Software by tag 'privacy'

2 tips to bypass blocked or restricted websites

Posted by Lim on May 15th, 08 | Filed under Cool Stuff, How To, Internet, Tutorial | 4 Comments

There were some companies/countries which try to block access to certain websites. I had cover a tip to bypass them. But unfortunately some people complain that it doesn’t work. Today i had go through this issue and found an interesting article which extend this topic and provide 2 more solutions.

1. GhostFox – GhostFox is based on Firefox and it provide a list of proxy for users to choose. Users can try different proxy until they successfully enter the site.

2. Use Google cache – Enter the URL of the site in Google and search. After that, visit the cache copy of the website. You can found the cache link beside the results’ URL:

Enjoy your browsing with these techniques!

2 ways to protect your email address

Posted by Lim on Mar 8th, 08 | Filed under Internet, Tips, Tutorial | 4 Comments

Sometimes, we want to sign up for a web service, but were hesitate to giving out our email address because it may brought us a lot of spam mails. There are a few solution to this question.

Use a disposable email address

There are a lot of disposable email that you can choose. Guerrilla Mail and Mint email are the examples. When you visit Mint email, you will get a random email address. When you want to sign up any service, just use the random email address. Normally, these email will last for few hours. Some of them even provide automatic email verification. By using such service, you real email address will never appear on the spammer list.

Use temporary email forwarding service

This is the service which will create an temporary email account for you ( but you need to provide your real email account for them). Then you use the temporary email account to sign up anything you want. After that, all emails received by the temporary email will automatically forwarded to your real email account. Melt Mail is a website which provide this service.

Conclusion

I personally recommend the first solution. You still have to provide your email address to the temporary email forwarding service. Who knows they will sell your email address to others company? But the advantage of the second service is, you still can save your registration email in your own inbox, but you won’t get them if you use the disposable email address.

Guerrilla Mail | Mint email | Melt Mail

Spam Proof eMail Generator – Use it to avoid spam mail

Posted by Lim on Mar 5th, 08 | Filed under Cool Stuff, Internet | 4 Comments

Spam Proof eMail Generator is a free service which will convert your email address to an image, which then allow users to embedded it in forum or website, so that spam bot can’t collect your email address when they crawl the website.

The spam bots search the websites and create mailing list to send the spam. They take the email addresses written on your website page in text format and send you spam emails. This make us dare not to provide our real email address in any forums or websites.

But, Spam Proof eMail Generator comes out with a great idea – convert the email address to image format. This make spam bot can’t read the email address when they crawl a website.

Spam Proof eMail Generator

Although some may say that spam bots can get pass CAPTCHA, sure they can pass through the image email address. But, at least the image email address can protect and prevent some of the spam bots to read your email address, isn’t it?

I hope that the author of this website can add some features and make the text inside the image harder to read. For those who know Photoshop or Paint.NET, you probably can create a similar image by your own. But for those who don’t know how to use these softwares, you may try it.

Spam Proof eMail Address Generator