live" Yours Digitally, Chris Pirillo
http://chris.pirillo.com/
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Clif Notes Newsletter, Feb 2007
http://freewarewiki.com/
"The COOLSITES Newsletter - find the coolest links here. This fella named Mark Donaldson has been sending out his lists of cool sites since 2003. I'd never heard of him before last week. One day I was Googling myself to see who was posting links to my newsletter, and I found his website. I guess he's mentioned my newsletter at least 3 times. I like the COOLSITES website too, but I think it could use some reformatting to make it a bit easier to read. What I really like is the content there. Mark must really read a lot of stuff on the web and he takes the best links then tells you about them."
http://freewarewiki.com/CoolSitesNewsletter
Clif is no longer doing his newsletter. He is writing for others. You can find all of his past newsletters here:
http://freewarewiki.com/NewsLetters and his writings here:
http://techie-buzz.com/author/clif-notes
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Security News and Links
I get these links and news from good sources however I do not test the programs myself because I just don't have the time. The definitive source of rogue info is Spyware Warrior- Rogue-Suspect Anti-Spyware Products & Web Sites:
http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm
"Websense® Security Labs(TM) ThreatSeeker(TM) Network has discovered a new wave of malicious email attacks claiming to be a password reset confirmation from Facebook. The From: address on the messages is spoofed using support RemoveThis @facebook.com to make the messages believable to recipients. The messages contain a .zip file attachment with an .exe file inside. The .exe file currently has a detection rate of about 30 percent on VirusTotal. Our ThreatSeeker?Network has seen up to 90,000 of these messages sent out so far today. To view the details of this alert
http://securitylabs.websense.com/content/Alerts/3496.aspx "
They Tried To Scam Me
I got 1 new scam email this week.
Here it is. Mark
Ref:/ANP-STP/VOL-1/09,
My message is to introduce you to this highly prospective crude oil sale venture. What do I mean? I propose that we become partners in a crude oil sales project under the umbrella of the National Petroleum Agency of Sao Tome and Principe, Johannesburg Liaison Office. In this project, we will register either your company or a joint company with the operational board unit of the Petroleum Agency; re-assign an already allocated crude oil sale license to the company and act as representative of the Petroleum Agency in selling of crude oil to the end buyers.
With my network in the agency, I have assisted Snitch Services, a company base in Bermuda and operated by Mr. David Russell to secure a crude oil sale license allocation in 2005. This license allocation is for the sale of 120 Million Barrels of Bonny Light Crude Oil [BLCO] for a total period of 5 years. The license allows him to sale a maximum of 2 Million barrels of BLCO per transaction/shipment. Mr. David Russell could not actualize his dream in this project as he could not find buyers whom will buy the crude from his allocation on a normal "Free on Board" and did not have the financial strength to sale on a Cost, Insurance & Freight [CIF] sales transaction. In the normal FOB sales transaction, the crude oil buyers normally arrives the loading port of the seller with their own vessel to buy the crude while the seller has to buy or hire a vessel to deliver the crude to the end buyers in a CIF sales transaction. Mr. David Russell was unfortunately struck by stroke which mad!
e him to be incapable of involving
RE: CRUDE OIL SALES VENTURE
My proposal entails packaging you as the crude oil sales license beneficiary to Mr. Russell. We would re-assign the sale license to your company's name. This will give us the mandate of the agency to act as their crude oil sales agents/representative. The re-assignment of the crude oil sale license allocation your company will give us the privilege to operate as first lifters/sellers of crude oil from the block. This attracts a US$2.00 discount per barrel. This $2.00 discount per barrel is our commissions from the agency. Example: The prize of the product per barrel is presently $69.00. We will receive the product from the agency at $67.00 per barrel and sell to the end buyers on the normal market prize of $69.00 per barrel thereby making a commission of $2.00 per each barrel of crude sold to the end buyers. Also being able to get final buyers entitles us also to a US$1.00 discount from the discount given to the end buyer as "mandates".
As we are going to be selling a maximum of 2 million barrels per month from the block, US$2.00 discount from local petroleum agency sums up to US$4 million per month. And US$1.00 discount from the end buyer comes to US$2 million per month. This totals to US$6 million gross coming to our group per transaction/per month. On equity sharing ration, both of us will be netting in a cool US$6 Million as profits monthly. This proceeds known as commissions will be shared equally on equity between the both of us at the end of every sales operation month. This implies that shall both go home with US$3 Million each.
