The White “Ty” Affair

Most people reading this probably already know that if you delete files, or move to another location/encrypted container/etc. Remember that the original isn’t really deleted, only the filesystem’s record of the file being there is deleted in order to allow future use of the space. (Which is why unerase programs work.)
It’s also the […]

Being the parent of a 3-year-old and a 9-month-old, I’m always interested in products that increase their safety.
Imagine my delight when I found bulletproofbaby.net.
With a line of products with every day practicality, such as a full set of Urban Camoflauge, including everything baby might need. Jacket, Boots, Dungarees, and Camo bib. […]

During an episode of net@night they talked about commoncraft.com It’s an interesting idea, they take concepts that might be difficult to explain to people and “explain it in plain english”.
(Take the example below, it answers the question I had, “what in the world do I do with somethig like Twitter”, which seems like such an […]

Since I got my ipod touch, I’ve been listening to and watching all kinds of podcasts, both the video and audio varieties. Pretty much all of these are available in multiple formats, and can be played on any computer, ipod, portable media player, etc. They are easily listened to or watched just directly […]

The post about the TrueCrypt update yesterday got me thinking about writing a quick article about it, why I use it, why I like it so much, and why I think people are crazy to not use it if they have anything on their computer that they wouldn’t want a thief to have access to […]

I just noticed that TrueCrypt 5.1 was released on the 10′th and is available for download now.
Looks like they fixed an annoying issue that has been happening to me with a strange ghost drive letter. And they say a fully encrypted drive will now boot faster. I’m off to go download it now.

Ok, the defrag tools in XP and Vista are slow.
A better choice that I found is Auslogics Disk Defrag.
And I’ve been told that I don’t talk about exciting things here… pfft.

I’ve been using gmail (google mail) for a few months now, and must say that it is one of the best email implementations that I’ve ever seen. I wrote a short article about what I do with it and how I use it in the articles section if you’re interested.