July 20, 2008
Last year I wrote an article on the benefits of encrypting your PC folders with Truecrypt and I also briefly touched on being able to encrypt your USB stick with Truecrypt. Well, the other day I received a nice new 2GB USB stick as a freebie and so I decided to install John Haller’s Portable [...]
June 16, 2008
People like nosing around. People like to go through other people’s stuff. Whether they are your family, friends, colleagues, or some anonymous guys in a basement in Japan, it’s something you want to avoid. Whether it’s because you like your privacy or you think you have a reason to ‘erase your tracks’; in the end [...]
June 7, 2008
While cryptography stands for encrypting or coding messages in a way that no one who doesn’t hold the key can understand them, steganography means hiding messages, so that no one who doesn’t know it’s there will realize it’s there in the first place. Naturally, both techniques are best used in combination, and the tool I’m [...]
January 30, 2008
Hey MUO Readers have I got a sweet suite of free tools for you network admins and regular end users. Being in the networking world for so long I have loads of tools in my admin tool box (My USB Stick). But recently a fellow tech blogger Paul Bauer introduced me to a nifty program [...]
November 3, 2007
Last time I discussed finding drivers for your software programs and also how to set up a printer on Windows. Well today I am going to get onto a more interesting topic – what to put on your computer. I know countless other blogs have done lists like this so this isn’t anything groundbreaking. But [...]
October 14, 2007
According to eBay, Paypal and Gmail (amongst others), I have about five hack attempts a week made on my accounts. Last year it was around ten a week. I know this because after a certain number of failed password attempts, the website locks down the account and informs the account holder by email that there [...]
August 14, 2007
In any given month, I will perhaps try out around ten new software apps or web services. Out of those ten, nine get dumped pretty much right away for various reasons but the other one, to quote Goldmember, gets filed away as a “keeper”. I am pretty picky when it comes to software and web [...]
