Tag: amazon

Tweaking Privacy Settings in Ubuntu 13.04

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. By default, when you do searches in Ubuntu, you'll see online results (from Amazon, as of Ubuntu 13.04—in future versions they may include other online results), too. Some people don't like this. Fortunately, you can turn this behavior off. Search for Privacy. Select… Continue reading Tweaking Privacy Settings in Ubuntu 13.04

Cloud Music: Google v. Amazon

I know some privacy nuts are very anti-cloud storage, but I’ve seen enough distraught users having just lost all of their data from a failed hard drive, accidental deletion, or stolen computer to know that even though “The Cloud” isn’t for everyone, it’s still good for most people. Most computer users do not make regular… Continue reading Cloud Music: Google v. Amazon