MacOS
It’s high time Apple enabled the OS X firewall by default
Microsoft got trashed by the security community for failing to deploy a firewall by default in Windows. Why are Apple products not given the same scrutiny?
Latest
Microsoft Windows
Document format support in the new Word apps and Word 2016
Which document file formats are supported in the different version of Microsoft Word 2016? The answer varies from operating system to operating system.
DNS
Resolve the battle for control over your DNS settings in Debian/Ubuntu
Two programs struggle for control over your resolv.conf if you’ve installed Debian from an IPv6-capable network. Take back control over DNS.
Linux
Update the Intel graphics driver on Debian stable
How to update Debian Linux to a newer version of the Intel graphics drivers from the Debian testing release without moving off your Debian stable installation.
Nikola
Recent Posts plug-in for Nikola
My new plugin for generating a JSON file with your most recent posts in Nikola. Useful for displaying “recent posts” in the static-site generator.
Review
Book review: Firestar series
A millionaire is obsessed with funding an asteroid defense system, but will it be too late to save Earth after all?
Android
CyanogenMod’s one big advantage over stock Android
An Android competitor has much better security and privacy tools than what you get in the original Android from Google.
Microsoft Windows
Day Against DRM: Living with digital restrictions
How Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology has negatively impacted my life.
Open Standards
Day Against DRM: Change the label on “Purchase” buttons
You’re leasing not purchasing digital media. Shouldn’t purchase buttons say “Rent” rather than “Buy” for digital media?
Syndication feeds
Atom feed support in Nikola 7.4
Nikola — the static-site generator — already has support for RSS feeds. You can now also get feature-rich Atom feeds starting with version 7.4.
Webmaster
Recover mistyped traffic: Redirect .htm to .html
Set up redirects from variations of .html to the canonical document location. Stop losing website traffic to simple-to-recover-from typos.
VPS
Diving into DigitalOcean
I’ve migrated all my websites to DigitalOcean and saved 85 % on hosting compared to my previous VPS provider.