Find and Delete Unused Accounts With Heartbleed security bug hits millions of people

After the recent Heartbleed bug scare, some of you may want to go and delete those dormant accounts you never use any more. For a quick way to find such sites you signed up on, go to your inbox and search for the term: "Confirm your email."

When something like the Heartbleed security bug hits millions of people, our standard advice is to change your passwords across all the affected services. With Heartbleed, the list was so large that it was advisable to go back to every account you have signed up at. And if many of them are unused, it kind of makes sense to just delete them in case some other security flaw in the future compromises you.

If you are lucky, you use Lastpass to manage all your accounts and you can just delete everything from that list. But if that's not the case, chances are, you have used one or two email accounts to sign up at all these web sites over the years. Searching for "confirm your email" (first with the quotes, then without) in your inbox gives you a list of most of these websites, after which it's a matter of going there and deleting your account. The trick is similar to, and inspired by, searching for "unsubscribe" to purge newsletters in your email.

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FIO Is A Simple, Attractive Time Zone Tracker

One of the things I love about working with people all around the world is that I feel like an international woman of mystery. Unfortunately, by “mystery” I mean time zones and my propensity for mixing them up, especially since I live in a country that does not participate in daylight saving time.

Missing phone appointments or calling people obscenely early in the morning is embarrassing, so I was happy to install FIO (an acronym for Figure It Out). The free Chrome extension lets you pick a 12-hour or 24-hour clock and up to five locations, including your own. It then arranges the time zones in order and assigns each of them a color that shifts throughout the day. Bright orange means afternoon, while indigo blue signifies the middle of the night.

But wait, you might be thinking, why not just use the iOS world clock (which includes a map on iPad) or one of the many similar websites out there?

The answer (at least for me) is simple. There are days when I talk to people in at least five time zones and if I have to stare at yet another row of clock faces or world map, I will go crazy. The impact on my sanity is incremental, but very real, and I thank FIO for saving a little piece of my brain. FIO’s colors and format can also help cut through the mire of jet lag if you frequently travel. I plan to use it alongside World Time Buddy, an easy-to-read time zone converter.

FIO’s developers plan to add features like winter and summer clocks, as well as clocks based on major time zones, like Greenwich Mean Time, and make the site fully responsive so it can be used on mobile devices, too.

ZenPen is a Dead Simple, Distraction Free Writing Zone on the Web

There are a lot of great distraction-free writing tools out there. If you'd rather not download an app, though, ZenPen is a wonderful web-based alternative with a simple design and minimal clutter.

To use the editor, simply go directly to the ZenPen site. Erase the starter text and start writing your own. It supports basic formatting like bold, italics, quotes, and links. You can set a word count target and save the whole thing in HTML or plain text when you're done. That's it. If you really want to minimize distractions while you're writing, head to ZenPen and press F11 to full screen your browser.

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Learn the Most Vital HTML Tags with This Easy Cheat Sheet 2014

Learn the Most Vital HTML Tags with This Easy Cheat Sheet 2014

If you want to format a blog submit or edit an online page, it's useful to know HTML (even when your web site platform offers WYSIWYG formatting). This HTML Cheat Sheet exhibits you all the important tags you must know.

While looking for a cheat sheet like this, I found dozens (if not hundreds) of other ones, but this printable from Life Your Way has an advantage: It doesn't clutter up the sheet with more tags than you might ever need. Instead, it's just the basics: text tags, image tags, table tags, link tags, section tags, and even a handy section on special characters (such the number code for the copyright symbol).

Download the free PDF at the link below.

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T-Mobile Gets More Uncarrier With $40 Simple Starter Plan

T-Mobile President and CEO John Legere wants basic phone plans to be uncomplicated and act as more than just a gateway to higher-priced options, according to a new blog post from the often outspoken figure announcing his company’s new Simple Starter pricing plan. The Simple Starter plan is just $40 per month, and includes unlimited talk and text plus 500 MB of monthly data usage.

Those details aren’t things you’d learn from Legere’s blog post announcing the news, nor would you glean that the plan is specifically designed to avoid automatically incurring high overage chargers for customers who go over that 500 MB limit. Instead, Legere mostly goes on a run about AT&T and its fairly obvious attempts to steal some of T-Mobile’s momentum by copying its recent pricing model changes, and even, Legere suggests, its trademark magenta color scheme.

