As Santa Clara marketing student Yasir Afifi knows only too well, nowadays it’s open season on authorities sticking tracking devices on your car or other possessions. It seems to be a fact of life that we’re all subject to the whims of law enforcement, which is a bit unfortunate. But there is a solution for those with the cash and desire.
We remember a day when browsers didn’t have tabs. If you wanted to visit two sites at once, you had to open another window. However, tabs are a technology we got behind in a big way, sometimes resulting in more tabs open than one human could possibly handle all at once. Thankfully, Chrome users now have a way to tidy up the tab-hoarding.
![OneTab for Google Chrome – One tab to rule them all [Freeware]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/OneTab-for-Google-Chrome.jpg)
The days when Chinese Android smartphones lagged behind the big brand leaders are drawing to a close, as evidenced by the latest crop of budget handsets emerging from the mainland in 2014. One of the first of these is a gorgeous new handset from one of our favorite manufacturers, THL, who have produced something which manages to look fabulous as well as offer a top feature set and blistering performance.
![THL T100s – gorgeous budget octa-core super phone slashes the cost of ultra cool [Review]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/thlt100sc.jpg)
Most video games load you up with a whole arsenal of weapons, making you capable of taking down a whole army single-handedly… if you’ve got the skills. This game equips you with a sword. Are you ready to take on that army now?
The dreaded blind spot. Not even cars are safe from being rendered temporarily invisible when positioned in this hazardous position but at least a person in a car is surrounded by a metal shell. Bicycle riders are way more vulnerable, which is why it’s smart to let this little laser dude ride ahead of you so drivers in the other lane will know you’re coming.
Tired of thinking up the most bizarre and difficult passwords to protect your data? There are, of course, a fair number of more secure alternatives like fingerprint scanners to give you an extra layer of security. However, if you’re really looking for the hack-proof method then an iris scanner could be your saviour.
I’m writing this while listening to the latest album from Kim Dotcom which is running on a demo of his upcoming new music service, Baboom. Dotcom is rapidly moving from cool to awesome on the Richter scale of innovative dogged persistence. And it must be driving the fuddy-duddy music industry nuts.
Mood lights do a better job of changing moods when they’re able to provide a wide variety of lighting effects, which is what makes this light so smart.
