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February 10

Freedom and you.

What web browser respects my freedom the most? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.124.224.51 (talk) 17:22, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Lynx. Looie496 (talk) 18:01, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

What specifically do you mean by freedom in this context? Katie R (talk) 16:05, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ha, Lynx is a good bet, though a bit extreme. I will assume by "freedom" you mean that the content and actions of your web activity will not be easily monitored and recorded by third parties. The Electronic_Frontier_Foundation has recommended (in the past, haven't checked recently) to use Firefox with Noscript as a good bet for many users, and you can add Adblock and Tor routing if you are extra ~~paranoid~~ protective of your privacy and security conscious. As another weirdo extreme, you could use Freenet, but that isn't a browser, and doesn't connect to the web per se.

Finally, TAILS (The_Amnesic_Incognito_Live_System) would get my vote as the most secure/private way to (relatively) easily browse the web and all its content. SemanticMantis (talk) 16:16, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

How to search the "Invisible Web" for entertainment?

How can we find entertainment videos on the Invisible Web? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.65.117.118 (talk) 17:23, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Our article Deep Web covers this issue ("deep web" is a synonym for "invisible web"). By definition, these are web sites (or just pages within web sites) that a search engine cannot reach for one reason or another. So simple automated searching won't find this content. That means that you have to do the work "by hand". Either someone has to tell you that the site is there - or it has to be advertised to you in some manner. It's usually the case that web sites are "invisible" by choice rather than by accident, so they may not want to be found. However, that's not always the case. For example, if there were a subscription-only entertainment site - then search engines such as Google would be able to tell you that the site exists - but not tell you what movies (or whatever) was on offer inside the site because the Google web crawler would be unable to "log in" to track the contents. This is inconvenient because if you want to watch a particular movie, you may not be able to easily determine which subscription-only sites have it available. SteveBaker (talk) 17:55, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

On a different tack, you could check out Freenet. It's debatable whether this counts as "invisible web" or "dark web", because it doesn't even use www protocols. Anyway, the whole thing is pretty much inaccessible unless you get a client and host some bits, so all of it is "dark" to the web search engines. SemanticMantis (talk) 16:04, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

How to draw with Android tablet

Dear Wikipedians:

I am a heavy user of Drawing in Google Drive. I have no problem creating new drawings and draw in them using my PC. However, when I use Google Drive on my Android tablet, I find that first of all it does not allow me to create a new drawing and second of all the existing drawings I can only download and view on my tablet, not edit them on my tablet. So I am wondering how I can work with my Google Drive Drawings on my Android tablet?

Thanks,

198.91.172.69 (talk) 18:44, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Update: I have successfully loaded the desktop version of Google Drive on my tablet by checking the "Request Desktop Version" checkbox in Chrome. However, the resulting Drawing interface is not responsive to the Scribble tool, I can click the Scribble button, but when I attempt to draw with my finger on my tablet nothing comes out. 198.91.172.69 (talk) 19:08, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Are you able to draw using other Google Drive tools on the Android tablet ? StuRat (talk) 03:56, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Google Drive tools on the Android tablet does not have the option to create a drawing or work with an existing drawing. It only allows for the creation and edition of word documents and spreadsheets. 70.27.83.213 (talk) 15:30, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]