For the curious, how the new plan handles overages is actually by alerting customers when they hit their limit and offering them day or week data passes, or prompting them to sign up for different monthly plans. Users won’t be charged anything automatically, however, unlike with the so-called “flexible” options of their competitors.

T-Mo is getting lots of due credit for its attempts to change some of the basic home truths in the mobile industry, and has two more announcements planned over the next two days that should offer some more in the way of shake-ups. And sure, big blue and the rest might just get copying again, but that’s a general win for consumers either way.

T-Mobile introducing Simple Starter plan for $40 a month: unlimited talk, text and 500MB data

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T-Mobile is now introducing an entry-level option for its post-paid customers, dubbed the Simple Starter plan. The new plan brings unlimited talking and texting, alongside 500MB of LTE data for just $40 a month.

Although 500MB might not be close to enough data for most of you out there, not everyone’s situation is the same. For example, I rarely use much more than this, due to the fact I work from home and most of the places I go to socially have easily accessible Wi-Fi. For those that can get by on this low amount of data, $40 is a pretty solid price for unlimited talk and text and easily beats out similar entry-plans from other major U.S. carriers.

On the downside, the wording of T-Mobile’s press release seems to suggest that, unlike other T-Mobile plans, you aren’t throttled to lower speed data once you run out of your 500MB — you’re simply cut off altogether. Of course, you can still add day passes or switch to another plan if you really need more than this.

The new Simple Starter plan will officially be available starting on April 12th. For those coming from another carrier, you’ll also be happy to know that the starter plan qualifies for the ETF buyout program. Anyone interested in T-Mobile’s starter plan, or does the hard cap of 500MB data turn you off?

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MirrorWeb Comes Up With A Simple Site Uptime Solution For SMEs

MirrorWeb is a new startup offering a slightly different take on website uptime. While the main competitors such as DNS Hat simply add hardware and server loading to keep sites up if they go down, MirrorWeb does what it says on the tin: mirrors a site during maintenance or problems with a carbon copy. It’s now launched with multiple currencies, including dollar pricing.

You log in, type in your URL. MirrorWeb copies your site then monitors it. If there’s a problem it just flips the traffic to the mirror. When the website is back online they send the visitor traffic back to the original site.

Although there are many companies that provide services to monitor a website’s uptime and provide a backup of the entire site, hardly any do both.

This is a little like having Cloudflare, but this is aimed at small SME with smaller budgets.

The service is particularly relevant to companies that rely on search engines traffic and don’t want to be penalized for periods of downtime.

Speed up Chrome with a simple fix

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After finishing his Bachelor of Commerce degree at the University of Alberta, Sterling made the move to Vancouver Island in British Columbia. Within a stone's throw of mountains, ocean, and complete wilderness, he mountain bikes and skis during the day and is hopelessly connected to his phone and computer at all other times. His writing "career" started as he penned about his escapades while skiing and has slowly progressed to freelance marketing and promotion throughout British Columbia. Interested in anything tech and gadget related, he has thoroughly enjoyed his transition of writing for AndroidPIT.

Chrome is one of the most popular browsers for people on both PCs and Android devices.  However, one persistent problem is unique to the mobile version of the Chrome browser: delayed scrolling.  Ever since Google has replaced the AOSP Browser with Chrome, this lag has been an issue when scrolling through a website or trying to resize it.  Here’s a quick tweak to help solve the issue.

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Thanks to redditor, u/erythrocytes64,  this simple tweak makes Chrome for Android noticeably faster and smoother. What the change seems to do is allocate more RAM for Chrome and as such, it improves the scrolling speed. Here’s how to do it:

• Type chrome://flags into the URL bar in Chrome on your Android device
• Find Maximum Tiles for Interest Area
• From the dropdown, change it from default to 512
• Tap on the Relaunch Now button

The chrome://flags interface in the Chrome browser. / © AndroidPIT

One thing to note, however, is that on devices with less RAM, this tweak might purge the memory much faster and causes your device to “clog up”.  If this is the case, change the value in the dropdown box to something smaller, say 256. Be sure to also note that a lot of the options in the chrome://flags are of the browser are entirely experimental, so be careful if you choose to play around with any other settings in there.

