October 6, 2011
Over the last two years, CCleaner has changed quite a bit in terms of version numbers…up now to version 3.10 at the time of this writing. While visually the program actually hasn’t changed much (it’s good, why break something that’s not broken?), a lot of additional features have been included behind-the-scenes to make it more functional than ever.
September 21, 2011
In a recent article I explained why it is impossible to recover data from a hard drive after overwriting it. In that post I mentioned that simply deleting files or formatting your hard drive typically does not remove or overwrite files at all, meaning they can still be recovered. If this information made you a little nervous, let me connect the pieces for you.
January 10, 2011
Have you ever spent your time looking at the remaining space of your hard drive and wondering where all the storage space has gone? Well, I have. I thought that my current MacBook hard drive capacity should be enough to store everything, and yet I had to struggle to keep it from being full. This [...]
December 21, 2010
Sometimes the most unglamorous of software can be lifesavers. File recovery software fall into that category. The free and Open Source NTFS Undelete for Windows is devoid of frills but a surefooted member we would like to include when we talk about free file recovery options. Of course, NTFS Undelete is not a one of [...]
March 18, 2010
Take a moment and think about all of the sensitive data kept on your computer. Account passwords, addresses, phone numbers, access to bank accounts and other financial services, and maybe even your social security number. Almost every aspect of your identity is kept on this little machine. Now imagine you want a new one. So, [...]
March 10, 2010
Nothing can put a bridle on information. Ever since the beginning of age, information is always on the move. It’s always multiplied, passed on, stored for a little while, then re-replicated and continued on with its journey. The only thing that changes about the whole account is the media that carries the information. If we [...]
January 6, 2010
Usually, when we hunt for a kind of software, there are various alternatives available. When I went hunting for a portable recycle bin for my USB Flash drive, all I got was the iBin. Perhaps there are more there, but for now it seems that the iBin is one of its kind. Let me come [...]
September 11, 2009
Sometimes the PC world is such a mirror for the real world. I guess in both, the trash can (that’s the Recycle Bin) is the most neglected component of our daily usage. It’s great because it’s there. We miss it only when it goes missing. Managing waste may be a bore chore. But in the [...]
March 29, 2009
Have you ever wanted to delete an account only to find that no matter how hard you look, you can’t find the option to do that anywhere? Me too. Isn’t it funny how it only takes a few seconds to create an account on these sites but it often takes forever to find out how [...]
February 14, 2009
Most new external hard drives available in the market are designed to be plug and play. By plug and play, what I mean is that you can just plug in the hard drive and start using it right away. This is because the manufacturers send the disk initialised and ready to work with the most [...]
