Don't Click that Twitter Direct Message Link

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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Slices for Twitter Review

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Slices for Twitter tries hard to differentiate itself from the masses of iOS apps designed around the social networking service, and while it doesn't quite race clear of the pack of third-party options, it offers some great ideas and solid execution. Combining a clean and responsive interface with everything you'd expect from a stellar client (sans push notifications), Slices emphasizes the discovery aspect of Twitter with its extra functionality.

The two big features here are Explore and slices. You can browse by category in the Explore menu, looking through influential users and relevant tweets in 21 areas, including Live Events. It helps you find people, but it's hard to get past the movers and shakers to more niche experts. The list-like slices, meanwhile, are made from "slicing" your timeline into mini-feeds that you define. Along with several other filtering options, these bring order to the chaos of big Twitter feeds.

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Matt Graves Steps Down as Director of Communications at Twitter

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Monday Recap: Mountain Lion GM, Twitter Update Leak, Windows 8 in October

she'll be coming 'round the mountain when she comes!" We speak, of course, of OS X Mountain Lion, Apple's latest and greatest version of Mac OS X which is expected later this month from the Mac App Store. And the furry gal is now closer than ever, with word that the gold master is now being pushed out to developers today. Didn't hear the news? Then be sure to read on and find out what else is making news for Monday, July 9, 2012...

Just a Matter of Time Now: Apple Releases Mountain Lion GM

We can't say this is much of a surprise, but a "GM seed" of OS X Mountain Lion turned up in the Mac Dev Center today. Tagged as Build 12A269, the "GM" stands for "gold master" -- as in, most likely the final version we'll all be installing when The Artist Formerly Known as Mac OS X 10.8 is released to the public later this month. No clue on exactly when that will be, but now that developers are downloading the gold master, it's looking like sooner rather than later.

Big Twitter Update Leaked via iOS 6 App Store

Well, well, well

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FTC Reaches Out to Google and Twitter in Routine Facebook Investigation

- Alert) and Google's. The availability of paid apps may give Facebook a way to make more money off of the increasing number of mobile users as they move to their phones away from their computers.

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