Citizen Godden

For the uninitiated, Flock is an open-source social network browser based on the same codebase as Firefox (Mozilla/Gecko). Because of this it has the same speed and security of it’s better known cousin. I had used Flock for a short period about six months ago so I thought it was time I revisited the [...]

—This article supersedes the previous OpenDNS article, to bring everything up to date.—

I previously wrote an article about how to fix the search results that get thrown up by OpenDNS when you’re trying a quick search in Firefox’s address bar. However, if you use the Google Toolbar, you will have the same problem. There also [...]

Yesterday, I wrote an article on a project being funded in the UK to snoop on private netizens “just to make sure” they’re behaving themselves. I also touched briefly on some ways to protect yourself and keep your communications private. Well today, I’m going to go a little more into details on setting up a [...]

£1 Billion has already been ploughed into a monitoring system in the UK that could make every user of technology in the country a target for Big Brother.
The system, based in a building in Benhall, and reported by TechSnake in July, is being funded to intercept all email, SMS and internet traffic to the tune [...]

Think of the unhappiest times with your computer.. What happened during those times? What would cause your face to freeze and your jaw to drop? In my experience it has almost always been because data was lost. It’s normally the realisation that everything you had was gone – when you stare blankly at the computer [...]

Every now and again, two of my favourite subjects come together (No, not blackmail and hard discs) – Technology and Motorsports.
Formula 1 star of the McLaren-Mercedes team, Lewis Hamilton, has been the focus of a blackmail attempt by a man in Germany, named simply “Dieter.” Dieter somehow obtained a hard drive, that had supposedly been [...]

—Superseded by a newer OpenDNS article, written to bring everything up to date. —

It’s a common question, and most people don’t really look for the answer. If you make the switch to using OpenDNS, all of a sudden the feature of typing anything into your address bar in firefox, and being redirected to the best-match [...]

That nasty judge. The registrar had no choice but to remove the entries it has for wikileaks.org so people couldn’t get to the site anymore after his ruling. Well, you can add your own entry, locally to any system so you can always get to wikileaks.org. How? Well you need to change a file called [...]

I know what you’re thinking, it sounds like one of those websites that offer the “free download” and then you find out that it’s the product you’re going to have to pay for – not the download. A clever and annoying play on words..

Quite a quick post this one (which is testament to how easy it is) to show you how to share your iTunes library over the internet, without any complicated SSH tunnels, or port forwarding or anything – but still have it secure. Also, this method allows multiple connections with ease (as long as the computer hosting the iTunes library has enough upload bandwidth, of course.) How?