Privacy Policy

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About Us: Julii & John Swindells

Some Background Information Swinny.net is a family-run web site. It is engineered, written and edited by Julii and John Swindells. We run advertising on certain sections of the site. To find out more about what this means to you, please ... (more)

Be careful what you view on Facebook

I'm not one to complain about a free service like Facebook, especially when it works so well at keeping people in touch, but... I was very surprised to discover that links I view (but don't like) in my feed appear in friends' timelines. All ... (more)

Cloudflare for Better Web Performance?

There is a company that offers a firewall service fir your web hosting, and it does this using the so-called 'cloud'. Furthermore, its starter package is free! The company is CloudFlare Inc. So, what do you get? There is monitoring for ... (more)

Where has my iPhone been?

It should come as no surprise that the iPhone, master of location-sensitive applications, is recording its every move. There are privacy concerns in terms of what Apple might be doing with the collected data, but in the meantime let's have ... (more)

Google +1 Set to Rival Facebook Likes

In its continuing efforts to 'get social', Google is rolling out the "+1" (plus one) button next to its search results. It wants people to click this button next to search results that they like and would be happy to have mentioned in their ... (more)

Rory Cellan-Jones Outfoxed By Twitter

BBC Technology Correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones has, in his own words, been 'caught out by 02 new tweeting service'. He received a text message this afternoon and texted back with his email address (for whatever reason), not realising that ... (more)

123-Reg Whois Privacy

Be warned, if you purchase Whois Privacy (or domain privacy) from 123-Reg: they do not enable privacy automatically, so you need to go into the Whois Privacy section in your control panel and enable it there. I thought it was enabled when ... (more)

Unknown Firefox Master Password

Well, this was a strange problem when I installed Firefox - a mystery Master Password. I'd installed Firefox and had it copy settings over from Netscape 7.2. Everything seemed fine until I went to a site that needed a login; I ticked the box ... (more)

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29 Jan : How to make a cat tree
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25 Jan : Let the kittens play!
24 Jan : 22 January 2012: Mistley Cross
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18 Jan : Mavic Ksyrium SL Wheels
18 Jan : Park Tool Mini Chain Tool
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04 Feb : Internet Access
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27 Jan : The Social Web
24 Jan : Cycling
19 Jan : My Bike Miles
18 Jan : Sports Gear: Under Test
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