Spam is one of the worst things that is happening in the internet. In the least, it steals our time, because we need to delete them every time they come to our inbox. While spam may still be there until only God knows when, there are things that you can do to minimize the number of spam in your inbox. Here are some of them:

Use Disposable Email Addresses

Spammers usually collect email addresses by harvesting them from various online sources such as web pages, mailing list archives, etc. So if you need to post your email in public online places, don’t use your primary email address. Instead, create an email address only for that purpose and set it up to forward received emails to your primary address. If you receive too many spam via this address, you can just disable it and replace it with a new one.

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Here you have the list of the best applications for PCs in this ending 2008.

Mozilla Firefox

Made tabbed browsing mainstream and redefined the browser wars. The easiest browser on the market to customize, the huge user-developed plug-in database makes it supremely powerful, but that’s not the only reason to use it. Specialized versions like Flock and Songbird emphasize social networking and music obsessions, but that’s not why you need it, either. A JavaScript debugger is standard, and Firefox displays the page-source code in a new window, using indents and color-coded tags like an HTML editor. Again, not enough–on its own.

Even the built-in pop-up blocker, antiphishing protections, and enhanced extension security aren’t enough of a reason for using Firefox. Being one of the fastest browsers on the market? Aren’t they all? But add together all those things under one roof, and you’ve got a full-featured, safe browsing experience with a nearly infinite level of customization.

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Apparently the classic Mac game “Dark Castle”, in its entirety, hacked to work with touch screens.

Activating the easter egg takes a bit of work, but if you’re keen to play this classic game, just follow the steps below:

1. On your main menu screen, press the Settings button
2. Choose Brightness
3. Turn OFF Auto-Brightness and set the brightness to the lowest setting.
4. Go back to the main menu and press the Music button
5. Hit the Playlists option at the bottom of the screen five times.
6. Go back to the main menu and view the Calendar.
7. Skip to November 28, 2011 and view it by the day. Scroll down all the way to the bottom.
8. Rotate the entire iPod in a clockwise motion for seven full rotations. Be careful not to tip it to the side or the gyroscope may not detect the motion, and you’ll have to start from step 1 all over again.
9. Now, without leaving that screen, restart your iPhone/iPod by pressing and holding the standby button on the top of the unit until a slider appears that says “slide to power off”. Slide it and wait for the unit to shut down.
10. Restart your unit by pressing the standby button again.
11. You should now see the Dark Castle icon in your list of applications!

Don’t be surprised if you have to try this a few times before you get it to show up. Be especially careful with #7… that’s where I had the most trouble. Also, make sure to play the game in landscape mode, as it was originally intended for old-style computers. This tip has been tested in firmware up to 1.1.1.

Know that open source software is given to people at no charge with the source code intact as to encourage independent developers to make it better and change things as they wish.

Realize that the general philosophy of open source software is that the company who distributes the code freely can still reap income from viral marketing and other tactics. Not only that, it more importantly helps to progress code to evolve, adapt, and make itself better because so many people are allowed to tinker with it.

Understand there are rules for a piece of software or code to be considered officially "open source". For one, it needs to be freely distributed. You cannot charge someone by modifying open source code and selling it as your own product. It, however, can be sold as PART of a commercial product, it just cannot be the product itself.

Know that the source code must always be included with the software, modified or not, as to encourage learning from the code and to promote making it better. Not including the source code implies that you yourself created it, and that you probably have the intentions of selling it. This not only is unfair, it is illegal to take open source and sell it as if you created it yourself. Don’t try it!

For more information go to:Open Source.