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		<title>100 Google Wave Robots</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google Wave Robots are the best way to explore Wave. Here is the huge list of Google Wave Robots that you can add in your contacts and enjoy waving .. Before getting into the list – You should know How to add Google Wave bots and Google Wave Gadgets. Huge List of 100 Google Wave [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong>Google Wave Robots</strong> are the best way to explore Wave. Here is the huge list of Google Wave Robots that you can add in your contacts and enjoy waving ..</p>
<p>Before getting into the list – You should know How to add Google Wave bots and Google Wave Gadgets.<br />
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Huge List of <strong>100 Google Wave Robots </strong>-</p>
<p>1. Polly the Pollster (polly-wave@appspot.com): Creates and distributes multiple choice poll questions.</p>
<p>2. Yelpful (yelpful@appspot.com): Adds an in-wave interface to Yelp.com</p>
<p>3. RSSyBot (rssybot@appspot.com): Adds an RSS feed to Wave.</p>
<p>4. TwitUsernames (twitusernames@appspot.com): Links @usernames to Twitter.com.</p>
<p>5. Blog bot (blog-bot@appspot.com): Publishes waves to blog posts.</p>
<p>6. Aesthetic Bots Emoticony (emoticonbot@appspot.com): Turns smiley faces into images.</p>
<p>7. Sweepy (sweepy-wave@appspot.com): Removes empty blips.</p>
<p>8. Silly Bots Eliza the Robot Shrink (elizarobot@appspot.com): Talks to you when no one else will.</p>
<p>9. Swedish Chef (borkforceone@appspot.com): Bork bork bork!</p>
<p>10. Flippy (flippy-wave@appspot.com): Flips text upside down.</p>
<p>11. Bouncy – (bouncy-wave@appspot.com) – Bounces users (bots only for now) out of the wave</p>
<p>12. Public – public@a.gwave.com – gives a wave the public feature</p>
<p>13. blog-wave@appspot.com – posts the wave to your Blogger blog</p>
<p>14. Emoticony – emoticonbot@appspot.com – Turns smiley faces into images.</p>
<p>15. Bit.ly Bot – bitly-bot@appspot.com – Shortens the url using bitly.</p>
<p>16. Kanye West – imma-let-u-finish@appspot.com – Kanye West bot… much lulz: Kanye West Public Wave</p>
<p>17. last-robot@appspot.com – shows a user’s last played song on last.fm</p>
<p>18. Polly – polly-wave@appspot.com – Poll bot</p>
<p>19. Sweepy – sweepy-wave@appspot.com – Cleans out empty “blips” from your wave</p>
<p>20. Twitusernames – twitusernames@appspot.com – Converts @usernames into Twitter.com urls</p>
<p>21. Eliza – elizarobot@appspot.com – The Google Wave Psychologist</p>
<p>22. Hangman – wavehangman@appspot.com – Play hangman with a bot</p>
<p>23. BotURL – boturl@appspot.com – Converts full urls into hyperlinks (which wave seems to do)</p>
<p>24. Yelpful – yelpful@appspot.com – Adds an in-wave interface to Yelp.com</p>
<p>25. RSSyBot – rssybot@appspot.com – Adds an RSS feed to Wave.</p>
<p>26. Blog bot – blog-bot@appspot.com – Publishes waves to blog posts.</p>
<p>27. Swedish Chef – borkforceone@appspot.com – Bork bork bork!</p>
<p>28. Wave Alpha – py-robot@appspot.com – Uses Wolfram Alpha to calculate clever stuff and query Wolfram Alpha.</p>
<p>29. WaveGroupy – wavegroupy@appspot.com – A browsable group aggregator for public waves</p>
<p>30. WaveVotely – wavevotely@appspot.com – With a tiny gadget, votely allows you to vote public waves up/down; enabling high-quality content to float up.</p>
<p>31. Wikify – wikifier@appspot.com – Adds Wikipedia links for topics</p>
<p>32. XMPP – wave-xmpp@appspot.com – Allows you to subscribe to waves so that your receive notifications via XMPP when users modify them (Confirmed that this works outside the sandbox!)</p>
<p>33. Tweety – tweety-wave@appspot.com – Displays your twitter feed in a Wave</p>
<p>34. Skimmy – wave-skimmy@appspot.com – Similar to Emoticony, but it turns faces into animated images.</p>
<p>35. FML – fmylifey@appspot.com – Upon being added to Wave, it will announce its presence by posting a random FML</p>
<p>36. Piratify – piratify@appspot.com – Converts wave text into pirate-speak</p>
<p>37. RickRolley – rickrolley@appspot.com – Rick Roll a wave (please do not use this one in public, god will kill a kitten)</p>
<p>38. Rosy Etta – rosy@appspot.com – Translation bot</p>
<p>39. Woot – woot@appspot.com -</p>
<p>40. Wave Moderator – wave-moderator@appspot.com</p>
<p>41. ICUBots – icubots@appspot.com – Googlewavebots.info’s bot spider</p>
<p>42. Wave Archive – wavearchive@appspot.com</p>
<p>43. Embeddy – embeddy@appspot.com</p>
<p>44. SlashChuck – slashchuckbot@appspot.com</p>
<p>45. WP Bot – wp-bot@appspot.com</p>
<p>46. Verse Seeker – verseseeker@appspot.com</p>
<p>47. Wave Email Notifications – wave-email-notifications@appspot.com</p>
<p>48. Quran Wave – quranwave@appspot.com</p>
