The following posts were made in the old Thingamablog version of this blog, the read more links will take you directly to them.
Posted on Friday, July 07, 2006 at 8:47 PM by Randall
While I prefer Firefox and Opera to Internet Explorer, there are a few sites that just don't work with any other browser. Sandboxie lets... [Read More]
Posted on Thursday, June 15, 2006 at 5:01 PM by Randall
It seems like everyone wants to be able to read your email these days: the company you work for, the government, etc. If you value...
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Posted on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 at 9:22 PM by Randall
I remember getting excited about encrypting things was PGP first came out for DOS. Unfortunately, most early (and current, for that matter) programs aren't really...
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Posted on Wednesday, April 12, 2006 at 9:51 PM by Randall
It seems like every web site (and even some programs) want you to have a unique user name and password. Worse, you are expected to...
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Posted on Thursday, March 02, 2006 at 10:13 PM by Randall
There are a number of commercial programs that will create an "encypted disk" in a file on your hard drive that you can use like...
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Posted on Wednesday, February 08, 2006 at 10:20 PM by Randall
Sometimes you really need to get rid of a file completely (so it can't be "undeleted") or you need to completely wipe your data off...
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