Website of the Week #3

There's no actual website for this week, but I will offer a free tool and some news...

Free tool of the week: Glary Utilities

Nice lightweight utility to help with tasks such as: Registry cleaning and defragging, permanent file deletion, file undelete, duplicate file finder etc. (many modules to choose from)

Glary Utilities

More Microsoft news:

Take a walk down memory lane as Microsoft Word turns 25 years old this week. (make sure to check out the screenshots)

Word turns 25

Website of the Week #2

Website of the week:

TrueCrypt

Description:

TrueCrypt is free open source disk encryption software with nearly unbreakable encryption. (Let me expand upon the term "nearly"...Basically, it would take you 90 years running a 2 GHz computer to decrypt the cipher...assuming you are only using a 9 character password. TrueCrypt recommends using at least a 20 character passcode. Bottom line - the longer and more unique the password, the more difficult it will be to break the cipher. One general rule of thumb surrounding password security is to never use a stand alone word or number sequence. Both of these have a high chance to be broken by using either a 'Dictionary' or 'Brute force attack'.

TrueCrypt is also recommended by one of the worlds top security guru's - Steve Gibson
www.grc.com

I also use it as a virtual vault store my personal/sensitive information.

Article of the week:

Do you know who you're texting...?

http://www.technewsworld.com/edpick/64799.html

News of the week: (maybe not newsworthy, but news none-the-less)

Yesterday Microsoft officially came to a decision to name their new Operating System "Windows 7". Don't we all feel much better that this decision is now final...I know I do.

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2228310/nash-explains-why-windows