Afraid of putting your email address into a forum post or thread incase a spam spider gets it?
Nowadays, it’s inevitable that if you use your email address in plain text on a website / forum, that it will get spidered and spam will start coming to you. To me this doesn’t cause me any issues (and I will explain why in an upcoming spam article). for many, this may be a problem and therefore would be nice to avoid.
I recently came across a site that has a reasonable solution for you. You provide it with your email address, and it converts it into a picture that you can save, html or BB code link to.
Here is an example: . This is a very quick one I did to use as a test, but the site has options on font size, colour, background etc etc. With this, unless someone is using a highly efficient character recognition piece of software (which lets face it, they deserve your email address if they are), your email address will be safe from auto scanning spider bots.
I woke up this morning and found these awesome Windows 7 themes on my virtual doorstep. I tried a few out and liked them so thought I would share them with you.
Here is a quick sample
All you need to do – is download the file below, open it and either launch the individual theme files manually or copy them to you c:\windows\resources\themes folder.
There is no catch. Go there, click the link and download that bad boy.
Now, for those of you wondering what exactly Glary Utilities is; it is a suite of utilities for your computer, similar to many others out there on the Market. But its good. It’s really good. I use the free one all the time and it fixes all manner of things from registry problems, spyware, free space etc. Normally you have to buy this, but thanks to the kind people over at Giveawayoftheday.com you can get it for free.
There are lots of things you don’t know about hacking.
Here are a few
Think your Mac is hackproof? At this year’s CanSecWest conference, security researcher Charlie Miller used a flaw in Safari to break into a MacBook in under 10 seconds.
Cyborgs beware: Tadayoshi Kohno at the University of Washington recently hacked into a wireless defibrillator, causing it to deliver fatal-strength jolts of electricity.
Using a blue box, Wozniak crank-called the Pope’s residence in Vatican City and pretended to be Henry Kissinger.
. This is a very quick one I did to use as a test, but the site has options on font size, colour, background etc etc. With this, unless someone is using a highly efficient character recognition piece of software (which lets face it, they deserve your email address if they are), your email address will be safe from auto scanning spider bots.
