January 5th, 2012

Tagged, You’re It

A piece on The Next Web, Why Facebook Can’t Do Anything About Other People Sharing Photos of Your Children, by Nancy Messieh rekindled my interest in this topic. We moms are curious to know what YOU think. Let’s discuss this.

Do you post photos of YOUR children online? Do you post photos of OTHER children [...]

December 13th, 2011

Holiday Shopping Scam Alert: Don't Get Clickjacked

Today I received this email message notifying me that I’d been charged for an Amazon order. Imagine my surprise when I read that a $170 MP3 player was coming my way!

um. No! No way did I order something like this and my husband knows better! So, naturally a red flag went up [...]

August 30th, 2011

Email Safety Tip: Avoid Malware

This is a screenshot of an email message sent to me by a client who was suspicious about whether or not this message was really coming from PayPal. She was correct to be suspicious and I’m glad she forwarded it on to me so I could use it as an example to share [...]

August 29th, 2011

IGG Software Pledges One-Day Sales Revenue to Vermont Disaster Relief

August 29, 2011 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE IGG SOFTWARE PLEDGES ONE-DAY SALES REVENUE TO VERMONT DISASTER RELIEF Matching Donation Also Promised To Benefit Community Relief Efforts

(PUTNEY, VT) — In the aftermath of statewide flooding and destruction caused by Hurricane Irene, IGG Software today announced that 100% of sales revenue generated on Monday, August [...]

July 22nd, 2011

PSA Regarding Money Management Mac Apps

I wanted to share a message i received from Scott Marc Becker over at www.iggsoftware.com — makers of iBank:

BEFORE UPDATING TO MAC OS X 10.7 LION: users of all versions of Quicken for Mac (prior to Quicken Essentials) MUST export their data so that they may import it to new [...]

April 19th, 2011

Phish Food for Thought

Don’t get scammed! Here is an example of one of the many phishing scams out there.

Checking my Spam folder I received what looked like an official message from my bank. There was good reason it was in the spam folder. Google is pretty good about flagging spam appropriately. Sadly, not everyone is lucky [...]

March 14th, 2011

iBank 4.2 released

March 10, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

IGG SOFTWARE RELEASES IBANK 4.2 FOR MORE POWERFUL, ADVANCED MAC MONEY MANAGEMENT Free Update To iBank 4 Includes In-Line Editor Calculations, Improved Data Entry And More 

(PUTNEY, VT) — IGG Software today announced the release of iBank 4.2, a major update to the leading [...]

December 3rd, 2010

How Do I Protect My Android Phone From a Virus or Hacker?

We have a question from a Mom who is a new Android phone owner:

How can she protect her phone from getting a virus? What is the best way to avoid things like Facebook viruses carried in games besides just not interacting with them?

Android Moms, what’s your answer or best advice?

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September 9th, 2010

Mark Your Calendar for World Habitat Day

Moms Gone Geek is reaching out to bring awareness to those in need. Please join us.

July 20th, 2009

MGG 019 Show Them the Money

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February 16th, 2009

MGG 009 TOS Contracts

Do you read the Terms of Service contracts for each and every service for which you sign up? Do you just click accept and hope for the best? In this episode we discuss the Facebook TOS change debacle and why it’s so important to know your rights and be aware of how your [...]

October 13th, 2008

MGG 005 Special Segment: Review of the ABCs of Backup

A is for Archive

Archives are what you make them. You don’t have to use any fancy software to archive your files. Your operating system’s file browser is all you really need. (i.e., Explorer in Windows and Finder in Mac OS) When you archive something, you’re either moving or copying an original [...]

September 30th, 2008

Amber Alerts

I struggled a bit with whether or not I should post about tools to help recover our kids should they ever be abducted. I feel like its one of those things we can ignore, sweep under the rug, and hope never happens. Or, we can dialogue and be informed. So, here it is.

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