Daniel Pallett

Freenigma is a really neat little extension for Firefox which allows the average Joe to encrypt their emails (and of course, the recipient to decrypt it!). Well cryptography has been around for a while and the technology is nothing new, however, Freenigma is clear and simple, taking care of all the public and private keys, which the user never sees. Therefore it is a great tool that allows everyone who wishes, to use cryptography.

It works with the major web-based email systems, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail, however it currently doesn’t work with the newer betas such as Yahoo! Mail Beta and Windows Live Mail. If you’re concerned about privacy or you’re just curious I recommend you check it out.

I have just signed up to the free web-based word-processor Writely, which was bought by Google in March earlier this year. It does what you’d expect and works very nicely. One feature which I’m trying out for this post is the function to post to your blog. I’m not sure that I’ll use it over MS Word yet, but do I see myself using it if I need to collaborate on a document with someone else.
Edit - Writely didn’t put a title on my post.