A friend of mine recently pointed me to SpamGourmet which helps in the fight against and the tracking of SPAM or unwanted email. It works by allowing you to create multiple disposable email addresses. There are many sites that provide disposable email addresses but Spam Gourment goes that bit further.
Take this example:
For example, if your user name is “spamcowboy”, and BigCorp wants you to give them your email address (on the web, on the phone, at a store – it doesn’t matter), instead of giving them your protected address, give them this one:
frombigcorp.3.spamcowboy@spamgourmet.com
This disposable email address will be created here the first time BigCorp uses it (you don’t have to do anything to create it), and you’ll receive at most 3 messages, forwarded to your protected address. The rest will be indelicately consumed.
Visit SpamGourmet to sign up.
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Here is a list of great free software apps and tools available from Microsoft
Ultimate List of Free Windows Software from Microsoft
Some of my favorites:
SyncToy – helps copy, move, and synchronize files with digital cameras, e-mail, cell phones, portable media players, camcorders, PDAs, and laptops.
Fiddler – a HTTP Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP Traffic, set breakpoints, and “fiddle” with incoming or outgoing data. Absolutely necessary if you are doing any kind of web development.
Process Explorer – shows information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded. You can hook this up to be a replacement for Windows Task Manager. I never use boring old Task Manager. If you are not using this already then you should start now.
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