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ZDNet has a couple of postings about how to delete a hard drive (see “How to REALLY erase a hard drive” and “How to REALLY erase a hard drive – Update“). There is lots of talk about how best to delete the data on a hard drive so it is unrecoverable. You may want to …
If you are a fan of fonts, then you should check out MyFonts: MyFonts is your complete online source for finding, trying, and buying fonts. Purchased fonts are available for immediate download. With 58,938 fonts on one easy-to-use web site and the best search tools in the business, MyFonts is sure to help you find …
I have mentioned in a past post but Graham pointed out that I haven’t really explained what Magic Hour is. (Click through to view full size) Magic hour is the first hour of sunlight after sunrise and the last hour of sunlight before sunset. During this time the quality of light is softer, more diffuse, …
If you’ve seen Vista in action, you know that it does have some pretty cool looking icons. For the hard drives, it also has a nice bar graph showing how much space is used/available. TechRepublic has a tip on their Microsoft Windows Blog about how to get these icons in Windows XP: Vista Drive Icon …
Quite a while ago Download Squad has some information about how to get Norton Ghost for free. In that same posting, they also mentioned DriveImage XML, a free drive backup utility. DriveImage XML is an easy to use and reliable program for imaging and backing up partitions and logical drives. The program allows you to: …
There are all sorts of resources on the Internet to help you determine what program should open a particular file. Usually you do a search for the file extension, and you’ll find something telling you the program that made it or will open it. For instance, you can search for DOC and you find out …
The Toolbox section of the February issue of TechNet Magazine highlights a product called Unlocker. I mentioned this over 2 years ago, but the software is still around and is being updated. We’ve all had it happen to us before—some automated process hangs midway through its operation and a file gets stuck with a writelock, …
A week or two ago I received information from Paragon Software about their latest version of Partition Manager, which I have reviewed in the past: I’d like to let you know about new Paragon Partition Manager 9.0. The product was designed to be the safest and most reliable partitioning software available. This new version includes …
Download Squad covered this a while ago… Serving as a webmaster’s Swiss Army knife, Test Everything! allows you to run a bunch of different tests on your website and domain name, ranging from Alexa traffic details to CSS validation. To use, simply type in your website’s URL, select a category, and check the boxes next …
Several of my blog feeds this week featured a story of how a couple in New York did some very impressive work and was able to track down the owner of a found camera based upon images contained within the camera. Losing your camera is of course one of every photographer’s nightmares and we cannot …