<p>49. My Wave ID – mywaveid@appspot.com – Creates a blip at the end of the wave, containing the current wave ID, both in “wave” and full url formats. Can just be taken out of the wave afterwards (only works upon being added).</p>
<p>50. Easy Public – easypublic@appspot.com</p>
<p>51. ComicSans Killer – comic-sans-killer@appspot.com</p>
<p>52. BaaS – buddyasaservice@appspot.com</p>
<p>53. Wavy – wavy-robot@appspot.com</p>
<p>54. Board Game Geeky – boardgamegeeky@appspot.com – Adds links for capitalised boardgame titles to the appropriate page on http://boardgamegeek.com</p>
<p>55. aoifebot@appspot.com</p>
<p>56. Wavelet Title Bot – wavelet-title-bot@appspot.com</p>
<p>57. Invitation Bot – invitation-bot@appspot.com</p>
<p>58. wave-discuss@appspot.com</p>
<p>59. Reflecty – reflecty-robot@appspot.com</p>
<p>60. Heustoor – heustoor@appspot.com</p>
<p>61. atoumey@appspot.com</p>
<p>62. twss-wave@appspot.com</p>
<p>63. Contrepwave – contrepwaverobot@appspot.com – French robot <img src='http://www.iyiz.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  that diplays all the spoonerisms containing the longest word of a blip (if size &gt;5) / Robot listant les contrepeteries contenant le mot le plus long du blip, si ce mot est plus long que 5 lettres.</p>
<p>64. Eliza – ogenex@appspot.com – An implementation of the Eliza chatbot borrowed from the NLTK.</p>
<p>65. Rude chatbot – notatory@appspot.com &#8211; An obnoxious chatbot borrowed from the Natural Language Processing Toolkit.</p>
<p>66. TooAngel Wave – wave@appspot.com – A self learning robot, that will respond to a reply in a more humanoid way</p>
<p>67. Converty – converty-bot@appspot.com – This bot will do in place unit conversions for simple units. Abbreviations not yet supported.</p>
<p>68. Calcbot – calcbot@appspot.com – This bot will do in place calculations for simple mathematical expressions and allow you to use user defined variables.</p>
<p>69. Cartoony – cartoonybot@appspot.com – Replaces the text of every submitted blip with a cartoon balloon that contains the text instead. Colors the balloons based on username.</p>
<p>70. Dice Bot – dice-bot@appspot.com – Dice-rolling bot. Dice Bot will replace XdY (X is the number of dice; Y is the number of sides) with the results of those rolls.</p>
<p>71. Fnordlinky – fnordlinks@appspot.com – Replaces “PMID ” with article information from PubMed.</p>
<p>72. Hearty Emobot – hearty-emobot@appspot.com – Replaces ASCII art with wingding characters.</p>
<p>73. i-cron – i-cron@appspot.com – Evaluates Python expressions. Looks at blips in event, searches for CALC() macros and executes Python code using exec().</p>
<p>74. IMDbotty – imdbotty@appspot.com – Replaces links to movies/TV shows on IMDb with a gadget that displays basic information (cover, title, rating, etc…).</p>
<p>75. Inbeddable – inbeddable@appspot.com – Converts links to embedded objects</p>
<p>76. Insulty – megabytemb123@appspot.com – Information Needed</p>
<p>77. IPA Bot – ipa-bot@appspot.com – Changes normal letters into special characters used for phonetics.</p>
<p>78. Plotzie – plotzie@appspot.com – Plots sparklines from your data.</p>
<p>79. Simlerbot &#8211; simlerbot@appspot.com – Does www.simler.com link formatting (@ links to twitter profiles, # links to twitter searches, ~ links to simler profiles, [] links to simler tag page.)</p>
<p>80. Smiley – Smiley_wave@appspot.com – Replaces common ascii smileys with image emoticons.</p>
<p>81. Syntaxy – kasyntaxy@appspot.com – Syntaxy does blip-by-blip syntax highlighting for a variety of languages including Python, Java, C, C++, html, css and javascript.</p>
<p>82. Watexy – watexy@appspot.com – Use LaTeX mathematical language in your Waves!</p>
<p>83. Bard Bot – bardbot@appspot.com – Play many text adventure games.</p>
<p>84. Roshambo – roshambowave@appspot.com – Play Roshambo (Rock / Paper / Scissors).</p>
<p>84. Groupy – groupy-robot@appspot.com – Robot to manage groups.</p>
<p>85. Groupy2 – groupy-the-bot@appspot.com – Robot to manage groups.</p>
<p>86. drop.io – mikeswaverobot@appspot.com – Creates a drop and puts the info into the wave whenever the robot is added as a participant.</p>
<p>87. PlonieBot – ploniebot@appspot.com – Brings wave document editing capabilities to the Plone CMS</p>
<p>88. Poppy – poppywave@appspot.com – Helps bridge Google Wave conversations to email users outside the Wave.</p>
<p>89. Starify – starifybot@appspot.com – Lets you star waves, in sort of bookmarking style.</p>
<p>90. Twiliobot – twiliobot@appspot.com – Transforms phone numbers into click-to-call links. If user clicks a link, a call is placed to his phone and to the number in the link. The call can be transcribed and inserted into the wave as text with a link to the audio.</p>
