FSMdotCOM

10 Minute Email

A free and privacy-friendly temporary email account

Quick tip: Sometimes you need to signup for a service with an email address to confirm the user registration. When that time comes, it’s a good idea not to use your personal email.

You should take a look at 10 minute Mail, a service that generates a 10-minute email account for you.

According to their privacy policy, the service does NOT keep logs or records of your personal data. A temporary cookie is used to allow the service to deliver the e-mail to the right person, but will expire when you close your browser.

FreeTube: An Open Source YouTube Player Built for Privacy

an open source desktop YouTube player built with privacy in mind

This is just a short and sweet update on my “HOW TO: Break Up With Google” post. For most people the hardest thing to do, when breaking up with Google, is to move away from YouTube.

What most people don’t realize ( including myself until a couple of months ago ) is that you can use RSS with YouTube. Check how to do it here.

One other thing you can do is use FreeTube – a free and open source cross-platform app that allows you to watch YouTube without advertisements and prevents Google tracking from you with their cookies and JavaScript.

The app is still in beta, and there’s some bugs ( like using Tor for API calls does not work and max video resolution is 720p ) but for the most part works great. Also keep in mind that if you have a ton of subscriptions, when you open the app, it will take some time to load all the subscriptions. Also, I THINK, it will bypass geo-restrictions. Not sure though, as I’ve not come across any geo-restricted videos to test it out.

FreeTube Features

Watch videos without ads
Use YouTube without Google tracking you using cookies and JavaScript
Make API calls through the Tor network
Subscribe to channels without an account
Local subscriptions, history, and saved videos
Export & import subscriptions
Open videos from your browser directly into FreeTube (with extension)
Mini Player
Light / dark theme

Learn more and download FreeTube on the project’s github page.

Onyx is Now Available for macOS Mojave

Onyx for macOS Mojave now available

Onyx is now available for macOS Mojave. If you’re not familiar with the tool, Onyx is a multifunction utility for macOS that allows you to verify the startup disk and the structure of its system files, to run miscellaneous tasks of system maintenance, to configure some hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock, QuickTime, Safari, Mail, iTunes, login window, Spotlight, and many of Apple’s applications, to delete caches, to remove a certain number of files and folders that may become cumbersome, and more.

Download Onyx here.

How to Use Screen Recording on iOS Devices

Do you want to record a video of your iOS device’s screen?

Do you want to record a video of your iOS device’s screen? To be entirely honest nowadays it is easier than ever before to do so as iOS 11 has its very own built-in screen recorder.

Still as you’ll soon see it helps to know all your options – and there are a number of them.

Continue reading “How to Use Screen Recording on iOS Devices”