December 4th, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
If you’re someone who has never built their own computer, but has the technical knowledge to give it a shot, you will eventually have to find a good CPU for your machine. Even if you are someone who already has a built a computer, you might still be looking for a way to find the [...]
November 7th, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
Windows is full of strange error messages that I’ve written many posts on previously, so in this post I will cover another odd one. I recently ran into this message: There was a problem sending a command to the program I ran into this error while trying to open web links from my email program. [...]
November 4th, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
Have you experienced a situation where you have to add a computer to your wireless network and you can’t find the network security key? Windows 7, like previous versions of Windows, remembers (with your permission) the network security key when you first connect to a secured wireless (Wi-Fi) network protected by WEP, WPA, or WPA2. [...]
October 15th, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
One of the things users of MS OneNote find is that it can be a little bit of a problem for them if they use more than one computer to keep track of their stuff. Porting notebooks can get old, so, the natural way to go is to find a way to store them on [...]
October 7th, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
There are a lot of portable applications available out there (for example, on websites such as http://portableapps.com/ and http://www.pendriveapps.com/) that you can install to a USB flash drive or external hard drive and run on any computer. However, you may have some favorite programs that you use in your daily work that do not come [...]
September 29th, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
If you go to FanFiction.net and do a quick search, you’ll find that there are currently 6,415 stories written about Harry Potter that exceed 100,000 words in length. These aren’t official books by J.K. Rowling, of course, but fan fiction, where everyday folks write stories in character universes by established authors. Harry Potter is easily [...]
September 23rd, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
There are many ways to encrypt your private files and information. Two ways we have discussed before are to use TrueCrypt (Windows and Linux) or BitLocker (Windows). If you want a less complicated method for encrypting your files, we have written about an open source tool allowing you to easily encrypt and decrypt files using [...]
September 6th, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
As a computer is used regularly, its hard drive will begin to age, even if the wear and tear isn’t obviously. You probably won’t start hearing strange noises, or notice anything out of the ordinary, but time will eventually cause your hard drive to fail. Tools such as SMART (which stands for Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and [...]
August 24th, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
If you transport files among various computers, having a secure way to store the files on a USB flash drive or external hard drive is a smart way to go. We have previously written about how to use TrueCrypt to create an encrypted file store in Ubuntu. An encrypted file store provides you with a [...]
August 18th, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
Welcome to the second part of this two-part series about installing a portable version of TrueCrypt to a USB flash drive or external hard drive to create and access encrypted TrueCrypt volumes for storing and accessing your important files. In Part I, we covered installing TrueCrypt, which you must do before creating a portable version [...]