In November of last year I posted about Free Browsing, Content Creation & Productivity Software. Since then, I've discovered someone who has compiled (& curates) a very large list of software that's all free. They call it "Free Lunch". read more…
On this years Star Wars day, what could possibly be more exciting than light sabre fights? The very last official day of support for Internet Explorer 11 is only a few weeks away! Well, to me and people who make the Internet and secure networks. read more…
"I don't know anything." I'm sure professionals must hear that phrase semi-regularly. Because as one of my clients likes to say: "You don't know, what you don't know." read more…
The topic of Passwords, password management, and how to overcome our limited capabilities has humans to remember things has come up before. But last month's LastPass issue (reported on Bleeping Computer) highlights an interesting case. read more…
A list of free software that from across the internet that allow you to view, create or express yourself. These are mostly aimed at desktops and laptops/notebooks, but some of them are available on mobiles and tablets platforms. read more…
For a while now there has been a mounting move towards what could be called an escape from Google. Calls to flee the surveillance as a service business model that they have adopted & perfected - and to take a stand with by way of our choices. But can this actually be done? read more…
We're all familiar with spam. But why do people spam? What do they get from it? What should we look out for? Why does it work? read more…
Have you ever wondered why the things you search for (or even talk about) pop up in ads on the internet? It's not just you, everyone has this happen. Why? Surveillance-Based Advertising. read more…
Should a business use a publicly available free email service or internet provider email address for it's email address? What are the downsides? Are there other options? What are the parts of an email address anyway? read more…
Drawn by the catch phrase “Don't Be Evil”, their seemingly quality services, the way they tried new things and brought out new services - I thought I could get onboard with this! But the catch phrase has changed, the new things begot a slew of product retirements that directly impacted my day-to-day, and privacy / tracking concerns grew. read more…
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is the process or task of tailoring the content & possible structure of a website toward what Search Engines "like" and what Searchers (people) are searching for. read more…
Last month, Microsoft's director of identity security (Alex Weinert) wrote a blog stating that it's time to start your move away from the SMS and voice Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) mechanisms. read more…
Is your Android phone running an Android version older than 7.1.1? Come mid January 2021*, you're going to have a hard time getting to about 34% of the internet. If you want to check now to see if your device is affected, go to the Let's Encrypt test page. read more…
If you've read my previous entry on New Small Business Training from August last year, you'd be aware that I've been slowly working through the course work for the business training I started in the second half of 2019. And in mid October, I received my certificate! read more…
I've been talking to a number of business owners recently about their backup scheme, and for the most part, it's been barely adequate. In an age where cloud backups like DropBox, OneDrive and Google Drive are free and very available; and disk space & USB hard drives are reasonably cheap – there's really no excuse to ignore backups. read more…
Love them or hate them, have one or have hundreds of them; you'll need to use passwords for the rest of the foreseeable future. (Despite people trying to move on from them.) And while the thought of all the accounts you have, with all their hopefully varied passwords might make your head spin, they provide an essential service to us… keeping out prying eyes. read more…
Adobe Flash, once the go-to technology for browser based "cool stuff" on the web, will be officially unsupported as of the end of this 2020.
As with all End of Life procuts, it means there will be no further security updates past the EOL date. read more…
Recently I was resetting a laptop that was loaded with Windows 8. As I was watching it start rebuilding, I had an odd feeling. The only words I could put on that feeling was the question: "Do I really want to pass this on with Windows 8 on it?" read more…
Google has long had an old motto of "Don't be evil", but over time we have seen that disappear to be replaced it with what amounts to "Do the right thing." As Fast Company says: "It's subtle shifts like that one that can make a huge difference." I would have thought this is a step up. (Ref: Google Code of conduct April 21 2018 and May 4 2018. read more…
If you haven't noticed, the main navigation menu on this site has changed from a 3D fold down idea, to a slightly more traditional left menu - with a bit of fun. read more…
My preferred browser, Mozilla's Firefox, released a new product recently called Firefox Monitor. Usually I don't go for these branded value add things, but as I wasn't sure what this was, so I did a bit of research. read more…