<p>91. Wave Live Messenger – wavelivemessenger@appspot.com – Allows you to chat to your windows live messenger contacts from inside a wave.</p>
<p>92. Rosy Etta – rosy@wavesandbox.com – Translator (40 Languages).</p>
<p>93. Aunt Rosie – aunt-rosie@appspot.com – Translator bot</p>
<p>94. Dr Maps &#8211; dr-maps@appspot.com – Updates a wave by inserting a map associated to an address.</p>
<p>95. Dr Weather – shiny-sky@appspot.com – Gives the weather for a City</p>
<p>96. Embedded Search Results – wave-sandbox@appspot.com – Web and Image searches inline.</p>
<p>97. FML Blipper – fmlblipper@appspot.com – displays random FML story from www.fmylife.com</p>
<p>98. Grauniady – grauniady@appspot.com – Searches the latest items from The Guardian for a given phrase.</p>
<p>99. Stocky – stocky-wave@appspot.com – Detects stock symbols from a wave and updates it with the live stock price.</p>
<p>100. Wavethingy – wavethingy@appspot.com – Searches Amazon for DVDs and books, and gives the author a cut of any purchases made off the links.</p>
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		<title>Top 10 Electronic Reminder Services</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[With these e-reminder services; create to-do lists, share your calendar, and send reminders to your phone, e-mail, RSS reader, and more with these organizational tools. 1. Evernote You&#8217;ll never forget your thoughts and tasks if you use Evernote. This powerful application stores all of your information in your personal Evernote account and can be retrieved [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With these e-reminder services; create to-do lists, share your calendar, and send reminders to your phone, e-mail, RSS reader, and more with these organizational tools.</p>
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<h2>1. Evernote</h2>
<p>You&#8217;ll never forget your thoughts and tasks if you use <a href="http://www.evernote.com/" target="_new">Evernote</a>. This powerful application stores all of your information in your personal Evernote account and can be retrieved on the Web, on your desktop, and on your phone. To get your stuff into Evernote, create new notes using the desktop, Web, and mobile versions of Evernote; take a snapshot using your camera phone or webcam, and the app will recognize the text in the image; clip Webpages and screenshots; drag and drop content into the desktop clients for Mac and Windows; e-mail notes to your account; scan receipts, tags, and the like; and record audio wherever you are and listen to it later.</p>
<h2>2. Remember The Milk</h2>
<p>Whether your preferred method of receiving reminders is through e-mail, SMS, or instant message, <a href="http://www.rememberthemilk.com/" target="_new">Remember The Milk</a> offers them all. This to-do list Web service lets you create as many lists as you like, share them with others, and tag them. Say you create a grocery shopping list and need to know if there&#8217;s a coffee shop near the grocer on your way home; Remember The Milk will locate where the store is and what&#8217;s around it by interacting with Google Maps. Besides using the Web site to send your reminders, you can also use the service through Google Calendar, Twitter, Google Gears, MilkSync for BlackBerry, and download it to the <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=293561396&amp;mt=8" target="_new">Apple iPhone for free</a>.</p>
<h2>3. Backpackit.com</h2>
<p>Web-based organizational service that&#8217;s both straightforward and intuitive, letting you download calendars and share documents online. We like to think of the service as an online loose-leaf notebook that you can use whenever you please, inputting medical records, travel plans, school itineraries, social gatherings, and so on onto every page. When you sign up, you&#8217;ll create a username and password as well as a unique Backpackit.com URL for easy access to your Backpack pages. You can add as many notes and lists as you want to your page, and Backpack&#8217;s messaging service lets you schedule e-mail or SMS reminders to be sent out at a specific time or at a Backpack preset time.</p>
<h2>4. Doomi</h2>
<p><a href="http://doominow.com/" target="_new">Doomi</a> is a simple-to-use desktop app that takes little effort to set up. All you do is add a task in the form field and press Enter. Click on the clock icon on the ride side to remind you of the task at a designated time. When you&#8217;ve finished a task, mark the checkbox next to it. Before you install Doomi, you&#8217;ll need to download Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime): It&#8217;s a runtime engine for Windows, Mac, and Linux that supports rich Internet applications and allows an application to run without using a Web browser. That means you&#8217;ll be able to use Doomi offline, without running your Web browser.</p>
