Bookmarks for May 2, 2012
- Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on Download Page
Blah blah privacy, blah blah tracking cookies, blah blah, install this so that google stop tracking (almost) every website you visit.
Tag: privacy
Bookmarks for April 10, 2012
- 4 final Orpheuses – rejectamentalist manifesto
This really worked for me, got me thinking about other ways to view similar heroes.
- Cartes Infernales by Ariana Osborne — Kickstarter
Every time I see Kickstarter used for something cool, I die a little inside, because I cannot contribute, because Amazon are a bag of dicks. So once again, I do what I can, and point you at yet another project that I would love to contribute to. I've used the Dictionnaire Infernal as a source of inspiration many times in the past, and would love a deck of these to use a a prop. But instead one of you will have to stump up the cash, and let me look on in envy. Which is kind of appropriate, I suppose.
- Learn Touch Typing Free – TypingClub
I was asked if I touch type while away in Northern Ireland. I don't, but I've always wanted to learn. Might give this a go, if I haven't go too many bad habits from my self taught typing.
- Flashback Trojan Creators Scared of Xcode, But Not Norton Antivirus – Waxy.org
I don't know if this is telling, or just amusing. Either way, pleased to see that I should be immune to that trojan.
- Threat Description: Trojan-Downloader:OSX/Flashback.I
Odds are I'm clean, I just ned to remember to run this at home.
- ADmented Reality – Google Glasses Remixed with Google Ads – YouTube
Every time I get excited about our shiny new AR future, I must sit and watch this video, which is a much more accurate depiction of the horror that likely awaits us all.
- When the cops subpoena your Facebook information, here's what Facebook sends the cops – Phlog
Not actually posting this as a dig at Facebook, it's just interesting stuff. I'm not personally wild about the fact that subpoena relating to getting information relating to one user can result in the forking over of messages relating to unrelated users – I would prefer it if they were required to specify that they were interested in correspondence between parties A and B, rather than just getting all party A's correspondence, but I know that's not how the world works, and that's not actually Facebook's fault. See? I can be rational about this stuff, if I try hard!
Bookmarks for April 3, 2012
- I hereby resign – raganwald's posterous
Worth a read, if you're at all concerned about this whole employers-requiring-interview-candidates-to-give-them-access-to-their-Facebook-account business. The short version is that it wil create *far* more trouble for employers that it will solve.
Bookmarks for April 1, 2012
- BBC News – Email and web use 'to be monitored' under new laws
Please tell me this is an April Fools joke.
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 3, 2012
- Start Developing iOS Apps Today: Introduction
Any once again, I mutter "I'll get round to it one of these days" to myself… (In case you're wondering, I've been largely away from the t'internet for a week, being either parked in front of the Xbox or out doing museums and galleries, and I'm catching up on what I've missed.)
- In the Future Everything Will Be A Coffee Shop
I find the sort of future he's describing here quite pleasing, as he's essentially saying that the one aspect of modern life that cannot be reduced away is the idea of a social hub. The practical reality of the matter is that someone with an internet connect does not need to go to the shops, the office, or really anywhere, except places where they can be among other humans.
- CERN | booktwo.org
Here's a nice, easy to understand, and very readable bit of writing about CERN, what they do there, and why it's important.
- Olloclip vs iPro Lens review | The TechBlock
Been vaguely wondering about getting one of these. On the strength of this, it looks like the iPro is the one to get.
- Verisign seizes .com domain registered via foreign Registrar on behalf of US Authorities. » blog2.easydns.org – Happenings and observations
The US government have just demonstrated that they will sieze the internet based assets of foreign entities, even though no transaction related to those assets took place on US soil, and the crimes it thinks the company may have committed are not illegal in the places they may have committed them. This is (very) roughly like the US government marching into someone's home in London, and taking away their TV (that was purchased in London), on the grounds that it can be used to watch programs made in the US, because the owner, while living in London, drank alcohol at the age of 19. (I pick a trivial offence only because it's the first thing I can think of as an easy and everyday difference between US law and the law elsewhere.)
To quote the article: "This is no longer a doom-and-gloom theory by some guy in a tin foil hat. It just happened."
- 15+ Google Chrome extensions for better privacy control
Every time I need to set up a new install of Chrome, I have to hunt this page out. I'm bookmarking it so as to save myself a little time next time. Some of you may find a lot of it useful, too.
Bookmarks for February 13, 2012
- The Perpetual, Invisible Window Into Your Gmail Inbox – Waxy.org
Andy Baio writing about the dangers of authorising apps to look in your Gmail. I am pretty careful about this stuff and I don't really *use* my gmail (it's a dump address that I've got more or less just so I can access Google's other services), and I *still* had a bunch of apps authorised to use it that I looked at and had only the haziest recollection of ever authorising, so I've cleared them out. The odds are that none of them are malicious, of course, but it's only going to take one service to get bought out by someone less ethical than it's founders for things to start going wrong. It's not just gmail, of course – we're all getting very used to authorising one website to see what we're doing on another one, and is should be part of anyone's personal security practice to review which websites can see what where on a semi-regular basis, just like you should all be changing your passwords regularly, and using a password manager. You are all doing that, aren't you?
- Start 2012 By Taking 2 Minutes to Clean Your Apps Permissions
I likned to this only a couple of weeks ago, but it's very useful in light of the above, so I'm re-linking it. A list of popular web apps, with links that will let you manage what other web apps have permissions to use them, so that you can easily make sure that nothing has permissions it shouldn't.
Bookmarks for January 26, 2012
- Your Mobile Phone Number is not Safe with your Mobile Operator
Interesting post about mobile-phone-number privacy. I can already think of a dozen way I could abuse this knowledge.
Bookmarks for January 25, 2012
- Bootstrap, from Twitter
Really want to check this out proper like, and maybe build something using it. I've kept on promising myself a custom-designer blog for years, but have never gotten around to it. Maybe now's the time.
- Google tracks consumers’ online activities across products, and users can’t opt out – The Washington Post
I was able to opt out of using Facebook when I didn't like their privacy settings. I welcome any suggestions on how to avoid using Google products. At this point, I'm just consoling myself with the thought that the company will probably be dead (or at least, much reduced) within the next 10-15 years, and I'm just hoping they don't damage our norms around privacy too much along the way.
Bookmarks for January 3, 2012
- Favorite Typefaces from 2011 « Opinionated Type
Some absolutely beautiful choices in here.
- Start 2012 By Taking 2 Minutes to Clean Your Apps Permissions
A really good idea – a list of popular web apps, with links that will let you manage what other web apps have permissions to use them.
- scrollorama
Jquery scrolling effects plugin. Might be handy at work.
- Bullshit – Marco.org
"Everyone has their bullshit. You can simply decide whose you're willing to tolerate." Spot on.