Your safety online, it is up to you.

We all know that if you have kids you don’t want them to see certain things on the internet and I’ve been reading a lot of internet safety websites lately and I can’t help but notice that a lot of the complaining is aimed at the software developers, but it shouldn’t be everything you need is their, just not configured to your specific liking.

So you don’t want your kids to be seeing all these scamming popups well block them, yeah we have problems with double click popups but you can block all popups this will stop unwanted scam advertisements, this is easily done in Opera or Firefox if you don’t have them installed then why are you using the internet, you SHOULD be using at least Firefox or much better Opera, if you refuse to use these programs then you cant complain.

Don’t want anyone searching for certain terms like “kazzaa” you can filter it considering that a lot of people now have routers, routers now have built in content filtering looking through your router you will find content filtering, this will stop any page loading if it shows “kazzaa” inside the page, you can add loads and loads of words to it and more than likely you can find ready made databases for it.

Temporary Phone Numbers

A couple of days ago I told you about Temporary email addresses, well today I found you can also have temporary phone numbers all this stuff is new to me but it looks like a brilliant idea.

So why can this be a good idea?

This is a brilliant idea, its temporary if you run a small business this allows you to put your temporary phone number up on the internet allowing for people to call you but if you get a prank caller and they keep calling change it, you will still have your original phone number but the temporary one will be changed.

So what if you want to call them back?

It will display your current number it will not display your temporary number, unless you get them to call you and this can be done easily as well using Jajah, it’s a web activates telephony, it allows you to enter their number and make them call your temporary phone number.

Temporary Email Address

Now who hasn’t wanted to create a email address just to validate some crap, but you normally end up getting loads of spam from them so I did a little searching around and found bugmenot.com has a usefull tool (http://email.bugmenot.com) it will create a email address for 24 hours allowing you to get the validation message and hear no more from them.

I never realised before that people actually did this and I now have a large amount of them bookmarked which you can find on my typer tappers delicious page http://del.icio.us/TyperTappers.

It makes sence upon how this works I remember one of my website hosts used to have a root address so I could do something like billbob93726938@typertappers.com and it would to the root address which was something like root@typertappers.com it you host your own mail server you might know what I mean but other wise if you want to temporarily subscribe to something check out my bookmarks http://del.icio.us/TyperTappers/email.

Hard drive restrictions be gone.

Now as you might no using windows its easy to get around things using programs already made by them so today we shall explore drive restriction, do you ever get the message “You do not have permission to access this drive” well this is for you.

Now their can be many ways to get around this for starters using a third party application like FireFox Portable just type in C:\ in the address bar.
Or if you want to make yourself look better you can use CMD now if you open up CMD and type in subst /? This will give you more help on what subst exactly does, well it allows you to create a virtual drive taking the restrictions off.

So just type in subst Z: C:\ this will make a virtual drive called Z which will have C drives files in it.

Internet Proxy Servers

I’m a big fan of using internet proxy’s I use them for pretty much all my internet surfing my favorite one was hidemyass.com which has suddenly become very slow, which seems to be a big problem with proxy’s now everyone is realizing why we should be using them.
There are much easier ways of using proxy’s like using Tor, Privoxy or some other programs but you don’t really have much choice over the speed its running at so this is the main reason why I use internet proxy’s as I can just go to proxy.org and select which one I would like to use or even better open up the proxy.org widget in Opera, if you’re really paranoid you can chain all the internet proxy together as well (not sure if they would like that) but its another way to stay safe on the internet.

Now I have my own personal proxy for my use only and was thinking of making a public one, but after using my proxy for a while I couldn’t help but notice the bandwidth it uses which is just scary if I would run it on my own server I would use Squid but I’m not going to.
So does anyone use or own any proxy’s and what’s your opinion on them?