James Cridland

Notes from a British tourist in Moscow

I visited Moscow in November 2014. Here’s what it was like.

When to use a VPN

I wrote this in a Chromebook forum somewhere, and thought it deserved permanent posting somewhere. If you want a VPN after all this, try TunnelBear.

“I want to use a VPN because I don’t want anyone else reading my email”.

48 hours with a Samsung Chromebook Plus

This is one of those reviews aimed at someone who knows what a Chromebook is, but wonders…

You can…

1. Use a SFTP extension (there’s one in the Chrome Store) to connect to a filesystem in the cloud, but edit on Caret or similar coding tools directly on your machine.
2. Use CodeAnywhere, a very decent tool for coding (and virtual images and machines). I use it to develop a PHP website that I host…