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Mz Ram Booster, is a memory optimization tool. It works on Windows 2000, XP,2003 & Vista. Also, it comes along with some useful tweaks.

Mz Ram Booster features:

• System Information
• System Tweaks
• CPU Control
• Tray Icon Options
• Mz Ram Booster Options

AMD Phenom II x3 triple core can be changed to x4 quad core processor. What we need is to have a motherboard bios that has an  Advanced Clock Calibration option, where we set to auto, it will able to open the hidden core.

Some said that the 4th core is hidden due to stability issue, some said that is a marketing strategy, because there are vary of pricing between triple cores and quad cores. Anyway, if your triple cores can be hacked to quad cores without any problem, then can consider that u get a bonus. haha

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Disk Wipe is a Free, portable Windows application for permanent volume data destruction. With Disk Wipe you can erase all disk data and prevent recovery of those data. Formatting a hard drive with regular method leaves an open possibility to recover the data back. Many companies and users who just dumped their old hard drives in rubbish had found this the hard way. Disk Wipe solves this problem efficiently, using a powerful algorithms which fill the volume with useless rubbish binary data multiple times. The possibility of recovering information from drive formatted with Disk Wipe is almost non existent.

Features:

• Permanently wipes sensitive data on partitions and disk volumes.
• Portable, no installation needed!
• Uses several advanced shredding algorithms (Dod 5220-22.M, US Army, Peter Guttman) to securely wipe data.
• Supports all popular Windows file systems, NTFS, Fat, Fat32.
• It uses quick format prior to disk wiping for faster performance.
• Works with USB sticks, SD cards and other portable memory devices.
• Small, light, easy to install/uninstall, does not contain adware.
• Respect the privacy of your information, does not try to connect to remote server and does not send any information over internet.

My Lockbox™ is a security software enabling you to password protect any folder on your computer.

The protected folder (lockbox) is hidden from any user and application of your system, including Administrator and System itself. It is impossible to access the lockbox not only from the local computer, but also from the net.

The program is extremely easy to use. You can set the lockbox location and the password during the setup procedure. After the setup is done, lockbox will be hidden and locked until you enter the valid password.

My Lockbox Control Panel allows you easily change basic lockbox parameters: lockbox location, protection status, password.

In addition, skinned user interface lets you choose from different skins to select the most comfortable look and feel of the software.

Features:

• Very easy in use
• Almost any folder on your computer can be password protected
• Instant protection – no file scrambling or moving to another place
• Lockbox folder is inaccessible even by the system administrators
• Lockbox folder is inaccessible both locally and remotely.
• Lockbox folder can be protected in Windows safe mode
• Windows XP x64 support
• Hotkeys support – you can popup Control Panel with a simple keystroke.
• Skinned user interface
• Freeware

An ordinary deleting of files isn’t enough! When you wish to delete any sensitive information, like industrial secrets or some unwanted content, you want to be sure that it will be deleted permanently. Sorry to say, there is a plenty of software recovery tools that can restore your deleted items. If you need to destroy any data and eliminate any possibility of its restoration you need a “shredder”. This software destroys the data you choose before the deletion, using a complicated procedure of filling the actual content with random data.

Freeraser can function on three levels:

1. a fast destruction (standard 1-round filling of random data)
2. a forced destruction (3 rounds of filling according to DoD 5220.22M standard)
3. an ultimate destruction (35 rounds of filling with data according to Guttman algorithm).

It is obvious that the more powerful destruction is performed, the more rounds it takes and the more time it needs. Users can define the method that they wish to destroy their data with.

Download PC World Magazine for March 2009 here.

1) Open Terminal

2a) Install apt-build

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apt-build

2b) Configure apt-build:

* Optimization level: Medium
* Add apt-build repository to sources.list: Yes
* Architecture: SELECT YOUR ARCHITECTURE

3) Install files required to build gnome-panel from source and download the source

sudo apt-get build-dep gnome-panel
sudo apt-build source gnome-panel

4) Navigate to the downloaded gnome-panel source folder and open the menu items file

cd /var/cache/apt-build/build/gnome-panel-*
sudo gedit gnome-panel/panel-menu-items.c

5) Set the the maximum number of bookmarks to display before placing them in the Bookmarks submenu

Find the line:
PHP Code:
if (g_slist_length (add_bookmarks) <= MAX_ITEMS_OR_SUBMENU) {
and replace it with:
PHP Code:
if (g_slist_length (add_bookmarks) <= 20) {
Save the file.

6) Install the modified gnome-panel and restart it

sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install
killall gnome-panel

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This is a tutorial showing folks how to tether AT&T’s Fuze phone (AT&T version of HTC’s Touch Pro) to Ubuntu Linux via USB. It is a little different from tethering a regular Windows Mobile phone to Ubuntu.

To tether the Fuze to Ubuntu Linux, 3 things need to be done:

* Crack the phone so that any connection can be shared
* Create a connection on the phone other than AT&T’s MEdia Net
* Mod usb-rndis-lite to allow connection from Fuze

Please note that this tutorial is ONLY for the HTC Fuze on the AT&T (USA) Network.

