Bug Me Not

Like most blogs, I link to a lot of newspaper and magazine articles that require free registration. Though free, these will often lead to spam emails, so people don't like to register and often avoid reading the articles as a result. There is a solution. Go to Bug Me Not, put in the URL of the newspaper and it will pop out a username and password for you. It's a beautiful thing.

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If you use Firefox you can add BugMeNot to your search engine box which makes it even easier.

The Firefox BugMeNot extension is here. (it also works with Mozilla and Netscape too).

By Jason Spaceman (not verified) on 01 Jun 2005 #permalink

-Ed
Thanks for the info., very handy and as you can see I finally downloaded Firefox and can read your blog now :)