1. Filter and prioritize all emails. 2. Turn off unnecessary notifications from social media and other networks. 3. Unsubscribe immediately from anything you are not reading, do not intend to read, or into which you did not opt-in. More details on how to achieve email emptiness here.

Do you suffer from any of the following feelings? I would feel anxious if I could not use social media/Google/cell phone again. When I post an update/do a search/end a call, I immediately feel inclined to update again/do another search/make another call. Even when I am not using social media/Google/my cell phone, I am thinking [...]

Having to remember a bunch of passwords is as much as a pain as having to carry a bunch of keys. However, a neat gadget from Cambridge-based Smart Architects combines password manager and key fob. The USB device is like the inverse of a keylogger, generating strong passwords and autotyping them for you.

The “What Have You Downloaded?” service, does what it says on the tin, checks for the presence of your computer’s IP address in records leached from the Bit Torrent networks and shows them to all and sundry. It’s what the copyright claimants have been doing for years, anyway, and there’s really no privacy breach, in [...]