The UnSub

I bought a real tiny (small enough to be with my coins) Sony thumb drive recently because I thought I’d lost my 1Gb thumbdrive. Somehow, I found the old one again. Anyway it came across my mind that if I were to keep sensitive document in it, it would be bummer if I really misplaced tiny devices.

Some thumbdrive comes with some default crypto software, not sure if they are really secure. So I decided to Google it and found this…. In simple English, the software allows you to create a virtual encrypted drive. Any files dumped into that drive is totally secured unless your password is “password”!

Recently, I took a look at my uncle’s new Acer laptop, installed with pretty Vista Home edition which looked really cool, I was tempted… but I was too reluctantly to try new OS.

A little search and I found Vista transformation pack 6

And voila~~

If you are in the mood of writing top secret emails to friends… consider http://hushmail.com. It uses OpenPGP. Btw, my account is jym@hushmail…. in case you feel like writing secret emails to me (I didn’t complete the domain in case spam spider bots are out to harvest emails).

Experience taught me that my hardware will tend to fail me when I need them them most. Eg, when I was about to quit my previous company, my workstation harddisk decided to give way! Good thing i had the habit of manually copying files into my network folders. Still it was a painful experience to reinstate winXP back into another disk.

One way to save the pain is to backup entire disk with freeware like DriveImage XML but it is quite time consuming. As I often develop and test programs, I’d want to synchronize some folders into the network drive.

Recently, i found easySync @ http://www.mybytes.de/. It is a nifty little free tool that helps me synchronize folders. It does so by helping u configure shortcuts that runs the program that does the work.

Compared to the other tools I have used before which sits at the background taking up CPU resources. This approach is better since I can start it when I am sure so as to prevent unintended syncs.

So far, I am pleased with easySync. I always check “Don’t delete anything” checkbox found at the shortcut creation wizard to play it safe!

*disclaimer: Don’t sue me when your files/folders get screwed ok?!*