Last week Google announced changes to its privacy policy that, on the face of it seem perfectly reasonable.  In essence they want to treat all the different Google services you use as a single big account and share the data.  What this ultimately means though is that the company will know absolutely huge volumes of [...]

Categories: Google, Microsoft

So it’s almost time to dust off the old new year’s resolutions, work out how many you kept (I kept all of mine for the first time), and then set some more to take you into 2012.  But if I may I’d like to offer up a suggestion, and that is that you go into [...]

Categories: Advice

Nothing is ever 100% completely secure, let’s get this settled from the off.  Whatever security anybody or any company ever puts in place there’s either some way to crack it, or some flaw in the system that will allow people to circumvent it.  Thus it’s not really a shouting a Facebook moment to discover that [...]

Categories: The Web

If you ask Windows users which temporary file cleaning program they use then the chance is high that you get CCleaner as the answer. The popular tool has not lost any of its appeal ever since it was first introduced by its parent company Piriform (I first reviewed the program in 2005). But CCleaner is [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

All Internet users were recently made aware of the fact that social networking sites like Facebook, Google+ or Twitter had the power to track a user’s movement over the web. This is done with the help of scripts such as Facebook Like or Twitter buttons that webmasters add to their websites and pages. While it [...]

Categories: Browsing, Facebook, Firefox, Twitter

One of the biggest sources of spam in my opinion are tags on Facebook. The reason for this is that it is possible to tag friends in photos automatically. Those information are then not only available on the profile of the user who tagged the photo, but also on the profile of the tagged user. [...]

Categories: Facebook

When it comes to sending emails to multiple recipients you have several options at your disposal. The most common options are to use To, CC or BCC for that. The first two options may cause a privacy issue as they reveals all recipient’s email addresses to all recipients. That may not be a problem if [...]

Categories: Email

Chance is that the web pages that you are connecting to with your web browser load elements from different web servers, and not from one. This is for instance the case if a Facebook Like, Twitter or Google Plus button is displayed on the site. Sometimes though you may want to get an exact list [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

All videos that you view on the popular video hosting website YouTube are logged by the service if you are logged in on the site during the time you are watching the video. While that may be great at times if you want to find that one video again that you watched a couple of [...]

Categories: The Web, Tutorials Basic