Technology Corner - Did You Know?

Jun 19th Technology Corner – Did You Know?

I guess I’m kinda a geek at heart. I love new technology and things it can do for us. Sometimes its more what it does to us. LOL Anyway… I’ve been collecting all kinds of exciting news and decided to share.

Let’s start with SPAM MAIL. I get frustrated spending the first ten minutes of my day deleting all the ad’s from my email that I didn’t sign up for. Click the unsubscribe link, fill in your email and unsubscribe, right? All kinds of WRONG! I found out all you are doing is confirming your email for the unscrupulous marketer to send you more from different companies. Ugg! Unfortunately there is no way to completely eliminate span, but a couple of things will minimize it. 1. Don’t click on questionable on line offers. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. 2. DON’T try to unsubscribe by filling in your email after clicking on the unsubscribe button. 3. Send the unwanted email message to your spam file. Email providers spam- filtering software will take it from there.

On to APPLE. Apple’s security gap that allowed law enforcement agencies to pry personal information from locked iPhones without a password is slamming shut. The loophole involving iphones vulnerability to intrusion via the Lightning port used to transfer data and charge the device will be shut down with an impending update to apple’s iOS software that powers the iPhones. Wednesday, Apple outlined its decision to tighten iPhone security further as part of a crusade to protect the highly personal information its customers store on iphones.

Wish you hadn’t sent that SNAPCHAT message? In the coming weeks Snapchat will roll out a new feature to help with damage control regarding messages you really didn’t want or shouldn’t have sent. It’s not fool proof and the person you sent the message to will be able to see a message was scrubbed, but it’s a step in the right direction. Don’t you think? Or perhaps you should consider my mom’s advice. “Never put in writing or pictures anything you don’t want splashed over the front page of your local newspaper.”

Well that’s all the time I have today, but never fear, next week we tackle privacy settings, what Twitter wants to predict, what the next generation of wireless technology 5G will mean for you, and maybe my ongoing battle to learn Instagram. See you next time! Got some tech news? Let everyone know, leave a comment.