Tired of Getting Those Annoying RoboCalls on Your Home Phone?

RoboCalls are those annoying pre-recorded calls from telemarketers that seem to come daily. Most of us have gotten pretty good at just hanging up on them but wouldn't it be nice to have them blocked on your home phone so you don't even get them?
Last year American consumers filed over 2 million complaints against robocalls with the FCC. Advances in technology have made it extremely easy and cheap to send thousands of pre-recorded phone calls per minute using autodialers and fake caller IDs.
If your home phone is with AT&T U-Verse, Astound Broadband, BroadVoice/PhonePower, Cablevision/Optimum, Comcast, Sonic, SureWest, Time Warner, Ooma Premier, VerizonFiOS,Voipo,Voip.ms, Vonage, 1-Voip or Wave Broadband, there is a solution for you.
Nomorobo is a free service that acts as a call screener, intercepting the robocalls and hangs up for you. Nomorobo utilizes a massive database of known,illegalrobocallers that has been compiled with the help of the FTC and is continually updated. When a call is thought to be a robocall, the caller hears a message telling them that the message is blocked. It also tells the caller that if they are not a robocaller to please reenter the phone number. I've been using this service for months and have noticed a drop in robocalls. Unfortunately this isn't available for cell phones yet.
You can register your home phones at https://www.nomorobo.com

What about those sales calls from actual people? Is there a way to stop them?

You can reduce the number of unwanted sales calls you get by signing up for the National Do Not Call Registry at http://www.donotcall.gov. It's also free and in this case you can register both your home phone number and your cell phone number.
Keep in mind that the Do Not Call Registry prohibits sales calls. You may still receive political calls, charitable calls, etc.

There is no way to completely stop unwantedcalls but these services should help reduce what you get. Additionally, if you do get calls,don't interact in any way. Don't press buttons to be taken off the call list or to talk to a live person. Doing so will probably lead to more unwanted calls. Instead, hang up.

Want to See Something Scary?

I know Halloween just passed but here's something that might scare you.
Go to https://pipl.com. Enter your full name or your email address. Add your state or city as well. Scared yet? Go to http://www.skipease.com to see how many other people search sites there are, each providing information about you. Some of those sites will let you register to block others from seeing your information on their site but you need to search for how to do it, usually by scrolling to the bottom of the page and looking at the FAQ or Help pages.

You may be surprised out how much information is on the internet about you.This includes addresses, past and present, age, relatives, their addresses, your Amazon wish list (careful what you wish for). A few additional clicks and $20 and people can get your arrest records and much more. Most of this information is pulled from public records or from various internet sites so there's not much you can do. I was able to track down a long lost friend by using these sites, cross-referencing family members and then getting the phone number of one of their family members and calling them. That was a positive way of using this information but in the wrong hands....

Uploading a PDF, JPG, RTF or Word Doc to Your Kindle

The other day I downloaded a long PDF file to my computer and thought to myself, "self, wouldn't this be easier to read on the Kindle?" Well, of course I thought that was a great idea so I did. You probably know that you can connect your Kindle to your computer via USB cable and transfer files. Did you know that you can also email files to your Kindle? Did you know that you can also designate others to email files to your Kindle or Kindle reading applications? All it takes is email the file as an attachment to your Send-to-Kindle email address. That address is a unique email address that is assigned to your Kindle or reading app when you register.

How to send a document to your Kindle:

To find your Send-to-Kindle e-mail address, visit the Manage your Devices page at Manage Your Kindle.
Documents can only be sent to your Kindle devices or apps from e-mail accounts that you added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List. To add an e-mail account, visit the Personal Document Settings page at Manage Your Kindle.
To send a document to your Kindle device or app, simply attach it to an e-mail addressed to your Send-to-Kindle e-mail.
It is not necessary to include a subject in the email.
PDFs can be converted to the Kindle format so you can take advantage of functionality such as variable font size, annotations, and Whispersync. To have a document converted to Kindle format (.azw), the subject line should be "convert" when e-mailing a personal document to your Send-to-Kindle address.

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You're going to want to call me. I am available for technical support. I can remotely connect to your computer to assist you with what may be going on with your system so don't hesitate to ask if you need to. It won't always be free support, but I promise that I won't charge anything if I can't help you.

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This issue is kind of technical in nature...I know, duh.

If you have any questions or need help with any of this, please contact me.

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Additionally, I am available for technical support. I can remotely connect to your computer to assist you with what may be going on with your system so don't hesitate to ask if you need to. It won't always be free support, but I promise that I won't charge anything if I can't help you.

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