Rick DeLuca's Technology Tips

Rick DeLuca's Technology Tips for August 13, 2009

Choosing The Right Hospital: Hospitals differ in their skill treating certain conditions

and making sure you find the best hospital in your area, requires some research. One

thing you shouldn't do is use the phone book. At USHospitalFinder you can start by

searching for hospitals in your area. Clicking on a hospital name brings up more

information about it. You can see what types of services it provides. More importantly,

you can see quality and rating information. See how its treatment differs in quality from

the national average.http://www.ushospitalfinder.com/

 

Email Address Online: A real invitation to spam. But maybe you could want

customers to contact you via your site. Consider using a contact form where your

e-mail address is never revealed. But anyone can contact you easily using the form.

Just sign up at Contactify. Contactify will create and host a contact form for you. You

can place a link to it on your site. Or, Contactify will help you embed the form in your

site. Responses will be sent to your e-mail address. You can evem log in and change

the e-mail address. Or, delete the contact form!   http://www.contactify.com/

 

Gauge Your Password Strength: These days, you need to make sure that you use

strong passwords. Crooks not only want your banking password, but also e-mail and

Facebook passwords. Microsoft has a tool that will help you gauge password strength.

Just enter your password to see how strong it is.

http://www.microsoft.com/protect/yourself/password/checker.mspx

 

Reading Books Online:  E-books offer a certain amount of convenience. They won't

take up any space in your house. They're also easy to transport. You'll find plenty of

free e-books online. Feedbooks is a great place to start looking for free e-books. There

are also plenty of contemporary titles. You probably won't find any big names. But the

authors are giving the books away for free. The books will work on popular e-book

readers. You can read them on your Sony Reader or Amazon Kindle. And many

smartphones can read the files, too. iPhone owners will probably want to bookmark the

 mobile site to read books directly in iPhone's Safari Web browser!  http://feedbooks.com/

 

And.....a Technology Tip Story

Customer: I can't get on the Internet.
Tech support: Are you sure you used the right password?
Customer: Yes, I'm sure. I saw my colleague do it.
Tech support: Can you tell me what the password was?
Customer: Five dots.

 

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