markhaase.com

Talking about stuff…

Archive for February 2012

Somebody broke into my gmail account…

leave a comment »

One day, I opened up my e-mail and found something unexpected:

My Gmail Inbox

My inbox showed a bunch of emails that appear to be from my account (“me” in the left column) and sent with no subject line between 3:36 AM and 3:40 AM. I was definitely not awake at that time, and I was definitely not sending e-mails.

Read the rest of this entry »

Written by mehaase

2012-02-06 at 10:24 am

Posted in Internet Safety

Automatically visiting a website every day

leave a comment »

I want to keep track of investments on a daily basis, but some times I get so busy at work that I forget to check. I’d really like some way to automatically pull up my portfolio at a scheduled time each day so that I can’t miss it.

Here’s how to do this on a Mac. (It’s a little tricky if you’re not used to used to running commands from the command line, but this is completely do-able if you follow the instructions carefully.)

Read the rest of this entry »

Written by mehaase

2012-02-06 at 9:50 am

Posted in Computer Tips

Tagged with ,