If you’re concerned about how much tracking is being done as you click around on the internet, and you probably should be, one easy thing you can do is grab Privacy Badger from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Install it in your browser to enable it to do some automatic detecting and blocking of tracking cookies.
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Last week when I talked about my concern with the concept of “if you can’t manage it, ban it”, this was exactly the sort of clash of priorities I was thinking of. 2008 ABA Tech Survey Sees More Mobility Hmm, so attorney’s are going to want more mobility, and clients always want more responsiveness from…
For Valentine’s Day this year, the wife and I had one rule. No spending any money. For her, that meant using some of the crafty things we already had around the house to make something for me, above. For me, heretofore known as the crafting disabled, this provided something of a challenge. Since I love…
I mentioned this a while ago and have had some conversation about it on-line, but I’d really like to hear from fans of mind-mapping software. Doesn’t matter which software, any will do for this discussion. What I want to know is, what is it about mind-mapping that attracts you to doing it? Every time I…
That’s a good question, and the part the Bruce Schneier found most interesting about a recent report by the Director of National Intelligence. Obviously, their focus is on the danger of intelligence information being altered, and the leadership no longer being able to trust the information given to them, but as a regular citizen, I’m…
Over the weekend, after seeing quite a few references to it, I decided to download Tweetdeck and check it out for myself. The idea of breaking the people I follow on Twitter into different groups was sort of intriguing, but I wasn’t exactly sure how it would work out in practice. As I began to…
Doesn’t sound creepy at all, does it? “The application, first reported by Metro, was published on June 14 and lays out how Facebook might remotely turn on your phone’s mic to start recording. Essentially, Facebook would embed high-pitched audio signals in “broadcast content” (think TV ads) that would be inaudible to humans. But whereas our…