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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.

Very Cool tool in the fight against spam.

Check out the link here:

http://img4me.com/

Evilmunky out

So it’s been a week or two now, one of the most popular public torrent trackers out there ‘Mininova’ has gone Legit. No longer will it be your source for all things pirated. Now, whilst I do not condone or advocate the use of torrents for illegal warez, there is no doubt still a great demand for some public trackers for the general masses to use. There are a number of lists going around with suggestions of torrent sites for you to use in the port Mininova era, and I bring to you a selection of them:

1. Torrentzap
2. Vertor
3. ExtraTorrent
4. KickassTorrents
5. BTjunkie
5. Monova
7. isoHunt
8. yourBitTorrent
9. The Pirate Bay
10. ShareReactor

This list comes from Torrentfreak, an excellent source of Torrent related knowledge.
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So I used to use Experts-Exchange.com quite a lot at work when we had a team account and generally found their tech support of a very high standard. Working in a Windows domain environment it is inevitable that at some point you are going to need help and Google can’t answer every query you have, no matter how hard you search. When our team account ran out, our boss did not want to renew it so we tended to use other sites if help was needed, and more often than not, the results were not as good as Experts-Exchange.com. Annoyingly when you Google a problem, it would inevitably be one of the first sites that came up and the post would be exactly what you were looking for, except of course you don’t have an account and therefore can’t see the Experts comments or answers.

Well one day whilst searching around I noticed that you can see the answers even without an account. Here is how :

When you first search for help and you find the first couple of links to EE, you click them and get a familiar:

Of course the normal thing at this point is to hit the back button and keep searching. However, instead of hitting the back button, scroll all the way to the bottom, you will see lots of catagory selection options, and then right at the bottom you should see the answers and comments, like this:

I use this all the time and as long as the problem has been seen before then this should work.

For more tech support I use the following sites:

www.superuser.com – For desktop PC Support

www.serverfault.com – For server / domain type support

www.stackoverflow.com – For hardcore comms support.

These three sites are all run by the same people, they are all totally free and have some expert users on. Questions get answered very quickly.

That is all for today