The BBC is reporting a small study by UK security firm Securenvoy into the impact work-related email will have on UK workers this Christmas.  The study says that British employees are so “email obsessed” that almost 50% plan to check their work email over the Christmas holiday period. So how does this break down and [...]

Categories: Email

It happens that I get tired in the late afternoons, so tired in fact that I’m hard pressed not to go to bed directly to sleep the sleep of the brave. This happens often after a restless night, or when I wake up to early. The following list contains tips that help me stay awake [...]

Categories: Advice, ask the readers

I tend to forget the time when I need things done on the computer. It can happen that I sit down in the morning to leave the workplace for the first time in the evening, unless you’d count getting another cup of coffee which I do fairly regularly. Breaks are important to reload your batteries, [...]

Categories: Uncategorized

Is it possible, is there such a thing as an attack that can tell a hacker where you live?  The BBC has revealed that a specially booby-trapped website can tell a hacker where you are to only a few metres. The attack was dreamt up by security expert Sam Kamkar who demonstrated at the Black [...]

Categories: Google, Hacking

Some computer users have no problems completing their daily work chores without ever giving in to distractions while others might need a little extra help to stay work focused. Has it ever happened to you that you sit down on your computer to finish some work and be productive only to be distracted by emails, [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

If you visit private websites, those that are not related to your work, at your workplace you have to be careful. Most companies will react on private web surfing which could lead to a kick in the butt and the search for a new job. It’s not only the supervisors that have to be taken [...]

Categories: Browsing, The Web

Beer day is the day of the week where you go out with the guys from work. More often than not it’s Friday afternoon. The Beer oClock extension for Firefox puts a little reminder about that special time of the week in the Firefox status bar. Not the usual “x days y hours till Beer [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Funny

If you are interested in stats about your general surfing habits then page addict might come in handy. This firefox extension records the time that you visited a website and displays some nice graphs showing the dates, the minutes you have been on those sites and the total amount of minutes that you were using firefox on that day. That is of course not everything: You may tag a site or more than one site and check the stats of those tags as well. If you visit cnn, bbc and yahoo for work you could tag them “work” and receive the exact amount of time that you visited those sites.

Categories: Browsing, Firefox