Category: NZTekonverse -> Internet
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Google ditches another email service
Following last year when Google arbitrarily ditched email notification from Youtube, they have now notified that the Feedburner service will be changed, and in their words, “we will be turning down most non-core feed management features, including email subscriptions, at that time”. So as we read it, Google has summarily decided that email subscriptions are…
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Manually specifying network interface parameters on Debian
I have two computers I use regularly which have two (or with a Vodem, three) network adapters. The reason for this is at present I have two different internet connections I use regularly. One is unlimited data but has certain restrictions on it, the second is unrestricted but has a data cap. I hope to…
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How To Get A Very Cheap “Landline” Phone Over The Internet
These days a lot of people are less inclined to have a traditional “landline” phone as Spark will still charge around $30-40 a month to keep providing the service which may be used relatively infrequently. As Chorus are planning to eventually turn off their old copper network in favour of fibre, everyone will sooner or…
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Wireless broadband [2]
So in my last post I wrote about Skinny 4G wireless broadband. I have had this for about 10 days and it’s been really good. I have two computers connected to it, one in each main room of the house, and using a proper computer with it instead of a limited Raspberry Pi is really…
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Wireless broadband [1]
For the past four years I have had the privilege of a free internet connection shared from a corporate site next door to me where I used to work. It has been and in fact still is good and I intend to keep using it. However in order to supplement it and work around some…
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Integromat as an alternative to IFTTT
For the last few years I have made a lot of use of IFTTT for automated web integration between my blogs and Facebook pages. IFTTT is quite good for this and I still use it to this day, with multiple IFTTT accounts as each account can only work with one Facebook page at a time,…
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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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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…