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Weekly News Roundup

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how to store scarves– How do you store scarves? Une femme d'un certain age shares her tips. Meanwhile, The Lawyerist has a round-up of professional bags for women (and a quote from me) — you can also check out some of our previous advice for fashionable briefcases and tote bags.

– Wow: The WSJ has a whole section on women in the workplace this month — I'm still making my way through all of it, but it looks really interesting. The Careerist takes away that women are holding themselves back, while Career Diva focuses on a more minor point that women should show emotion, but not be emotional.

– Stressed out? NPR says the best way to live to a ripe old age is to bounce back from stress.

– In financial advice, Mint advises you to have an investment policy statement, while The Simple Dollar explains the dividend method of passive income.

– Finally, a few minor security alerts from me: your email address was probably hacked recently, and in particular if you use Gmail, you may want to take advantage of some new security settings. Facebook offered an important security update a few months ago, but it's news to me so I thought I'd post again.

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    1. I don’t know but after getting my identity stolen over Christmas, my email addresses hacked into and my credit card used, I’m taking no chances. I set up LastPass, generated new passwords for pretty much every website, and signed up for the Google 2 step verification procedure to log in to GMail. It gives me a bit of peace of mind and makes it a pain in the ass for someone to try and hack my life again.

      In fact, the verification login is pretty easy and I suggest everyone do it.

      1. I found the Gmail verification login part easy, but the not-really-third-party verifications were pretty convoluted because it didn’t tell me which apps I needed to set up verification *for*. It would have been easier if Google had said “You need to set this up for YouTube, X app, Y app, and things like Blackberry Internet Service” instead of (paraphrase) “some of your apps might not work with this so do this other process instead.”

        Related: I love LastPass on desktop – can anyone speak to how it works on the iPhone?

        1. Yeah true – they didn’t structure that well. So far I’ve just installed it on my android phone but I’m not sure if there’s anywhere else I login from that it’s an issue.

          LastPass on Android is pretty good but requires a $12/yr subscription. Not sure about the iPhone though.

  3. Oh, shoot, I forgot to put the link re: the email address hacking — sorry about that. D’oh…

    Updating now… and here’s the link for everyone just following the thread:

    http://bit.ly/gf5XpD

    You probably were notified if your account was hacked — I think I heard through TiVo at least, but I don’t think I got anything from Chase

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