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"The WAVE Firefox toolbar provides a mechanism for running WAVE reports directly within Firefox. Because the toolbar reports runs entirely within your web browser, no information is sent to the WAVE server. This ensures 100% private and secure accessibility reporting. The toolbar can check intranet, password-protected, dynamically generated, or sensitive web pages. Also, because the WAVE toolbar evaluates the rendered version of your page, locally displayed styles and dynamically-generated content from scripts or AJAX can be evaluated."  Accessibility checking.

"Securely self-hosting your websites, email, files and more has never been easier (or cheaper!). Decentralize your web and reclaim your privacy rights while keeping the conveniences you need."

"A "whiteboard culture" helps teams collaborate, improves the development and testing process, and - oh yeah - also secures long term savings."--Ahh so this is why there is a whiteboard behind me!

Google data centres - security and quality.

For Ref (Google) Force Chrome to fully kill a session when a user signs out or closes their browser i.e. don't run in background or save data to a users profile.Only for Apps domains and set at admin level as a policy. Needs Sync to be set too to be effective.

The advice that NYU are making available to staff regarding their use of add ons in Google Drive.

Service that backs up lots of cloud apps for you. Seems to work too!  Free a/c available.

"Are you smarter than a third-grader? Because the online education system used by the Fairfax County public schools apparently is not."

How to embed a website into a Moodle course.

Dave Winer wrote a timely piece this morning about how Facebook is scaring him since the new API allows applications to post status items to your Facebook timeline without a users intervention. It is an extension of Facebook Instant and they call it frictionless sharing.

Article on the difficulty of getting academics to use lecture recording - so much so that Purdue has set up automatic recording!

Some background on the recent Google Docs phishing attempts and mitigation by Google.