Spam-Proof Email Address

If you’re still collecting spam to put in your grand-children’s time campsule, you can skip this one. As for me, I’ve had enough.

Situation: You want to publish your email address to provide good customer service.

Problem: Robots chew up your website hourly and harvest your email for the offshore porn and pharmaceutical spammers.

Solution: Use a site like MailToEncoder to create a link that the robots will choke on. Humans can use it just fine, but the spam bots don’t recognize it as an email address.

The site is simple to use. One click gives you code to copy and paste into your site. No registration required.

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By Michael on August 14, 2009

Group Scheduling – Fast and Friendly

If you’re not madly in love with your group scheduling tool, please check out WhichDateWorks.com. Here’s the scoop:

  • Works exactly like you expect it to
  • Drag and drop date availability is very intuitive
  • Rquires no account sign-up
  • Looks great

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By Michael on June 15, 2009

Tweetree Saves Time and Clicks for Tweet-readers

If you pop into your favorite twitter post (“tweet”) reader, you’ll find that many of the contributions contain web links. People, including yours truly, are very often sharing something interesting that they found online.

Clicking to open these items, however, takes you away from the list of posts you are reading and exposes you to other content. This is a problem for me because I fall victim to “shiny object syndrome” and waste 10 minutes reading an article I didn’t know I needed.

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Enter Tweetree.com to save me not only the extra clicking, but also the wasted time from following internet rabbit trails. Tweetree pulls the content of shared links right into the page where you are reading the tweets of those you follow. Presto! Clicking and rabbit trails disappear!

No new account setup is required. Just login using your Twitter credentials.

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By Michael on June 3, 2009