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Sharing your personal/business email address in Twitter, public forums, Craigslist, Gumtree, Social Networks, Chat rooms, Blogs, etc., might expose your email to some spam robots and email harvesters constantly browsing these sites to collect new victim emails. Today, we’ll bring a brief review of two useful free online tools that help you to protect your email address from these security and privacy risks. Let’s review scr.im and emailcover.

scr.im is an online service that allows you to convert your email address into a short, cute and safe link you can share anywhere on the web.

How does it work?

Step1
Type your email address

Step2
Select the url you want for the scr.im link

Step3
Start sharing your email account everywhere you want safely with your new scr.im link

Visit the Official Website: http://scr.im/

Emailcover provides this free service which hides your email address in a CAPTCHA image to help prevent spam email being sent to your email address. This dynamically created image never looks exactly the same, making it just a little harder for spam bots!

How does it work?

Step1
Type your email address

Step2
Get your CAPTCHA image and share it with confidence anywhere you want

Visit the Official Website: http://www.emailcover.com/

It really sucks when we try to open a new account in a new social network or online service and at the end of the process, the system says that your desired username has been already taken. Then you’ll have to start o be creative and get new and different usernames for all your new accounts, and at the end, you’ll have as many usernames as social networks or popular sites are in the Internet. Today, we’ll bring a short review about a really cool and extremely useful free online tool: Namechk.

Namechk checks to see if your desired username or vanity url is still available at dozens of popular Social Networking and Social Bookmarking websites. Namechk helps you to promote your brand consistently by registering a username that is still available on the majority of the most popular sites.

How does it work?

Step1
Type your desired username

Step2
Click on Chk

Step3
Namechk will show you if your desired username is available or taken in more than 70 different Social Networks and Online services

Visit the Official Website: http://namechk.com/

Are you planning to hold a meeting, online presentation, webinar or training but you have no idea where to start or what software to use? There’s a list of online meeting and conference tools and platforms offering really good services according with your needs and expectations. Today, we’ll review a new ease-to-use online meeting tool: Mikogo.

According with the Official Website, Mikogo is a free online desktop sharing tool full of features to assist you in conducting the perfect online presentation.

Mikogo can be employed for a range of professional, academic, or personal uses, including online meetings, product demonstrations, online presentations, remote support, or webinars. Provide online technical support for your customers. Conduct product demonstrations for business customers. Use Mikogo to discuss and edit a current team project. Or on a personal level, share your most recent holiday photos with loved ones. Read the rest of this entry »