How to Encrypt Data Using TrueCrypt

TrueCrypt is a free and open source encryption software. With minimal effort, you can quickly configure TrueCrypt to encrypt your data. Why should you configure your data? Well, if there is data residing on your laptop, computer, external drives, internal drives, or USB device which is of a sensitive nature, it’s likely a good idea to have some form of encryption. USB drives are easy to lose, and stolen computer hardware is not an uncommon occurrence. Just think what data resides on your home computer: chances are you have your electronic tax returns with your social security number. [Read more →]

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Get Your Work Done On The Road With Portable Apps

A portable application, or portable app for short, is a software program that does not require any kind of formal installation on a computer’s permanent storage device to be executed. Just store it on any removable storage media such as USB flash drive, flask card, iPod, etc., plug it onto any computer available, [Read more →]

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Speed Up Your USB Drive

Most USB devices used for Windows are configured to prevent data loss due to unsafe removal of the USB drive. In techie talk, this is called “disabling write caching”. By enabling write caching, you can dramatically increase the performance on your USB drive, likewise for external hard drives. [Read more →]

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