<h2>5. Google Calendar</h2>
<p>Organize your events and collaborate with others using <a href="http://www.google.com/calendar" target="_new">Google Calendar</a>. The application looks like a calendar, so all you do is click on which days you&#8217;d like to add your event or task. Then fill in the start time, end time, location, and description of your event, and set your desired notification setting, whether it&#8217;s by e-mail, text message, or a pop-up message on your computer. You can even send an invitation to your event, or information about your event, to others. Access Google Calendar on your mobile phone by pointing your browser to <a href="http://mobile.google.com/calendar" target="_new">mobile.google.com/calendar</a>.</p>
<h2>6. ReminderFeed</h2>
<p>Most reminder services alert you via e-mail and text message; but <a href="http://www.reminderfeed.com/" target="_new">ReminderFeed</a> delivers your messages right to your RSS reader. Just fill in the online form—including start date, end date, and description—and ReminderFeed will give you a feed URL that you can add to your favorite RSS reader. You&#8217;ll receive your reminder at the same time each day, which comes in handy for timely tasks such as picking up the kids from daycare or remembering a dinner date. Best of all, you don&#8217;t have to create an account, so just dive right in.</p>
<h2>7. Toodledo</h2>
<p>Never have to remember anything again with <a href="http://www.toodledo.com/" target="_new">Toodledo</a>. This online tool offers a &#8220;hotlist&#8221; where all of your tasks are permanently stored with due dates. Toodledo offers inline editing so that you can add, edit, and complete tasks without making the page reload. There are folders for organizing your tasks, a calendar for a visual presentation of your tasks due, and so much more. You can get Toodledo on your mobile phone, in your e-mail, on your calendar, in your RSS reader, via IM, and integrated directly into your Web browser. You can even print out a foldable booklet of all your tasks. <a href="http://www.toodledo.com/info/iphone.php" target="_new">Toodledo is now available for the iPhone/iPod touch</a>.</p>
<h2>8. Cozi</h2>
<p>Designed specifically for families, <a href="http://www.cozi.com/" target="_new">Cozi</a> is a free service that provides you and your family with everything you need to get organized. With the Family Calendar, all of your appointments can be color-coded by family member. You can build customizable lists to remember your grocery list, shopping list, chores, and more. Get appointment reminders by text and e-mail. Or send a quick message to your family from your family home page. Sign in to Cozi from your computer, phone (at <a href="http://m.cozi.com/" target="_new">m.cozi.com</a>), or call Cozi toll-free to get your grocery list.</p>
<h2>9. Jott</h2>
<p>Not near a computer to create your to-do lists? Then you&#8217;ll want to use <a href="http://jott.com/" target="_new">Jott</a> for capturing thoughts, creating lists, and setting reminders—all by phone. Call 1-866-JOTT-123 to dictate your message, then say whether you want that message to be delivered via e-mail or SMS. Jott will capture your voice, turn it into text, and send it off. You can set Jott to remind you 15 minutes before a task needs to be started. Your notes are always available online at Jott.com in the Jott Express desktop tool, too. Download <a href="http://www.jott.com/jott/jott-for-iphone.html" target="_new">Jott to your Apple iPhone</a>; it&#8217;s free for Jott subscribers and replicates most of the functionality in Jott&#8217;s call-in service.</p>
<h2>10. Nozbe</h2>
<p>Targeted at both individuals and businesses, <a href="http://www.nozbe.com/" target="_new">Nozbe</a> is a project-management and time-tracking application for those with a lot of stuff to do and no time to keep track of it all. Organize your tasks and notes into projects, &#8216;star&#8217; any task that needs to be done next, schedule appointments using the built-in calendar, and manage your Nozbe account on your iPhone, iGoogle, or Netvibes homepage, or even on Apple Dashboard.</p>
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		<title>Top 10 Ways to Protect Privacy Online</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top Ten Ways to Protect Privacy Online 1. Look for privacy policies on Web Sites: Web sites can collect a lot of information about your visit &#8212; what computer you use, what type of hardware and software you have, what Web sites you have visited. Web sites that ask you to provide even a small [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong>1. Look for privacy policies on Web Sites:</strong></p>