As a staff of the agency, am not officially allowed to operate a crude oil sales license or engage in any personal profit oriented crude oil deal under the same agency were I work. This is why I seek a partner whom I can assist to secure the license and work as a facilitating partner in arranging for all the sales transaction between the agency and the end buyers and also ensure that the commissions from the sales is paid out to my partner in due time. These commissions we will share equally as equity partners. My obligations as the facilitating partner is to work from underground to make sure that the license is transferred to your company's name, make sure that all the 2 million barrels is completely sold to the end buyers and also ensure that our commissions is directed to your company's banking co-ordinates as the license holder. This project is highly prospective and presently the most legitimate money making machinery someone can set up.
Hoping to hear back from you at your earliest convenience. I am very ready to prove my worth to you and possibly make us oil merchant.
Yours proposed partner,
Engr. Luis lchurchill121 RemoveThis @yahoo.com
Accountants dupe crime novelist Cornwell for $40 million-:
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Bank Trojan botnet targets Facebook users:
http://ct.cnet-ssa.cnet.com/clicks?t=470977383-be56918137808c8d29d6177...a633af-
Beware Fake Conficker Alerts:
http://www.lockergnome.com/windows/2009/10/28/beware-fake-conficker-alerts/
Computer Virus Tutorial Introduction:
http://www.cknow.com/cms/vtutor/cknow-virus-tutorial.html
Major IRS Scam Exploits Unpaid Tax Fears. Scambusters.org:
http://www.scambusters.org/irsscam.html
New. Alvo Is a tiny stand alone DOS program with 42872 bytes, that Encrypt-Decrypt any kind of files with a very safe and fast csprng algorithm:
http://www.number.com.pt/alvo.html
Twitter users warned about new phishing attack:
http://ct.cnet-ssa.cnet.com/clicks?t=470977381-be56918137808c8d29d6177...a633af-
Update. avast! 4 Home Edition 5.0.188 Beta antivirus software for spyware and virus protection:
http://www.avast.com/
Update. Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.1.1:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/cc184924.aspx
Update. XP-AntiSpy 3.97-4 disable some built-in update and authetication features in WinXP:
http://xp-antispy.org/
US-CERT warns about free BlackBerry spyware app:
http://ct.cnet-ssa.cnet.com/clicks?t=470977389-be56918137808c8d29d6177...a633af-
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Consumer News and Links
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Think Your Prescription is Private? Think Again!
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How to Spot a Fake Twitter Account
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Popular Remote Light Switch Recalled for Fire Hazard
Citi Closes Some Gas Credit Cards w/o Notice
Bill to Create Federal Consumer Agency Passes Cmte
Newspaper Customized on Net by Each User Gets Printed, Delivered to Your Doorstep
How Easy Credit and Untrained Borrowers Courted Disaster
Moneygram Fined $18-mil for Facilitating Scams
Do Energy Star Appliances Live Up to Claimed Low Power Use?
The Best Thing to Buy for $100 of Happiness
4 Fad Diet Books. The Truth Squad Gives You the Skinny. evaluate four popular diet books:
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Best&Worst 2010 Cars for Fuel Economy. most fuel efficient vehicles:
http://www.epa.gov/fueleconomy/class-high.htm
Consumer Reports. Sony May Intro a 'B' bargain Line of HDTVs. lower-cost line of Sony HDTVs:
http://blogs.consumerreports.org/electronics/2009/10/sony-bravia-bseri...lcd-tv-
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Mouse Print. Acai Berry 'Reports' Misleading:
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Wal-Mart Starts Selling Caskets, Urns Online:
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Try my start page and make it your home page by clicking "Click here to make my start page your default homepage".
It has the following convenient logins and links such as: Google Mail Login, Yahoo Mail Login, Windows Live MSN HotMail Login, Froogle Price Search, Google Maps, MySpace Login, Lockergnome Cool Web Links, Weather Radar, BugMeNot, E! Online, Zap2it TV Guide, Snopes, Scambusters, YouTube, FaceBook, Twitter and links to my webpages. You can also google the web or my website. It also has a link for your suggestions so you can help me make it better.
The best thing about it is it's simple, small and loads up on dialup in less than one second. Check it out today at:
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COOLSITES 65 cool links
I harvest what I believe to be the best links from the best sources that are safe, fun, informative, useful and just plain cool. I categorize them and edit their descriptions for clarity. I may make comments about the links but you will know because I always sign them with "Mark".
To see the full newsletter with all of the COOLSITES links please click and bookmark this link:
http://luem42.googlepages.com/coolsites.html and check it each week. Thank you. Mark.
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