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2002-07-29
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Contents
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1) Another Goodie From Jason's Toolbox
2) Cool Freeware For Recovering Lost Image Files
3) Evaluating Firewalls
4) Health/Status Update Re: Derlan
5) XP Privacy Hole?
6) Last Days To Enter July's FREE Drawing
7) Intel System Monitor, And Others
8) They Just Keep Coming And Coming and Coming...
9) An Odd British Use Of GPS
10) Just For Grins
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1) Another Goodie From Jason's Toolbox
Frequent contributor Jason Levine has added another little gem to his
collection of freeware/donationware at
http://www.jasons-toolbox.com
:
Hey Fred: Last week on PC911 there was a thread about
computer
tricks and secrets. (There are some nice ones in the
thread
. If
you're interested, the URL for it is
http://www.pcnineoneone.com/dcforum/computer/43606.html
)
Anyway, one tip by "daterminehtor" [about
adding "Copy To" and
"Move To" to the operating system's context
menus] struck me as
being extremely useful, but it involved modifying the
registry
which the novice users might shy away from doing
. So I made a
Windows Scripting Host script to "install"
the registry
modifications (as well as an uninstaller script in
case you
want to get rid of them)
. The
script adds "Copy To" and "Move
To" to the right-click context menu of all files
and folders.
You can try it out by going
to
http://www.jasons-toolbox.com/ScriptRepository/
---Jason Levine
Thanks, Jason!
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2) Cool Freeware For Recovering Lost Image Files
David Cox was the first of many readers to give a "heads up" about
some
freeware I'd previously never heard of:
Hi Fred, I just read the article "Recover Data
From Erased
Memory Sticks.
" (
http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2002/2002-07-22.htm#8
)
I too had a similar situation
where I needed to
recover some files from a 32mb
. memory
card
. I searched and
finally found one
. It is
freeware (although you can donate).
The site includes
instructions and some possible problems.
http://home.arcor.de/christian_grau/dir/index.html
---Dave
Thanks, Dave
. It looks great: "Digital Image
Recovery is a data recovery
tool for digital images
. The program is designed for
media used by
digital cameras
. Common media types are: Flash Card,
SmartMedia, SONY
Memory Stick,
IBM Micro Drive,
Multimedia Card, Secure Digital Card and
Compact disc."
I have nothing to try the software on right now, but the volume of reader
mail suggests the program does exactly what it claims--- and unlike the
software we previously mentioned, this one's free!
Thanks to all who wrote in!
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3) Evaluating Firewalls
Hi Fred, I'm a happy Plus! subscriber
. Just FYI a helpful page
I came across.
FREE Firewalls for Windows:
http://www.iopus.com/guides/free-firewall.htm
Free to download - Free
to keep:
After the success of
ZoneAlarm dozens of new firewall
software programs are
published every year
. Only some
of them are worth your
time and your money.
Especially
for private and non-profit organization
many excellent products
are available for FREE
. This
web site attempts to
list, test and rate the best
FREE firewall products
for Windows
. This is a FREE
service of iOpus
Security and Internet Software...
---Greg Rice
Thanks, Greg
. With all the competing firewalls out
there, any new source
of independent evaluation is welcome
. (Most of the
major computer
publications also cover the free firewall category now, too.
)
I was glad
to see that the iOpus site generally agrees with the recommendations
we've discussed here (Sygate and ZoneAlarm remaining top dogs)
. But
strangely, iOpus' list of the "top five" firewalls only lists four!
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4) Health/Status Update Re: Derlan
Remember Derlan
? He's a young boy who lives in a
farming community in
Brazil. The per-capita family income is less than US$50.00 per
month.
