March 3, 2009
Fraudulent emails or links are not always about stealing your passwords or getting you involved in some strange money transaction from Sierra Leone. Sometimes they are less obvious and much more deceiving. Likewise, spreading a false rumor may cause quite some damage to an involved character or institution. The easiest way to avoid being scammed [...]
January 16, 2009
Bloggers are usually well aware of the dangers of being accused of libel, and that’s why most independent online journalists are very careful to make sure that everything they write about someone on their blog is backed with documentation and evidence. But when someone writes something libelous about you, you need to be well prepared [...]
October 9, 2008
OtherInbox claims to be “the cure for email overload.” I’ve been part of the beta test for a few weeks now and I simply love it. Instead of giving you a single email address, OtherInbox gives you the ability to create multiple addresses in your own subdomain (myusername.otherinbox.com). These addresses can be used to sign [...]
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 [...]
July 30, 2008
Here is the scenario: (queue up the scary music) It is a dark and stormy night. You are home all alone and the phone rings while you are watching the latest horror flick. You jump out of your seat; a little scared and walk to the phone. But you missed it and they hung up [...]
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 [...]
October 24, 2007
WordPress Pluggins: Part One Last year it sounded all so easy and routine when I said to myself “let’s move my blog from Blogger to WordPress. Should be a piece of cake”. Famous last words. One year on and three attempts later, my blog is now finally on the WordPress platform. I now feel like [...]
September 16, 2007
Just about when I thought I got everything out of Gmail, I discovered my top favorite feature. We have published over 30 tools in Gmail RoundUp 1 and almost 80 tools and tips in Gmail RoundUp 2 but never mentioned anything similar to this one. Tribute for this one goes to my ‘I am not [...]
