I gotta say I am a big time Blackberry user at this point. I have a work one and a personal one and I love them from all aspects. Email, web, music, pictures etc etc. I am not at all tempted by an IPhone for many reasons too detailed to get into here. Until today I thought my next phone would most likely be a Google nexus one or whatever is out at the end of my contract, but now I am thinking maybe a Windows 7 device is the way forward.
I have used Windows mobile devices before and have to say whilst some of the functionality was pretty good, they did not compare to Blackberry or iPhone. It looks like they fixed that and now we have a new mobile contender.
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.
I like it even more when it’s good free shit, and this one looks like it is. The software is called Audials One. What it is, is a sound ripping piece of software for your PC. But not just any sound recording software. This can rip any sound from anything that is playing on your computer. Be it Youtube videos, DVD’s, Web Radio, TeamSpeak and so on. Sounds good huh? Well apparently they have 5 copies to give away, and all you need to do to win a copy is to leave a comment at the appropriate place.
The appropriate place can be found after the jump:
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.
. 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.
