Dropbox: Store, Share and Sync Your Files
It’s about time I profile Dropbox, a great little tool my readers have mentioned several times, and it came up again when I was presenting “Free and Low-Cost Tech Tools Your Organization Can’t Live Without” at the Fancy Food Show this week.
Dropbox allows you to synchronize your files among your computers and also stores them online for access anywhere. This is a fantastic application for those of us who travel and don’t want to deal with throwing files on thumb drives. Its storage capacity matches Mozy.com for backups and its feature set is on par with Live Mesh.
You receive two gigs of storage with the free version, and 50 is only $9.99 a month.
Dropbox – Home – Secure backup, sync and sharing made easy.
hidetext.net: Turn your email into a graphic
Spammers sweep websites to collect email addresses, so many people resort to formatting their contact info as something like:
bziesenis (at) avenuez (dot) net
Other clever people create graphics out of their text so they can’t be swept.
Ta dah! Hidetext.net does it for you! Just type in your email address or any other text, and Hidetext converts it to a graphic that you can download or drag and drop! Love it.
hidetext.net – become ungoogable – leave no traces – anonymous web browsing, free privacy service.
Free Phone Number
A company called Numbr is offering an amazing free service. Just follow the Free Privacy Numbers link to create a free phone number that will forward to your own phone.
Use it for selling goods on craigslist, bar crawls, avoiding telemarketers… any time you need to protect your real number.
You can play with options about when your number expires, when calls can come through, whether you want to be able to screen.
All free.
