This is in particular useful for office folks where your personal bookmarks are potentially exposed to others.

One really cool thing about HideLinks is it’s Firefox addon which makes the whole process of creating a password protected bookmark really fast. Simply, click the HideLink It! button on your toolbar and you’re almost done.

Features:

• Keep your bookmarked URLs private by shortening and password protecting them.
• Firefox addon avaialble: adds “HideLink It!” button to Firefox toolbar.
• No sign up needed.

Check out Hidelinks @ www.hidelinks.com

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• Shortless : Shorten Long Links
• PassPack : Free Password Manager
• MashedLife: Securely Store Your Passwords Online
• Linkli.st: Create List Of Links & Easily Share Them
• Clipperz: Online Password Manager

The Filzmail email works perfect and you can receive and reply mails through it temporarily. It also goes a step further and lets you subscribe to the RSS feed of your Filzmail email account.

However, it’s important to note that Filzmail records IP addresses and the related data. Hence it cannot be used to send anonymous email mesages.

Check out Filzmail @ www.filzmail.com. ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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• TempInBox: Temporary Email Account
• SpamGourmet : Spam Blocker for your eMail
• BugMeNot – Disposable Login Details
• TemporaryInbox: Temporary Email Forwarding
• ProQuo: Remove Personal Info. from Marketing Lists

Features:

• Send self deleting online messages.
• Control the number of times a message can be opened and the lasting time.
• No registration or sign-up needed.

KickNotes is definitely not the first website offering such service. Other similar websites that we have covered earlier include SDmessage (255 characters limit), PrivNote (messages self-destruct after 10 seconds) and BigString (does the same for instant messaging).

Check out KickNotes @ www.kicknotes.com

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• TempInBox: Temporary Email Account
• SpamGourmet : Spam Blocker for your eMail
• SDMessage : Self-Destructing Messages
• Privnote: Send Notes that will Self-destruct after being Read
• Mintemail: Disposable Email Address

Simply moving the mouse off the browser window or right-clicking quickly hides the viewing window back leaving only the cover page. The cover page can be any website you want, you can even set it to show an office document (Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.). Check it out below …

Features:

• Browse any webpage through a small custom-sized window on other page or office document.
• Customize Window: adjust window size, blend it with a cover page, etc.
• Premium account with additional features available as well.

Watch the Vanishd demo video below

Check out Vanishd @ www.vanishd.com

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• PassPack : Free Password Manager
• Unblockall : Access Blocked Sites at Work
• ThePrintliminator: Print Only What You Want
• ScrubIT : Free DNS Servers to Boost Your Connection
• ReadBag : Save Links to Read them Later

Apart from chat, BigString also gives you an email client from where you can send self-destructing, recallable, erasable, non-forwardable and non-printable emails to others.

Features:

Supported clients: MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, AIM and Gtalk.
• IM messages can’t be printed, coped, saved or print screened.
• Control how long your messages remains visible (from 5 seconds to 2 hours).
• Manually destruct individual messages at any time.
• Email client: Send self-destructing, recallable, erasable, non-forwardable, non-printable emails.
• No sign-up required for IM (simply use existing IM client credentials to login).
• Access all your IM accounts at once (registered users only).

BigString Intro Video

Check out BigString @ www.bigstringim.com

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• Vicito: Get Peronalised News in your Chat Program
• TempInBox: Temporary Email Account
• SpamGourmet : Spam Blocker for your eMail
• Mintemail: Disposable Email Address
• Gishpuppy

Features:

• Send self-destructing messages to others.
• No sign up or registration required.
• See the IP address of the person that read your note.
• Get notified when the recipient opens the note.

Check out Privnote @ www.privnote.com

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• WhisperBot: Securely Pass Important Messages Online
• TempInBox: Temporary Email Account
• sPaste : Securely Send Text Online
• SpamGourmet : Spam Blocker for your eMail
• SDMessage : Self-Destructing Messages

Features:

• Bypass corporate filters and firewalls and access favorite community websites.
• Watch Youtube videos without any lag (provided that your connection is fast enough).
• Login into your Myspace, Facebook and other web accounts.
• Access multi-protocol online instant messaging clients and chat with friends.
• No traffic redirection.
• There are no pop-up ads.

