If you are worried about your child accessing adult content through your browser or porn popups appearing while normal browsing, then you need a tool that actively monitors your browsing and keeps porn-related pages from popping up. Here to offer you that service is a Firefox browser add-on called ProCon Latte Content Filter. ProCon Latte [...]
While the Internet can be a fun place, it is also where children face threats like cyber-bullying. Here to help you protect your children from such threats is a tool that lets you monitor their social activity on Facebook. This tool is called MinorMonitor. Minor Monitor is a free and simple to use web service [...]
Facebook has become so popular and big enough to attract the wrath of malicious hackers and their viruses. Suddenly, there is a lot of incentive for hackers to infect Facebook profiles with malware links. For this specific problem, Face Infected is a great first step. This Facebook-based app scans your FB profile for malicious links [...]
You want to socialize with your friends but you don’t want the whole world to see what you are up to. YapTime is a privacy-focused alternative to Facebook for small groups. Once you create a social space for your group and invite members, you can post messages to your groups, share photos and videos, and [...]
uProtect.it is an application for Facebook that aims to make your Facebook comments and photos more secure in a number of ways. First, it hides your comments and status updates from Facebook itself. How does it do that? Simple, it encrypts them. So you have full control over who can see your comments. The same [...]
Tracking browser cookies to serve adverts that are tailored to the user’s likes and dislikes is a practice that has been going on for years. But these methods prompt privacy concerns time and again. Google has now come up with a Chrome extension called Keep My Opt-Outs that lets users permanently opt out of personalized [...]
If you want to access sites like MySpace or YouTube anonymously, or if you are on a restricted connection, then using a proxy server is one of the workarounds you could try. YouTube Proxy is a site which lets you access popular social sites like YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, Bebo as well as email services like [...]
Email is probably the most ubiquitous messaging system today, but even our own e-mails get caught up in a flood of spam. Bullguard is a great anti spam software that allows you to filter out spam and manage your inbox for you. Unlike tools that merely put up a wall around your inbox, Bullguard works [...]
You might have photographs on your cellphone that you want to keep private. Normally if somebody gets access to your phone and can view the photographs section, chances are that he can view all photographs stored on your phone. But Android phone owners can take advantage of “Gallery Private” and restrict access to some photos [...]
YouTube is the most popular online video sharing network but it does not offer the privacy many of us would prefer. In order to better control who gets to see your videos, log on to VidMe. VidMe is a private and secure video sharing website. The site’s controls are quite standard. You sign up for [...]