Tag archive 'Communication'

Best description for aMSN package

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-07-01

Why is not this the description for the aMSN client package we see in all package managers!? It is the best I have seen yet.

aMSN lets Linux users communicate with associates on Microsoft instant messaging networks. In this article, we’ll show you how to Reach out to your friends in the empire.

From WINDOW TALK by Mirko Albrecht for Linux Magazine.

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Privacy awareness in Opera

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-06-29

A web-connected user-agent (a web browser) sends much information, that if you live in Sweden, now will be freely available to the military. Using content and transfer encryption has never been so important before.

This is a tip that will let you turn on a feature of Opera—the web browser—that will warn you every time you send data from a web form unencrypted. It will help rise awareness of just how much data you make available every day.

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Opera mini using ¼ of Norway’s bandwidth

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-05-07

I want to highlight something from a Click program on BBC a few months back:

Even though Opera currently accounts for just a few percent of the mobile browser market its servers deal with about a quarter of all of Norway's data traffic.

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Keeping an eye on the cookiejar

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-04-30

Konqueror is excellent for monitoring what cookies different websites store on the computer. Blocking various identification cookies is an excellent way of enforcing privacy and speeding up web surfing.

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