Email, Security & Back up

Email Tools

The Email Tools section provides the best free online tools and services for email optimization. This includes tools for creating personalized email templates, and signatures.

Digsby

http://www.digsby.com/?utm_campaign=vid&utm_source=vid&utm_medium=vid&utm_content=vid

Digsby is a multiprotocol IM client that lets you chat with all your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber with one simple to manage buddy list.

Rapportive

http://rapportive.com/

Rapportive shows you everything about your contacts right inside your inbox. You can immediately see what people look like, where they’re based, and what they do. You can establish rapport by mentioning shared interests. You can grow your network by connecting on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and more. And you can record thoughts for later by leaving notes.

Wise Stamp

http://www.wisestamp.com/

WiseStamp’s vision is to build an Email Apps Platform that enables users to utilize their emails with social, productive and engaging Email Apps. There’s a huge gap between email and the social and dynamic web of today.

Notification control

http://notificationcontrol.com/

Email notifications can be a pain! Take 1 minute to clean them up in one sweep.

Zimbra desktop

http://www.zimbra.com/products/desktop.html

The free Zimbra Desktop client delivers a consistent user experience offline, so email, voice, social, calendar, contacts, files and documents are synchronized and locally accessible when on the road.

Self delete emails

The Self-destructing Message section provides the best free online tools and services for sending messages that will self delete after being read.

Burn note

https://burnnote.com/

Our goal is to make private conversations easy to have online. For example, use Burn Note with a friend to discuss sensitive information which you don’t want them sharing with other people. Every message on Burn Note is automatically deleted and uses patent-pending technology to prevent copying.

Self Destructing email messages

Destructing message

http://www.destructingmessage.com/

DestructingMessage.com is a free service which enables you to send a self-destructing message to someone. This means, once they read the message they will no longer be able to read it again after the timer has reached zero.

Disposable email accounts

The Disposable Email section provides the best free online tools and services for both temporary and anonymous email accounts.

Mailnesia

http://mailnesia.com/

Disposable email at its best. Whenever you need to register on a site and you don’t want to give out your primary email address, use any @mailnesia.com address instead. Email verification links are visited automatically in the background to validate the account instantly!

TempEMail

http://www.tempemail.net/

TempEMail.net is The place where you get a Free, Temporary, Disposable, Anonymous, email address, keeping your own email address Spam and Virus Free! We never send any email to anyone using tempemail.net We only Receive your Anonymous and Temporary email messages!

Yop mail

http://www.yopmail.com/en/

YOPmail’s free, quick and feature rich service guards you against spam, phishing and other online abuses. Protect your actual email, instead use YOPmail’s disposable one to sign-up wherever you want. YOPmail creates temporary inboxes of your choice instantaneously. Use Now & stay Protected!

Mailnator

http://mailinator.com/index.jsp

Mailinator is a different kind of email service. The biggest difference is that you don’t need to sign up. Any email name you can think of already exists at Mailinator.com. Want BrianTheSkink@mailinator.com? You got it. Want to be JacquesKooStow? ScaryGavyn? GraysonTheMason? No problem. They exist when you create them and they are just waiting for you to check your inbox.

Nov Ordo

http://novo-ordo.com/

Sometimes it is necessary to communicate anonymously to avoid embarrassment or a negative consequence. Perhaps you need to tell your boss something you know he does not want to hear. If he has a history of taking negative action against the bearer of bad news, you might not want him to know that you are the bearer. Or it may be something of a more personal nature.

Dead Address

http://deadaddress.com/

Stop unsolicited spam email with a Dead Address temporary email account. Dead Address will instantly create a disposable email address that you can use when you need to verify registrations by email.

Encrypted Communication

The Encrypted Communication section provides the best free online tools and services for sending encrypted information. This includes both email and chat services.

Privacy Box

https://privacybox.de/index.en.html

The PrivacyBox provides non-tracked (and also anonymous) contact forms. It is running primarily for journalists, bloggers and other publishers. But it is open for other people too.

Comodo secure email

http://www.comodo.com/home/email-security/secure-email.php

Unencrypted, plain-text emails can easily be intercepted, read, and edited. In fact, sending an unencrypted email is a bit like sending a postcard written in pencil: whoever intercepts it can read it with ease. Until now, the process of encrypting email messages was lengthy, difficult, and cumbersome, even to the most tech-savvy PC user.

Crypocat

https://crypto.cat/

Cryptocat is an instant messaging platform that lets you easily have private conversations with friends. Messages are encrypted before leaving your screen and are protected from being viewed by any third party, even from us.

Enigmail

http://www.enigmail.net/home/index.php

Enigmail is a security extension to Mozilla Thunderbird and Seamonkey. It enables you to write and receive email messages signed and/or encrypted with the OpenPGP standard.

Tor mail

http://www.tormail.org/

Tor Mail is a free anonymous email service provider. Tor Mail is a Tor Hidden Service that allows anyone to send and receive email anonymously.

GP Grelay

http://sites.inka.de/tesla/gpgrelay.html

GPGrelay is a little relaying server which interferes SMTP- and POP3-Communication that way, that transmission of emails will be signed and/or encrypted on the fly using GnuPG (The GNU Privacy Guard) with your default email-program.

