Shortcuts. Gstuff_gcal. Ms-windows. Ms-word. Apple_mac_switch. How to permanently delete data from your hard drive. According to the New York Times, a basic privacy measure that is often overlooked is the proper destruction of data on hard drives. An ongoing study by British Telecom says that most people don't realize that deleting a file doesn't actually remove the data from a computer. In fact, the BT research found that only 33 percent of second hand hard drives had been completely wiped clean. To ensure your drive doesn't contain any personal data before you give it away or sell it, you need to reformat the hard drive or use digital shredding software if you want to completely eliminate all traces of data. In this post, we'll show you how.
When it comes to data stored on your computer, deleting files doesn't actually remove the data. The only way to completely remove the data is to overwrite the contents of the hard drive. Two Main Methods of Overwriting Data The Gutmann Method US DoD 5220-22.M Mac Users: Data Wiping Built In Macs come with data wiping tools built into their systems. How to Use Eraser. How to instantly set a screensaver away message. How to reduce RSS stress in your online life. Do you subscribe to tons of RSS feeds ? Are there hundreds of unread items in your newsreader ? Do you end up spending more time inside the RSS reader than you would want to ?
If answer to any of the above questions is Yes, you are probably suffering from RIO [RSS Information Overload]. So here are some tips to beat the RSS stress and manage your RSS subscriptions more effectively. Create Additional Levels of Hierarchy We have a love-hate relationship with some RSS feeds - we sometimes like them and sometimes not. Create a new folder [like "Pending Review" or "Under Scrutiny"] and move all such feeds in that folder. Create an A-list Folder containing Favorite Feeds The A-list folder doesn't mean that it will contain feeds only from A-list bloggers - instead it will have feeds that you just can't afford to miss. This A-List folder comes in handy when you are running short of time. Search by Keywords and Delete Forget Alphabetic sorting, number the feeds And Finally.. File Extensions. Don't forget to lock your computer. I encourage my coworkers to lock their computers.
Security, after all, is everyone's business. But often gentle encouragement is not enough. Sometimes, more.. persuasive methods are necessary. I first learned about the noble art of goating from from Omar Shahine: We have this problem in Hotmail. Goating techniques vary from insidious and subtle to invasive, borderline vandalism. Installing the bluescreen screensaver.
Goating can be quite literal. It's disturbingly common here, which is why I've learned to reflexively press Windows+L when I get up from my desk. One of my all-time favorite goating techniques, however, is to install the Clippy parody applet on a victi.. er, coworker's machine. After one particuarly inspired installation of Clippy, an email titled "What The Heck" went out to all employees: Is this another prank or something? So far this stupid thing has told me: My typing speed is slow. It's up to each of us to go forth and spread the good word! How to change your pc's registered owner in Windows. Wikiwax. How to get rid of adware. How to fix Mom and Dad's computer. Ok, well, this comment is kinda of late for such an old article, but I just found this article in the archives and felt like commenting. All in all, my family shares 2 computers in the house. The one my sister (14 years old) uses the most is the one most prone to spyware.
My mom and dad are actually fairly savvy in keeping the computer clean. My mom's been using the same computer for 4-5 years and there's only been one instance of spyware on it, and it got fixed rather quickly. But beyond that...I found that a crafy way to introduce Firefox is to download an IE skin for Firefox and set Firefox up to be very similar to IE.
You can also get really sneaky and change the Firefox shortcut's icon to the blue E and change the name to Internet Explorer. As for other methods. For cleaning out drives and such, CCleaner. For antispyware, Spybot Search and destroy. Trying a system restore can also be a big help if they know when a certain problem started. How to clean up your PC. How to automatically back up your hard drive. How to carry your life on a thumb drive (or iPod) How to make room on your hard drive. I remember when I first started looking at computer catalogs back in the late 80s. There was a 540MB hard drive for sale that I found fascinating. It seemed like a limitless amount of storage and I remember dreaming about what type of huge business you could run with that amount of storage space. Of course now that is even less data that can fit on a single CD rom and many programs come on multiple DVDs now days.
No matter how big of hard drive you have, you’ll eventually be able to fill it. There are two ways to clean out unnecessary information. One is to go through, folder by folder, and clean out what you don’t need. The most productive way to clean your hard drive is to figure out which files are taking up the most space and start there. There are two solutions I’ve found. Treesize Free This is the windows program. The paid version gives you a bunch of extra features. You can download Treesize from Jam Software here. OmniDiskSweeper This is the program that I use for OS X. How to use whonu.com. How to download YouTube videos. Google has a solid amount of cash in its pockets, but with all the recent lawsuits against YouTube one has to wonder if it's time to salvage whatever videos you like from the service and save them somewhere where evil attorneys won't look – your hard drive. Luckily, there are literally dozens of tools for downloading videos from YouTube and/or converting those YouTube videos to some format other than .flv.
It's hard to pick the best one, as they all have pluses and minuses. Thus, we've chosen 23 YouTube downloader tools we've found to be actually working. Here they are, categorized according to the platform they work on: Web based 1. videodownloadx.com doesn't have a lot of options, but it's simple, and it works. Videodownloadx.com 2. Keepvid.com 3. Javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php 4. Www.downloadandsaveyoutubevideos.info 5. Www.zamzar.com 6. Www.youtubia.com 7. Www.vidgrab.com 8. Vixy.net 9. Www.heywatchencoding.com 10. Www.mediaconverter.org 11. Www.kcoolonline.com Windows Applications 12. 13. 14.