Google Reader is quitting on us and there doesn’t seem to be an alternative if you don’t want something that tries to make your feeds look all fancy and shiny eye-candy-ish like Feedly or most of the alternatives I saw. The things I loved in Google Reader are: 1. Accessible from anywhere (which means web-based [...]
If you’re like me and you have a big fat internet pipe entering your home then you probably have a lot of unused upload bandwidth at the end of the month. In fact, if you have one of those flat-rate unlimited bandwidth kind of packages which you lucky foreigners seem to have in abundance, then [...]
I read this article recently on how this guy hacked his neighbours WIFI access point relatively easy. After that I wondered how easy it would be to crack my own WIFI network because my password wasn’t all that complex. In fact, it even has some dictionary words in it. So I got me a copy [...]
The search bubble. That thing where Google puts you in so your results are tailored to your preferences and habits. It’s kinda creepy and cool at the same time isn’t it? One of DuckDuckGo‘s main features is that they don’t put you in a bubble. So they don’t track your past queries, they don’t spy [...]
I was looking into getting some ebooks so I googled around a bit and something came up that was offering a nice deal. In fact, it was so nice that a little warning indicator popped up in my brain. It was looking a bit too good to be true, you know, the typical signs of [...]
Easier said than done is one of those expressions that applies nicely to managing your online account passwords. The rules are, as said, rather simple: 1. Use a complex password. 2. Do not reuse your password for multiple sites or services. A password like “pqu9ijLrFcDvmiphXRGo” is super-secure, but it’s pretty damn hard to remember too. [...]
I see a lot of guides about this online, but a lot of them are using tricks that don’t really add any real extra protection when choosing a good complex password. You make a password hard to crack by combining upper & lower case letters, numbers and a few special characters to increase the passwords [...]
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