Freecall.com lets you make free long distance calls with the help of your computer. You can make a call from your computer to a land line or from a land line to a land line. By putting in your own phone number as the callback number Freecall will call your phone first then connect you to the person you want to call. This a great feature but also a little scary in that you can make other people call whoever you want (as long as they stay on the phone long enough for the second person to pickup). The free service is limited to North America and certain countries around the world. See the list of counties you have to pay to call on the homepage.

I personally use Skype to make my computer to land line calls but thats only because I bought a year of Skype before I found out about Freecall. Ive tested both and find the reception to be the same.

Final word: Free alternative with Skype with its own feature set.

Dodgeit.com lets you temporarily make up an email addresses that you can check. This is great for signing up for sites  that require a password. You make up a name@dodgeit.com and submit it to the site thats asking for it. Then go to dodgeit.com and type that name you made up in the search field. You’ll be directed to your temporary inbox so you can reply to any activation links needed to access the site.

I recommend using an original name@dodgeit.com (maybe a name with numbers in it) since many people use this service and repeated names give you a lot of inboxes to search through.

Final word: Great for keeping your email address private and keeping your spam count low.

I’ve been a long time digg fan and still am but have recently found myself spending more time on Reddit. Reddit is essentially the same site as digg only not as pretty. Users submit links they find online and a community of readers vote on whether the link is interesting or not. A great concept. But in the wrong hands could lead inoccent internet users into the evil greedy grasp of online marketers. In my opinion, Kevin Rose (founder of digg) endangers the purity of user driven content. Plane and simple, the dudes a sell out.

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