Win your privacy back... with TOR, DuckDuckGo and others

When you are watching a spy movie and the agent is trying to track someone on the Internet. Only to be foiled by the Nemesis' protecting his anonymity by bouncing his traffic around the world, making it impossible to trace. This is not just the thing of fiction. Its called Tor. Its real, free and open source...

This blog post will cover why you should use services like Tor, Duck Duck Go or others to protect your privacy and hopefully discover that it isn't wrong to want to keep some of your life private and not feel like a criminal.

Top Andoid apps that a power user would use

Here are the Android apps I use and roughly how I configure them...

Disclaimer: My phone is a rooted HTC Sensation  with a ICS rom called Revolution HD and all prices quoted are at time of posting.

Top apps not installed on Ubuntu by default

There are hundreds if not thousands of these "Top 10 linux apps" and "Apps you must have following Ubuntu installation" type blog entries but in my opinion these are useless unless you can identify with the author. To help you identify with me:

• Been using Ubuntu for home use (DVDs, photos, internet) for over 5 years.
• Mainly use open source applications but not exclusively.
• Prefer to pay nothing for the software.
• It should just work "out the box", no command line or extensive "how to" required.
• Could be said I am a Google fan boy