Simplifying Gadgets and Technology, is my passion!
Each website visit yields valuable data, sold to marketers so targeted ads can follow us around the web — unless you’re using the right browser. But what’s the best browser for privacy? There are myriad […]
The Mullvad browser’s main goal is to make it harder for advertisers and other companies to track you across the internet. It does this by working to reduce your browser’s “fingerprint,” a term that describes […]
Seeing what happened this week to the Linus Tech Tips YouTube channel made me realise how well we have secured in transit data, password managers, etc (LastPass was also hacked via an end user session) […]
Chrome/Chromium derivatives are popular browsers for a reason: They’re fast, powerful, and compatible with popular apps, services, and extensions. All that power, though, comes from somewhere, and ends up putting a strain on your RAM. […]
One reason for browsers getting sluggish is having too many extensions open, which just consumes extra RAM. Sometimes, too, they can interfere with each other. Even though my computer has 32GB of RAM, using a […]
The feature has not made it to the stable version yet, but the beta version just got this working fairly well. With many desktop screens being 16:9 ratio it makes a lot of sense to […]
Displays new emails and the sender’s contact photo, get notifications or even listen, read or delete them without opening Gmail! Supports multiple accounts plus many options. I manage some organisational GMail accounts on behalf of […]
Buster is a browser extension which helps you to solve difficult captchas by completing reCAPTCHA audio challenges using speech recognition. Challenges are solved by clicking on the extension button at the bottom of the reCAPTCHA […]
When you’re watching a relaxing YouTube video, the last thing you need is an obnoxious autoplaying video or a loud notification blasting into your ears from another open tab. If muting all background tabs is […]
This is probably the gentlest introduction I’ve ever seen on HTML. No fancy features at all, but it gives a good outline, with examples, of how the basic HTML document structure works. See https://opensource.com/article/22/8/gentle-introduction-html #technology […]
