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I like the new Facebook

  • posted on March 19, 2009
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  • Posted in Computers & Internet
I’m beginning to notice a pattern: every few months, Facebook changes something and every body protests the change, threatening to delete their accounts in response. I’m also aware of a
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Browser Wars (C'mon it's 2009)

  • posted on March 15, 2009
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  • Posted in Computers & Internet
Why are people still talking about web browsers like it’s 1995? The EU wants to force Microsoft to include competing browsers with Windows. It came up on the last episode of Cranky Geeks and
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Encryption in your pocket

  • posted on February 24, 2009
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There was a recent discussion on Security Now about how nice it would be to have a Yubikey-like device that uses public key encryption to sign a provided string of text and thereby provide strong
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Offline Gmail

  • posted on February 4, 2009
  • William Barnes
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  • Posted in Computers & Internet
Gmail has finally added support for Google Gears. This is great if you feel the urge to type an email or need to look something up while stuck in the Moot Court Room. Or if you’re annoyed by
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Managing Gmail

  • posted on January 31, 2009
  • William Barnes
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  • Posted in Computers & Internet
It has now been a few months since I switched to Gmail. Here is what I’ve learned. Extensions There are two Firefox extensions that are absolutely great: Better Gmail 2 is a collection of
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Unabashed sharing

  • posted on January 21, 2009
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  • Posted in Computers & Internet
When this post on social networking was published by Rex Shoyama at IP Osgoode I tried a few times to write a comment on it, but each comment turned into a thoroughly rambling essay (to borrow a
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Geoorge W. Bush? Geoge?

  • posted on January 20, 2009
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  • Posted in Computers & Internet
I just thought this was an interesting set of suggestions by Facebook. I wonder what algorithm decided “Geoge” was a more likely name than
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Backing up Gmail on an Ubuntu mailserver

  • posted on December 31, 2008
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  • Posted in Computers & Internet
Backstory I used to run my own Courier/Postfix mailserver to manage my family’s email (technically, I still do, but more later). Of late, I’ve been finding this to be a little bit of a
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Owning your network

  • posted on December 11, 2008
  • William Barnes
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  • Posted in Computers & Internet, Ideas
I know I’m not the first to lament the imprisonment of our social graphs. It was quite a trendy topic last year and last year I came up with a solution (only semi-original). Listening to the
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Vista

  • posted on November 28, 2008
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I should be working on my case comment, I know. But somehow, Cuerrier just can’t get me as worked up as Vista does. I run Ubuntu and it’s great. Sure, there’s a little bit of
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