Go to Unblockall @ www.unblockall.net

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• Vanishd: Hide your Web Surfing from Prying Eyes of Co-workers
• Yammer – A Twitter For Businesses and Enterprises
• WhiteNoise: Relax & Listen to White Noise on iPhone
• WebInMail: Access Blocked Websites via Email
• Textris: Alphabetize, Sort, Label and Capitalize Lists

Aditionally, CallerComplaints offers a free and easy way to file a public complaint against any phone number that spams you. Keep in mind though these complaints have almost no legal power over the telemarketers. For more effective complains you might want to try National Do Not Call Registry.

Features

• Find out more information about any phone number that spams you.
• See if anyone reported it before and how many people compained about it.
• Read recently filed complaints.
• Check out most searched numbers: last 7 days, last month, all time.
• Contribute by reporting telemerketer phone numbers.
• File pubic complaints against any number.

Check out CallerComplaints @ www.callercomplaints.com

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• DoNotCall: Remove your Phone Number from Telemarketing Lists
• WhoCallsMe: Identify Unknown Callers
• TempInBox: Temporary Email Account
• SpamGourmet : Spam Blocker for your eMail
• ProQuo: Remove Personal Info. from Marketing Lists

How does it work ?

• Enter up to three phone numbers and your email address.
• Check for errors and click register.
• Check your email for DoNotCall confirmation message.

Features

• Remove your phone numbers from telemarketing lists.
• Register from the website or by calling registry’s toll-free number (1-888-382-1222).
• Option to remove your number from DoNotCall registry at any time.
• File complaint against telemarketer
• National DoNotCall registry meant for personal numbers only.

Note: Do Not Call Registry will stop most telemarketing calls, but not all. Because of limitations in the jurisdiction of the FTC and FCC, calls from or on behalf of political organizations, charities, and telephone surveyors would still be permitted, as would calls from companies with which you have an existing business relationship, or those to whom you’ve provided express agreement in writing to receive their calls.

Check out DoNotCall @ [ www.donotcall.gov ]

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• CallerComplaints: Database of Telemarketer Phone Numbers
• TempInBox: Temporary Email Account
• SpamGourmet : Spam Blocker for your eMail
• ProQuo: Remove Personal Info. from Marketing Lists
• FilzMail: Easily Create Disposable Email Accounts

Features:

• Find and report annoying unlisted (”name unavailable”) phone numbers.
• Extra: news, articles and videos related to telemarketing and robo-calling.

Check out 800notes @ www.800Notes.com

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• PrivatePhone: Free Private Phone Number
• Numbr: Disposable Phone Number
• CallerComplaints: Database of Telemarketer Phone Numbers
• WhoCallsMe: Identify Unknown Callers
• WhoCalledUs: Uncover Unlisted Phone Numbers

Dummy Tip: To view currently running Windows processes go to ‘Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del) >> Processes’

ProcessLibrary Features

• Process Library: Browse huge process directory by process name.
• You can also see ‘Top Searches’, ‘Top Security Threats’, ‘Top New Entries’.
• There are over 9000 entries in ProcessLibrary database.
• Desktop application: Scan and analyze active processes. More details below.
• Follow-up on newly profiled process via feedraeder (RSS / ATOM).
• Multi-lingual: Available in English, Français, Italiano, Deutsch, Español, Japanese.

The most noticable feature is ProcessScanner. It’s an essential, tiny, easy-to-use downloadable program that scans processes on your system and categorizes them by status, security threat, performance requirements, network usage and source.

[Video] ProcessScanner in action

Check out www.processlibrary.com @ www.processlibrary.com

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• VirusTotal: Online Virus and Spyware Scanner
• WhatIsThatFile: Lookup Unknown Files
• Virus Scan : Check Files for Viruses Online
• ScrubIT : Free DNS Servers to Boost Your Connection
• Process-DLL: Guide to Windows Processes and DLLs

How does it works?