<p>Web sites can collect a lot of information about your visit &#8212; what computer you use, what type of hardware and software you have, what Web sites you have visited. Web sites that ask you to provide even a small amount of personal information can tie the data you provide to your browsing habits.</p>
<p>When you go to a Web site that has no privacy policy, write and tell the company that you are a user of their site, your privacy is important to you and you would like to see them post a policy. CDT has developed the <a href="http://watchdog.cdt.org/" target="NEW">Privacy Watchdog</a> site to help you.</p>
<p>An increasing number of Web sites has begun to provide privacy policies that detail the sites&#8217; information practices. Look for these policies and read them carefully. While privacy statements are not the only answer to online privacy risks, the effort should be encouraged and commended.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cdt.org/privacy/guide/start/privpolicy.html">CDT&#8217;s Web Site Privacy Policies page</a>.</p>
<p><strong>2. Get a separate account for your personal e-mail:</strong></p>
<p>Often, online users do not realize that e-mail sent from their work accounts is likely to be an open book to their employers. Even if you send an e-mail from your home, a copy is often stored on your employer&#8217;s main computer server. Your boss has a legal right to read any and all correspondence in this account or on your work computer at any time.</p>
<p>Getting a separate account for home allows you to check your personal messages without using your workplace e-mail server. Some private accounts can be configured to enable you to check your personal mail from work without downloading it onto your company computer.</p>
<p><strong>3. Teach your kids that giving out personal information online means giving it to strangers:</strong></p>
<p>Teach your children that they need your permission before they can give out their name, address or other information about themselves or the family.</p>
<p>Several years ago, a number of Web sites encouraged children to give information about themselves or their family; some enticed kids with games and free gifts. In 1998, a law was passed requiring companies to gain parental consent before collecting personal information from children under 13 years old. If you are concerned about a Web site collecting information from children without consent, you should communicate your concern to the Federal Trade Commission at <a href="mailto:kidsprivacy@ftc.gov">kidsprivacy@ftc.gov</a>.</p>
<p><strong>4. Clear your memory cache after browsing:</strong></p>
<p>After you browse the Web, copies of all accessed pages and images are saved on your computer&#8217;s memory. While these copies make subsequent visits to the same sites faster, the browsing record has grave implications for personal privacy, particularly if you share a computer or browse at work. You can delete most of your online trail by simply going to the &#8220;Preferences&#8221; folder in your browser and clicking on the &#8220;Empty Cache&#8221; button. Sometimes this option is in the &#8220;Advanced&#8221; menu of the browser preferences. In Internet Explorer, go to &#8220;Internet Options&#8221; from the &#8220;Tools&#8221; menu and click on &#8220;Clear History&#8221;.</p>
<p><strong>5. Make sure that online forms are secure:</strong></p>
<p>Online forms may be digitally transported in ways that leave them vulnerable to undesired access. Alternatively, online forms may be encrypted so that only the intended recipients can readily translate the information.</p>
<p>Ensuring that your information is stored and transferred in secure ways is one of the keys to protecting your privacy. Fortunately, browser companies have realized the importance of data security; newer browsers are designed to indicate whether the accessed page allows encrypted transfers. The commonly used graphics are a key, which is broken if the page is insecure, and a lock &#8212; locked is secure and unlocked is not secure. The graphic appears in the corner of the browser screen; clicking on the lock or the key will inform you of additional security information about the page. You should not input sensitive personal information about yourself (such as financial or medical data) on Web pages that are not secure.</p>
<p><strong>6. Reject unnecessary cookies:</strong></p>
