Whether it's corporations or governments, there's just too much digital spying going on today. Tox is an easy to use application that connects you with friends and family without anyone else listening in. While other big-name services require you to pay for features, Tox is totally free and comes without advertising — forever.

Unlike most terminal file-managers out there, CliFM replaces the traditional curses interface by a simple command-line interface. It is a file-manager, but also a shell extension.

This is already by far my favourite file manager.

A recent firing at The Associated Press is the latest example of the way in which our digital pasts are never far from the present, despite what early internet evangelists thought.