Richard Allen

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Uninstall McAfee from OSx El Capitan

Richard Allen on mcafee, mcafee uninstall, mac, technology | 30 Sep 2016

McAfee was really slowing down my Mac, and trying to figure out how to uninstall it was a pain - so I thought I'd share it as it's pretty simple. 1) Open terminal 2) Enter the following command: sudo /usr/local/McAfee/uninstall EPM 3) Wait for it to finish…

Syncing two accounts to Google Drive on Mac

Richard Allen on technology, mac, google, Google Drive, Sync | 20 Oct 2015

Like some of you, I use two Google accounts - my personal one, and a work Google Apps account. Recently I have been getting a bit frustrated with only being able to sync one Google account via the Google Drive app for Mac. After a bit of playing about, I…

Remove auto complete URL's from Chrome on a Mac

Richard Allen on technology, mac, chrome | 19 Oct 2015

Chrome is a great browser, but occasionally it can be really annoying. Recently I moved clients and chrome kept auto-completing a URL I don't use anymore, i/e I typed in co and it would autocomplete to my old clients confluence address. After a while, I finally figured out how…

Political Party Websites

Richard Allen on political party, Politics, political party websites | 28 Apr 2014

I couldn't find a list of the UK political party websites anywhere, and after an FOI request to the Electoral Commission I only recieved around 50 back so decided to collate them all myself. You can view the data here; Political Party Domains V3 - Google Sheets (function(a){var…

Heartbleed bug - A simple explanation

Richard Allen on technology, heartbeat, heartbleed bug, hacking | 14 Apr 2014

Over the past few days you may have heard, or read, about the so called 'Heartbleed bug' which has punched a massive whole in the heart of the internet and left around two-thirds of the world's websites open to attack by hackers. But like most of my friends, I doubt…

Global youth wellbeing index

Richard Allen on Global Youth, Wellbeing, teenagers, UK, Center for Strategic and International Studies, International Youth Foundation | 10 Apr 2014

In some ways, the UK doesn't appear to be a great place for the youth of today with the on-going demonisation of teenagers in the media. We are told day in day out exams are getting easier, youth unemployment is at it's highest. That teenagers are rebellious, drug addicted, sex…

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