With the available 2-in-1/3-in-1 or 4-in-1 offerings of printers today, there are still numerous people out there with a separate standalone printer and scanner either to save cost or not losing both functions when a the multiple-in-1 unit konks-off.
While you can easily scan and then print, there is a free solution called iCopy that would [...]
How to Catalogue your CDs/DVDs
I lots of files in my hard drive and i burn out gigabytes of data every month to keep my already overcapacitied hard disk from blowing. This translates into hundreds of CDs/DVDs. One thing I’ve noticed is that there is only so much space on the disk label to write down [...]
As promised, for those who are on UltraVNC, securing your VNC over Internet is very easy with a DMS plugin available for encryption. There are currently 3 encryption plugins for UltraVNC, namely MSRC4, ARC4 and AESV2. I’ll demonstrate how to use the MSRC4 plugin as this is well documented on the UltraVNC forum and it’s [...]
Continuing CK’s article on VNC where he left off, here’s the VNC-over-Internet remote administration version of the guide. The first part of the tutorial is the setting-up of VNC-over-internet and the second part deals with hardening your VNC in regards to security best-practices. This article is gonna be a long one, so take a deep [...]
The general availability (GA) of Windows Vista is just around the corner, reviews/articles/rumors/screenshots have been posted in a lot of tech-oriented sites, developers are getting themselves ready, and some Microsoft fanboys just can’t wait for this first major OS release since the good-ol Windows XP.
However, Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, doesn’t look particularly impressed [...]
The only way to ensure that deleted files, as well as files that you encrypt with EFS, are safe from recovery is to use a secure delete application. There are numerous softwares to securely delete sensitive files off your hard drive. In this tutorial we will be using SDelete (by previously sysinternal) which can be [...]
Shockw@ve used to accuse me of Opera fanboyism. Admitly though, I’ve always loved Opera Browser, since moving over from IE/Netscape, preferring it to Firefox despite the latter’s popularity. Aptly so, I guess I’d be taking Shockw@ve’s advice on writing a review for it. Long overdue but it will suffice to introduce people who aren’t on [...]
Posted in Copyright, Open Source, Windows on November 28th, 2006 by ck 1 Comment »
Feeling sinful while using non-legal copy of software? Reluctant to pay for expensive license fee? While copyright is meant to be respected, not everyone (especially students) can afford buying expensive software.
But don’t worry, there’s always freeware alternative for you (err…at least for non-commercial use). I’m going to list out several categories here, and in each [...]
You probably would’ve noticed the dotted underlined red lines under misspelt words which are typed into text boxes/forms/fields. To me, it’s a rather welcomed feature since I use web applications and services quite a fair bit (I don’t misspell a lot, but automated checking is a bonus I guess ;)), but by default, the bundled [...]
Many people said Firefox is not as good as Opera and/or Maxthon because it has less functions; they claimed, goodies like mouse gesture and super drag-and-go should be included by default in Firefox, instead of relying third party developers to deliver them through the form of extension.
IMO, Firefox is on the right track. I’d anytime [...]
