Category: Tech

Esquire’s Rens Lieman Asks You to Hack His Data

Rens Lieman, a contributing editor at Esquire magazine (Dutch edition), is launching a privacy experiment asking hackers to discover all the data they can gather about him: [blockquote]For Esquire, I wanted to write a story about online privacy and the...

/ July 12, 2013

SEDO Weakens; Dilutes Brand with GoDaddy Association

It used to be that SEDO was a premiere domains sales and auctions listing service. If you received an offer from SEDO, the sale regularly completed – serious buyers & serious sellers. But now, SEDO accepts offers from GoDaddy. Not...

/ July 1, 2013

How Geogram built a free group email service using Yii and Mailgun

The great folks at Mailgun have published my tutorial: How Geogram built a free group email service using Yii for PHP with MySQL also available on my blog. Mailgun is a scalable, cloud-based email engine that’s easy to integrate with your email-driven...

/ June 26, 2013

GMail Alternatives in the PRISM Age: How to Host Your Own Email Server in the Cloud

Update: You may be interested in Filtered, my new open source IMAP-based mail filtering application which includes the capability to encrypt selected messages, removing them from your IMAP or Gmail account. I’ve posted a new tutorial called, How to Install Your...

/ June 19, 2013

Where are the Regulations on International Data Roaming Fees?

I have a 5 GB tethered data plan with AT&T which costs me $50 monthly. Whenever I travel to Canada, AT&T texts me about roaming costs. The cost of using my full data allowance while roaming without an additional subscription...

/ April 24, 2013

How to List Linux Processes by Memory Usage

Use this command to list Linux processes according to their memory usage in descending order (via Linux Questions): ps -e -orss=,args= | sort -b -k1,1nr | pr -TW$COLUMNS The output will look something like this: 181300 /usr/sbin/clamd 64144 amavisd (ch9-avail)...

/ March 25, 2013

How to show current file in TextMate’s Project Drawer?

I’d been wondering this for a while and finally googled for it: how to show the current open file in TextMate’s Project Drawer? Command + Control + R Conversely, you can find and open a file by keyword with Command +...

/ March 21, 2013