There are lots of websites that you visit that offer content for free but ask you to register with them before you can access it.  This, of course, means that you have to divulge your email address and hence opens you up to the possibility of, at best, lots of marketing emails from the company and, at worst, lots of spam.

There is a way around this, though.  Go to BugMeNot and enter the website that you would like to access.  It will provide you with a set of logins and passwords that you can use, thus keeping your email address squeeky clean (or as clean as it was before, at any rate !).

For Firefox users (and I hope that no-one is still using IE !), things are made even easier.  There is an add-on that automates the whole process.  When you come across a site wanting registration details, right click the user name or email address box and select ‘Login with BugMeNot’.  It may not always work first time, but repeat the process if it doesn’t and you should be able to get in.

Very handy indeed !