<p>Cookies enable Web sites to store information about your visit on your own hard drive. Cookies inform site operators if you have visited the site and, if you have obtained a username and password, cookies remember that information for you. Many of the &#8220;personalized&#8221; search engines use cookies to deliver news topics that users select; sites often use these same preferences to target advertisement. Furthermore, cookies can be used to track you online and enable a creation of a profile without you realizing it. You can search your hard drive for a file with the word &#8220;cookie&#8221; in it (i.e., cookies.txt or MagicCookie) to view the cookies that have been attached to your computer. Newer browsers allow you to recognize sites that send you cookies and reject them outright by accessing the &#8220;Advanced&#8221; screen of the &#8220;Preferences&#8221; menu. In Internet Explorer, delete cookies by clicking on the &#8220;Delete Files&#8221; button in the &#8220;General&#8221; icon of &#8220;Tools&#8221;&#8216; &#8220;Internet Options&#8221; menu.</p>
<p><strong>7. Use anonymous remailers:</strong></p>
<p>Anonymity is essential to privacy and free speech. It protects whistle blowers and writers of controversial material; most simply, it may enable one to publish without a forwarding address. The e-mail technology creates problems for the right to anonymous communication since the sender of a message can be traced back through digital paths.</p>
<p>Created to address privacy risks and concerns, &#8220;anonymous remailers&#8221; presently allow you to send anonymous e-mail messages. One very good remailer was created as a joint project of the George Mason Society and the Global Internet Liberty Campaign and is available on the Web at <a href="http://www.gilc.org/speech/anonymous/remailer.html" target="new">http://www.gilc.org/speech/anonymous/remailer.html</a></p>
<p><strong>8. Keep your e-mail private, use encryption!:</strong></p>
<p>E-mail is not as secure a medium as many believe.</p>
<p>E-mail can be easily rerouted and read by unintended third parties; messages are often saved for indefinite periods of time. Presently, there exist technologies that allow you to encrypt your messages in order to protect their privacy. Some e-mail programs (i.e., Internet Explorer Outlook and Netscape Messenger) have encryption. Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), a popular encryption software, is free for non-commercial use.</p>
<p>Read more on PGP and download the encryption software at <a href="http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html" target="new">http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html</a></p>
<p><strong>9. Use anonymizers while browsing:</strong></p>
<p>From the moment you type in a Web address, a log is kept with information about your visit.</p>
<p>Every day, most of us walk down the street without being recognized or tracked. While anonymity is often taken for granted in the physical world, such luxury is not available online. Tools that strip out user information, thus preserving anonymity, have been created; a few are readily available on the net. Visit <a href="http://www.freedom.net/" target="NEW">http://www.freedom.net</a> and <a href="http://www.anonymizer.com/">http://www.anonymizer.com</a>.</p>
<p><strong>10. Opt-out of third party information sharing:</strong></p>
<p>Many online companies provide you with the option to get off (or &#8220;opt-out&#8221;) the lists that share your information. Some companies enable users to easily opt out &#8212; users are often able to do so online. A number of companies go a step further and ask your permission (opt-in) before sharing personal information that they have collected. Often, however, companies make opting out difficult or virtually impossible: addresses are buried, one cannot opt-out online, etc. CDT has created <a href="http://opt-out.cdt.org/" target="new">Operation Opt-Out</a> to help you control how your personal data is collected and distributed.</p>
<p><strong>Extra Tip: use common sense</strong></p>
<p>Reading our Top Ten list, as well as encountering multiple news stories that portray Web companies as charlatans or worse, can instill paranoia even in the most fearless Web user. You must realize, however, that people in cyberspace are the same people you encounter every day in the physical reality: your neighbors, your colleagues. Using many of the same behavior patterns that you use in the offline environment will take you a long way. Ask yourself a set of familiar questions when you are online: Would you give your credit card number to a street vendor? Would you transact with a well-established, trusted firm? How much information does the newspaper realistically need to process a subscription? Will you be subjected to a ton of unsolicited mail if you disclose your physical or e-mail address?</p>
<p>Use common sense, ask questions and seek out resources. The Internet is a new medium, as was the telephone more than a century ago. If used wisely, it can connect you to a world of people, ideas and information.</p>
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