If you’ve had problems in the past removing sensitive data from your system, this should be a life saver. Eraser is an advanced security tool, which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns.Eraser is Free software and its source code is released under GNU General Public License. So Why Is Eraser A Tool Worth Having? It’s a highly recommended resource all over the web.

We all have some data that they would rather not share with others – passwords, personal information, classified documents from work, financial records, self-written poems, the list can be continued forever.

If you think when you delete a file, the data is gone, you are kidding yourself. When you delete a file, the operating system does not really remove the file from the disk; it only removes the reference of the file from the file system table. The file remains on the disk until another file is created over it, and even after that, it might be possible to recover data by studying the magnetic fields on the disk platter surface.

Before the file is overwritten, anyone can easily retrieve it with a disk maintenance or an undelete utility.

This is where Eraser comes in, Eraser is designed with a simple user interface, you can safely and easily erase private data from your hard drive.

Go to http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/ to check it out.

Restorator is an innovative tool from Bome software that essentially allows you to add, modify, and delete resources of all Windows applications. These resources might be text, images, videos, menus, dialogs, icons, or sounds.

Restorator has a very handy graphical interface. The menu and the toolbar containing commonly used icons is right at the top. The different menus in Restorator are: File, Resources, Viewer, Edit, Tools, and Help. Below the toolbar, you can view all the resources on the left and the resource information and the associated files list on the right. If you want to find an already existing resource on your system, you can click the find icon on the toolbar. When you click a particular resource, for example, a dialog, its preview appears on the right. You can edit its look and feel by clicking the ab icon on the toolbar. You can change each and every field of the dialog box. You can specify different heights and widths, different alignment options, different texts, different styles, and different colors. If you desire, you can also add or remove fields from the dialog. Click the H icon on the toolbar to view the hexadecimal coding of the resource. If you want to perform advanced tasks, you need to use wizards. You can view and edit an icon by clicking the Res icon. You can also edit the icon in other installed image editing applications. Right-clicking any resource opens up a pop-up menu from which you can choose different options to manage resources.

For adding a resource, select the type of resource, provide a resource name, and then select its language. Restorator gives you the facility to create resources in different languages. Whenever you feel lost, you can click the Help menu for an exact solution. Resorator provides you complete flexibility for designing and customizing resources. It is ideal for both novice and expert users.

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Ditto is a freeware clipboard extension. It runs as a taskbar icon and can be set to run at startup.

The idea is that it allows you to have a long list of all the things you have copied to the clipboard for later reuse, this is usually text but can also be images. An interesting feature is the ability to keep multiple computers clipboards in sync over a network, this data is also encrypted for security when sent over the network. 

The latest version is now portable too, so you can stick this on your flashdrive keyring for instant access from any computer.

This is a really useful extension for anyone who does a lot of copying and pasting. You can get it at the homepage here.

Here is something you will definitely find very useful. MyUninstaller is a good alternative to the standard Add/Remove applet of Windows operating system. It displays the list of all installed application, and allows you to uninstall an application, delete an uninstall entry, and save the list of all installed applications into a text file or HTML file. What makes it different from the standard Add/Remove applet?

It provides additional information for most installed applications that the standard Add/Remove applet doesn’t display: product name, company, version, uninstall string, installation folder and more.

A new updated version was just recently released, MyUninstaller 1.36 and the major change in this version is that a new feature has been added. Added “Change Software Installation” option, for programs that support installation change

Want to check it out? It’s free, go to http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/myuninst.html

Often website developers need to protect certain sections or web pages from unauthorized access. Manually coding such features for each page takes an inordinate amount of time which can be saved by the Page Protection software 1.0.  The software presents the feature of protecting any specific web page with a password. It’s easy to use the software for setting the code. The developer can protect the page in manner so that the access granted is under permitted conditions.

You would find the software downloaded in few moments and the installation is finished with a few clicks. The screen is not much burdened with unneccessary options giving it a simple look. The ‘Input’ option is for setting up of the code. You can select cookies, sessions and GET for the password memory. For generating the password you can select the letter case, numbers and exclude option. You can set the number for the length of the password. After doing all this you need to generate a password that would give the access to the web page. The user’s password validity can be set to as many days as you want. The style sheet for the password page can be applied. It can be left empty for the default style sheet. You can build the code when the variables have been set. The user is sent a password request by the server for displaying the page. The web page could only be accessed if the password submitted is correct. You can share the information making it secured by the password protector. Even the user would not be able to access the page after the time validity set for the password is over. You can store the password through the cookies in your computer.

This software is useful sharing confidential information with the selected people. It’s excellent to use and quick and easy to operate by any one. Overall the little piece of software is a great utility for professional web developers.

