Disk Wiping Utilities: How to Get Rid of Your Data Permanently On one sunny summer day, Mr. and Mrs. Smith (Those 2 characters are completely fictional and are in no way related to anyone) decided that they'd had enough with their old, sluggish computer and wanted to get a brand new one. After doing a traditional format, Mr. Here are 3 of the most popular ones: All these utilities are self-contained boot floppies that will help you securely erase data from any hard drive using one or more of the following wiping techniques (Via the Wipe Page): Quick Erase: Fills hard drive with 0'sGutmann: 27 random-order passes using specific data combined with eight passes using random data.Due to changes in the different data encoding schemes now used by modern hard drives, Gutmann no longer recommends 35 passes. Here's how to use them: 1- Create the boot disk via the provided setup file and use it to boot your computer2- Select the disk to wipe3- Observe the process while laughing maniacly (Optional) That's all there is to it folks.
Bing Launches ‘Knowledge Widget’ For Webmasters, App Linking Microsoft has launched the Bing Knowledge Widget for webmasters and publishers. It detects and visualizes entities on your webpage, and displays rich info about the entity, providing site visitors with info about the said entities on the page. If they hover over the objects you’ve selected in the back-end, they will see the widget’s display on the right-hand side of the screen like so: These are customizable, but come with pre-defined options for entity images, entity images and links or just entity links. “When you have chosen a visualization option that includes entity links, you can set the link style associated with these entity links,” Bing says. The company also announced App Linking functionality for businesses. “Bing Webmaster Tools will be your interface to linking your website to your app,” it says. Google has also expanded its app indexing initiative, announcing nearly 25 new apps it is now indexing. Image via Microsoft Bing Launches ‘Knowledge Widget’ For Webmasters, App Linking
Beginner's Guide to Professional Word Documents Microsoft Word is a powerful word processor which, when used correctly, produces smart business documents with a consistent layout and style. For Word to work correctly, however, there are several Golden Rules you need to followed. Rule 1: Use Styles—Avoid Direct Formatting Styles are Word's most powerful feature. Everything you create in Word is attached to a Style. A style is a predetermined set of formats that you can use repeatedly throughout all your documents. Different parts of the document are tagged by the underlying styles. Consistency Using styles ensures that document are formatted identically. Rule 2—Use Templates Templates are a natural extension to styles. Rule 3—Don't Use Line Feeds to Make Space Don't use line feeds to make space between paragraphs! This is a bad form of direct formatting that has adverse affects on a document's efficiency and robustness. Use tabs to align text. Tip! Rule 7—Minimize the Use of Sections Sections complicate the structure of a document.
DocuBurst Welcome to the DocuBurst website. As a part of a research project, we are conducting a usability study to investigate how people are using the website. You have been invited to participate in the data logging portion of this study! Please read the consent form below for more details. REB File #:11-102This form has been reviewed by the UOIT REB I hereby consent to participate in a research study conducted by Dr. I understand that: The purpose of this study is to log user activity for the interest of enhancing the usability of the application and uncovering common user interaction patterns or interests. Uploaded Data Any data I upload will be publicly visible. Risks If sensitive or private information is uploaded accidentally, it will be publicly visible until removed. Benefits After using this web application the participant may gain some insight on the documents they have uploaded. Study Withdrawal Document or Annotation Deletion Research Contact Information Ethics Compliance Officer
30 Essential Pieces Of Free (and Open) Software for Windows Recently, I received a fresh new laptop from Dell. Upon receiving it, I did the traditional “installation of Windows from scratch” on it to remove a lot of the garbage that is preinstalled on Dells. Then I got really busy installing tons of great software that takes care of pretty much every software need I have. What follows is a list of thirty pieces of software that are the cream of the crop of open source software for Windows. Now, if only there were an open version of The Sims 2, I might go the whole way and switch to Linux… Thirty Free and Open Software Programs Worth Downloading 1. Replaces Internet Explorer If you haven’t switched to Firefox for your web browsing needs, do it now. 2. 3. Replaces Microsoft Outlook’s calendaring functions Might as well get the Mozilla trifecta out of the way by mentioning Sunbird, which is the Mozilla Foundation’s calendaring program. 4. Replaces Microsoft Word Want a good word processor but find Microsoft Word too expensive? 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Some Useful Excel Templates Some Useful Excel Templates By Neep Hazarika October 9, 2013 Compare two Lists Compare two lists. Sometimes, it may be necessary to compare data between two columns in an Excel spreadsheet. Extracting Domain Names from URLs Extract Domains from URLs Search Engine Optimization (SEO) frequently entails dealing with long lists of URLs. it is possible to reduce this list and so that it contains only the domain portions of the URLs as shown below: www.majesticseo.comwww.google.co.ukstackoverflow.com An example of how this method can be used is with competitor backlink analysis to quickly identify all of the unique domains that link to particular websites. Create a list of 100 random domain names Generate a list of domains from random words. Sometimes in SEO analysis, it helps to create a list of domains with no obvious correlation to the research you are working on.
