Designing a web page is not rocket science, but it is not easy either under constant pressure of commercial interests and attracting readers. Nielsen Norman Group, online user experience research and consultancy firm, has been a strong advocate of simple and highly usable design for many years. The company’s new … Read >
Nextcloud secure login options explained, and how to configure an easy login
Nextcloud open source software package has plenty of options for securing data it stores, and for providing secure mechanisms for accessing the cloud services it provides. If a Nextcloud server is accessible on the public internet, the first thing to do is to secure login to the server so that … Read >
How to install Rainloop webmail for accessing multiple inboxes in a browser
My problem with email used to be that I had to manage multiple email accounts because of multiple job roles I had. Since I only use webmail for getting access to all my inboxes and outboxes from any device, I needed a server software that could bring all my email … Read >
How to set up Elastic full text search for Nextcloud
The default search function in Nextcloud is a simple program that can find a document if you happen to correctly remember a word in the file name you are looking for. If you want to search for any text in the contents of Files, Notes, Bookmarks and in other apps … Read >
Road safety is better in small and mid-size motorhomes, crash tests conclude
Large motorhomes (RVs, recreational vehicles) that can be as big as buses seem like safe vehicles because of their size and weight. Crash tests conducted in Sweden, however, concluded that smaller semi-integrated motorhomes were safer than large vehicles. The results were not pretty for neither type of motorhomes.
The Swedish … Read >
What the? An open source, privacy-respecting search engine is better than Google
Google is such a strong brand on the internet that some people think it is the home page of the entire web. They type facebook.com into the search field and click the first result to visit the service. I haven’t used Google Search for years because Google tracks and collects … Read >
WordPress news summary: Solid privacy project progress, OnlyOffice for Nextcloud, WordPress trends 2020
News about WordPress, Nextcloud, Linux and security
Inrupt, Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid, and Bruce Schneier
The father of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee announced an ambitious project known as Solid about 18 months ago. The idea is to build a system that allows people to … Read >
Your next car – perhaps an electric vehicle – will track you, but so does your phone
Electric vehicles are changing how we move around and think about road traffic in general. One of the innovations of the battery powered vehicle is that cars automatically communicate with the car manufacturers’ data center, informing how the vehicle is performing. The technology of an … Read >
How to backup messages from a hosted email service onto your own computer
Just when you badly need that specific email message received three or four years ago, your email service goes down. It may happen to any hosting company, although it shouldn’t be a frequent event. Or perhaps you have decided to move to another hosting service, and you must get a … Read >
Tipping point for online ads: already half of users block them
Online advertising industry must be doing something wrong if half of all internet users have ad blockers on their mobile devices and computers. Digital 2020 Global Overview report produced by a consortium of publishers, marketeers, consultancies and social media companies indicates that online citizens not only worry about their privacy … Read >