Category: Applications

  • I would rather pay for Google Photos

    I would rather pay for Google Photos

    As you may have heard by now, Google is going to start charging for all photos uploaded to Google Photos from June 2021, not just full resolution images. While this may be alarming for some users, I would rather pay for Google Photos. Why would I say such a thing after having an option to…

  • Cautionary tale about clearing your browser history

    Cautionary tale about clearing your browser history

    I cleared my Firefox cache in an attempt to resolve a slow performance issue. Boy, I didn’t realise how much I rely on my browser history to get things done every day. I should have persisted with the performance issue … Also on: Twitter

  • Playing Dungeons and Dragons with Discord

    Playing Dungeons and Dragons with Discord

    Playing Dungeons and Dragons with Discord, and other cool services such as Notion, and DnD Beyond.

  • Google Wave 2.0?

    Google Wave 2.0?

    According to Ars Technica – Integrating the service into Gmail is an aggressive move and something we haven’t seen the company do since the Google+ days. Reportedly a lot more integrations are coming in the future—the G Suite team apparently wants to make some kind of “new unified communications app” that merges features from Gmail,…

  • Exploring Notion as an Evernote alternative

    Exploring Notion as an Evernote alternative

    I found myself exploring Notion as an Evernote alernative again, yesterday. I looked at it briefly about a year ago, and it didn’t seem like something that was worth switching to at the time. After all, I’ve been using Evernote for years, and given how much I was using Evernote, I wasn’t sure that investing…

  • Brave browser seems to protect our privacy the most

    I’ve been curious about the Brave browser for a little while now, and I’ve switched to Brave for any Chromium-based browser stuff I do (testing, browsing on sites that don’t support Firefox, and so on). I found this Ars Technica post interesting. They summarise a study into browsers and privacy, and found that Brave probably…

  • Spotify recommendations are spot on today

    Spotify recommendations are spot on today

    I’ve been listening to one of my Spotify Daily Mixes that comprises instrumental movie and TV soundtracks. It has been giving me some excellent choices, many of which I haven’t heard before. I’m really impressed! Here are a couple tracks that have become new favourites: If only my YouTube recommendations for videos were as accurate!

  • Exploring the Brave browser

    Exploring the Brave browser

    A few of my colleagues have been raving about the relatively new, Chromium-based Brave browser lately, so I decided to try it out. I initially didn’t pay much attention because I’m pretty happy using Firefox as my primary browser. That said, I like a browser that blocks tracker crud on the Web, so I thought…