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Keeping the Internet safe, one browser at a time

May 18, 2010

Microsoft’s Inter­net Explorer browser hasn’t been my daily work browser for many years, and I can’t see that chan­ging any­time soon. There are many reas­ons that I’m not going to go into, but these days it’s mostly about what I’m famil­iar with. From the sat­is­fac­tion num­bers I’ve seen, IE is still quite the power­house browser-of-choice […]

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The browser you’re using right now is actually tracking your online activity

May 17, 2010

An inter­est­ing news release by the Elec­troinc Fron­tier Found­a­tion last week shows that anonym­ous web surf­ing may not be as anonym­ous as pre­vi­ously thought. Due to each browser’s unique char­ac­ter­ist­ics and con­fig­ur­a­tion (fonts avail­able, screen size, IP related inform­a­tion etc) it seems that many browsers cre­ate a unique ‘fin­ger­print’ that can be used to track […]

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Best music player ever. Songbird 1.1.1 now with watched folders.

March 12, 2009
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I’ve writ­ten before about Song­bird, the free, open-source music player based on the Moz­illa / Fire­Fox plat­form. Basic­ally Song­bird rocks. Well, now there’s extra-new-and-improved Song­bird good­ness as the update was released this even­ing, with the one sig­ni­fic­ant fea­ture it’s been lack­ing up ’till now — the ‘Watched Folder’ fea­ture. To quote from the song­bird release email: […]

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