How to Block Ads on Android Devices
This post will go through how you can block ads (and tracking) on your Android device(s) with solutions for both rooted and unrooted devices.
Category Archives: Techie
Downloading Your Google Data with Google Takeout
Using Google Takeout, you are able to download your data from various Google products such as Gmail, Chrome, YouTube, Calendar, Photos, etc. This is useful for a number of reasons such as having an offline backup, migrating to another service, or doing some spring-cleaning.
Firefox Container Tabs
What I’d consider to be Firefox’s killer feature is its Container Tabs: allowing you to “contain” websites, and associated cookies, into various containers. It even colour-codes the tabs with a subtle bottom line to provide you the tab’s context.
Stabilizer – a tool to stabilize shaky videos
I’ve created a simple tool to stabilize shaky videos using ffmpeg and the VidStab filter.
Moving to a Data-Only Mobile Plan
Recently my former cell phone carrier – Public Mobile – proposed a fee increase of 25% (Feb. 15th, 2018) before retracting their proposal the next day in response to over ~1,600 CCTS complaints filed within a day-and-a-half. Their announcement includes the following statement: “While all good things must come to an end at some point […]