Our data is becoming more and more important to us as we’re keeping ever more of our lives on our PCs, tablets, smartphones and in the cloud.  Currently there are precious few ways to encrypt this data in a way that’s guaranteed to be trouble-free.  Two of the most obvious being hard disks with encryption [...]

Categories: Security, Tutorials Basic

Encrypting the files and data on your hard disc can be awkward.  There are various packages you can use to do the job some of which are easy to use and effective and others which are just a pain.  Personally I use the Encrypted File System built into Windows, though I still don’t like it [...]

Categories: Software

Mix2Stix was primarily designed to copy random mp3 files from the hard drive to an USB stick or mp3 player to ease the pain of selecting the music manually. It provides a one click solution with a few comfort functions which I will explain later in this article. The user has to set four parameters [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Software, Tools

The freeware IconX makes it possible to change any icon that you can get your hands on in Windows. It takes care of file type and specific files, folders and even drives. The installation is pretty simple. Download the IconX software and right-click IconX.inf and select install to install the shell extension. Please note that you need to write the author to receive a validation code because the software was shareware and is now freeware.

Categories: Operating Systems, Tools, Windows

You have some friends or business partners that you want to share data with but have no website with enough space and don’t want to use p2p as well ? One simple way to share files of any size is to use the HTTP File Server which emulates a basic file server on your home computer. The server can be run in public or private mode and it is normally a very good idea to run it in private mode.

Categories: Operating Systems, P2p, Tools, Windows

Megaupload is a file hoster just like Rapidshare that has restrictions set in place for guests that are downloading files from their website. Everyone who wants to download a file from Megaupload has to wait a certain time before they can start the download. Another restriction is a so called country limit. If the maximum number of downloaders from a specific country has been reached all others from that country will have to wait until the amount of downloaders drops below that figure.

Categories: Hacking, The Web

Sometimes you download filetypes that your computer can’t read because of a missing viewer or that you would like to transport to a portable device that only reads certain filetypes. Instead of download several programs that are able to convert the files you have into the filetypes that you need you could use the online file conversion website Zamzar to do the same.

Categories: The Web

When I look at my taskmanager I sometimes see filenames that I don´t know. What is that file gives you the answer to the question. It´s solely based on user submissions, just like wikipedia for instance. Just enter a filename and the following information will be displayed: Name, purpose, description and if its safe or a malicious one. Great if you are not sure why a file is running on your system.

Categories: Knowledge