Category: NZTekonverse -> Google
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Escaping Google’s walled garden on handhelds [1]: Intro
I’ve owned smartphones since 2012 when I was given one as part of a new employment role. It (HTC) was running Windows Phone 7. It was followed by a couple of Nokias running Windows Phone 8 (the later one since updated to 10) and then a low-end Motorola Moto E running Android 4. The next…
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Ubuntu Touch may step in where Firefox OS finished….maybe?
We certainly have a strong case for an alternative to Android because we should get a choice to be free of Google’s massive data collection infrastructure that is tracking everything we do and everywhere we go with our phones. Revelations for example that Android 8 screen scrapes every app in the system are mind boggling.…
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OpenID sidelined for FB/Google identity lockin
OpenID is a great concept: to help you create a single identity that works across a range of Internet sites. However, it has been falling out of favour in the past few years because both Facebook and Google have provided their own replacements for it. The reasons for these are supposedly for user convenience. However,…
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Why I hate the Google Nexus 5X
Well when I got this thing I thought it was going to be the greatest thing since sliced bread, a Google Nexus phone, with stock standard Android, a lot of available updates from Google, great spec and performance etc. Great hardware, well made quality product. Such a shame about the software though. Unfortunately over time…
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Switching Google accounts
Just to make my life more complex (hopefully simpler in future) I have decided all my email accounts will consist of three Google accounts, classified as low, medium and high priority. This involves two completely new gmail accounts and one existing one. At the moment I am working on switching over my default email account…
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How to stop Chrome from offering to save credit card information
If you use Chrome you’ll hopefully know there are settings that can control the information that it stores and syncs. I always turn off the offer to sync passwords – and also credit card details. But although you can stop syncing your credit card details, Chrome will still popup a message each time you enter…