I’ll keep this short. You should download your Twitter data, Facebook data, and as you probably have that too, your Google data. You never know when you might be banned from using them, even accidentally. After you’ve saved that data, go to Instagram and Reddit and do the same! Twitter […]
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Firefox printing with no headers and footers
First it was Netscape, then Chromium, on to Chrome and now (back) to Firefox, but the paperless office is still a pipe dream for me and most people. Printing from Firefox can be annoying. I don’t like seeing the title, URL, current time, etc in the headers and footers so […]
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Octothorpe
Episode 145 of “99% Invisible” is fascinating. It’s called Octothorpe and I bet you don’t know what that is. I didn’t. #butnowido
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Is there a PHB at Reddit?
When I read about what what happened to the remote workers at Reddit my blood runs cold. Did management take a lesson from the Pointy Haired Boss in Dilbert’s office? I can’t imagine how poisoned the workplace at Reddit must be now that everyone has had an ultimatum to move […]
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PSA: Google may penalise you for using Auto-Backup
tl;dr: if you upload a large number of photos Google may stop you uploading new photos to Google Plus. I’m not sure how long the penalty stays in place or if it is lifted at all. A few weeks ago I decided to use the desktop Auto Backup tool to […]
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Browser Overload
I should probably close some browser tabs. I’ve tried various tab extensions, using Pocket, or even copying URLs into a text file but still I leave the same tabs open for days on end until Chrome crashes and I forget to recover them and, BOOM, they’re gone and I don’t […]
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Google Reader Alternatives
Google Reader, an online app that allowed you to read and be notified of updates to blogs like this, will close on July 1st. It’s unlikely that anyone reading this isn’t aware of that but just in case. Export your data now! There are a number of alternatives to Google […]
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Extra Adverts showing in Chrome?
For the last few weeks I’ve noticed unusual floating adverts from superfish.com on amazon.co.uk, focalprice.com and other shopping sites but I couldn’t figure out what was causing it. Turns out I’m not the only one to notice them. It was an extension I had installed in Google Chrome. I went […]
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Who gets your data after death?
I have to admit that filling in the inactive account settings for my Google account gave me the shivers. There’s not much that would stop me logging into my Google account for more than 3 months. It would have to be one of the following: Trekking through a rainforest pursued […]
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Chrome 23 and Flash missing sound for you too?
The latest version of Google’s Chrome browser in Windows reintroduced an old bug where Flash videos were missing all sound. It doesn’t happen to everyone but if you set your speaker configuration to Stereo you should hear sound again. Click on the Windows Start button > Control Panel > Sound […]