Scr.im combines an e-mail shortening service (exactly like the URL shortening services bit.ly and TinyURL.com) with CAPTCHA to make it convenient to share your e-mail address on sites like Twitter while being more secure from bot harvesting when you would post it anywhere. It's also a lot better looking and more definitive than the steps people take to hide their e-mail address … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2009
Long URL Please – The End of the RickRoll?
There are a number of link shortening services cropping up all the time thanks to the growing popularity of Twitter, texting, and other micro-blogging/short communication forms. A shortened link, like one coming from the popular service TinyURL, would look like this: http://tinyurl.com/yfa99f5 This would typically be less characters than the URL you're trying to send, so it … [Read more...]
Happy Net Loss Day – One Year Later with the Comcast Bandwidth Cap
This October 1st, 2009 marks one year since Comcast started enforcing their monthly bandwidth cap limit at 250GB. If a user were to go over the limit in one month, they would receive a warning by some means of communication. A second occurrence of going over the limit would result in a termination of services for a year. October 1st, 2008 I declared to be the first Net Loss Day … [Read more...]