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etc. What I can report is that I ran anti-malware and anti-virus software designed to “root out” the Blackhole and came up empty. 

My suspicion is the original bad boy has been perfected. Not only did I have the aforementioned nightmare but in attempting to change my password I was taken to a page that spoofed the Twitter change your password capabilities and thereby exacerbated the problem by giving the malware my current Twitter password along with a few other favorites when that did not work. Let’s just say for cautions I have changes all of my passwords on things I regularly use.

I also fear that this is a time bomb waiting to go off again since this is not the first time I have experienced the problem.   My issue is that my

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Philadelphia 'Texting Lane' Serves as Prank with a Message

By Steve Anderson , Contributing TechZone360 Writer
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With April Fools' Day now passed into memory, one particular joke has lingered on as a potential discussion tool and topic to be addressed for one major American city. The City of Philadelphia added a set of lines to the sidewalks in front of City Hall, specifically for those distracted by text messaging and other forms of digital communication.

The texting lanes – dubbed "e-lanes" by the City of Philadelphia – are marked in standard lane-marking style featuring a stylized human staring into a small slip of white in the white space where a human hand should be. The lines run along parts of Philadelphia's John F. Kennedy Boulevard, and are set to remain there for the better part of this week. They were even given promotional video treatment as Mayor Michael Nutter delivered a video address about them. He was quickly cut off by a second pedestrian engrossed in the display on his portable device. The distracted gent was played by Steven Buckley, deputy commissioner of the Streets Department.

The "e-lanes," and their promotion, are a small prank, appropriate to the season, but with an unexpected note of seriousness; distracted pedestrians are reportedly a serious problem in Philadelphia, one that the city is planning to address, possibly beyond the mock commercials and the comical pavement markings.

While distracted driving is a widely-acknowledged problem, mainly because it's significantly more dangerous, it's a bit more difficult to consider distracted walking as anything more than a minor annoyance. But considering that a pedestrian is hit by a car, on average, once every four hours in the City of Philadelphia, it may be substantially more of a problem than first thought, according to Mayor Nutter.

How far the City of Philadelphia will go with this remains to be seen, but one thing is quite clear: Philadelphia clearly has its residents' best interests at heart. Whether a campaign to snuff out distracted walking will be successful, or even worthwhile, will depend largely on those pedestrians themselves.

Edited by Carrie Schmelkin




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Mac OS X v10.7.2, Mail: Issues addressing a message to an iCloud contact group

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Symptoms

When addressing a Mail message to a group of iCloud contacts (that was created in Address Book), the contact group name may disappear and be replaced with a comma.

Resolution

As a workaround, address the message to the individual recipients instead of the group.

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