Tag: technology
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Phone Security == Computer Security
Dan gets paranoid and despairs about the ease with which mobile devices can be stolen, the wealth of personal information stored on them, and the under-use of readily-available encryption tools.
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Living In The Future
Google+ Hangouts makes multi-user video conferencing so easy that even Dan's mother can do it. It's like living in the future.
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Domain Name Hacks of 2013
With a plethora of new top-level domains planned to hit the Internet in 2013, Dan proposes a handful of new domain names, then feels sad that this new era might spell the end of "domain hacks", by making them too easy.
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Cardless Cashpoints
RBS Group banks now offer the ability to withdraw cash from ATMs without using a bank card, by making the withdrawal request from their mobile app. Dan gives it a go, and shares his thoughts on the process.
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Eurovision Spectacular 2012
Eurovision Night 2012 is on Saturday, and it's time that we brought our disparate Eurovision Night Parties together via the power of the Internet. Let's share the experience.
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On This Day In 2004
On this day in 2004, Dan finally handed in his dissertation on the subject of Three Rings. Since then, Three Rings has become the de facto standard for University Nightlines, and has also become the most popular rota management system for Samaritans branches and a variety of other helpline charities, too.
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Visitor Tracking Without Cookies (or How To Abuse HTTP 301s)
A technique for abusing HTTP 301 redirects and random numbers to uniquely track users; even those who have cookies disabled in their web browsers.
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8-Bit Google Maps
Google Maps have started providing an "8-Bit Edition", with retro-RPG-style map graphics, Dan observes.
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Searching For A Virgin
GMail's Contacts search surprises Dan by returning an unexpected result. Also, Dan is a beautiful person: his mobile phone says so.
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Remembering December 2003
Back in July 2004, Dan lost a lot of his older blog posts during a server malfunction. Now and then, he finds time to recover some of this deleted posts; like today, when he managed to get back everything he wrote in December 2003.
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HDMI Virus, or How I Became An Old Person
HDMI cables are over-marketed at the best of times. But Dan's just discovered one that goes one step further, claiming to do the fundamentally impossible. And then, like an old person, he writes an irate letter.
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New Computer #2 - Dana
Dana is the second of the two new computers Dan's acquired this month. She's tiny, reasonably-powerful, and uses almost no electricity.
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Looking for Wikipedia?
Dan explains how to get around the Wikipedia anti-SOPA/PIPA blackout, should you need to.
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New Computer #1 - Tiffany2
This weekend, Dan built a new computer - Tiffany2 - to replace his aging media centre box.
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The men who really invented the GUI
The IBM PC is not alone in having a significant anniversary this year. It is 25 years since Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniac started flogging Apple 1 circuit boards from a Palo Alto garage. But it was not until 1984 that the first Apple Mac made its appearance, with its revolutionary mouse-driven graphical user …