Delete
attachments automatically
The
Silent Text
app for Android and OS (silentcircle.com) lets you send attachments of up to
100MB with your emails, which expire when you say so. It has an automatic
self-destruct option to erase attachments after a set period of time, which
prevents confidential documents from being kept and distributed afterwards.
However, it costs $9.95 (about £619) a month.
Create
notes that disappear after reading
If an email
is intended for one person’s eyes only, then
consider using Privnote (https://privnote.com) or NoteDIP (notedip.com)
to send your private missives. Privnote is an easy-to-use web site that has a
beg yellow ‘sticky note’ for your text. Once you have finished writing, you
simply tap the ‘Create note’ button to generate a URL, which can then be
emailed or sent via a message, The lir can only be used once - subsequent
clicks tell you that the message has been destroyed. You can also find out when
the message has been read by inputting your email address and a reference number.
NoteDIP offers a similar service and also allows you to password-protect your
private messages.
Stop emails
being saved and shared
The
Chrome extension mxHero Email Toolbox (toolbox.mxhero.com) adds a Self-destruct
feature to Gmail. When you compose an email and select this option, the message
is turned into an image to prevent anyone from copying and pasting it. The
recipient is then given just five minutes to read the message after they've
opened it. before it self-destructs. The add-on also bans people from
forwarding the message, so it’s ideal for private communication,
Make
passwords vanish after sharing
There
are times when you need to tell someone a password for a service so they can
access your account. To prevent the password from remaining on their computer
or phone, use One Time Secret (onetimesecret.com). Type in the password and
generate a secret link which the recipient will only be able to use once. The
site also gives privacy- conscious users the option of thinking up a difficult
word or phrase which would be needed to unlock the original message.
Make
all Facebook content self-destruct
The
Facebook Poke iPhone app (bit.ly/facebookiphone330) lets you limit the
time
that messages, videos and photos stay on the social- networking site. It works
with newly
shot
images and videos, which you can set to disappear between one and 10 seconds later, selecting as many recipients as you like.
Make your Tweets #selfdestruct
The
Twitter app Spirit (twitterspirit.com) lets
you control the length of time a tweet
will appear. It works using a series
of timescale hashtags. For example, writing a tweet and finishing it with #25m’
means it will remain on Twitter for 25 minutes. Likewise, #10th and #3d would
limit the tweet to 10 hours and three days. respectively. This s better than
putting Out a contentious tweet arid forgetting to remove it. or having to use a service such as
Retwact (go.rtrt.co) to tell retweeters you have made an amendment.
Done! Now,
when you Tweet with a hashtag like #15m, #5h or #7d,
your message will disappear after that time.
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