Posts filed under 'Security'

Email Riddler is an online tool that encrypts email address and transforms it into a series of numbers when displaying it, making it virtually impossible for spam harvesters to crawl and add your email to their list. (more…)

I have the Firefox password manager turned on and am a regular Yahoo mail user, but Yahoo email always asks for the username and password to be filled up. The username and password never autofills though you have turned on the option to save passwords in firefox. I tried everything from clearing the cache, to reinstalling firefox to deleting all passwords and refixing it and finally creating a new Firefox profile as the last measure - but nothing worked! (more…)

PookMail is a disposable email account system. When someone or some site asks you for your email address, just pick one from pookmail.com. Use any unusual email id name like seemyaccount23@pookmail.com (more…)

My cousin constantly kept cribbing about his slow computer. So I finally decided to try to give him a visit… (more…)

You always wanted to password protect your webpages. Some web pages are best kept private. The javascripts below are simple ways to protect using a password your webpage.

WARNING : As I said, these scripts are very simple javascript. They are the first line to protect privacy of webpages. Someone who can access the html page souce code can easily find the username and password and enter the page. The script will NOT work in Javascript disabled browsers or older browser versions not supporting javascript. So it is basically to stop routine surfers from accessing your pages. Anyone with a little idea about html and computers can see the source code. So if you have something IMPORTANT that you really want to password protect and not allow any access at all, DO NOT USE these and try alternative means. (more…)

You created your very own personal home on the web. However, the site turning up into search engines and web directories, revealing your personal details. It is very simple to block search engines from indexing your website by adding a small META code in your web pages and adding a small text file called robots.txt. Protect your privacy. (more…)

When you connect to the internet, your IP (internet protocol) address is your identity in the internet. Your IP can easily be detected and can be misued by websites and hackers. Why not check your IP now. (more…)