May 2015 ST Mug Meeting

 

 

 

google dashboard:

 Google keeps a copy of every search you do

https://www.google.com/dashboard

  Click on Manage Account,

Click on Account History,

If you click on places you go, it will show you on a map whereever you take your android phone.

If you click on Manage Activity, it will show you the history of your searches

 

Firefox tracking protection

about:config

privacy.trackingprotection.eneabled is usually false, set it to true

 This will speed up most websites.

 https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/11/12/quantifying-the-effects-of-firefoxs-tracking-protection/

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection-firefox

 

 

This website has some of the old games I really liked playing, two of them were appletrek, and macrisk

 

http://peyre.x10.mx/GWBASIC/index.htm#AppleTrek

 

This article had some interesting extensions:


http://news360.com/article/278508638

 

 If your a photographer, or you just like to share a lot of pictures, this website is pretty good.

 

http://www.smugmug.com/

 

CryptoWall

Be glad you have a mac on this one!

http://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/zero-day-malvertising-attack-went-undetected-for-two-months/d/d-id/1320092

 

CryptoWall was installed by ads on

Dailymotion, Huffington Post, answers.com, New York Daily News, HowToGeek.com, tagged.com, and others.

for 2 months via flash, when flash was finally patched, the attacks stopped.

 

It specifically targeted consumer IP addresses in the US.

 

Wifi can crash your phone

https://www.skycure.com/blog/ios-shield-allows-dos-attacks-on-ios-devices/

 

Ublock!

https://github.com/chrisaljoudi/uBlock

 

Chrome

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm?hl=en

 

I found a decent adware program for the mac!:

 http://www.adwaremedic.com/index.php

You have to have lion or better though.

 

Also bitdefender

They have a free and a paid one:

 

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bitdefender-virus-scanner/id500154009?mt=12

WorkFlow

Lets you make scripts that do things that you do all the time

 

https://workflow.is/

 

I made one that would email a bunch of screenshots and crop them.

https://workflow.is/workflows/40ade242448141dd900351d92e2b6a11

 

Launcher

 

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/launcher-notification-center/id905099592?mt=8

http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/22/launcher-adds-shortcuts-to-favorite-apps-and-common-actions-to-ios-8s-notification-center/