Online Member-Only Sites Got You Down? 2 Extensions for Firefox Will Fix That!

News Type: Event — Fri Jul 28, 2006 3:13 PM EDT

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Andy Min

These days, thousands of sites are "exclusive", or member only. But as these big companies make these sites, small programmers are fighting back. Trashmail.net and BugMeNot.com are classic examples. One makes it easy to sign up, and the other makes it easy to access the content inside member-only sites WITHOUT signing up! But without more ado, into the stories:

Don't Bug Me With BugMeNot!

BugMeNot.com is a site that takes user submitted logins and passwords, and lets you use them! However, it's hard to go all the way over to BugMeNot.com every time you wish to login to a new site. Enter the BugMeNot extension. Just right-click on the username box, and click on the BugMeNot button. It will go through multiple logins, and finally login. Plus, it's been tested on Firebird 0.7, Firefox 0.8 - 1.5.0.3, Flock developer preview, Mozilla 1.6, 1.7b and Netscape 7! Note: The newest BugMeNot is not available for the newest Firefox. We expect the developer to fix this.

Language: XUL.
Creator(s): roachfiend.com, Dmytri Kleiner.
http://roachfiend.com/archives/2005/02/07/bugmenot/

With some sites, BugMeNot won't work. But to sign up for many sites, you often must provide an email address. This may lead to spam. Instead, use the free Trashmail.net extension. It creates an email forwarder to your current email, and then deletes after a certain amount of forwards/days. Just right click on an email box, and click "Paste Disposable Email Address", and voila! you have a temporary email address.

Language: XUL.
Creator(s): Stephan Ferraro.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1813/

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Who's leading the conversation?

This visualization below allows you to see the impact that each user has on the current conversation. The top row contains the group of users who have had the most impact, the 2nd row the group of users who have had the 2nd most impact (et cetera). Users with similar impact are grouped together, and the average score of the group is shown to the left of the group. The author of the article is also shown on the left, in their corresponding group. Each user's score is based on the number of comments the user has made plus the number of votes their comments have received. The scores are calculated relative one another, so while their absolute value is not particularly important, their relative difference does indicate a larger difference in impact on the conversation.

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billybobjoe

Don't forget Mailinator. I've been using the site for close to 3 years and it hasn't let me down once.

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3 votes

#1 - Fri Jul 28, 2006 4:20 PM EDT

{"commentId":225160,"authorDomain":"billybobjoe"}

billybobjoe

Oops, forgot a link the firefox extension that works with mailinator.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/3029

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2 votes

#1.1 - Fri Jul 28, 2006 4:23 PM EDT

{"commentId":240686,"authorDomain":"eyequeue"}

eyequeue

Remember: This is not an anonymous mail service. All mail server activity is logged.

Perhaps worth emphasizing about trashmail.net.

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1 vote

#2 - Tue Aug 8, 2006 12:37 AM EDT

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