Project - Privacy Tools

One of the main reasons that I decided to have my own website, was to host some of the different projects that I've been working on. Some are in good working order (but never finished!) such as WCG Online, and others are in their infancy, like the one I'm talking about today.

Privacy Tools

Privacy matters - here's why!

A lot of internet users don't realise just how much websites can track them and invade their privacy. You can have security without privacy but you can't have privacy without security.  I have created the tools below to help show what websites can determine about you.

And that's the gist really, it is designed to be a set of tools to help educate users on internet privacy and how they can be more careful about the information that they give away.

It currently looks at things like your navigator details and history, canvas information, battery level, display and position information, and connection details.  It also looks at the major social networking sites to see which ones you're currently logged into.

As I say, this is very much a work in progress, and will continue to improve over the coming months.  

Check it out on my Projects page or directly at Privacy Tools.

Website launch

It's way beyond time that I had my own website, on which to host my own projects.  Whilst working on this, I've been researching and making decisions, and learning new skills along the way.  So I've decided to create a new blog, documenting some of this as I go, mostly for my own benefit looking back, but maybe it'll be of use to someone else too.

So, my new website... http://www.rik.onl

Firstly, how did I go about choosing this URL?  The classic format these days is (firstname)(lastname).com, so that would be riklewis.com for me, which was available to me.  In fact, riklewis.co.uk and riklewis.uk were available as well.  Apparently "riklewis" isn't a very popular name!  I guess I liked that fact that it was a short top level domain, but also gave me the flexibility to just use Rik.  If you want more information on .ONL, you can check out... http://www.nic.onl/

I've previously had projects on different URLs, but I'm starting to merge those into my own site now.  These include...

• http://trixmoto.net now redirects to http://www.rik.onl/mediamonkey
• http://editor.watch now redirects to http://www.rik.onl/watchmaker
• http://wcg.onl is remaining where it is, for now at least

There's a few posts I want to write to catch up to where I am now, and then after that I'll be continuing to update as I go.