I have been struggling to see the point of Twitter.com to be honest, but here’s something that does make it a little useful – Tom Morris has written a script that updates Twitter accounts with the current status

Pastebin.com appears to be the original, and it allows a wide variety of syntax highlighting and also the creation of private Pastebins (private in the sense that only your content should be on there, but still available to anyone who knows the URL)

www.pastebin.ca doesn’t appear to be working properly at the moment so I can’t say much about it.

Aperture Priority

(Originally from here)

If you cannot trust the network you are using when you are in an Internet Cafe then you should not use it for sensitive issues.

When using email you can use an encrypted service such as http://www.hushmail.com/

However, a system with a keylogger installed will obviously bypass the encryption of data.

The only way I can think you could protect against software such as a keylogger installed on the PC you are using is to perform an online spyware scan using one of the following:

http://www.webroot.com/services/spyaudit_03.htm

http://www.pctools.com/spyware-doctor

http://download.zonelabs.com/bin/promotions/spywaredetector/index3.html

In addition to a spyware scan you can also perform virus / trojan scans in the same way using a service like http://housecall.antivirus.com/housecall/start_frame.asp

If you are familiar with the version of Windows (and the normal running processes) the Cafe uses and can access the task manager to establish if they are any suspect running procceses.

Also, the visual keyboard on windows does nothing but slow you down, a software keylogger will pick this up (if it’s any good), but a hardware would likely not.

www.portablefreeware.com

www.portableapps.com