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4 Simple Changes to Stop Online Tracking

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/04/4-simple-changes-protect-your-privacy-online <b>Whoa, you aren't browsing with Javascript, congratulations! You probably don't need this tutorial, which will look broken for you. Just install an adblocker with a privacy/tracking protection list, block third-party cookies, block referers, and install HTTPS Everywhere. </b><br /> In less than 10 minutes, you can drastically improve your privacy online and protect yourself against unwanted and invisible tracking. Note that these privacy safeguards will also be blocking some ads.
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https://www.goldenfrog.com/vyprvpn/why-vpn Why Do I need a Personal VPN? VyprVPN Protects Your Privacy VyprVPN protects your privacy and prevents your ISP from monitoring and controlling your online communications and browsing activity.

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Google and Facebook mean that we don’t know what we’re missing

Pariser’s thought-provoking talk has now been watched more than 1.2 million times. In it he warns against the new “unethical” gatekeepers of information in the 21st century: algorithms. Editors used to be the gatekeepers of the flow of information, but in the internet age, algorithms, powering the likes of Google and Facebook, are rapidly gathering information about each of their users, so they can serve them a mixture of content and ‘relevant advertising’. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/9098315/Google-and-Facebook-mean-that-we-dont-know-what-were-missing.html
In firefox, clearing the autocomplete dropdown entries (also known as the typed URL history) is not difficult once you know how to do it. Here is a brief tutorial. The autocomplete dropdown entries in firefox are directly linked to firefox’s history of web pages visited. If you clear the firefox history, you also will clear this typed url history. Additionally, you can disable if these autocomplete entries are displayed at all. http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/1612/clear_autocomplete_dropdown_entries_firefox/

Clear AutoComplete DropDown Entries in Firefox

http://www.hootech.com/NetMeter/ Show real-time downloading and uploading speeds Net Meter monitors traffic of all network connections and displays real-time graphical and numerical data transfer rates. You can see your real-time download and upload rates.

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Downloading iPlayer video | Small Software

http://www.smallsoftware.co.uk/bbc-iplayer/downloading-iplayer-video/ There are two main ways of downloading DRM-free video. iPlayer Downloader The first one to be released was iPlayer Downloader by Paul Battley. This uses the fact that the video streams for the iPhone are DRM-free (which I find fairly comical – it’s as if the BBC are saying “we’re not allowed to deliver DRM-free video… but we want to appear cool, so we’ll ignore that rule for the iPhone”).
http://www.daniusoft.com/tutorial/burn-bbc-iplayer-downloaded-programmes-to-dvd.html BBC really brings good programs. However, its restrictions also brings us some problems and inconvenience. For instance, downloadable BBC content is only available within the UK only; if you delete or lose BBC content that you have downloaded you may not be able to download that content again; the DRM protection system prevents BBC iPlayer downloaded programs from being widely used, etc. To keep BBC iPlayer downloads forever and easy to share, you may want to burn iPlayer to DVD . The tool you need is a BBC BBC iPlayer program DVD burner that can burn protected BBC iPlayer WMV files to DVD. Here Video Converter Ultimate is recommended to help you convert iPlayer to DVD with high quality and fast conversion speed.

iPlayer to DVD - How to Burn BBC iPlayer Downloads to DVD

BBC iPlayer ... preferential treatment from ISPs? Within the past few weeks, any attempt to use my laptop to watch streaming media generates buffering problems. This was never an issue previously. I have checked the download speed of my broadband supplier (Virgin) and it is showing 2.7Mbps, as opposed to the advertised "up to 10".

Video buffering and playback problems | Ask Jack | Technology

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The free file information forum can help you determine if Ati2evxx.exe is a virus, trojan, spyware, or adware that you can remove, or a file belonging to a Windows system or an application you can trust. Click to Run a Free Scan for Ati2evxx.exe related errors The process known as ATI External Event Utility EXE Module or Ati HotKey Poller belongs to software ATI External Event Utility for WindowsNT and Windows9X or ATI External Event Utility for Windows or Ati HotKey Poller by ATI Technologies (www.ati.com). Description: Ati2evxx.exe is located in the folder C:\Windows\System32. Known file sizes on Windows 7/XP are 405,504 bytes (12% of all occurrences), 376,832 bytes and 102 more variants .

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The University of California at Berkeley just decided to move off its old email system. It chose Gmail over Microsoft's Office 365. Usually, the decision-making process that goes into such a choice is shrouded in secrecy. But Berkeley decided to be transparent, and published a matrix explaining the pros and cons of both solutions.

Berkeley Explains Exactly Why It Chose Google Over Microsoft