The Donation Coder website and community is special. Not only because I have a long standing relationship with several of its members but also because it is taking an approach that most other sites on the Internet does not take. Instead of relying on online advertisement to fund their projects they rely on donations from [...]
Outlook Express Email Recovery
Mail Cure is a portable software application for the Windows operating system that has been designed to recover accidentally deleted email messages. Unlike other email recovery tools Mail Cure does not only look for existing mail databases and emails but does scan the free space of the hard drive for traces of mailboxes or deleted [...]
Prevent External Hard Drives From Entering Sleep Mode
Some external hard drives make use of a hard coded sleep mode that kicks in after some time of inactivity, usually between 10-15 minutes. The external hard drive will enter sleep mode and initiate a wake up when new data is requested of the drive. This can be problematic in some circumstances where the user [...]
How To Anonymize iTunes Songs
One of our readers pointed out that the application that we reviewed a while back to anonymize iTunes songs had been down for a while. He suggested another method of getting rid of user identifying data in iTunes. The iTunes plus songs contain three obvious fields that can be used to identify the user. The [...]
Computer Repair Utility Kit
If you are the tech savvy user in your family and community you usually get lots of calls from desperate users who need computer help. The help that is needed can vary widely depending on the situation, from computer boot problems, hardware that is not working anymore, computer viruses or “how do I” questions. Most [...]
LyX: A FOSS ‘WYSIWYM’ LaTeX word processor
You have no doubt heard of ‘WYSIWYG’ editors, which show you what you get. The vast majority of HTML editors and word processors operate on a WYSIWYG principle, but another principle is WYSIWYM – ‘what you see is what you mean’. The key idea of WYSIWYM editors is that the users merely have to concentrate [...]
Registry Analyzer
Registry Ripper is a portable software program to automatically analyze Registry Hives. It will analyze a selected Registry hive and export the findings into a selected text document. Registry Hives are locked by the Windows operating system which means that it is necessary to copy or access them before the operating system is running. This [...]
