A new version of the encryption software TrueCrypt 7.0 has been released yesterday, as usual for Windows, Mac and Linux systems. The jump from version 6.3a to 7.0 is more than justified by the new feature additions in TrueCrypt 7.0. True Crypt now supports hardware acceleration; By default, hardware accelerated AES on computers that have [...]
How To Uninstall Flash Player Completely
The uninstallation of Flash Player can sometimes be problematic, and not as easy as clicking on the uninstall button. The first thing that Windows users should note for instance is that there are two versions of the Flash Player plugin available, one for Internet Explorer, the other for the remaining web browsers such as Firefox, [...]
70,000 Blogetry sites shut down by Law Enforcement…why?
The WordPress blogging service bloggetry, which is used by roughly 70,000 people, has been mysteriously shut down with no warning and no explanation according to ReadWriteWeb. BurstNET, the host of the service said it was suspended at the request of an unidentified law enforcement agency. “(Blogetery) was terminated by request of law enforcement officials, due [...]
How To Add Folders To Windows Explorer Favorites In Windows 7
Windows Explorer in Windows 7 contains a left sidebar that displays links to favorites, drives and libraries. This section can be expanded (by right-clicking a blank spot in the sidebar and selecting “Show all folders”) to include User directories, control panel and recycle bin as well. The sidebar has its purposes. It can be used [...]
Check Which Famous Writer You Write Like
I write like who? That was the first thing coming to my mind after pasting in my first text into a form on the I Write Like website, but more on that later. I Write Like is a web service that analyses text pasted into a web form, to come up with a famous writer [...]
Uninstall Kaspersky URL Advisor From Firefox
Security companies these days often add extensions, plugins and add-ons to web browsers. The two big dogs Norton and Kaspersky do that for instance. Kaspersky adds the add-on Kaspersky URL Advisor to the Firefox web browser upon installation. As usual, those add-ons can be disabled but not uninstalled in the browser. The Uninstall button is [...]
Operations Guide For Microsoft Office 2010
Microsoft has released a second Office 2010 guide, after the previously reviewed Getting Started With Microsoft Office 2010 Guide. The new guide, Operations guide for Microsoft Office 2010, provides information on how to maintain and manage Office 2010 in an organization. It is in this regard even more specialized than the getting started guide, the [...]
Remove Rogue Antivirus Defense Center (defcnt.exe)
Rogue antivirus programs like Defense Center look on first glance as valid security software that protects a computer system from threats. On second glance though they usually displays non-existing infections deliberately, usually to convince the user to upgrade to a premium version to remove those infections or to buy another software that cleans them. Defense [...]
Display All Special Folders In Windows With Special Folders View
Special folders in the Windows operating system are presented to the user abstractly, they are not represented by their folder path but solely by their function. Examples of special folders are the My Documents or My Music folders in the user directory, application data folder, the desktop or the temporary Internet files folder. Special folders [...]