Encrypting:

• Upload file, add password (optional) and click “Encrypt”.
• Download encrypted file.

Decrypting (only files that were encrypted by File-Encryptor):

• Upload file, enter password if required and click “Decrypt”.
• Download decrypted file.

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Features List:

• Encrypt files to very high standard. File-encryptor claims that it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to decrypt encrypted files using other means. Its encryption code has been undefeated for about 20 years.
• Password-protect files (optional).
• Maximum allowed file size in one session is 10 MB.
• Option to use secure connection when encrypting files.

Check out File-Encryptor @ [ www.file-encryptor.com ]

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• Lockbin : Send Encrypted Emails
• ScrubIT : Free DNS Servers to Boost Your Connection
• ProcessLibrary : Ultimate Library of Windows Processes
• PassPack : Free Password Manager
• OpenDNS: SpeedUp Your Internet Connection

ScrubIt Features

• No need to worry about domain mispellings, ScrubIt fixes them automatically.
• Block porn and other malicious websites.
• Block websites by category: gambling, adult, shopping, dating, etc. (Registration required)
• If you find a malicious website that isn’t blocked you can report it to ScrubIt team and get it blocked.
• Need more details? Check out ScrubIt FAQ page here.

“Recent research shows that pornography is the plague of the new millennium. Children as young as 10 years old who use the internet are regularly assaulted with graphic images, giving them a distorted view of human sexuality. Other studies show that surfing pornographic sites at work is one of the biggest time-wasters in business today. What’s the solution? Scrub the internet squeaky clean by using ScrubIT as your DNS server.”

Check out ScrubIT @ www.scrubit.com

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• PassPack : Free Password Manager
• OpenDNS: SpeedUp Your Internet Connection
• Vanishd: Hide your Web Surfing from Prying Eyes of Co-workers
• ProcessLibrary : Ultimate Library of Windows Processes
• Norton SafeWeb: Is This Website Safe?

How does it work?

• 1. Enter requested to/from details and type-in the message that you want to send.
• 2. Recipient receives an email stating he/she has received a self-destructing message from you. The email also contains a link to view the message.
• 3. Recipient clicks on the link, the message is displayed with your name, email address and IP address. The message gets automatically deleted after 60 seconds.
• 4. You receive a confirmation email stating that your message has been received and viewed by the recipient.

Features:

• Send email messages that will self-destruct after 60 seconds from when it’s first opened.
• No sign-up required.
• Message size limit : 255 characters.
• Get notified the minute recipient has opened and viewed your message.

Check out SDMessage @ [ www.sdmessage.com]

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• TempInBox: Temporary Email Account
• SpamGourmet : Spam Blocker for your eMail
• Privnote: Send Notes that will Self-destruct after being Read
• Mintemail: Disposable Email Address
• Lockbin : Send Encrypted Emails

Update: Unfortunately, TempInBox doesn’t work any more. For an alternative tool go to Mintemail.

Feature List:

• Instantly generate temporary email address without visiting TempInBox.com.
• Subscribe to an RSS or ATOM feed to monitor the email account remotely from your feedreader.
• Multi-lingual: Browse your email inbox in over 20 languages.

Check out TempInBox @ www.tempinbox.com

Update: Unfortunately, TempInBox doesn’t work any more. For an alternative tool go to Mintemail.

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• SpamGourmet : Spam Blocker for your eMail
• TemporaryInbox: Temporary Email Forwarding
• Mintemail: Disposable Email Address
• Gishpuppy
• FilzMail: Easily Create Disposable Email Accounts

How does it work?

• 1. Type in your message and provide a solid ‘Secret Word’ (encryption key) that will be used for encrypting the message.
• 2. Recipient receives an email with a link to pick up your message.
• 3. In order to read the message s/he will need to enter your ‘Secret Word’.
• 4. Once opened it will be automatically deleted from the server.

