So you've got a a web site, and you want to let people get in touch with you. But you know if you list your email address on that web page you're likely to get dozens of new messages every day asking if you'd like various parts of your anatomy enlarged. While you could use a service like Contactify to add a contact box to your site, there's also a much simpler solution: Just embed your email address in an image file so that screen scraping tools won't recognize it.

Creating an image with your email address isn't that difficult. Most basic image editing applications will let you embed text in a picture file. But Spam Proof eMail Generator makes things even easier. You don't have to download any application to your desktop. You can select from a group of fonts, colors, and text sizes. And you don't even need to host your image online. The generator will create an image for you and give you then give you an embed code and an image link.

[via MakeUseOf]