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20 temporary email services - how many do you need?

Spam MotelHere at Download Squad HQ, we sign up for a lot of new products and web services. And there's nothing quite as painful as putting your email address out there for yet another possible spammer.

That's where temporary email services come in. Need to enter an address to sign up for that new free service? Sign up for an email account that will expire in 10 minutes, wait for your registration info to come in, and kablooey, your temporary mailbox implodes and nobody can trace you.

While these services are great, we're not sure how useful this top 20 list of "temporary and disposable email services" is. Don't get us wrong, there's nothing particularly wrong with any of these services. But do you really need 20? The internet is full of top 5, top 10, and top 101 lists.

The top 10 Firefox extensions is one thing. But sometimes you just don't need that many options. One will do. So feel free to click on through and pick one at random. We'd recommend not reading the full list for fear you'll hurt your brain trying to decide which is actually best.

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In Civiballs, you are presented with a few colored balls, and your goal is to get those balls into the same-colored urn on the level. The "civi" part of Civiballs is that there are 3 sets of levels to play, each representing a different civilization. While the civilization doesn't affect gameplay, the artwork for each level is beautifully themed to it's appropriate era.

To play the game, you are given only one tool - a sword with which to cut the chains that are holding the balls. The puzzle part of the game is in figuring out what order, and with what timing to cut each chain. Do it right, and all the right balls end up in the right urns, with no stray balls entering an urn (a no-no). Do it wrong, and you get to start over again.

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