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Sunday, October 31, 2010

protect your PenDrive with USB Safeguard

How To Protect Your Pen drive with the password manager safeguard


We often have some personal documents/data in USB stick which we don’t want anybody else to read or access. In this case it is necessary to password protect your sensitive data. This can be done by using the portable USB Safeguard. USB Safeguard is a freeware which can help you to keep your personal data password protected.
USB Safeguard is a software to encrypt and protect data with a password on your removable pen drives using the AES 256 bits encryption.
It does not only encrypts your files, it also has ‘Safe Internet Browsing’ option to surf safe on web and removes all Internet traces like URL history, typed URLs, typed passwords in web forms and etc. Built in file shredder – i.e. wiping the contents of the original Pre-encrypted file – and more.

Main features :

  • Runs with any usb pen drive
  • No installation required
  • Easy drag & drop file adding
  • Built in file shredder
  • Secure your data if drive is lost

Download USB Safeguard

Saturday, October 30, 2010

[How to]Load and use multiple OS from your USB drive

Loading and using multiple OS from your USB drive
Ever felt like carrying your Ubuntu, Fedora, Tiny-core and all other OS’s iso in your pen drive? Yes, you can now carry all your favorite Operating systems with you wherever you go and boot from them using the same USB drive. MultiBoot USB is a freeware which can help you to use the multiple OS iso files on the same pen drive.

To use the MultiBoot on your pen drive it must meet some requirements first. You’ll require a FAT32 formatted pen drive and a computer which can boot from a USB device. Prefer using an 8-16 GB pen drive so that you can have more different operating systems on it.
To start off first download the MultiBootISO’s from here. Run the executable and follow the instructions. Browse to the ISO file you want to load on your USB drive and build the bootable USB using it. You might have to format your pen drive during the process so do take a backup of all your data which is there on the pen drive.
To add more ISO files repeat the same procedure. Restart your PC and set the highest priority for the USB drive to boot from it and done.



Copy files quickly and easily with TeraCopy

Copy files with TeraCopy

Sitting at home in front of your computer and wanting to format that sad hard disk of yours ?? Then first copy all your important data to a safe place. What?? Worried about that slow copy operation?? Don’t worry, use Tera Copy to speed up the process.

Tera Copy is a compact program designed to copy and move files at the maximum possible speed, providing the user with a lot of features:

Copy files faster. Tera Copy uses dynamically adjusted buffers to reduce seek times. Asynchronous copy speeds up file transfer between two physical hard drives.
Pause and resume file transfers. Pause copy process at any time to free up system resources and continue with a single click.
Error recovery. In case of copy error, Tera Copy will try several times and in the worse case just skip the file, not terminating the entire transfer.
Interactive file list. Tera Copy shows failed file transfers and lets you fix the problem and recopy only problem files.
Shell integration. Tera Copy can completely replace Explorer copy and move functions, allowing you work with files as usual.
Full Unicode support.
Windows 7 x64 support.

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Friday, October 29, 2010

Lot will think how improve the performance of battery for those here is the source

Improve your laptop’s battery performance with Aerofoil

 


Aerofoil is a tiny open source utility which allows the user to easily turn off aero glass effect in Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems and save the battery power. It automatically disables aero glass effect when laptop is not connected to the external power supply and brings everything back to normal when it is connected to external power supply.



Aerofoil extends Vista and Windows 7 notebook battery life by:

§  Allowing you to manually disable Aero Glass.

§  Optionally managing Aero Glass user interface.

§  Optionally managing sound muting.

§  Optionally managing your chosen power plans.

§  Optionally managing Windows Sidebar.

§  Optionally showing a quick hibernate button.

§  Changing icon color to show whether on battery or AC.

Download AeroFoil 1.5.0 


Thursday, October 28, 2010

Using notepad as our personal diary


 The use of Notepad as your personal diary

There is a simple feature in Notepad that can make it work like a personal diary for you. Here is how to go about it:

1. Firstly open a blank Notepad file.
2. Now write .LOG as the first line in the file, and then press enter. Now save the file and close it.
3. Open the notepad file now and you will find that the current date and time has been
Appended (put) at the end and the cursor is in the next line.
4. Type your notes and then save and close the file.
5. Each time you open the file, Notepad repeats the process that is it appends the date and time
To the end of the file and places the cursor below it.