Wear the Badger of Privacy We think “Do Not Track” browser features and browser add-ons are pretty much worthless – they assume that everything and everyone is tracking you for evil purposes and thus block everything without regard to what it is, who it is , or if it may be beneficial. Yes, indeed, I tells ya… sometimes… Read More »
What’s a Chrome Canary? A Chrome Canary is not a hood ornament, nor is it a bird covered in chrome. It’s a (excuse the cool speak) bleeding-edge browser that is for those of you who like to being on, what we used to call the “cutting edge” of technology. Canary is a version of Chrome, my favorite browser,… Read More »
Make your browsing a bit more private By now, most of you know that browsing the Web is anything but a private activity. All browsers now come with a private browsing mode or, in the case of Chrome, an incognito mode but alas, private browsing is not private at all – and if you read the fine print… Read More »
Check a site for cookies without visiting it While we have an ambivalent attitude toward cookies, many of you seem to be concerned with cookies and no amount of words by us are going to get you to stop worrying about cookies. Therefore in the spirit of capitulation, we offer to those cookiephobics among you a Web site… Read More »
Emsisoft stops trojans most other security software can’t stop We have been recommending Emsisoft for quite a while now. We’ve gotten to know the Emsisoft team pretty well. We knew after we spent months testing antivirus and anti-malware software that we’d found a winner: Emsisoft. Over the months and years now, Emsisoft has never let us, our readers… Read More »
What’s your favorite browser? Another night, another poll. This week we’ve found out that a majority you named Google as your favorite search engine, and that about 66 percent of you are going to be upgrading to Windows 10 or buying a new computer with Windows 10 on it. Now we would like to find out what your… Read More »