Has the tweak worked for you? I’ve noticed a much more fluid scrolling experience when using Chrome on my Nexus 7. 

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Simple Spotlinks App Lets You Connect On Location, Share Links

We’ve all been there. You met someone at a conference who seems interesting, so you get out the business cards. Fast, not awkward, and socially OK. An alternative is you stand there and fire them an email there and then (common practise in the US). Other use LinkedIn apps (I don’t). If you are really ambitious you get out dedicated app built around location and try that. Usually they’ll need the same app, which massively reduces your chances of actually connecting to a small percentage.

A new startup thinks it can make all this easier.

Spotlinks is a smartphone app for iOS or Android which gathers together on its app any links that a user would like to exchange with other Spotlinks users. You open it up and ‘see’ another Spotlinks user within 100 metres, all the way up to 100km (assuming your eyesight is good…).

You can share any link you like (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Foursquare, Instagram, a website URL, email etc.) based on your location.

Log-in is via Facebook. You add links to your profile. When a user spots a profile which interests them they request to see the person’s links. The second party gets a push notification informing them that they have been ‘spotted’. If that person agrees, you can see those links and also chat within the app.

Unfortunately we can add many gravestone to mobile social networking: Lime Juice, Rummble, ZYB, Mocospace, Aka-Aki, Nokia Sensor, Dodgeball, Mobiluck, MeetMoi and Imity, just to name a few.

The problem was none had critical mass.

Nokia’s Sensor app, on Symbian, was way ahead of its time, but only worked on Nokias and via Bluetooth to “see” who was around you and look at the profiles they’d built.

But the really successful apps in this area are used for flirting and sex (Tinder, Grindr etc).

Spotlinks is cute and simple, though it needs users. Try it out and see what you think.

An improved version of Google Drive's spreadsheets webapp, simple called Sheets, is now rolling out

An improved version of Google Drive's spreadsheets webapp, simple called Sheets, is now rolling out to all users. Improvements include offline editing, better speed, support for larger spreadsheets, and a variety of other small features. Read more here.

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Medium Launches Simple iPhone App That’s Just For Reading

Blogging platform Medium has released a simple app for the iPhone that allows users to read articles from the site. They’re presented as a feed that’s recommended for you automatically, though articles that have been recommended by people you follow feature their mug shot next to the title.

The app does not, in its current incarnation, feature any writing or composition features — this is for reading things on Medium only, not creating them.

Twitter co-founder and Medium creator Ev Williams has posted an article about what the Medium app is about, and he says that, after consideration, the team decided to produce an app created just for reading.

“When we started working on this six months ago,” says Williams, “we debated a lot about the purpose of the app. Was it just for reading? Should you write on it? If just for reading, what would be better about it than just using the mobile web.”

The differences, says Williams, came in the details. Things that allowed them to make the articles display faster and that let them improve the layout. Things that made it “better than the web” in terms of reading experience.

When you launch the app, you’re asked to sign in with your Twitter account. Then you begin reading. 

There is no index of your feed; you simply swipe to move backwards or forwards through articles. The app does include a simple feed of stories in a given Collection, however. Tapping on a collection name either at the top or bottom of an article will take you to this view. But that’s the only way to navigate around the various components of Medium. Otherwise the app is an exercise in restraint, presenting an extremely focused way to read, just read, Medium.

Tapping on an author will give you a similar list of just the stories they’ve written.

There will no doubt be a few folks who are confused by the lack of editing tools in the app — at least to start. But I think it’s admirable to focus on offering the best reading experience possible, rather than trying for a breadth of features done “just well enough.” It also speaks to the expressed desire of Williams and his team to move us away from “news bites“ and toward pieces that consider things more deeply.

I did experience a couple of crashes within the first few minutes of using the app — especially when navigating to a category via the link at the bottom of a post. But hopefully those are just launch-day jitters.

Medium has garnered a bit of a reputation for harboring pieces that are … less than self-aware. And multiple times over the past few months, it has been host to this or that controversial take on life, the universe and everything. The alternative, though, is for it not to be talked about at all — so I think we know which one they’d choose.

Anyhow, Medium aficionados now have an iPhone app that reflects the clever and crisp design work done on the website itself — though it’s only for looking and liking, not writing. No word on an Android client.