Windows XP Management | Langa Letter: XP's No-Reformat, Nondestructive Total-Rebuild Option | June 19, 2006 Fred Langa shows you how to completely rebuild, repair, or refresh an existing XP installation without losing data, and without having to reinstall user software, reformat, or otherwise destructively alter the setup. It's one of those software design decisions that makes you scratch your head and wonder, "What were they thinking?" The "it" in this case is XP's most powerful rebuild/repair option, and yet Microsoft chose to hide it behind seeming dead ends, red herrings, and a recycled interface that makes it hard to find and (at first) somewhat confusing to use. But it's worth exploring because this option lets you completely and nondestructively rebuild, repair, or refresh an existing XP installation while leaving already-installed software alone (no reinstallation needed!). We've saved this technique for last in our discussion of the various XP repair/rebuild options because the fixes we've previously discussed are like first aid--the things you try first. 1 of 5 More Insights
8 Excellent Tools for Optimizing Your Images By Jacob Gube One of the easiest ways to reduce page response times is by optimizing your website images to reduce their file sizes as much as possible. Optimizing images not only makes your web pages load faster, but also reduces your bandwidth consumption, which can translate to significant savings in your hosting bills. There are several free tools available at your disposal to shrink and optimize images. In this article, you will find convenient and user-friendly tools for making your web images as tiny in file size as possible. 1. smush.it! smush.it! RIOT – which stands for Radical Image Optimization Tool – is an image optimizer for Windows users that is available as a standalone application or as an extension of IrfanView. Created by game programmer Ken Silverman, PNGOUT is a popular, free, and no-frills tool for lossless optimization of your images. 4. The Online Image Optimizer from Dynamic Drive is a web-based tool for compressing your images further. 5. 6. 7. 8. Related content
Hack Attack: Seven New Year's Resolutions for your PC - Lifehacker Bad Ideas!! To quote pulp fiction,"allow me to retort": 1. Regularly back up your hard drive: Just get a RAID array.. 2. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 26 Free Must-Have Tools for PPC Success Nearly every craft uses tools to get the job done. Carpenters have hammers and saws. Doctors have expensive medical devices like MRI machines and tests. Writers have a computer (or a typewriter, or pen and paper). PPC is no different. While it's certainly possible to manage PPC using only the AdWords and Bing Ads online interfaces, doing so will be less than optimal. I asked 20 PPC experts to share their must-have PPC tools. When it comes to free tools, Google is king. 1. A few of us old-timers remember life before AdWords Editor. 2. The AdWords and Bing interfaces only go so far. 3. We've recently started using AdWords Scripts, and it's become obvious they're a must-have. 4. Use this plugin to help develop AdWords Scripts. 5. I love creating shared Google Docs for internal and external use. 6. Google Drive is great for storing Google Docs and other files. 7. Who wants to update thousands of product listing ads manually? 8. 9. 10. I love this Excel plugin for keyword research. 11. 12.
Ten Windows Password Myths With all of our advances in security technology, one aspect remains constant: passwords still play a central role in system security. The difficulty with passwords is that all too often they are the easiest security mechanism to defeat. Although we can use technology and policy to make passwords stronger, we are still fighting the weakest point in any system: the human element. Ultimately the goal is to get users to choose better passwords. However, it is not always clear how to achieve that goal. The problem is that as creative as humans are, we are way too predictable. Myth #1: My Password Hashes Are Safe When Using NTLMv2 Many readers will be familiar with the weaknesses in LanManager (LM) password hashes that made L0phtcrack so popular. It will still be some time until we are completely free from the grips of LanManager. Myth #2. A common myth is that totally random passwords spit out by password generators are the best passwords. Myth #3. 14 Characters is the Optimal Password Length
Top 60 WordPress Plugins of 2014 WordPress powers over 150 million blogs online. It’s the fastest and easiest way to create your own website online. In fact, some of the biggest companies in the world use Wordress. Including the Wall Street Journal, CNN, People Magazine, and Yahoo. Celebrities are doing the same. Richard Branson, Tony Robbins, Guy Kawasaki, Mark Cuban, and many others all run their blogs on WordPress. WordPress has quickly become the industry standard. But in this post, I want to show you how to power-up the engine with additional features. So without further ado, here are the Top 60 WordPress plugins (listed by Category)… Categories: The Essentials | Social Media | Content Marketing | Build Your List | Statistics & Tracking | Images, Audio & Video | Membership Sites | Marketing |Selling Your Own Products | Other Cool Stuff The Essentials: WordPress SEO by Yoast – WordPress is pretty search engine friendly right out of the box. Both of these are excellent options. Content Marketing: Building Your List:
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