The Lady Programmer

Identity theft is becoming a fast growing crime. The use of the internet makes it possible to carry out crimes that are done electronically. Typically, an individual realizes that his or her purse is missing – this is often the beginning of this crime. Even after the thief has been caught, the identity was already sold out to other people. Victims are often caught in a never-ending nightmare because their identities where compromised at the beginning. Paying for purchases that never happened is a long term suffering of these poor victims – it should have been prevented when Life Lock is present.

LifeLock sets the protection at the beginning. It is a service designed to protect an individual’s identity from being stolen. It can be quite paranoid to be receiving fraud alert calls to verify one’s identity, but this is truly a helpful means to conduct regular checks on one’s account. There are even more benefits which is neatly outlined in their LifeLock review.

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After reading LifeLock reviews by consumers, I’m convinced that identity protection should be taken seriously. I think this is now a must because there are tech-savvy criminals who are learning the craft of taking away identities. I would not like to suffer the rest of my life trying to beat purchases that I never authorized.

Have you ever been locked out of your email address?

I could not log-in to my old Yahoo email address today. This suddenly happened after I deleted one of my Yahoo profiles. I had two Yahoo profiles linked to my email address and the deletion somehow affected my Yahoo account. I did not change my password during the process.

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Yahoo mail has always been my primary email address. I have other email addresses but I configured these other addresses to automatically forward mails to my Yahoo address. I’m still glad that my Gmail account is set to archive received email after these are forwarded to my Yahoo mail: I could still easily see the emails that passed through my Gmail account.

I tried to retrieve the password by trying the link “forgot ID or password”. I was not lucky to retrieve the password. The Yahoo system simply told me that it is not possible to retrieve the password online. It further added that I had to contact their customer support. After weeding through their FAQ pages, I got their customer support link and I proceeded to leave a message describing this problem.

I got into my other email account and I’ve seen the response of Yahoo customer support. They were asking me the answer to the security question. Unfortunately, I could not remember the answer to that question. I was holding to this dear Yahoo mail account for so long to poke around updating my account details. After typing in my answer I have not yet received any reply. I just do not know if I will be able to open that email address again – ever.

All my contacts are in that account.

Beware!

I have not explored much of Windows Vista and now another new operating system is cooking up at Microsoft. Microsoft Windows 7 is a new project in Microsoft where a blog was opened up for discussion. This operating system is slated to be released in about three years after the launch of Windows Vista last January 2007. Senior Engineers Jon DeVaan and Steven Sinofsky lead this new community blog. Their whole engineering team will participate in this discussion.

I guess Microsoft realized the value of getting the hearts of their users. Not all are happy with the launch of the Windows Vista, where it is known to have the Aero features. I still find more people who are still happy with using the Windows XP. In the places where I had worked before, management still decided to stick out to Windows XP because it is compatible to the existing drivers and hardware. I even converted a whole set of laptops from the bundled Windows Vista to Windows XP because of compatibility.

With this move I would be sure that Microsoft would now be more successful in launching their new Windows 7. With only two entries on the blog as of this moment, their posts had received hundreds of commments and suggestions from various users. Participate on their discussion on Engineering Windows 7 on their MSDN blog.

What features do you want to see in Windows 7?

I would love to earn a significant amount of income by simply working hours at the computer. But even if I get all the greatest-paying opportunities in the world, I might end up paying a huge part of it for medical treatment when I start neglecting my health. Carpal tunnel syndrome is a new medical condition that is unheard of before the 20th century. It is a result of doing repetitive wrist work, such as developing a hunched wrist over hours of working at a computer terminal.

IMAK offers products for carpal tunnel relief which prevents and relieves this condition. I believe this a must for bloggers, programmers and many others whose occupations tied them down to their computers.With the advent of computer age, this is indeed a great thing to have. The IMAK SmartGlove ensures that the wrist is rightly positioned so that it increases comfort and circulation. It’s great to have not only for those with carpal tunnel syndrome but also for arthritis, hand fatigue, tendinitis and other similar hand pain.

As I am writing this post, I kept on thinking about my hands. I should well take care of my hands so that I would not be losing it to this debilitating condition. I do not like to end up losing these important parts of the body: this is where I get most of my income.

I’m not new into doing programming and web pages. But I’m still new to PHP. I’ve decided to shift my interest from ASP to PHP because I do a lot of blogging. I think it would work more to an advantage for me if I work more on PHP pages where Blogger and WordPress pages are written on. It would not be so hard for me to learn and specialize in this area.

I’ve just downloaded PHP, JCreator and trial versions of Adobe products (Dreamweaver and Photoshop CS3) to start creating those pages. I would appreciate if you have any other idea to create those pages fast.