Your hard drive is the life blood of your computer. When it goes bad, the whole thing goes down. Keeping it healthy can be an involved and painful process without the right tools. HD Tune is the right tool for that job.
HD Tune works with all kinds of drives, internal or external, spinning media or SSD, USB sticks, etc. With it, you get a complete picture of how your PC’s hard drive is performing, and can even check its S.M.A.R.T. status as well as perform various maintenance activities on it.
Gather information and tune your hard drive to function at peak performance with HD Tune
Protect your on and off line privacy with this handy utility
Your computer remembers everything you do both on and off line. Everything you do reads and writes some kind of data to and from the hard drive. Depending on your current level of comfort, you may not want all of this information just sitting on your hard drive waiting for someone with the right tools and talent to browse through it. That’s where Mil Shield comes into play. It’s the ultimate Windows privacy tool.
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Work out design kinks with this must have PowerPoint add-in
Designers and developers know. Pulling together complete, designs, prototypes, and screens can be difficult. When you can’t give someone a place to start, having a developer fulfill your design the way you’ve imagined it is nearly impossible. That’s why Wulfsoft has come up with PowerMockup. It’s an application wireframing for Microsoft PowerPoint.
Keep your PC running in tip-top shape with this must have Windows utility
It used to be that viruses were simple. You surfed somewhere questionable or got an e-mail from someone you didn’t know, opened it up, and…POOF! You got infected with something. Now-a-days, it’s a lot more complicated than that.
In today’s computing world, not only do you have viruses, worms and bots to be wary of, you’ve got spyware that constantly reports what you do, where you do it, how long you do it, and whom you do it with, too. Not only is it an invasion of your privacy, but the tracking cookies and Trojans often collect sensitive, private information, like financial data, that is no one’s business but your own. These illegal programs also bog down your computer’s performance, in some cases, making it nearly unusable.
Spybot Search & Destroy detects and removes these unwanted files and modules from your computer. It cleans program and Web-usage tracks from your system, which is especially useful on shared computers.
Speed up your optical disk drive access with today’s cool utility
Optical drives take a great deal of space in a portable computer. In many cases, they not only take up a lot of space, but compared to other spinning media, the access can be slow. Thankfully, there’s Daemon Tools Lite to help remedy this issue.
With storage media as cheap as it is having a utility to emulate a CD/DVD ROM drive can make a lot of sense. With Daemon Tools, you do two very important tasks – emulate a CD/DVD ROM drive and create a disk image.
TrueCrypt the open-source encryptor
TrueCrypt is a free encryption utility designed to keep your data safe from curios eyes and prevent data theft of destruction. With TrueCrypt you can create three types of encrypted volumes: file-hosted (very useful for DropBox users) ,partition/device-hosted or you can encrypt an entire partition or system drive.
While using the services of any backup provider, you need to secure your data before uploading it on their servers. With TrueCrypt you can encrypt and decrypt your files on your computer, so they’re already encrypted prior to being uploaded. That means the backup company can’t access those files, whatever happens. In order to secure your data, you can choose between several strong AES (Advanced encryption Standard) algorithms such as: Rijndael, Serpent or Twofish with up to 256-bit keys and 128-bit blocks.
TrueCrypt is a little bit hard to set up, because of its open-source character, but its functionality will convince you to carry on using it. The biggest advantage, compared to other similar paid-for products, is that with Truecrypt you can encrypt folders much larger than 2GB. Another advantage is the fact that TrueCrypt comes in three editions, one for Windows users, one for Mac users and one for Linux users, so you are not limited to a single operating system. The program can also be used on removable devices, such as a USB Flash drive. No installation is required on such a device. It is enough to unzip the content of the downloaded archive and copy the directory named ‘Setup files’ onto the removable drive.
Protect your identity and your computer with Norton Antivirus 2011
Back in the day, the name Peter Norton brought a lot of credibility to the computing utility world. Today, anytime you use the name Norton, the first thing people think of is either Norton Antivirus or Norton Internet Security. Thankfully, in many cases, they are one in the same. Norton Antivirus is the foundation of NIS, and one of the best antivirus applications you can purchase today.
Manage files on remote servers with this handy FTP tool
FTP Servers are really cool. If you want software, these caches of download gems can be found all over the internet. The only problem is, in order to find the, in order to benefit from the download love, you need the right tool. UploadFTP is the right tool for the right job.