Check out Lockbin @ www.lockbin.com

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• Gishpuppy
• File-Encryptor: Securely Encrypt Important Files Online
• 10MinuteMail
• The Enkoder Form: Email Address Encryption Tool
• TempInBox: Temporary Email Account

Chicago Tribune: “… I’m planning to play around with three, each of which would require me to remember only one password to access all my others. The most attractive is PassPack, because it resides online.”

Feature Overview

• Store and Manage up to 100 passwords online.
• ‘PassPack It’ Bookmarklet: One click auto-login to any of your saved accounts.
• Find Passwords: Using tags / Search as you type / browse alphabetically.
• Password Generator: Let PassPack generate a secure password for you.
• Password Tester: Quickly check how strong your passwords are.
• Print, Import (ex. from Roboform), Export, Backup and Restore your passwords and other saved data.
• Print passwords.
• Disposable Logins: Access your PassPack account using one time passwords. Useful when connected from insecure locations.
• Offline version: Keep a copy of your PassPack account offline.
• Option to cancel your account at any time.
• Still wondering how you can make use of of PassPack ? See some examples here.

Not so long ago we also wrote about Clipperz, a similar password manager application. Below you can see a quick feature comparison for both of the services.

Check out PassPack @ www.passpack.com

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• Vanishd: Hide your Web Surfing from Prying Eyes of Co-workers
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• OpenDNS: SpeedUp Your Internet Connection
• Clipperz: Online Password Manager
• ThePrintliminator: Print Only What You Want

Feature Overview

• Request a copy of your own FBI file for free.
• Get FBI files for deceased individuals. More details.
• Request personal files (if available) from NSA, CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Defense Security Service (DSS), U.S. Marshals Service (USMS), US Secret Service (USSS), and Army Criminal Investigation Command (CID).
• Note: The first 100 pages of any requested file are free. For each additional page you will be charged at 10 cents per page.

Check out Get My FBI File @ www.getmyfbifile.com

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• Vanishd: Hide your Web Surfing from Prying Eyes of Co-workers
• Unblockall : Access Blocked Sites at Work
• TempInBox: Temporary Email Account
• SpamGourmet : Spam Blocker for your eMail
• SDMessage : Self-Destructing Messages

ProQuo: “There is a ten billion dollar industry profiting from the trading and selling of your personal information today — without your knowledge, and without your consent. The companies involved in this industry include data brokers, direct marketing companies, credit bureaus, and other organizations.”

Feature Overview

• Reduce junk mail and prevent identity thefts by removing personal data from marketing lists.
• Unsubscribe from: Coupons & Weekly Circulars, Marketing Lists & Data Brokers, Phone Directories, AND Telemarketing Lists.
• Choose which mails/promotions to stop and which to continue.
• Claims to reduce junk mail by 50 to 90 percent.
• Note: it may take anywhere between 4-12 weeks for opt-out requests to get processed.
• Operates only in United States.
• More Questions? Go to service FAQ page.

Check out ProQuo @ www.proquo.com

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• CatalogChoice: Reduce Catalog Spam
• TheMailMonster: Send Postal Mail Online For Free
• TempInBox: Temporary Email Account
• SpamGourmet : Spam Blocker for your eMail
• SnailMailr: Send Snail Mail Online

TechCrunch: “Americans are inundated with 19 billion catalogs a year. A new not-for-profit Website called Catalog Choice just launched today that lets you opt out of getting such mailings on a catalog-by-catalog basis.”

How It Works ?

• 1. Sign up: Complete registration form and provide your name and primary postal mailing address. Your address details will only be used for opting-out of catalog subscriptions.
• 2. Find Catalogs: Use Catalog Choice search feature to find your catalogs, and decline them.
• 3. Catalog Choice will contact providers on your behalf and request that your name and address be removed from their mailing lists.

Please note that it can take up to 2.5 months until your opt-out request is processed.

More Questions? Go to service FAQ page.

