Category: Products
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KDE help: ‘KDE lost my widget!’
Recently I was arranging widgets on my dual screens when I tried to drag one from one monitor to the other. I dropped it where I wanted it to go, and was surprised to see it wasn’t there. No matter, I thought. I opened the widget panel to add it again and was confused to…
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AVAST Mobile Security & Antivirus detecting everything as a virus?
This morning I opened my Gmail app on my Android phone only to have it unexpectedly intercepted by Avast as being infected with malware. Strange, I thought. Gmail has always caught malware while still on the Google server. Still, it was conceivable, and so I uninstalled the updated version and reverted to the factory one.…
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HostGator – The Privacy Saga Continues
HostGator: A friend after all? As I wrote yesterday, HostGator locked me out of my brand-new account because of “suspicious” activity. I called back to push them further on it. Do I really need to email them my personal data—scanned copies of my passport or driver’s license, as well as my credit card—to prove I’m not a…
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HostGator – The Privacy-Intrusive Web Host
To proceed with this transaction, we require additional pieces from you. After spending quite a bit of time exploring an alternative web host, I chose HostGator. The reviews were kind, the price was reasonable, and they were having a sale. Seemed like a good time to start migrating my 10 domains (soon to be 11)…
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Goodbye Scotiabank
Not long ago I wrote to convey my dismay with the incessant amount of marketing I was receiving as a Scotiabank customer. For the record, they still continued to call — albeit less frequently — after I contacted them again to re-request that they stop contacting me. Not exactly the customer-focused care I would expect…
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Hunting for a self-hosted photo gallery
A friend asked me for my advice for software she could use to host photos on her website. I’ve been out of the gallery game for some time, but I started by checking out the old favourites I was familiar with.
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My Favourite Linux Commands
As a child of the DOS era, I’ve always been comfortable communicating with a computer without a mouse. Most of my use of Linux is via a desktop environment (KDE and Xfce are my favourites), but I still like to be able to do certain tasks in a terminal window. Here’s a list of commands…
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Tiny Tiny RSS as a Google Reader Replacement
Since Google broke the news that it was discontinuing its RSS reader due to declining usage and “privacy concerns”, I’ve been searching for a replacement. I looked at the web-hosted alternatives and while they each had particular appeal, none seemed worth the effort. Google Reader may not have been the fanciest or most feature-rich platform,…
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KDE help: ‘The screen is being locked’ notification
I love the state of KDE (currently 4.9.5) on my main laptop. Mostly. One annoying behaviour is that when I close the lid and re-open it at a later time, there is a notification waiting in the panel that says “The screen is being locked”. It’s about as useless as my car telling me “The…