Ok, so most of the readers of SweetHacks run Windows as their OS (Operating System). Therefore what I have done is prepare a 10 part series of programs which I recommend you should install as they would probably help you with your everyday use of your PC/Laptop.
Today – Part 1 – We focus on: File Shredder
As a everyday user of the internet you may find that you tend to download work or store important information such as your assignment or credit card. Yes, you can delete everything by just clicking the delete button but what you dont know if its been deleted successfully, by this I mean a clean deletion of the face of the earth…well the computer
Example: You might have seen people on the TV having their computers seized and files recovered even though they might have tried to conceal information, delete it OR even try to curropt their HDD. This is because there are quite a few software tools today for retrieval of deleted files under Windows OS. Those tools, often referred to as “file recovery” software, are taking advantage of shortcoming of WIndows “delete” command that we all use regularly to delete files. Actually, the “delete” operation in Windows only removes bits of information from files so they appear deleted in OS. It is easy to retrieve those files using aforementioned specialized file recovery software.
To put this short – The delete button just hides most of the file and does not actually delete it.
To get rid of this problem what we can do is download this program where we can actually delete files from our hard drives permanently. File Shredder has been developed as fast, safe and reliable tool to shred company files. The author of this program released it free under GNU licence and you are welcome to download File Shredder and use it without any restrictions.
File Shredder is simple but powerful program that surpasses manu commercial file shredders out there. The Author believes that such a utility should be available to anyone for free and that permanent and safe removal of confidential documents is a matter of basic right to privacy.
This is a must download application especially if you keep sensitive files on your computer which you must remove.
Security researcher Charlie Miller, who last year won $10,000 for hacking into a MacBook Air via Safari in just two minutes, says he thinks Safari will be the first browser to fall at this year’s Pwn2Own contest. “It might be because I’m biased about the things I’m good at, but it’s the easiest browser [to hack],” Miller told Computerworld this week.
The Pwn2Own contest this year will pit hackers against a MacBook running Mac OS X with Safari and Firefox installed, as well as a Sony Vaio P running Windows 7 and IE8, Firefox, and Chrome installed. The browsers are intended to be the target vector to launch exploit code that will “pwn” the machines and earn $5,000 for each browser that is exploited.
“Apple’s products are really friendly to users, and Safari is designed to handle anything, including all kinds of file formats,” said Miller. “With a lot of functionality comes the increased chance of bugs. The more complex software is, the less secure it is.”
Nokia have prepared yet another handset for their N series and theyve aptly named it the N97. It features an amazing touchscreen with full QWERTY keyboard capabilities so that you can send SMS on the fly and enjoy web browsing like your favorite social networks or emal.
Theres not much point talking about the phone seeing as there are good videos showing how it runs.
Below is such a video, enjoy:
The N97′s large 1500mAh battery is rated for up to 16 days of 3G standby time or over 5 hours of 3G talk time. GSM times are slightly longer. Nokia also claims that the N97 will be capable of up to 1.5 days worth of continuous music playback from a single charge when the phone is in offline (airplane) mode. The large battery does add to the overall size and weight of the N97, though. At roughly 147g (5.2oz), it’s not exactly light.
It is still pocketable, though, measuring 15.9mm in thickness. Furthermore, I love the touchscreen capability along with the scroll on touch menu. A serious contender to the iPhone 3g people??
CorePlayer™ Mobile and Pro are at the center of the CoreCodec™ Universe for manipulating multimedia content on your desktop, mobile phone, portable media player, PDA, GPS, or convergence device. CorePlayer is designed to be a next-generation multimedia platform that will extend upon what you thought were limits in playing back fluid multimedia, with its simple yet extremely powerful interface and features that is designed to empower the CoreCodec Community.
Core Player Mobile supports almost all the available formats of video like the MPEG-1, Theora, MKV, MPEG-4 part 2 (ASP), XviD, DivX, WMV, Dirac, MSVIDEO1, H.264 (AVC), MJPEG etc. Furthermore to these many media types, you can also play FLV files, thats youtube videos people!
I have tried and blogged about the DIVX player before but compared to Core (codec) Player, it is nothing. This new software runs movies and audio so smoothly that its almost like watching it on your television. Below I have put a video of Core (codec) Player being used with the Nokia N95 8GB Edition:
When you design a website the thing you will probably notice is that it your website probably kicks ass when you load it up in firefox but sucks like damn when you load it up in Internet Explorer. People typically have problems in experimenting with a website across multiple browsers as you simply can not satisfy them all but you sure as heck can have a try.
IE NetRenderer is an awesome online tool where you can test your website specifically in Internet Explorer from version 5.5 til the latest 8.0 (currently beta).
We used to have problems having our design show up perfect in Internet Explorer but after finally switching over to our new theme and tweaking it a little bit we have finally created it to be perfect for many web browsers. You must realise that Internet Explorer – even though we hate it – has the most users online and so it is a MUST to get your site to display correctly as ever visitor could be a potential customer!
Make PS3 Backups through XMB by yourself. Making playstation 3 backups has never been easy. But recent advances has showed the PS3 scene to pick up. I personally have not tried this myself but according to a few sources it does work. At this rate we might see a serious competitor to the iXtreme firmware on the Xbox 360 with the beginning being the PS3 Backups.
To make PS3 backups you must download the PS3 Backup Tool 1.1 which can be found here.
The Playstation 3 tool automatically copies your system backup, while also copying and renaming the .pkg file which is required and goes on to copy the files in the correct order to get the Corrupt icon on your ps3. This is a super simplified process.
Instruction on Use:
1. Run the Program…
2. Under step 1, Select the origional ps3 system backup.
3. Under step 2, Select the .pkg file to ‘Install’ on your ps3
4. Under step 3, Select the ps3′s EXPORT folder, (on ur usb drive or external media)
5. Under step 3, Type the name of the backup, Make sure this is UNIQUE or it may crash..
6. Press Automate!
7. WAIT Untill message box say COMPLETE!
8. Done…
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