Some stink is being made about Google’s retention and tracking of search data. A director at Mozilla has even claimed that Microsoft has better privacy practices, and he recommends users change their default web search to Bing. Allow me to introduce Startpage: Startpage claims no retention of user search data, and you have the option [...]
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Using Startpage to maximize your search privacy
Posted: 11th December 2009 by Craig Rettig in InternetTags: Internet
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A celebration of YouTube
Posted: 2nd October 2009 by Craig Rettig in InternetTags: Entertainment, Internet, Movies
Just in case you live under a rock and haven’t experienced the joyous time-waster known as YouTube, here are snips from the purported “100 Greatest Hits of YouTube” presented in a four-minute movie. There is a list of the represented videos on the YouTube page, but you can watch it here:
Brizzly – A more functional Twitter
Posted: 30th September 2009 by Craig Rettig in InternetTags: Internet, Twitter
If you’ve ever wished Twitter had some more features, and don’t want to be installing one of the many desktop clients to every computer you use, you might want to give Brizzly a look. While it maintains all of the original functionality of the main Twitter site, Brizzly goes above and beyond by adding features [...]
Twitter’s new ‘More’ button — an opinion
Posted: 19th March 2009 by Craig Rettig in InternetTags: Internet, Reviews, Twitter
Apologies to Fail Blog.
A Quick Look at PaperBackSwap
Posted: 6th August 2008 by Craig Rettig in InternetTags: Books, Internet, Reading
Are you also an avid reader? Lately, I’ve been picking up good number of books using PaperBackSwap. PaperBackSwap is a free online book exchange service. Essentially, for every book you send to someone, you get a book in return. If you send your books out via Media Mail or Parcel Post, this usually comes out [...]