Archive for the 'Privacy & Security' Category
The safe mode sometimes is not safe enough when trying to eliminate viruses, recovering files, delete system components, and a lot more.
Microsoft created a PE (Preinstalled Environment) for this special situations. It’s basically a minimal win32 with a few services which is burned in a bootable CD or DVD.
But there’s some limitations in this Windows [...]
May 9th, 2009 | Posted in CD/DVD, Office tools, Operative System, Privacy & Security, Productivity, System Cleaning, Uncategorized, Utilities | No Comments
This is a good one. Today I checked my website statistics for the last year (May 9 2008 -May 9 2009) and among other things this came up:
1
Firefox
44.88%
2
IE
39.49%
3
Chrome
6.01%
4
Opera
5.41%
5
Safari
2.83%
6
Mozilla
0.86%
7
Konqueror
0.11%
8
Netscape
0.11%
9
Mozilla Compatible Agent
0.10%
10
SeaMonkey
0.10%
Which means that, at least the people who visits this site is more aware of the benefits of using Firefox over Internet Explorer.
Safer and faster are the [...]
May 9th, 2009 | Posted in Internet, Office tools, Privacy & Security | No Comments
I like the idea of being in total control of every important modification the Windows registry have. And for that reason I’ve been using TeaTimer, a program that comes with Spybot S&D that warns you every time the registry is going to be modified letting you choose to allow or deny the modification. I really [...]
December 24th, 2008 | Posted in Antivirus, Office tools, Optimization, Privacy & Security, System Cleaning, Utilities | No Comments
After a disastrous hard disk failure and of course, an almost total loss of information, I started to worry about backups and looking for online options.
One of the best I found is ADrive.com. The basic package is free with 50 gb of disk space. With the free account you also have the option of using the [...]
November 18th, 2008 | Posted in Office tools, Privacy & Security, Productivity, System Cleaning, Useful Sites, Utilities | No Comments
Suppose you want to see who’s using your computer when you are out. And you don’t want to alert the unauthorized user of your “invisible presence”. I was looking for a software to do that but I kept finding demos or shareware versions.
YawCam is freeware and it does exactly that. It’s basically a webserver that streams video [...]
September 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Audio/Video, Communications, Internet, Office tools, Privacy & Security, Utilities, Web design | 1 Comment