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Going Social With Flock

Posted by Paul Godden on December 16, 2008 at 12:15 pm

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 project, [...]

OpenDNS STILL Breaking Your Firefox Search?

Posted by Paul Godden on November 26, 2008 at 2:13 pm

—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 [...]

Encrypt GMail To Protect Your Private Data

Posted by Paul Godden on October 8, 2008 at 5:30 pm

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 [...]

UK Could Lose Rights To Tech Privacy – What You Can Do To Protect Yours

Posted by Paul Godden on October 7, 2008 at 12:54 pm

£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 [...]

Create A Simple Backup Batch File In Windows

Posted by Paul Godden on September 15, 2008 at 3:40 pm

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 [...]

Hard disc involved in blackmail attempt – how do you protect yourself?

Posted by Paul Godden on May 13, 2008 at 3:18 pm

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 [...]

OpenDNS breaking your Firefox search?

Posted by Paul Godden on April 24, 2008 at 3:51 pm

—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 [...]

can't get to wikileaks.org? america taken away the domain name? make it work with my help

Posted by Paul Godden on February 20, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Wikileaks Logo

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 [...]

skin windows xp for free without windowblinds

Posted by Paul Godden on December 12, 2007 at 8:51 pm

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..

the easy way to share your itunes library over the internet

Posted by Paul Godden on November 30, 2007 at 3:06 pm

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?

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