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Often you may want to archive the pages of your favorite news portal over a period of time. The A1 Website Download satisfies such requirement by providing the advantage of downloading a website with many pages. The sites downloaded by the software can be stored easily in a CD or USB drive. It does the work quickly and the downloaded websites can viewed without internet connection. Even nearly all the links work seamlessly after downloading.

The download and installation hardly takes any time. The first screen has so many of options that it may appear to be a bit chaotic. But work on it will let you know that all these are quite useful enough. You can scan the website, analyze and also view it. The ‘Auto detect’ and other options helps with default content type. The crawler options will let you to deal with connection settings. You can decide the path for downloading the website. The pages can be scanned with file extensions. Links to be allowed and ignored can be mentioned that match the certain paths. The scanning status is shown above. The downloaded websites can be easily saved and viewed. The desired changes can be made through the various options in the program. The downloaded websites can be viewed fully by the ‘View website’ option. Downloading the large websites is easy and also selected things in a website can be downloaded. All the links in the downloaded website can be used for connecting to the original site.  Archives can be made in periodic sequence or in one full go. Various other options are present in the software to meet your informational archiving and access needs.

The website downloader can help you catalogue all relevant information for your future use. So if you are information junkie; this software is possibly one of the best things you can lay your hands upon.

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There are a number of different programs around that allow you to monitor your usage when it comes to windows programs but at the same time there are programs that are overstuffed with unnecessary stuff.   It is just not really logical to think that you would need a program overstuffed with different services in order to do the usage monitoring tasks that you want.   Monitoring your usage is one thing, but some of these programs come with so many different addons that even if you really knew what you wanted to do via the usage issue, you might not even really know where you should begin.

Usage Monitor  however makes sure that this is not really a problem.  It is a very simple software package that basically has a window where you can look at all of the different processes currently being run on your computer.  Through the use of the usage monitor, you can make sure that you have the ability to use it to set watch limits on the different processes on your computer.   This serves ultimately to allow the usage monitor to let you know when the processes are using too much of the system’s resources, thereby allowing you to quickly respond before the situation gets out of hand.

More information can be found at http://www.veign.com/download_app.asp?app=110

Whenever you take a look at your own process monitor such as the one you can access from your desktop by pressing ‘Ctrl’ + ‘Alt’ + ‘Delete’, have you ever had the feeling of frustration of not really understanding exactly what was going on? Was the process list an endless list of things that you had no clue about? I’ve certainly had that feeling and for those of us that aren’t terribly computer savvy, the Process Monitor 1.12 is definitely the piece of software that you absolutely want to have.

It’s an advanced monitoring tool for any Windows system and it basically shows the real time file system activities. These include things like the actual tasks and processes as well as information about the registry delivered to you in real time. You can use any number of special features to figure out exactly what each task is doing and perhaps that more than anything else is what the appeal of this piece of software is. The idea that you can finally figure out exactly what’s been going on in your computer this whole time and then cut back on the programs that you don’t need so that the resources of your computer are free to deal with other things is a very powerful idea indeed.

More information can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/processmonitor.mspx

There are always times in life when we need to have some of our important information stored. Whether you are talking about the school notes that you want to use for the test, the work notes that are top secret or the phone number of that girl you just got at the bar last night (wink), you need a place to store information that you want not only to be kept safe, but also to be kept secret. InfoCryptor refers to itself as being a multi-user secure information storage application and upon taking a closer look at what it actually has the ability to do, this turns out to be exactly the case at hand.

Whether you are looking to store text documents, notes, passwords, e-mails, security codes, diagnostics or anything else, you will find a way to store it with ease with InfoCryptor. The interface is very easy to use so that you don’t have to spend hours accessing the information that you want to keep safe. More impressive than anything else perhaps is how amazing the software itself actually is. InfoCryptor can be your friend and your assistant all bundled up in one and this ultimately is why it has become so popular amongst so many different people.

More info can be found at http://www.cynapse.co.in/infocryptor/index.php

In the latest updated version recently released, Cynapse InfoCryptor 1.50.1203, the Major change is the fixed component update URL.

KoolIM is a site that allows you instant access to your instant messengers. There’s no extra software to download or anything, you just go to the KoolIM website. It’s perfect for when you’re at an internet cafe computer that doesn’t have your usual IM client installed, or maybe you’re just a neat freak and you don’t really wanna bother installing several IM clients to clutter up your pc.

You can easily sign on to AIM, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, and ICQ using your existing screen names and passwords. So if you use different computers a lot and just want to use the regular basic features of instant messaging, its worth checking out.

Go here and see for yourself. It even works from behind firewalls or proxy servers!