In the post
More than 18,000 post offices are going online following a deal between the Post Office and UK Villages, offering free websites to all 26,272 cities, suburbs, towns and villages in the UK. If it means more original local content, that would certainly help, since there seems to be a dearth of it at www.ukvillages.co.uk .

Surf safely
Anonymizer is known for letting users browse anonymously, but for best results, you need to pay for its premium rate service. SafeWeb offers a similar service free. SafeWeb "always encrypts and protects content [and] sanitizes dangerous scripts", it says, so presumably it will defeat most net censorship and monitoring programs.

Double vision
Authors, webmasters, press officers and teachers should enjoy the new service at FindSame. Paste in or upload a whole article or press release, or enter a website address. FindSame will search the web for anything containing at least one line the same, and you can view what it finds side by side with the original. It could find out which phrases in a press release appeared in print, where famous quotations have been used, and which authors are guilty of plagiarism.

Focus on this
Hewlett-Packard sent cameras to 100 people in various walks of life, and is putting on a show at www.hp.com/100cameras. So far, 80 photographers are online. The results are interesting, but the site is slow.

All in one
XOIP, pronounced "zoip", is another company providing a unified messaging service, and it is free. XOIP lets you send and receive faxes, hear and reply to your email by mobile phone, send SMS messages and receive voice messages. The service has been running in the Netherlands for about 18 months and is available here at www.xoip.co.uk

Get a buzz
What's the buzz today? Or more accurately, what was the buzz two days ago? Yahoo has launched a Buzz Index that doesn't just add up the most popular search terms but looks at the terms that have seen the biggest increase in searches compared with the previous day. The movers and leaders can be found at http://buzz.yahoo.com.

Side guide
Allyoguide is a browser add-on that pops up a side-panel in Microsoft's internet explorer for Windows, just like search, favorites or history. Allyoguide searches a directory of websites and shows a selection appropriate to the site you are viewing. www.allyoguide.com uses data from the Open Directory Project. It could use Yahoo, but Allyoguide's Steve Hanlon says the goal is for the service to build its own.

New and noted

• The Great Ormond Street Hospital for children has launched a charity site at www.gosh.org/homepage.htm

• The UK's waste management industry now has a portal at www.letsrecycle.com

• If you fancy being sherlock@bakerstreetw1.com , Streetnames is offering place-based email addresses at www.streetnames.com for £70.50. UK addresses (.co.uk ) cost £35.25 a year, inc VAT.

• The fight against age discrimination is championed at www.fifthmoon.com