About Alan Burns

• I can be rich, if I just help move some hidden money

  Posted on 25 Apr 2011 by Alan Burns

  Yesterday I received an incredible offer. A director of an investment funds company has siphoned off millions of dollars illegally, and needs someone to help him get it out of the country. If I help him, I will earn a fortune. I am so excit...read more

• Backup your web site

  Posted on 23 Apr 2011 by Alan Burns

  It must be a truism that you never need a backup so much as when you don’t have one. More than once I’ve received a panicked call from a friend, client or co-worker after they’ve suffered a drive failure or other data loss...read more

• How to choose a web host

  Posted on 20 Apr 2011 by Alan Burns

  It can be tough to choose from the thousands of hosting companies. Which ones will be reliable, which ones are to be avoided? I hope I can give you some tips to help you to find a web hosting company worthy of your business, a safe platform...read more

• Huge criminal botnet crippled

  Posted on 18 Apr 2011 by Alan Burns

  Score one for the good guys. U.S. authorities last week took action against a huge criminal botnet. A botnet is a network in which servers run for illicit purposes control home and office computers whose owners are unaware they have been co...read more

• E-mail: plain text is best – follow-up

  Posted on 16 Apr 2011 by Alan Burns

  After my recent article on formatted e-mail a reader commented: This is outdated nonsense. Use HTML for all emails (and UTF-8, for that matter). If you can’t see it correctly, upgrade your mail client. Stop living in the 90s, and stop...read more

• E-mail: plain text is best

  Posted on 14 Apr 2011 by Alan Burns

  I can sum up my advice on this topic in one phrase: compose and send e-mail in plain text. When e-mail began 45 years ago, all messages were in plain text. For the technically inclined among you, it was 7-bit ASCII text. In more modern time...read more

• The Swiss Army knife of smartphones

  Posted on 12 Apr 2011 by Alan Burns

  It’s a smartphone, it’s a dockable laptop, it’s a media player. It’s all those and more. It’s the Motorola Atrix, voted best new smartphone at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. Much more than a smart...read more

• Client emergency solved with a mail forwarder

  Posted on 09 Apr 2011 by Alan Burns

  A client sent me an urgent message today. Last week he picked up his brand new business cards and then flew to a trade show in another country. At the show he handed out lots of cards to prospective customers. Upon returning home last night...read more

• BCC for long distribution lists

  Posted on 06 Apr 2011 by Alan Burns

  Do you ever send a message to multiple recipients? Sure you do. Whether it’s a forwarded joke, the URL to the latest YouTube sensation, or some personal news to friends and family, we all do it. It’s one of the efficient benefit...read more

• Do you need a smart ball?

  

  Posted on 04 Apr 2011 by Alan Burns

  One of the hit toys at the recent Consumer Electronics Show was the new Orbotix Sphero. It’s a baseball-sized sphere that is both powered and controllable. This self-powered sphere zips around the floor, and can do so randomly. What&r...read more

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