Here are a few options that could be used for larger groups:
Zoom: https://zoom.us/pricing (Free meetings are limited to 40 minutes)
GoToMeeting: https://www.gotomeeting.com/meeting/pricing
Cisco Webex: https://www.webex.com/pricing/index.html
Here are a few options that could be used for larger groups:
Zoom: https://zoom.us/pricing (Free meetings are limited to 40 minutes)
GoToMeeting: https://www.gotomeeting.com/meeting/pricing
Cisco Webex: https://www.webex.com/pricing/index.html
Quick note: Instragram is unfiltered and is not considered a safe place for kids.
If you’re using Snapchat (and from what I’ve heard, you nor your kids ought to be), you should at least make sure it on ghost mode–if you care about you or your children’s privacy and safety.
https://www.welivesecurity.com/2017/06/26/enable-ghost-mode-snapchat-now-want-keep-location-private/
A Greek interlinear resource has been made available that seems like it would be helpful. I have not looked at it closely yet, however. Let me know if you have any comments on it.
Go here, log in, and then you should be able to access the downloads directly via the links below:
Another Greek to English Interlinear for eSword that uses Stephanus 1550 with Strong’s numbers and morphology is here.
I also recently created a Textus Receptus Greek to KJV interlinear with morphology resource that is viewable in Microsoft Excel. Please contact me if you would like it and I will get you the link.
http://protectyoungminds.org/2017/01/05/keep-kids-safe-2017/
Here’s another handy memorization tool:
Scripture Typer: https://scripturetyper.com/Pages/iPhone-App/
Or some may prefer this one:
Here’s a Scripture memorization tool that seems to be working for a lot of people. Try it out and comment on how it works for you. It is optimized for mobile devices.
There are also some mobile apps available that help with Bible verse memorization.
“It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” –Matthew 4:4
The Henry Groves Bible in a year chronological reading plan was suggested to me. I took the suggestion. Would you like to as well?
You can mark off your progress here. It is optimized for mobile and available offline- just add the page to your homescreen or desktop.
If you want daily reminders, you can join this Facebook group.
If you still use Windows XP and your antivirus program is Microsoft Security Essentials, my recommendation is to uninstall Microsoft Security Essentials and install Avast in its place before April 2014. This is because Microsoft is reportedly not going to support Microsoft Security Essentials updates for XP after that date.
Avast is free and is now actually ranked better than MSE by some as of mid-2013.
If you unknowingly allowed LinkedIn access to your gmail account to send email invitations to your contacts, you can revoke access to LinkedIn here:
https://accounts.google.com/b/0/IssuedAuthSubTokens?hl=en
Warning: Your child’s location right down to his/her bedroom or favorite park may be tracked simply through the pictures you post. If your smartphone has location services turned on for the photos you take, the location of the photo is embedded with it.
You should double check your smartphone settings to verify that you are not embedding location information into the pictures you post online.
How to turn tracking information off:
Settings -> General -> Location Services -> Camera : turn off
To turn tracking information off on an iPod touch:
Settings -> Privacy -> Location Services -> Camera : turn off
Turn tracking off for Android:
If you’re taking pictures with a camera app: In the camera app go into settings, under camera options uncheck geo-tag photos. Other apps that can take pictures (like Facebook) will have their own geo-tagging settings, but they can be turned off, too.
Also…
You should also verify your privacy settings for social networking such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google+, to make sure that you are only sharing information with your friends, not with everyone (including search engines).
For Facebook specific privacy information, visit this post.
Google has announced that Google RSS Reader will not be available starting July 1, 2013. Follow this link to download the links that you follow as an XML file.
This post gives an overview of posts related to the recent Truth and Tidings article. Please comment on areas that these posts have not addressed, etc.
Backing up data
Internet dangers / preservation
Yes, this is a bit complicated. I want to try to make Facebook privacy as easy as possible (as of February 2013). This doesn’t cover everything, but hopefully it covers the main concerns most people might have.
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2) Keep especially private things in private messages, not in social media. If it’s meant for just one person, message that person in a private message (either with Facebook messaging/chat or email). Social media is social, not private.
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2) To change the privacy of something you already posted (photo: Facebook)
3) The privacy of my comments on others’ posts depends on the privacy setting they chose when posting it, not on my privacy settings.
So if I comment on your post, you already controlled who will see my comment when you posted it. If it was posted as a public comment, my comment can be viewed by all my friends and all the friends of the person who posted it. Check the icon on the post: the icon below represents Friends, so all the poster’s friends will see my comment.
Friends can see this post and all comments.
A globe means public– be careful with those.
Friends of Friends
Check the privacy setting of a post before commenting on it or liking it. Your comment will be visible to either their friends, friends of friends, or anyone, depending on the setting. (There is also a custom setting that can restrict the post from certain people, show only to a particular group, etc.)
4) According to Facebook, public posts can be found by anyone using an Internet search engine.
5) Any photo marked as a profile photo is viewable by anyone, anywhere.
6) To control what gets posted to your timeline (or choose to review posts before they get posted), see this link. (Your timeline is the info below your profile picture.)
7) If you don’t want your birthday year, etc visible to others, adjust those settings by clicking Update Info (under profile pic) and edit your Basic info.
8) The “ticker” or live feed at the upper right of your home page makes it simple for you to “eavesdrop” when one of your Facebook friends says something to someone you don’t know. The ticker displays everything that your friends are doing on anyone’s post that is public or friends of friends. So beware that lots of people could be seeing your comment depending on the privacy setting of the post or image you are commenting on.
