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Don't Be Rude – Wear a Nice Turtle

I was appalled the other day as I drove into my neighborhood. There was a boy standing in his yard and he couldn’t have been more than 12 or 13 years old. The reason I was appalled was that I could not believe what was on his shirt. As shocking to me was also the fact that he was standing there with what I would imagine to be his mother. What did his shirt say? In bold, white font but F*** YOU! Seriously!?

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Nice Turtle Apparel is trying to change that. You see I hadn’t thought too much about it but there is a proliferation of rude or slightly offending shirts on the market these days. There doesn’t have to be a dead-end of options for wearing fashionable t-shirts with less than edifying messages on them.

You are probably wondering why we chose a turtle as our spokesman. The answer is quite simple really. My wife and I were shopping in a large super store one day (no names) and noticed that for the longest time the only t-shirts available were designed to be mean, rude, and selfish. whether attacking someone’s datability, attractiveness, intelligence, or existence, it seemed as if there were no nice things to be said. "What kind of message are we sending to this generation?", we asked ourselves.

Once we came across a familiar icon, a fuzzy little innocent looking rabbit with a bad attitude and sweet name (which we will not share here for legal purposes), that was it, we had decided that there was enough negative influence out there. It was time for a new face on the scene. The voice of niceness to shout into the hateful darkness and remind the world to  "Be Nice!" Thus, "nice turtle" was born (created to be exact). So, to answer the question, "Why a turtle"… Why not!

Turn a new leaf in life and let’s help switch the flow of vulgarity and offensive apparel.

Go uncover a nice, friendly item for yourself or a friend at Nice Turtle Apparel

Image: Screen shot of Nice Turtle website homepage

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Tips for Quickly Scanning Junk Mail Folders

I manage a number of email addresses on a daily basis. Some of the servers have great spam checking filters while others get legitimate emails caught in the filters by mistake on a regular basis. Regardless of the filters I setup or whitelist and blacklists I edit and update, I find myself scanning my junk mail folder for some services at least weekly.

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I will regularly sort my Junk Mail folders by "Subject" which for me makes it very easy to scan through subject lines that are usually very similar and the only difference is the spoofed email address they’ve created from the "From" line.

It can depend on your personal preference, sorting by "From" can also be helpful sometimes, especially if you’re looking for a specific address that always seems to get a false positive identification as spam.

Both of these options work far better for me than the default sorting method of "Date".

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Twitter Provides Free Texting Service

Twitter continues to become more and more mainstream these days. Being talked about by a variety of celebrities as well as being mentioned in more and more commercials every night it seems. The question is whether or not it’s got a trick up its sleeve that you may not have thought of before now.

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You’re probably well aware of the twitter 140 character limit that was established to work with the limits set by mobile phone carriers for SMS text messaging. Did you know that you can take advantage of twitter and use it as a free texting distribution service for people to use who may never know what twitter is or use it themselves.

Anyone with a cell phone can "subscribe" a twitterer’s updates. If the person twittering uses those updates to communicate news and instructions to that group of people, twitter can provide just that tool.

All you need to tell people to follow your updates is the following:

From their cell phone have them send a text to 40404 with the message "follow yourusername". They’ll then receive the following message response back:

Welcome to Twitter. Please confirm by replying with your name. Standard message charges apply, ‘stop’ to quite or ‘help’ for help.

In actuality that will then create them a twitter account with the name they text back. It appears twitter will add a number to the name to make it unique if it already exists. For example in testing for this post I now exist at jasonbean1 and bnpositive1 on twitter. I’m still testing to see how I might get access to those accounts if I ever wanted to start truly using twitter.

After creating your account you’ll receive the following text message:

Hi, Jason Bean! Have friends send ‘follow JasonBean1’ to this # for your updates. ‘help’ for more. What are you doing?

When you follow someone you’ll receive the following message response:

You’ll receive a message every time Bnpositive updates. To silence, send ‘off bnpositive’. For more commands, send ‘help’.

Did you catch all that? Free text messaging tool using twitter. Obviously it comes with all the other benefits of twitter too.