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7. Best Free Online Security and Privacy-
Virustotal
, an online independent service to analyse suspicious files and detect viruses, worms, trojans and other malware by multiple antivirus engines. Detailed results from each antivirus engine are listed after it has scanned the file uploaded.
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Anubis , a service for analyzing malware. Submit your Windows executable file and receive an analysis report about what it does, or submit a suspicious URL to find out the activities of the Internet Explorer process when visiting that URL. For analyzing Javascript, Flash and PDF files, try Wepawet.
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WOT (Web of Trust) "provides fastest ratings, uses green / yellow / red ratings and 'people' reliability icons, multiple rating categories to help you evaluate websites, fantastic warning screen to empower users to avoid potentially bad websites before interacting with them." (Review)
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Online Link Scan helps you scan links for harmful threats such as viruses, spyware, trojans or other malware. It also shows you the host IP, any threat name and the overall result if the site is secure.
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OpenDNS , "a web based service that in conjunction with your own system's network configuration redirects all your browsing through OpenDNS servers where it is filtered for content." (Review)
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Privnote allows you to write a confidential note and send a link to someone for reading it. The note is destroyed after reading once, no more worrying about your message being forwarded to and read by others.
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Spamgourmet forwards only a limited number of mails to your protected email address and eats the rest. Just register your username and protected email address, then give out any disposable email addresses in this form someword.username@spamgourmet.com. Adding trusted senders and more settings are available.
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Scrim converts your email address into a short and safe link (for instance http://scr.im/joe) so that you can share it on the web to avoid spam robots and get less spam.
Best Free Online URL Expander (see also URL Shortener)
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URL X-ray examines a shortened URL you gave and finds out where it leads to before you actually click on it. It helps surfing the net more safely. (See more choices in this Review)
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Thanks for your kind comments. I've now rephrased it and hope that's better.
my suggestion for Best Free Meeting Scheduler:
When Is Good: http://whenisgood.net
I have never seen a more intuitive web application. Super-easy marking of your availability days as well as very straightforward for your contacts, even the technically challenged. No sign-up required. You'll get a nice short link for the meeting to send out, that's it.
audiobox.fm gives you 1GB of space free, not 250MB's.
Thanks for your feedback and it's now updated in the list.
Another website I use for online games is notdoppler.com it gets updated every Thursday with a really good selection of games.
I am a big fan of note taking software, and especially like those that use the web. That way my notes are available to me wherever I may, whether it's work, or on the road traveling, or at home. I also like my notes application to be dead simple to use.
I've started using something called Notey, which is simply a blank web page that you can fill up with little post-it style notes. You can over lap them or line them up on a grid, or just slap them wherever. It can't keep track of media, and you can only type an url into a note but it won't turn automatically into a link. It's simply a text note tracking application. But for some things, all I need is a text file.
I use it primarily as an idea board, to capture ideas whenever a thought occurs to me. My work computer is locked so I can't install applications or software on it, yet I have to find some way to record ideas or inspiration so that it's available when I get home. A notebook would work as well, but only adds to the junk I'm already carrying in my bag.
It won't work for tracking the notes for your dissertation, but I think it fills a niche.
http://noteyapp.com/
Sometimes getting a full white page when logging in again after logging out. Any ideas?
"Gmail ... filtering out exe and zip files."
Gmail filters out exe files but not zip files (unless they contain exe files). But this can be circumvented by encrypting the zip file.
You're spot on JF and appreciated your feedback.
I've found that the best free fast translator is Reverso.
link is http://www.reverso.net/text_translation.aspx?lang=EN
change lang to your language.
Very impressive list. Thanks Jojoyee!
Webnode appears to be a 30 day trial only after which you have to purchase the premium package...
From the registration email i rec'd...
Do you like your new website? During these 30 days you can try for free. If you want to use after that period, you can buy the premium package in the Premium Services .
This link might be helpful.
http://support.webnode.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kba...
My registration was successful, without saying a 30-day trial. The email I received after registration:
"Congratulations! Registration of project xxx.webnode.com was successful
Your project xxx.webnode.com has been successfuly registered. Here is an overview of important login data:
Project: ...
Project's administration: ...
Login name: ...
Password (without quotes): "xxx"
Enjoy Your new website with Webnode system!
Webnode development team."
An excellent free online learning service. You have to sign up for it but if there's a catch i've yet to find it:)
http://alison.com/
Hi,
Under "Best Free PDF Tools", I found out about:
1. www.mergepdf.net
2. www.splitpdf.net
If you need to merge/ split a PDF once in a while, they can be useful. No registration is required.
The copyright notice at the bottom each site is old, but they work.
Merge limits: 10 files & 5MB/ file.
Split limits: 20MB/ file.
Just wanted to give a shout out to Toodledo for being the best online To-Do list. I find it superior then RememberTheMilk
http://toodledo.com
I started out with RTM but have since moved to Toodledo for 4 reasons:
1. the ability to sort my tasks by "importance". A Toodledo algorithm that assigns a value to each task comprised by due date, priority and age.
2. The "hotlist", which is a customizable short list with the current tasks at hand. You can also "star" a task, just like in Gmail, to further mark important tasks.
3. The iphone app is only $3 and has full functionality without having to pay a monthly subscription (unlike RTM).
4. Browser bookmarklet that open your tasks in the sidebar, with full access to all functions.
As a web host, byet sucks. I wanted to try everything on this page but thought I'd get the hosting to put it online as I went. Can't.
Google docs won't let me paste and after jumping through all the hoops byet won't either. Useless to me.
Moderator's Comment : Deleted personal information including passwords, regarding byet account. Please do not post such sensitive, and personal information on such public places. We do not allow this.
No reasons are given for Byet being recommended. I did a bit of browsing and found that it was quite highly recommended on one review site, but so were others. I also found other free hosts that have more features ( byet don't offer cgi or ssi) and there are a number af extremely bad reviews quoting personal experience.
In the end, I concluded it's free, so you can't really trust it, and I may just try it myself. It's not critical.
Unfortunately one bad apple in the barrel calls into question everything else on the site, including free security software, which IS critical, and the credibility of the site itself.
Best Free Sudoku online
For me, one of the best free sudoku, kakuro and others, is www.puzzlemix.com from Dr Gareth Moore. It contains many different games, daily subscription, set of puzzles ...
You can record games, view the intermediate times, your time to complete each game, add comments, add an assessment of difficulty ...
Very comprehensive!
This is my first comment, but I visit this site for over a year and am very happy with the work. Gizmo and collaborators keep it up;)
Thanks for mentioning Puzzlemix which looks good to me. I'll try it a few more rounds to see its strengths.
Thanks for the suggestion, and for the comment :). Please do keep posting :)
Great list. :) Good work in compiling it. I would suggest Cometdocs and Zamzar in PDF tools. I use them every day and they are pretty much good and widespread.
wave.google.com
they're pulling the plug on wave :(
In PDF converter section where is missing one service which do all documents to PDF and also support PDF to Word conversion. It is http://www.freepdfconvert.com
freepdfconvert.com is not FREE.
It truncates docs to two page max.
If you want more, you must buy a membership.
oh, that is a good one too.
SlimTimer tracks your task times in real time and creates daily, weekly and monthly reports with the data. I used it once when I was working on another company. When I checked again my account, my old tasks where still there after 2 years.
I think this one should be under Timer / Alarm Clock