This tutorial is done under Ubuntu Linux 8.10 aka Intrepid Ibex with software up-to-date (according to the update manager). It is also recommended that you have an unlimited data plan with AT&T. Tethering plan is recommended but not required.

PART I: Allow any connection on phone to be shared

AT&T has modded the registry of the Fuze so that ONLY folks with dedicated tethering plans can tether. If you have a tethering plan with AT&T, please move on to part 2. Otherwise complete this step.

1. Download a registry editor for Windows Mobile. We recommend PHM Registry Editor for Pocket PC. This links directly to the install file, so I would recommend downloading this to the phone.
2. Open File Explorer (Start > Programs > Tools > File Explorer) and navigate to where you saved the install file. Install it by tapping it once.
3. Once it installs, open it. It should be in Start > Programs.
4. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Comm/InternetSharing/Settings.
5. You will notice a key in settings called “ForceCellConnection”. Delete it.
6. That’s it. Any connection can be used for tethering. Verify this by opening Internet Sharing and seeing that there are two combo boxes (one for PC Connection and one for Network Connection)

PART II: Create a connection alternative to MEdia Net

AT&T configures the Fuze’s network slightly differently from its other WinMo phones. but when tethering with it’s MEdia Net connection, I can never seem to log on in Ubuntu. This wasn’t a problem on my Windows box, but that box ain’t my main box. Anyway this step is rather simple.

1. On your phone, go to Start > Settings and tap on the connections tab. Open Wireless Manager and make sure that Data Connection is turned OFF.
2. Close Wireless Manager and go into Connections. You should see “MEdia Net” and “My Work Network”. Under MEdia Net, tap “Manage existing connections”.
3. You should see a radio botton labled “MEdia Net”. Tap and hold it to bring up the menu and select “Delete”
4. Now tap the “New” Button. In the dialog that comes up, enter a name for your connection. This name will be the name you select in Internet Sharing later. From the combo box below it, select “Cellular Line (GPRS, 3G)”. Tap Next.
5. Leave the Access Point Name box blank. Tap Next. Leave those boxes blank as well and tap finish.
6. If you did all right, you should be able to get on the web. Verify this by opening Opera on the Fuze. If web pages load, it worked.

PART III: Mod usb-rndis-lite to allow Fuze connection

This is a mod to Ubuntu now. Not the phone. Apparently HTC phones have some issues tethering to Ubuntu. This is usually due to rndis failing with some packets exceeding error. Here we will modify and recompile the source code for usb-rndis-lite to ignore that error.

1. Open up a terminal and do this:
Code:

sudo apt-get install subversion

This will install subversion, which is needed to get the latest version of usb-rndis-lite.
2. Using that same terminal, do this:

svn co http://synce.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/synce/trunk/usb-rndis-lite

This will download the latest code of usb-rndis-lite.
3. Still in the terminal, move into the folder by doing this:

cd usb-rndis-lite

4. Terminal again, open the source file we are going to edit by doing this:

gedit rndis_host.c

5. Around line 524, find the following code

if (tmp < dev->hard_mtu) {
dev_err(&intf->dev,
“dev can’t take %u byte packets (max %u)\n”,
dev->hard_mtu, tmp);
goto fail;
}

and change it to this:

if (tmp < dev->hard_mtu) {
dev_err(&intf->dev,
“dev can’t take %u byte packets (max %u)\n”,
dev->hard_mtu, tmp);
retval = -EINVAL;
/* goto fail;*/
}

Save and close the file
6. Returning to the terminal, type the commands in this order to compile and install it:

make
sudo ./clean.sh
sudo make install

Now that the steps are completed, verify everything worked by plugging your Fuze into your preferred USB port. Open the Internet Sharing app on the Fuze (somewhere in Start > Programs), select USB for PC Connection and the name of the network you typed earlier for Network Connection, and tap Connect. Ubuntu should see and connect to the phone, and you should be able to browse the web, get email, IM, and so on.

From this point on, all you should need to do is open Internet Sharing, select the right things and hit “Connect” to connect.

ONE THING TO NOTE: updating usb-rndis-lite will break this. To fix it, just repeat part 3 and your good to go.

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FreeOTFE is a free, open source, “on-the-fly” transparent disk encryption program for PCs and PDAs.

Using this software, you can create one or more “virtual disks” on your PC/PDA. These disks operate exactly like a normal disk, with the exception that anything written to one of them is transparently, and securely, encrypted before being stored on your computer’s hard drive.

Features include:

• Source code freely available
• Easy to use; full wizard included for creating new volumes
• Both PC and PDA versions are available; data encrypted on your PC can be read/written on your PDA, and vice versa
• No need to install it; making it ideal for use on USB memory drives, etc
• Available in English, German, Italian and French, with support for other language translations
• Optional support for smartcards and security tokens
• It’s powerful: Supporting numerous hash (including SHA-512, RIPEMD-160, Tiger) and encryption algorithms (including AES, Twofish and Serpent) in several modes (CBC, LRW and XTS) – providing a much greater level of flexibility than a number of other (including commercial!) OTFE systems
• Encrypted volumes may either be file, partition, or even disk based

Download PC World Magazine for March 2009 here.