Create Self-Destructing Notes With Burn Note
When I think about self-destructing notes or messages, I tend to think of spy movies like James Bond or Impossible Mission, and not necessarily about something that average people like you and I come in contact with. They do have their purposes though, for instance to send a friend a password, a web link, or anything else that you may not want a record to exist of.
Burn Note offers to do that, sort of. You can start writing the note right away once you have opened the Burn Note homepage. Keep in mind that you can only add plain text to it, and no media or formatting. Once you have written the note you should check out the options before you click on the send button.
The options let you configure the time the note will remain visible on the screen, the type of the note, and assign a password to it for additional security. When it comes to type, you have the option to have it set to plain text, which allows copying, to short phrases which does not allow copying, or to spyglass mode which also does not allow the copying of the note. The difference between the two modes that do not allow copying is the following: short phrases divides the note into different parts that are shown individually on the screen, while spyglass hides all of the note except for a small area that is underneath the mouse cursor.
A click on send displays the unique message url on the screen. It is now necessary to copy it, and send it to the recipient. The recipient then needs to enter the password if set before the message is displayed on the screen for the selected time.
It should be obvious that this is not a high security method of exchanging information. The reasons for this are that it is still necessary to communicate with the message recipient, and that the recipient can still copy the message, for instance by taking screenshots of it. For personal use though, this can be an interesting option. Registered users get read confirmations, which appears to be the only difference to unregistered ones.
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Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.