Well more emails hit my inbox since the last column about my favorite sites to watch, Hollywood.com and TVGuide.com. The most popular question was why I don’t use the Comcast.com site to get my TV listings. OK, here you go. I pay the minimal amount you can for cable. Like I said before I don’t watch much TV. Since I pay the smallest amount for cable possible I do not receive the TV Guide channel. I can “watch” channel 17 (TV Guide)), cut the sound off to get rid of the loud static sounds and squint through the static on the screen. Then I can make out most of what is on at that time. But I don’t want to mess with my volume controls and I also don’t like to squint. Online I can look at any time during today or many days in the future. I like that.
Now let’s get on with a look at another of my favorite sites. I use Major Geeks (majorgeeks.com) for finding and trying out new freeware programs. For instance, I originally learned about “Eraser” by Heidi Computers Ltd. (a great total file erasing application), AVG Anti-Virus program, KeePass Password Safe and a large number of others at Major Geeks. By-the-way, try those out and see if you like them. The price is really right…free!
While there you can search specific categories for software you are looking for and read a fairly comprehensive review of what the programs do. I will warn you that although most of the software is free some of it is shareware and only allows you to try it for a short time period. You then must pay to keep it. Others are free; however, if you want the full grown version that will do more things you have to pay for an upgrade. So, as in all things…caveat emptor.
Next, I have a sneaky little site for you called, Jetable (www.jetable.org/en). Here is how Jetable works. Let’s pretend that you are signing up for something on the internet and they need your email address to verify that you are a real person. This is required before your “membership” is complete. If you are the least bit like me you don’t like giving out your address to everyone in the world because you know there is a good chance that it will generate hundreds of spam emails in the future. Jetable provides you with a “throwaway” email address.
You can set Jetable to give you this throwaway for an hour, a day, a week up to a month before it stops working. The address it assigned me was “gh15z77l3o3uf@jetable.com“. So if you sent email to that address it would go to my actual email account for the one hour I set it up for after that it would never work again.
That is a great feature and the more you use the internet the more you realize how nice it is to use.
Next week we will look at a few more interesting and hopefully helpful sites.
Tags: jetable.com, Ron Doyle, sneaky, throw away email, toss
