AdGuard Mail — a new AdGuard product to protect your email: AdGuard enters into the cadre of services like SimpleLogin and Addy by offering a product designed to keep your email private.
Computing
2024-12-29: Just learned that you can now turn off Microsoft Excel’s previously incessant desire to …
2024-12-28: Edit csv is a very handy tool if you need to make some basic edits to a CSV file on a computer …
2024-12-25
making a website is hard: cathode ray dude bemoans the lack of a modern Microsoft Frontpage or Dreamweaver equivalent.
2024-12-22
Mobile Communications Best Practice Guidance: Largely sensible advice from the US cyber defence agency on keeping your mobile communications secure.
2024-12-18: Noticed that Mimo, one of the ‘Duolingo but for coding’ educational apps I sometimes …
2024-12-14: GoFullPage is a useful Chrome browser extension that lets you take a screenshot of all of a webpage …
2024-12-08
Smartphones don’t suck. People do: We shouldn’t let our phones bore us so often.
2024-12-07: OpenAI may be planning a ChatGPT Pro plan for $200 per month. Well, that’s quite a hike if …
2024-12-06: A friend kindly informs me that if you’re a customer of O2, a common mobile phone carrier in …
2024-12-05: Cybersecurity has gotten so bad that even the US government is imploring us to encrypt our communications
2024-12-01
Why you should use a different email address for every site: The list of things you might want to do in order to maintain some semblance of privacy/safety on the internet these days grows ever longer.
2024-11-26
Helpline for Yakuza victims fears it leaked their personal info: A Japanese government agency was phished.
2024-11-26: From The Register: A local Japanese government agency dedicated to preventing organized crime has …
2024-11-19
What I want from Mozilla: To fulfil their stated mission by ‘fostering an ecosystem of open, accessible software that promotes user independence, privacy, and safety’.
2024-11-10: OpenAI released their web search engine - at least to paid subscribers. Looks to be integrated into …
2024-11-10
Introducing ChatGPT search: OpenAI releases its search engine.
2024-11-10: RSS as a method of subscribing to your favourite online content is not dead, and thanks to its open …
2024-11-03
Google CEO says over 25% of new Google code is generated by AI: Their computer programmers are turning into code reviewers.
2024-10-30
Yelling at clouds: ‘The Cloud’ might feel like magic but we must remember that it has a real material footprint and consequent impact.
RSS and Instapaper as cup and saucer: I appreciate anyone’s efforts to make me feel OK about the amount on unread articles I saved.
2024-10-28
The Doc Web: A deep dive into the dynamics of publishing to the web via Google Docs.
2024-10-27
A woman, blogging: this is a political act: Blogging can be empowering, especially for people who otherwise might not have a voice - but it’s not without risk.
Smarter than ‘Ctrl+F’: Linking Directly to Web Page Content: I didn’t realise URLs already let you link to and highlight any specific piece of text on a webpage.
2024-10-26
Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it’s haunted: Consider your URL haunted ‘when something in its past gives it a poor reputation among search engines’.