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.
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Canadian Couch Potato Investing with Questrade
Five years ago I started investing using the Canadian Couch Potato index fund strategy with TD using their e-Series funds. Last week I initiated the transfer of my funds from TD to Questrade and this post will revolve around the pros/cons of TD vs Questrade and the process on how to move to Questrade.
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.
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 […]