Check out CatalogChoice @ www.catalogchoice.org

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• ProQuo: Remove Personal Info. from Marketing Lists
• GreenDimes: Reduce Postal JunkMail & Stay Green
• TempInBox: Temporary Email Account
• SpamGourmet : Spam Blocker for your eMail
• FilzMail: Easily Create Disposable Email Accounts

Feature Overview

• Instantly get disposable email address upon each visit to the website.
• Automatic eMail Verification. No need to click on the confirm/verify links manually.
• Instant new email notification in the browser title bar.
• Bookmark and Access your inbox address directly (http://mintemail.com/username). No-login required.
• Forward incoming messages to any email address.
• Customized expiry time. Keep disposable address form 1 hour to 1 month.

Check out Mintemail @ www.mintemail.com

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• TempInBox: Temporary Email Account
• SpamGourmet : Spam Blocker for your eMail
• Gishpuppy
• BigString: Virtual Instant Messenger and eMail Shredder
• 10MinuteMail

Update: PrivatePhone will be ending its service on December 15, 2007. As an alternative service, we recommend Numbr: Disposable Phone Number. Check it out.

PrivatePhone Features

• Get anonymous phone number that forwards all incoming calls to voicemail.
• Get a number with a local area code (available for most US cities).
• ‘Gotta Go Call’ Feature: Schedule a future call back on your phone with an automated message.
• Anonymously call back people who left you voicemail. Ten calls (of up to 10 minutes each) are included for FREE each month.
• Free callbacks are limited to the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico.
• Access your voicemail directly from your phone or log-in to your PrivatePhone account online.
• Set voicemail alerts to be sent to an email or to your mobile.
• Embed voicemail on your blog, website, etc.
• Store up to 10,000 voicemail messages. With a daily limit of 500 voicemails.
• Premium Accounts: Adds call forwarding and call screening features.
• Got Questions? More information can be found here.

PrivatePhone Promo: ‘Dick and Jane’

PrivatePhone Promo: ‘Bob’

Go to PrivatePhone www.privatephone.com

Update: PrivatePhone will be ending its service on December 15, 2007. As an alternative service, we recommend Numbr: Disposable Phone Number. Check it out.

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• Numbr: Disposable Phone Number
• YouMail : Store and Manage Voicemail Online
• Pinger: Free Voice Messages to Any Mobile
• PhoneVite
• K7 : Get Fax and Voicemail Messages in Your email

Numbr Features

• Get auto-expiring, anonymous phone number and forward incoming calls to any home or mobile number.
• Get disposable number via website or by dialing ‘(415) 234-5678′.
• Keep number alive for as long as you need. Set it to expire in an hour, day, week or month.
• Send callers directly to voicemail.
• Call History: Access all of your call-records online<./li>
• Re-activate expired numbers at any time.
• Spammers Blocker: Built-in filter to block off telemarketers.
• Block annoying callers with a click of a button.
• Get a local number in over 28 major US cities.
• Note: Although Numbr is a free service, depending on your carrier plan regular phone charges may apply.
• iNumbr widget: embed widget on your blog or profile page.

Visit Numbr [www.numbr.com]

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• PrivatePhone: Free Private Phone Number
• TempInBox: Temporary Email Account
• SpamGourmet : Spam Blocker for your eMail
• Mintemail: Disposable Email Address
• Gishpuppy

Web History Features

• View and manage your web activity (visited web pages, viewed images and video, performed searches, etc.).
• Search across your web history including the full text of the webpages you have visited.
• Browse your history by date and by content type (web, image, news, products, video, maps, books, etc.)
• Easily pause activity recording OR remove items from your web activity at any time.
• Web History only records your activity when you’re signed in to one of your Google Accounts (i.e. Gmail).
• Follow up on your web history directly from your favorite feedreader (via RSS.).
• Observe Browsing Trends: Which websites you visit most often? How many searches did you do in your working hours?
• Get more personalized search results based on your past searches and visited webpages.
• More Questions? Check out service FAQ page here.

