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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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Disconnecting with voice over internet protocol telephony

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-04-17

I am getting a VoIP subscription from Norwegian broadband provider Telenor, and a Doro Arc 7 cordless phone for my home. The idea is to try and disconnect more and more from the annoying mobile phone phenomena and the need to always be available.

Telenor lets me forward my mobile phone calls to the VoIP phone at home for free. So I can turn off my mobile phone and then I am only available when I have got the time to be available; when I am at home. It is good to let go of the connected world sometime. Most you will hear is just nonsense anyways.

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L10N = nb

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-03-11

I finally made up my mind, and changed my language settings in the K Desktop Environment to my native language, Norwegian Bokmål (nb), instead of British English. This completes my system localisation (L10N) and marks a personal language‐turning point for me.

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Instant messaging collaboration

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-02-24

Tim Julien wrote an interesting piece about how proprietary instant messaging networks—such as AIM and Y!M—are experimenting with the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). If this works out, we can finally say bye bye to contact–network incompatibilities in messaging clients.

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