It’s a tool that we must have before we will ever need it for our disaster recover operations. Both as End users and Corporate users, we often run into issues with our Windows systems where we need to either perform System Restore or restoring a copy of registry from backup would fix the issue. But [...]
Paint.Net was initially an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft and is currently maintained by a group of professional who had initially started it.
Development of this tool was started to replace the MS Paint software that’s built in Windows, but grown to become very powerful than MS Paint. Newbies who can not [...]
PDF is one of the most widely used document formats on Internet today. PDF and Adobe are both synonym with each other and the best products to create PDF files are from Adobe itself. But then if you take a look at how much these products from Adobe cost, it will make you think twice. [...]
[USBDeview] is a freeware utility that will show you information about all the currently connected USB devices to your system. The utility is small in size [under 45k] and is packed with lot of information.
Some of the important information about the connected devices that it can show are:
Device Name
Device Description
Type of the Device
Connected Status. [If [...]
Disk encryption softwares have been available since quite long, but their usage has increased since last few years. Using an open-source software such as [TrueCrypt] saves a lot on your pocket and even does an on-the-fly encryption of your disk volumes.
The main features of this software are:
On-the-fly encryption [data is automatically encrypted and decrypted]
Entire filesystem/disk [...]
By the time you finish reading this article, you will realize some of the many benefits of using Open Source software, how it dramatically lowers your investments by reducing the cost associated with licensed software and its support.
We will look at existing uses of licensed software and how Open Source software can replace them while [...]