Monday, July 26, 2010

Scr.im - A Way to Protect your Email From Spam

Scr.im is a very simple but effective web tool for you to protect your email address when you post it in blogs, forums, Twitter and so on. This service requests you your email address to create an URL for your email address. So, when you want to publish your email in any site of the web, you post the URL created on Scr.i. When someone is interested on obtain your email, he or she will select the URL and it will lead him or her to a new window. That window contains a filter that only humans can solve. Then, the person will see your real email address, and that's it. This avoids spam bots to get to your email.

Downorisitjustme.com - Is your Site or ISP Down?

The website downorisitjustme.com allows you to see if your website is online or your Internet service provider is down or not. This is very useful for site owners which needs to know if their sites are online or not. Or, maybe, it could be that the ISP (Internet Service Provider) is down.

The site downorisitjustme.com only ask you to provide a valid site url and then you receive an instant answer telling you if it's online or not. Simple and useful web tool!

Tips to Protect your Facebook Profile

If you want to make your Facebook account safer, I recommend you the article that you can see on this link. The article explains some aspects of your Facebook account that you should take in consideration. For example, your privacy. Sometimes its better to allow only friends and friends of friends to see your personal information, photos, and more. Other aspect that the entry covers is the one regarding applications that could cause problems to your.