recently i was look through our local daily, deccan herald and i found these really cool links.

the first one was http://www.bugmenot.com
its basically a site that gives to share logins of popular websites that force us to register to post in forums or download content (that is free of course)

i do like this site in the sense that sometimes registering each time at a site for one single 10kb file or so of download makes no sense, but sometimes we have no choice, we do need the file..so we are forced to register, at this juncture i think bugmenot.com is doing a great job.

but however i'd would like make an open request of sorts. though this site is good in the sense i mentioned above, we shouldnt misuse the freedom and advantage it gives us. and for sites like forums where we are regular visitors and have benefitted a lot, i think we must register in terms of being grateful to the services we are being offered free of charge.

next site is a really brilliant concept...called http://www.mailinator.com.

let me give an example to how the whole set-up of mailinator works. say, now one of the registration required sites asks you your email address for sending a password for a zip that you will be downloading or a temporary activation code etc, now we are sure if we do reveal our email addresses we are bound to receive a chain of spam that will never end ( sometimes despite best efforts spam does creep in)...and to avoid that , mailinator gives us a solution, when asked about a email id, just think of an imaginary one, say xxyxx@mailinator.com...enter it. Job complete.

Now the next step would be to go to www.mailinator.com and check in to your inbox, and you will find the email sent by the site (which asked you your email id)....right there!

so the unque features of this system is:

1). no registration at all, jus think of a email address@mailinator.com and at that very moment it exists!!!
2). no passwords, logging in to the inbox at the mailinator homepage is simple, just type in the email address you used for registering at the site (that imaginary email address) and click login
3). no fear of spam or personal email addresses being revealed
4). the account, (imaginary name email address) will expire within a few hours, so its pretty much like a use & throw plastic cup.

I hope people will find this information useful here. thank you.