Best Free Anonymous Surfing Service

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There are many reasons people have for wanting to surf anonymously, ranging from simple paranoia in terms of protecting personal data, to hiding browsing activities from other users of a computer including parents, spouses, or even other organizations. Whatever your reasons for wanting to use anonymous browsing services, or criticizing others for wanting to use them, I will not debate the political, legal, moral, ethical and other reasons, but simply review the available technology. Be aware that most corporate networks will block the use of anonymous surfing activities at the corporate firewall. Corporate networks and internet links are after all the property of your employer and should never be misused in violation of corporate acceptable use policies, so don’t expect any help here in finding ways to circumvent firewall blocking.

The most obvious anonymous browsing application for most people is in internet cafes, on public terminals, using wireless or even wired access points away from home, or in fact, on any PC including your own, where you don't want to leave traces of your private surfing activities. Some other browsing activity cleaners exist that clear the cache, cookies, history and other traces, some are even available as a standard in most browsers, but anonymous browsing goes a step further. What attracts me is not so much the privacy aspect, but rather the security potential, because all of the anonymizing browser proxy based services create a secure encrypted connection between the PC you are using and the first anonymizing proxy server. This allows you to safely transmit information with little risk of local interception, making it ideal for surfing on open Wi-Fi networks, or in hotels while travelling.

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Free Multi-function Screen Capture / Image Editor Impresses

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Yes this really is impressive.

PicPick is a free utility that combines into one package different functions normally handled by several different programs. So many in fact it does so much that we had to create a new software category just to accommodate it!

First it is an excellent screen capture utility that provides multiple capture options (including screen scrolling) together with multiple output formats.

Second it is a useful image editor that allows resizing,rotation, sharpness, hue and brightness adjustment and the application of various effects.

Third it provides Microsoft Paint-style features include painting effects, frames, drop shadows, text annotation, various kinds of boxes, circles, arrows, image insertion and more.

Fourth it is pretty useful color picker that allows you to select and describe the color on any part of your screen not just the image currently within PicPick. You can also select from an in-built palette.

Finally it offers a pixel ruler, protractor, crosshair, magnifier and whiteboard.

Not bad eh? But when you consider that PicPick is a modest 945KB in size and available in portable form then you will understand why we are impressed.

PicPick is free for personal and commercial use though donations are encouraged.

Freeware, Windows 2000-Vista including 64 bit, installed version 1.3MB, portable version 0.9MB.

http://picpick.wiziple.net/

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Best free Online backup sites

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Do you want to back up your data ? I can help you with that. if you have some important data in your computer like documents, photos, music and videos etc.. you should back up these data regularly to avoid data loss due to hardware failure and system failure.. External storage device is an option to back up your data but you will have to spend some money for that. I can suggest some good free alternatives to that.. even if you have external drive you should back up your data at some online secure site so you can assess your data anywhere.

My First choice in this category is idrive (www.idrive.com/). it offers 2 gb free space. but after creating an account and simply referring idrive to your contacts you can get 10 gb extra free space. so you will get total 12 gb free space. It also offers free desktop client as well as explorer plugin so you can view your online storage right from your desktop.

My Second choice in this category is adrive (www.adrive.com/). it offers 50gb free space!! It does not provide desktop client in free account any more, but you can assess and upload your files through your internet browser. Another good option is mozy (mozy.com/). it also offers 2 gb free space. again you can expand your free space by referring it to your friends( 512 mb per one contact.). it also offers free desktop client. Humyo (humyo.com/) is another alternative for backing up your data. it offers 10 gb free space. 5 gb for your documents and 5 gb for your media files. they provide desktop client only for limited period of time in free account but still you can upload and assess your data using their site for free. Microsoft is providing 25 gb free space for online storage through Skydrive. You can sign up for that here (skydrive.live.com). Boxstr ( boxstr.com/) is also a good option for online back up. they provide 5 gb free storage. they provide desktop client for free but you can upload only 50mb/day using their desktop client in free account.

Here are few more options suggested by site visitors. Dropbox (www.getdropbox.com/) provides 2 gb free space for backing up and sharing your files. Dropbox will work similar to any other folder of your computer. Simply install dropbox, drag and drop files/folders to Dropbox, you want to backup, share or sync with other computer. Myotherdrive (www.myotherdrive.com/) is one more option which provides 2 gb free space. It also provides free desktop client. Syncplicity (www.syncplicity.com/) is yet another option for online backup. It provides 2 gb free space and you can add 1 gb of free space per referral up to 3 gb so that way you can get 5 gb free space with it. You will also get free desktop client.

All of the above sites are good options for your data back up. depending upon your needs you can select any of above. if you want unlimited online storage you can upgrade your account. For more information click on the links and visit their sites, you will get more idea their. you will have to sign up to get your free space in all of the above sites. but you will not need to give your credit card information in any of above sites. your name , E mail address and username that's all they need. so start backing up your data..

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Five Best Online Image Editors

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