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Safari Extensions One of my current strategies to minimize the ability of tech companies, starting with Google, to use browser fingerprinting to extract information from my browsing habits involves rotating among a half dozen browsers on my Mac. Because I have long used Chromium-based browsers and t...

Some of the available syn locations For anyone who wants to eliminate as much friction as possible in creating backups of their iPhone photos outside of iCloud, most people have long turned to apps from big tech companies like Google, Amazon, and Dropbox. They all have apps that will gladly upload y...

Digikam Apple Photos is fine for backing up the pictures I take with my iPhone, but its proprietary database that keeps users from accessing their files except through the software is for the birds. A corrupt photos library can cut you off from all your memories. I long used Google Photos and Amazon...

Photo Management I'm going to turn the tables today. Instead of giving YOU information on software, I'm going to ask you to give me some recommendations. Specifically, I am looking for a photos app. Since I am eliminating Google and Amazon from my online life, I won't have access to their photo mana...

RCLONE There are quite a few apps with GUIs available for Macs that let you connect various cloud services to upload, download and move files. Most of them are costly. Today I needed to move files from Google Drive to a kDrive, a cloud storage company in Switzerland, Instead of using one of the expe...

A Better Finder Attribute I'm in the process of removing my data from most of the big US based tech companies in favor or smaller, more privacy focused companies. I do not want my files to be subject to US government subpoenas or other invasive security threats from which Google, Amazon, Meta or Mic...

My wife and I are in the process of detangling ourselves from four of the biggest tech companies: Meta, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon. Of those four, Amazon is the most firmly entrenched in our lives since the company, and it's owner without a soul, billionaire Jeff Bezos provide various services we...

Quote I have collected quotes for years, using various apps, Obsidian Notes, spreadsheets and Google Docs. I am still in search of the elusive perfect, feature packed app. Here's what I would like the app to be able to do. Features I Want Import from a spreadsheet containing the quote, author, sourc...

My recent goal has been to get a copy of all my photos onto a local drive and use an app that respects the file system and doesn't hide the files in a mysterious, impenetrable database like Apple Photos does. I am also trying to get Google out of my business, a slow and difficult process. For years,...

Privacy Badger Protecting your online privacy is an ongoing game of whack-a-mole with big tech. Google is making a big deal out of eliminating tracking cookies at the same time is implementing tracking based on digital fingerprinting for which few protections exist. One organization working on priva...

I am in the process of moving all my Internet research to Kagi, but I wrote this for someone who needed these instructions today. Google, the advertising company that also has a search engine, is more interested in having you click on things it gets paid for than it is showing you the information yo...

Koalas are adorable to look at and fun to photograph, but if you’ve ever thought about adopting one, do yourself a favor and Google “Gumnut and Craigslist” and you can thank me later.

Geofency for Mac I have used various location tracking apps over the years. Most of the ones I've tried have had issues. Either the company behind them folded or the apps had poor privacy policies or were strictly for iOS and drained my battery faster than I liked. These apps are often subscription-...

Today on AppAddict - Krisp - AI Meeting Assistant for Noise Cancellation and Transcription - If you have online meetings using apps like Slack, Microsoft Teams. Zoom or Google Meet, you can get free noise cancellation via AI as well as meeting transcripts and recordings via Krisp, a business app wit...

Today on AppAddict - DEVONagent Lite - Free Tool to Increase Search Productivity - If you do much research in your browser, and you’re past the stage where you just use Google everything, DEVONagent Lite gives you keyboard quick access to seventeen different categories of reference material, most of...

If you have online meetings using apps like Slack, Microsoft Teams. Zoom or Google Meet, you can get free noise cancellation via AI as well as meeting transcripts and recordings via Krisp, a business app with a generous free tier. Make sure you clearly understand the privacy policy before doing so. ...

DEVONagent Lite If you do much research in your browser, and you're past the stage where you just use Google everything, DEVONagent Lite gives you keyboard quick access to seventeen different categories of reference material, most of them with multiple sources to choose from. No longer do you need t...

DEVONagent Lite If you do much research in your browser, and you're past the stage where you just use Google everything, DEVONagent Lite gives you keyboard quick access to seventeen different categories of reference material, most of them with multiple sources to choose from. No longer do you need t...

After discussing it for the last 12 years, my wife decided to begin scanning multiple albums of old family photos so that we could some to our new Aura frame and back them all up to the cloud - in three different places: iCloud, Google Photos and Amazon Photos. Our 12-year-old Scan Snap 1300i was no...

Google Photos If you've had enough of corporate owned social media, specifically Facebook and Instagram, and are investigating how to preserve your photographic memories, the quickest and easiest way, if you have space available, is to transfer them to Google Photos. You can do it from your iPhone. ...

Sync The easiest way to share files between computers or with other users is through a commercial cloud service like iCloud, Dropbox or Google Drive. The problem with using those services is that your data passes through someone else's computer. If you are sharing apple pie recipes with your Aunt Su...

Translation Most modern browsers have multi-language translate built in. Vivaldi even has a separate panel for it. Sometimes, though, we encounter text in other languages in books and documents or when we aren't connected to the Internet. Then it's not possible to use a browser. Also, even though Go...

Cloud Storage The longer you use a computer, the more access to resources you accumulate. I'm old, so I have more accounts than I know what to do with. When it comes to cloud storage, I have access to Google Drive, One Drive, Box and Dropbox, although I only pay for Google Drive. I once signed up an...

Top 25 Apps I looked at the list of the top 25 most downloaded apps as compiled by MacUpdater, who I figure are as good a source as any and drew a few conclusions. VLC Pages AppCleaner Numbers Keynote iMovie The Unarchiver GarageBand Android File Transfer Speedtest Amphetamine Google Chrome Blackmag...

Snapsrch Snapsrch is a utility that lets you conduct searches on selected text in a convenient popup. Out of the box, it is preconfigured to search Google, Bing, Wiktionary, Google Translate and Wikipedia. Adding other search options is a breeze. I included AllMusic, YouTube, Amazon, Max, DuckDuckGo...

Here are three cool things I've learned about recently. 1. Create a cumulative clipboard with PopclipPopclip is an app that does all sorts of things with text you select, from sending it to different apps, to formatting it, looking it up on Google, adding it to your calendar. One trick I learned it ...

NextDNS With the deprecation of the classic uBlock Origin as blocker by Google Chrome in favor of a less powerful Light version and the ever-increasing need for security, Mac users have the option of downloading the NextDNS configuration app from the Mac App Store and setting up a free account wi...

I'm going to be that guy who finds something cool and then wants everyone to join in. The ad blocker that I use, Ublock Origin, is in danger of being neutered by Microsoft, the company that makes my browser, Edge, which I use for some very specific reasons. If you use Google Chrome (and most of you ...

List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia Say What You See — Google Arts & Culture Spurious Correlations (tylervigen.com) Home: Mushroom Color Atlas The Best Movies of the 2000s, According to IndieWire Editors Best Woodstock Performances: Hendrix, The Who & More at 1969 Festival (archive.ph) These r...

Today on App Addict - App Tamer from St. Claire Software - St. Claire software makes an app that can help control heat and fan noise, extend your battery time and increase the amount of CPU power available for you frontmost application. App Tamer comes preconfigured to automatically reduce the CPU a...

Today on AppAddict - Cryptomator, a free and open-source encryption tool designed to be used with cloud utilities like Google Drive, Dropbox and One Drive, it provides end to end 256-bit AES encryption. There are also versions for Windows and Linux and a paid version ($12.99) for iOS.