Safe mail

http://www.safe-mail.net/

Safe-mail is a highly secure communication, storage, sharing and distribution system for the Internet. It provides email, instant messaging, data distribution, data storage and file sharing tools in a suite of applications that enable businesses and individuals to communicate and store data with privacy and confidence.

Anonymity

The Anonymity section provides the best free online tools and services for anonymously surfing the web. This primarily includes both online proxy services, as well as downloadable software.

Privoxy

http://www.privoxy.org/

Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. It has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.

Security Kiss

http://www.securitykiss.com/

SecurityKISS offers security solutions for businesses and individuals. We focus on protecting incoming and outgoing traffic – the element of online security which is so often neglected. Free version of VPN allows for up to 300MBs per day. Option to pay for extra data is also available.

Freegate

http://www.dit-inc.us/freegate

Freegate is an anti-censorship software for secure and fast Internet access. It was developed and maintained by Dynamic Internet Technology Inc. (DIT), a pioneer in censorship-circumvention operation.

Tunnel Bear

http://www.tunnelbear.com/

TunnelBear is the world’s easiest to use consumer VPN software that securely “tunnels” your internet connection to locations around the world. TunnelBear can be used to protect your privacy, to bypass internet censorship and to experience the internet as people in other countries experience it.

Anchor Free

http://www.anchorfree.com/

AnchorFree’s Hotspot Shield application addresses a market of over 1.6 billion Internet users, in need of secure browsing, privacy, and freedom online. Hotspot Shield secures all Internet communications and web browsing and protects each user’s privacy and identity online.

Proxy Switchy

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/proxy-switchy/caehdcpeofiiigpdhbabniblemipncjj

Proxy Switchy! is an advanced proxy manager for Google Chrome, it allows users to manage and switch between multiple proxy profiles quickly and easily.

Janus VM

http://www.janusvm.com/

JanusVM is software that allows you to surf the Internet without oppression or censorship, while protecting your privacy, security, and identity.

Guardster

http://www.guardster.com/free/

The Guardster FREE webproxy is free of charge and no fees are charged for its use. It is supported by its advertisers. Guardster does not collect any personal information from its users.

Privacy Tools

The Privacy Tools section provides the best free online tools and services for enhancing your privacy while online. This includes a very wide range of tools, with everything from avoiding spam and behavioral advertising, to private search and encrypted surfing.

No Script

http://noscript.net/

The NoScript Firefox extension provides extra protection for Firefox, Seamonkey and other mozilla-based browsers: this free, open source add-on allows JavaScript, Java, Flash and other plugins to be executed only by trusted web sites of your choice (e.g. your online bank).

Panopticlick

https://panopticlick.eff.org/

Is your browser configuration rare or unique? If so, web sites may be able to track you, even if you limit or disable cookies. Panopticlick tests your browser to see how unique it is based on the information it will share with sites it visits. Click below and you will be given a uniqueness score, letting you see how easily identifiable you might be as you surf the web.

My Permissions

http://mypermissions.org/

MyPermissions allows you to quickly adjust the notification settings on all of your major profiles and accounts. Simply click on an icon to go directly to your settings.

Adjust your privacy

http://adjustyourprivacy.com/

AdjustYourPrivacy makes it easy to adjust the privacy settings of all of your major profiles and accounts. It also offers tools to check your own privacy, and opt-out of the databases of internet companies that track people.

Anchor Free

http://www.anchorfree.com/

AnchorFree’s Hotspot Shield application addresses a market of over 1.6 billion Internet users, in need of secure browsing, privacy, and freedom online. Hotspot Shield secures all Internet communications and web browsing and protects each user’s privacy and identity online.

Should I change my password

https://shouldichangemypassword.com/

Should I Change My Password, a free service that allows you to check anonymously if your email addresses have been compromised.

Better privacy

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/betterprivacy/

Better Privacy serves to protect against special longterm cookies, a new generation of ‘Super-Cookie’, which silently conquered the Internet. This new cookie generation offers unlimited user tracking to industry and market research. Concerning privacy Flash-cookies are most critical.

Ip2loc

http://ip2loc.jerodsanto.net/

Check the location of an IP address. You can also use this to ensure a proxy is working, and check which city it shows up as.

Online Back up

The Online Backup section provides the best free online tools and services for backing up your files online.

Mozy

http://mozy.com/home/free

Founded in 2005, Mozy is the world’s most trusted online backup service for consumers and businesses with more than 3 million customers and 80,000 business customers backing up 90 petabytes of information to multiple data centers around the globe.

CX

https://www.cx.com/

CX makes it easy to access and share content in the cloud. We’re not like most cloud providers who just store and sync your stuff. Instead, we’ve set out to change the whole nature of what content in the cloud can be by creating unique new ways to find, share, collaborate and discover files, photos, music, movies and more!

Spider Oak

https://spideroak.com/

Up to 2GB offered for free. Option to pay for additional space and features is available. SpiderOak’s philosophy on pricing is simple – backup, synchronize, share, access, and store as much as you like and we will only bill you for the amount of storage used.

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