9) If you tag a photo, the friends of the person you tagged can see the photo, regardless of the photo’s privacy setting (with the exception of “only me”). Note that you can control what photos you are tagged in, and you can choose to review tags before they are published.
10) If you include someone’s name in your post (as a tag–that Facebook creates into a link to that person), then that person’s friends can see the post also (unless you adjust the custom sharing settings to not include that person’s friends.)
This post provides a way for you to comment on the published article and supplements the material.
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A few facts.
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Did you know that watching movies through an app on Facebook may post a story to your news feed about what you’re watching without your knowledge? (Also, never view videos that ask you to share them with others before viewing.)
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Ideas for safeguarding our eyes and thoughts in this technology age:
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I don’t have experience with Parental Control features, but a little searching online reveals that iOS (Apple) and Windows 7 have parental controls built in but Android does not.
Here are a few links that might help:
For Android/mobile users:
Android / iOS:
MAC users
PC Users:
Please share what works best for you.
If you have comments on the Truth & Tidings article or things to add, please comment on this post or any of the specific posts relating to it:
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If you have precious data on your computer, you need a way to make sure you have it backed up in case of fire, computer failure, theft, etc. If your hard drive goes bad, you will either have to pay a LOT of money to get the data back, or you just lose the data. (Hard drive failure is common, even with new computers.)
Here are some easy backup options:
Microsoft SyncToy is a free Windows program that allows you to back up files quickly and easily to an external drive or flash drive. You can get small flash drives that are at least 32 GB in size for a very reasonable price. You click the sync option and only the files since the last sync operation are copied over to your backup.
Online Syncing: If you have less than 5-10 GB of data and a good Internet connection, there are a number of online sync options available that automatically back up your user data. See this article.
Make sure you keep installation CDs for any purchased programs you use.
If you can’t read the product key on your Microsoft Windows registration sticker or CD, you should record the key somewhere in case you need to re-install Windows.
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Windows 8 users should already have Windows Defender installed, which gives the same level of protection as Microsoft Security Essentials. But make sure it is activated. If your computer comes with an alternative, trial antivirus program, if you don’t renew the program, you will need to activate Windows Defender. I suggest uninstalling the trial and activating Windows Defender; it does a decent job and you don’t have to pay for it.
For users before Windows 8, if you never installed an antivirus program, you likely need to do that. As far as I know, Windows Defender before Windows 8 is not sufficient protection. Use Microsoft Security Essentials (Avast or Avira are also OK options at the time of this writing).
Presently, MAC users don’t have to worry so much about this kind of thing, since I think MAC programs have to be approved by Apple.
Antivirus tips:
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This also can happen as a result of clicking on a bad link in an email. (See “tips for detecting spam” below.)
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Tips for detecting spam and phishing schemes:
*Question about email.
You’re Jean Doe and you have a friend John Deer. You get an email from John Deer as follows:
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From: John Deer [John’s email here]
To: Jean Doe, Pep Cole, Dina Winter [all are your friends]
Subject: hi
Body:
um http://yolbi.com/alrua/fhios.html
John Deer
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* Should you check out the link or not? Why or why not? Should you reply to John Deer?
Answer:
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1) As people above suggested, never click on a link that you don’t understand or that looks questionable, even if it seems to come from a trustworthy source. This link is obviously not taking you to a place you know is safe. Sometimes the real link location is not visible and you need to hover over the link before clicking on it and view the real link location in the lower left of your browser screen to know if it is safe. Verify questionable links with the person who sent them to you before clicking on them.
2) Verify questionable emails with the sender before assuming they come from the said source. This email is almost surely not actually from John Deer, even though it comes from his real email address, is sent to real friends, and is signed by his real name. Hackers or robot-computers can get all of this information and use it to trick unsuspecting people. We know it is fake because it makes no sense and contains gibberish. Spam often has misspelled words and gibberish. This email also has a link to a strange place, and links are one of the means hackers use to do damage by taking you somewhere where they can try to steal your passwords and information or perhaps install a program to spy on you while you use your computer. I’m not positive that clicking on a link like this could make you the next sender of a similar email to some of your contacts, but I’m guessing that’s possible.
3) I don’t know how someone was able to get the friends from John Deer’s address book. Maybe John Deer clicked on a bad link from someone else’s email that looked just like this! Maybe his email has been hacked. Maybe he added a bad app on Facebook which had access to his email contacts and the rest is history. Did you know that someone can send an email and make it say it comes from whatever email address they wish? Just because you get an email from John Deer does not prove he sent it.
4) Maybe John Deer was hacked. Maybe he uses the same password for Hallmark Cards as he uses for his email account. Hackers unleash their computer password crackers on insecure sites and then use those same passwords on more secure sites like banks or Dropbox- or your email. That’s why it is a good idea not to reuse passwords, especially for important things like email and banking.
5) So at this point John Deer has no idea he has sent out this email. Do him a favor and let him know, but be careful about replying to the hoax email unless you’re absolutely sure that the email is his exact address. It’s much better to email him directly in a separate email.
6) What should John Deer do? At a minimum, he should change his email password and the security questions used to reset his password. This many times will stop the incident from happening again. He should make the password at least 8 characters long, and add a capital letter with a special symbol. (Adding just one capital letter and one asterisk would change the hacker’s processing time to figure out an 8 character password from 2.4 days to 2.1 centuries [very generally, according to lifehacker.com]) He might want to check the validity of Facebook apps and change his Facebook password as well. He also might want to change the settings in his email to always use a secure SSL connection if he uses email through public wireless networks.