The Perfect Keylogger claims to log absolutely everything that happens on a computer, without the user knowing.
So if you want to monitor activity on a computer, does it do everything it claims?
And would the computer user know they were being monitored?
In an ideal world, you’d never need a program like Panic Button Pro.
Of course, the world isn’t ideal and there are times when you need to stop things happening on your computer instantly.
Sure, Windows has an option to “show desktop” and minimize all your programs and browsers to the system tray.
When you first start the program, you’re offered a configuration screen:
But that’s all it does. Panic Button Pro goes a lot further than this and could be worth its weight in gold…
If you’ve ever accidentally pressed the “delete” key on your digital camera, you’ll know the heart-sinking feeling that your photo has been lost forever.
It’s almost as if modern cameras were designed to help you lose your favorite photos.
Fortunately, there is an answer to this problem: Photo Saver. (more…)
When you press “delete” on your digital camera, the photo isn’t actually erased.
Deleting photos on your camera works much the same way as deleting files on your hard drive – for speed, the space is marked as available for re-use. But apart from a small indicator that shows the photo up on the available list, it’s really still there.
Which isn’t normally a problem…
The Windows Registry is the dark heart of Windows. A bit like the boiler room in horror movies. And at least as scary.
It holds all sorts of information – program settings (Microsoft’s programs and other ones as well), hardware settings (think hard drives, CD/DVD writers, graphics cards), most all of your user settings (it remembers where that window should open and what size it should be for instance).
And it’s not unheard of for the registry to get confused…
Computers are great time savers (at least sometimes) but there are times when they take short cuts to keep themselves running quickly and efficiently.
One of these shortcuts comes when you delete a file.
You likely already know that deleted files get sent to your recycle bin and can be undeleted from there with just a mouse click.
But what happens after they leave your recycle bin is a bit scarier if you’ve got confidential information that you’d rather keep secret.
If you’ve ever had the misfortune to save afile in Microsoft Word, Excel or Access and protected it with a password “just to be safe” and then forgotten the password, you’re not alone.
Meeting up with password protected Microsoft Office files happens all the time. Usually at the most inconvenient moment.
Fortunately, Password Studio is a simple to use piece of software purpose built for this kind of problem. (more…)
File Saver is an easy to use file undelete utility.
If you’ve ever accidentally deleted a file and discovered to your horror that it isn’t in your recycle bin, this could be the answer to your problem.
If you find yourself in this situation, you need to run a file recovery program as soon as possible.
You probably know that your internet browser keeps track of what you’re doing on your computer.
Most of the time, this internet history can be useful. Things like storing your favourite sites, what you were looking at the other day that you forgot to bookmark, that kind of thing.
But there are times when maybe you’d prefer to delete your internet history.
USB flash drives are portable. Which makes them easy to keep with you but unfortunately also makes them east to mislay.
The solution to protecting your USB drive depends on what you need to do and how much of the drives contents you need to protect.
If you only want to protect a handful of files on your USB flash drive then it’s probably simplest to save them with a password. Programs like Word and Excel make it fairly easy to do this. Before saving your file, go to the Tools menu. Choose Options and then click on the Security tab. You’ll be given the option to enter a password to open the file. Although the box only asks you to enter the password once, you’ll be asked to type it in again before you can exit from the Options dialog box. But once you’ve done that, you’re on your own. So make sure you can remember the password otherwise you’ll have to resort to a program to recover passwords before you can open it again!
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