Visit Google Web History [www.google.com/psearch]

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• SearchBastard: Firefox Advanced Search Add-on
• Search Cloudlet: Google Tag Search
• ScrubIT : Free DNS Servers to Boost Your Connection
• PassPack : Free Password Manager

How SpamGourmet works

1. When asked to give in your email use: someword.x.username@spamgourmet.com.

• someword: can be anything you want but the better way to use it would be to describe a name of the website you’re subscribing to. This way you will always know where exactly emails are coming from.
• x: an optional value which can be used to put a limit on the number of messages you want to receive at this address (default is 3).

2. Setup forwarding to your primary email account.

Example

Say your SpamGourmet user name is “spamcowboy”, and some BigCorp wants you to give them your email address. Instead of giving them your real email, you can use following:

frombigcorp.3.spamcowboy@spamgourmet.com

This disposable email address will be created upon the first email from BigCorp and will be allowed to receive at most 3 messages.

Go to SpamGourmet @ www.spamgourmet.com

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• TempInBox: Temporary Email Account
• TemporaryInbox: Temporary Email Forwarding
• Mintemail: Disposable Email Address
• Gishpuppy
• FilzMail: Easily Create Disposable Email Accounts

User Testimonial: “I can’t say Thank You enough for providing OpenDNS. We had problems with the Bellsouth DNS servers. After switching to OpenDNS everything just works.” More testimonials

OpenDNS Features

• Speeds-up your internet connection.
• Warns of phishing threats and adult sites.
• Track / Monitor network activity: See what sites are being visited, block adult websites, etc.
• Integrated spell-checking tool.
• Works on Windows, Mac, Linux, mobile devices, gaming consoles, etc.
• Step-by-step setup instructions for each operating system and device.
• Open DNS server addresses: 208.67.222.222 AND 208.67.220.220

OpenDNS demo video: (by MingVideos.com)

Go to OpenDNS (www.opendns.com)

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• PassPack : Free Password Manager
• Vanishd: Hide your Web Surfing from Prying Eyes of Co-workers
• ProcessLibrary : Ultimate Library of Windows Processes
• Norton SafeWeb: Is This Website Safe?

• Sex (male, female, random)
• Nameset options (Chinese, American, Indian, German, Russian, Arabic, etc.)
• Country of residence.

So in case you need and indian identity in US or an American name in Japan it can help you out. Along with the fake name and address you also get email, credit card details and even a birth date.:-)

“We’ve generated millions of names for hundreds of companies and individuals! We can provide test data in several formats (including MySQL, CSV, tab delimited, and Excel) absolutely free through our Order in Bulk page.”

Check out FakeNameGenerator @ www.fakenamegenerator.com

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• TempInBox: Temporary Email Account
• SpamGourmet : Spam Blocker for your eMail
• Numbr: Disposable Phone Number
• Mintemail: Disposable Email Address
• Gishpuppy

Features:

• Browser addons for Firefox and IE: (1) instantly create disposable accounts on whatever website you’re, (2) autofill ‘username’ field on websites where you have used GishPuppy
• Cancel individual email accounts when not needed or after a selected expiry date
• Remembers multiple email log-in ID’s (clicking on the ‘gish it’ icon from the sign-in page enters the ‘gish’ email and corresponding web-page into database for future reference)
• and more

Visit: GishPuppy

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• 10MinuteMail
• TempInBox: Temporary Email Account
• SpamGourmet : Spam Blocker for your eMail
• Mintemail: Disposable Email Address
• Lockbin : Send Encrypted Emails

Ex: Say you clicked on a link that points to an article on some popular reviews or news website. Usually instead of landing straight on an article page you’re asked to signin or register. Maybe there is a good reason behind it, but what’s the point of signing up if that is your first and only visit to that website. Using BugMeNot, you can instantly access disposable login details and login to desired website without signing-up. It’s fast and convenient.

Features:

• Firefox Extension: Add BugMeNot to your Firefox toolbar.
• Bugmenot Bookmarklet: Lookup disposable login details directly from the target website.
• Contribute: Submit a missing or alternative login details.
• Report non-working accounts.
• For additional info go to BugMeNot FAQ section or see their tutorial page.

Check out BugMeNot @ www.bugmenot.com

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