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Cell (Mobile) phone safety
Cell (mobile) phone safety
Safety for cell (mobile) phones, regardless of whether they have Internet capability or not.
Text messaging (SMS) safety
All about sending text messages and how to understand text lingo.
Chat room safety
Chat rooms
Staying safe when chatting online.
#wiredsafety (IRC)
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E-mail safety
E-mail safety
How to deal with and protect yourself and your computer against spam, phishing, spoofing, scams and chain letters.
IM safety
Chat Safely
A primer for using Instant Messaging safely.
Chat safety basics for kids, tweens and teens
Instant messaging safety
How to get the best from your Instant messenger and chat safely
Other chat safety tips
Online discussion safety
Safety tips for using forums, bulletin boards and newsgroups.
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Featured IM clients
Trillian is not a separate messaging service, but in fact it is a Unified Messaging Service, i.e; in simple terms,it just connects to the various existing messaging services like AOL® Instant Messenger™, ICQ, MSN® Messenger, MSN® Messenger and IRC (amongst others). The advantage to this is that you can connect to all these networksat the same time, using just one client, Trillian.
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