- Guardian Firewall – Guardian Firewall
This looks really good. Not cheap, but I am disposed to like a company that says "For the lifetime of our company, Guardian Firewall will utilize a simple tried-and-true business model: Accepting currency for a product that people find valuable. Full stop. We will never track our users. We will never collect personal information about our users. We consider user data to be a liability. Each and every technical design decision is built around that concept. "
Tag: apps
Bookmarks for November 30, 2018
- A progressive Web application with Vue JS, Webpack & Material Design [Part 1]
I need to do some weekend learning on this topic.
Bookmarks for July 17, 2017
- Keynote extractor
A quick and easy way to get web pages out of keynote presentations.
Bookmarks for March 31, 2012
- This Creepy App Isn’t Just Stalking Women Without Their Knowledge, It’s A Wake-Up Call About Facebook Privacy [Update] | Cult of Mac
Yes, yes, I'm going on about on-line privacy again. If you've ever thought that I'm over-egging the pudding in regard to Facebook privacy, then I urge you to read this. It's easy to say "well, they should have been more careful with their profiles" but the truth is that they should have *had* to have been more careful. Building a tool like this simply should not be possible. And on the one hand, hats off to Foursquare for killing it dead already, and on the other, at time of writing this linkpost, Facebook have get to respond to the fact that it's their on-going advertiser-lead drive to get people to share information publicly that enabled this creepy, creepy piece of crap.
Bookmarks for March 13, 2012
- Benjamin Franklin's List Of 13 Virtues To Live By
Nothing that'll blow your mind in here, but still nice.
- Fantastical and BusyCal
Reminder to self, mostly.
- 3.1 Million Pixels Are Heavy (Global Moxie)
Food for thought as regards serving images to the iPad3. And, indeed, any similarly hi-res display. Even if one were tempted to pretend the problem didn't exist for now, because it's "only" the iPad (and I'm aware of the absurdity of that position already, in any case), we're clearly going to reach a point where other displays are as good as well.
- A Precious Hour
I am generally at my happiest when I do this. I should make sure I do it more.
- Create a custom map of your city in 30 minutes with TileMill and OpenStreetMap | MapBox
Well, this might be fun. And possibly useful, too.
Bookmarks for August 24, 2011
- New Android spyware answers incoming calls – SC Magazine US
Anyone want to bet me that there was a governmental intelligence agency involved in the development of this, at some point?
- Home – Readmill
I've just signed up for the beta of this service. Will dump books across to it in the next day or so, and give it a go. The app certainly looks nice, just as a shame apple don't expose an API to pull books out of the iBooks app, meaning I'm going to wind up with (quite a lot of) duplicate data on my iPad.
- FOSS Patents: Samsung cites Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' movie as prior art against iPad design patent
This one is really interesting, and I kind of hope they succeed, just so sci-fi writers all over American can get really litigious with big corporations going around turning all their ideas into reality.
- What Does Google Mean By “Evil?” (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)
This has been on my mind lately, and it's an interesting perspective. Swartz is suggesting that Google's definition of "evil" is "not making things worse for users in order to make more money". It's not a bad suggestion, and if it's accurate, it's still more than many companies even attempt, but (as is probably obvious if you've listened to me bang on for a while) I think it's perfectly possible to be "evil" and still hew to that definition. (I also don't agree that the G+/real names nonsense passes that definition of "evil", but that's another thing.)
Bookmarks for April 8, 2011
- Call Me Fishmeal.: Success, and Farming vs. Mining
This is about business and software. Except, of course, that it isn't. This has done the rounds already because it's about *life*. Read it.
- Pow: Zero-configuration Rack server for Mac OS X
Well this is *very* nice. One of these days, I'll get seriously into Ruby. Honest.
Bookmarks for October 28, 2010
- HTTPS Everywhere | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Here's a plugin you can install and use that will protect you from Firesheep on a lot of sites that support it. Not all, by any means, so don't go assuming you're secure, just because you're running it, but it should keep you safe on many popular sites.
- Exposing Nadine Dorries and the little gang of Conservatives who cried ‘stalker’ | Bloggerheads
3 Conservative MPs, one of the them a cabinet member, have repeatedly smeared and harassed a journalist who had the temerity to question some of the lies they told in public. (I should perhaps say that I don't believe that Labour MPs are automatically above this kind of behaviour, either, merely that I haven't read anything about it lately. That doesn't make it acceptable that the Conservatives do it.)
- Subtraction.com: My iPad Magazine Stand
Some good, thoughtful writing on the current crop of magazines-for-ipad, and the failings in the software used to produce and consume them.
Bookmarks for October 27, 2010
- Firesheep usage leads to Idiocy | Netcraft
If only I used a laptop on public wifi I'd set this up…
- How to guard yourself and your Mac from Firesheep and Wi-Fi snooping
This has become a reasonably hot issue in the last week or so, as I hope my post earlier made clear. If you're a Mac user, there's some stuff in here that'll help…
- CleanMyMac – Enjoy your clean Mac with just a few clicks!
Should probably run this at home – I just had a quick check on my work machine, and discovered I could free up 4GB of space, and I suspect that number will be higher at home…
- Fast-Forward: The Future of Science Fiction in Africa
Really interesting article on African SF writing – why there hasn't been much of it historically, and why it's something to really look forward to.
Bookmarks for February 23, 2010
- Rivet – Stream your music, movies, and photos to your Xbox and PS3
I've got a system prefs thing set up to do this, but it's unrelaible, and I wonder if this would work better…