February 28, 2013
There are many situations in life where you need someone to be able to contact you reliably, but do not want them to permanently have your phone number. Consider these situations: dating or selling goods online. Both of these circumstances are great examples of why a throw-away phone number might be a good idea.
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February 12, 2013
Certain things are just not meant to exist online forever. Sometimes the Internet can feel extremely constricting. Have you ever posted your email address on a forum somewhere? It goes from that forum, to the Google search engine, to a mess of spammers and scrapers, and thus the entire web. Virtually everything you publish online will exist in text for a very long time thanks to caching and archiving.
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December 7, 2012
Disposable emails are not a new idea. In fact they’ve been around almost as long as email has (well, almost). In case you’ve never used one, disposable emails are fake email addresses you can give to people you don’t trust, to services you suspect of sharing your address, and on any situation where you don’t want to use your real address. You can either read emails received to this address on a Web interface, or receive them to your real inbox.
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August 27, 2012
On the Internet, a personal email address is a de requiter passport to gain access to any membership website. But providing an email address can invite endless spam messages we had no idea we were signing up for. Temporary, disposable emails are one way to address this problem, and we've covered a handful of such services before, but a recently released disposable email address service called Gliph seems to be the first to provide a temporary or cloaked email addresses that you can use on your iPhone and Android.
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December 15, 2011
Electronic waste, or e-waste as it is more commonly known, is a huge problem facing both the developed and undeveloped world. Many old computer parts contain materials that are hazardous to the environment and burying your old Dell in a landfill is not helping the situation. Instead of throwing your old computer out why not donate it?
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July 16, 2011
For whatever reason, you may have the need to send a secret message. Whether it's for simply playing around, a message you don't want to be saved forever, or sending the next secret tip to the CIA, there will eventually be a reason why you might want to do that. No need to worry, as we have the perfect solution right here.
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September 11, 2009
Have you ever posted a Craigslist ad with your phone number? If you have not, trust me it is far from a good idea. You will wind up with whackos calling you in addition to voice spammers adding your phone number to their repository or database. I normally allow Craigslist to create one of their [...]
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September 1, 2009
Have you ever wanted a ridiculously easy way to save and share files for free, with no limitations? How about throwing in that your computer does not have to remain on after you are finished uploading your file? And for an extra bit of an added bonus let’s throw in a upload speed cap of [...]
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August 27, 2009
Have you ever had the need to create a free web page quickly to share information with a group of people or even a team member? You have to fire up your editor, make the page and then upload the page to the site, find the URL and pass it around. Now we have discovered [...]
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March 25, 2009
The internet is filled with junk. One of the most common pieces of junk is spam. Many of us are bombarded with spam every day and hate it. Although there are a few email providers that provide great spam filtering services, sometimes that just isn’t enough. Maybe you need to fill in an email for [...]
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December 31, 2008
Sometime last year, MakeUseOf featured an excellent list of disposable tools for the web. It covered a spread of useful disposable email accounts, phone numbers, login details, fake names, and file sharing tools. Disposable services are incredibly useful when you just want a bit of anonymity online. Can’t trust a website that looks a little dodgy with [...]
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September 18, 2008
Sure there are plenty of services that offer free, temporary and anonymous disposable email addresses. What makes YopMail a bit different is how easily you can create and access them. YopMail provides Firefox, IE and Opera extensions that allow you to create an email address and access the mailbox for that address in seconds. To [...]
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July 12, 2008
Spam has evolved from a minor annoyance into a fundamental issue. To the average user it’s a waste of time and nerves, to the economy it’s a major factor costing a ton of money. Spam is something we will never get rid of but there are ways to cut it down and get it under [...]
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July 6, 2008
If you remember some of the Bond movies or the Bourne trilogy you might recollect the protagonists having a number of passports and identities. Here is your chance to have your slice of “spy life”. No I have not found spy gadgets but I happened to find this: The Fake Name Generator. However it goes [...]
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December 28, 2007
Fed up with spam? Tired of telemarketing calls? Feelin’ paranoid about identity theft? … Here you’ll find a bunch “throwaway” web tools that can help you out. Disposable email account Mintemail – Instant disposable email for any “˜fishy’ registration form or sign-up. Go to mintemail.com and a random email address will be automatically generated and [...]
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