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Whichever way you look at it, Aaron Swartz has fundamentally changed the Internet. Aaron is one of the people behind reddit, which has been called the front page of the Internet. However, many would suggest that Aarons biggest claim to fame is as a coauthor of RSS or Rich Site Summary standard that is widely used across the Internet.

Earlier this year a movie was released telling Aarons story, his fight for an open Internet, his legal battle, and explores the questions of access to information and civil liberties that drove his work.

The movie is embedded below or is available to download for free from archive.org.

Note: This article was updated in November 2019 to fix the typos of my younger self.

As a university student, I’m always having to read the information contained on various websites, that are often filled with ads. Don’t get me wrong I don’t have an issue with ads. However, I do have an issue when this makes a website unfriendly to read.

I recently came across a fantastic tool, that makes it simple and easy to turn any website into a print friendly, E-mail friendly and PDF friendly format. Print friendly as it is called provides a simple easy to use interface to customise the sections of the website that you really wished print. Perhaps my favourite feature of print friendly is the way it lays out the downloadable PDF documents.

Although I have only been using print friendly for a few short weeks, I’m convinced that this will be one of those tools that I continue to rely on for years to come. I would encourage you to give print friendly and go for yourself.

Print Friendly

Note: This article was updated in November 2019 to fix the typos of my younger self.