A year ago, Derlan became one of the children supported every month
through LangaList Plus! subscription contributions
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Derlan has written to us several times before, but this new note comes
from the aid agency that's on the scene, helping there
. It
includes
information on Derlan's health, schooling and other activities, plus a
new photo and drawing
. Click here to see a scan of the
report:
http://www.freetune.com/newsletters/2002/derlan200207.htm
. In short,
Derlan's doing fine now
. <g>
So far, we've been able to offer sustained, ongoing help to six
impoverished kids around the world, aided emergency earthquake relief
efforts in India, and helped those hurt in the Sept 11th terrorist
attacks on the US
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As the year goes on, and as more readers sign up for Plus! subscriptions
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5) XP Privacy Hole?
Hi Fred, This one is from The Register
. It talks about a
possible privacy intrusion when searching the hard
drive on a
WinXP machine.
You may like to take a look:
http://theregister.co.uk/content/archive/24815.html
I really enjoy your newsletters
. Thanks,
Karthik Venkatesh
Thanks, Karthik.
The Register is an odd duck--- it's often great, but also fairly often
awful; the above article is an example of the bad side of that balance
sheet
. In this case, the guys at the Register freaked
out because XP's
Search function connects back to Microsoft
. Egads
! Is it a privacy
breach
? Is evil Microsoft snooping on your searches?
Well, no
. The XP "Search Companion" automatically
will query the search
engine of your choice as part of your basic searches; what the guys at
the Register saw was the search engine setting itself up for a possible
external query
. By default, MSN is the selected search
engine, but nine
others are available
. In addition, by default, the XP
Help engine's
search function also sets itself up to automatically query the Microsoft
Knowledgebase for your system Help search terms
. This
is actually a very
useful thing, often saving an entirely separate search.
None of this is a secret: It's all fully explained in XP's search and
help settings and documentation, which I guess the folks at the Register
didn't bother to read.
I'm first in line to cry "foul" when Microsoft does something sleazy,
but
man, I get really tired of these false alarms when someone grabs an easy
headline by playing off public paranoia about Microsoft
. Sigh.
In any case, the Help and Search functions of XP are two of its really
nice points
. Unlike the anemic Help and Search
available in previous
versions of Windows, XP's are much more powerful and quite well done
. The
integration with external search engines and databases is a plus, not a
minus, IMHO.
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7) Intel System Monitor, And Others
Intel doesn't just make CPUs--- it makes motherboards, too, many of which
show up in mainline systems from major vendors
. If
your system uses an
Intel motherboard, this may be of interest:
Hi Fred, Lately you've shared info about system
monitoring
tools, software coolers
. I
found this at the Intel site and it
may help Intel Motherboard users out there to keep
tabs on
their system
. Keep up the
good work
. Regards, Mark
http://intel.com/design/motherbd/active.htm
The Intel tool displays temperature and fan-related information, and
other data indicating your hardware's status.
But there's lots more software out there that does the same thing, and
not just for Intel motherboards
. Check out:
http://www.informationweek.com/LP/columnists/langa/2001/06.htm
Thanks, Mark.
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8) They Just Keep Coming
And Coming and Coming...
Over two thousand of your fellow readers have "Loaded the code.
" Please
click over to
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, and maybe you can join
them
! (If you've already "Loaded
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will appear here or on the Langa.Com web site, please see
http://www.langa.com/link.txt )
Speaking of which: Here's another eclectic sample of reader sites--- some
professional, some very personal:
View A Randomly-Chosen Reader Site
http://www.langa.com/randomlink.htm
Manually Browse All Posted-to-Date Sites Starting At
http://www.langa.com/readersites.htm
Security Realm
http://securityrealm.netfirms.com/
Online Business Info
http://www.palleterra.com/
Eclectic Personal Site
http://www.steveniverson.com/main.htm
Web Design
http://www.nbsldesign.com/
SORT: A Bates College On-Campus Band
http://abacus.bates.edu/~mpooley/
Frugal Shopper
http://www.thefrugalshopper.com
Help2Shop
http://www.help2shop.net/index2.html
PDC Web
http://www.pdcweb.net/index.html
FMS Computer Training
http://www.barrett.net/
Danjon PC Help & Tips
http://www.danjon.net/index.php
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9) An Odd British Use Of GPS
I've mentioned GPS--- global positioning systems--- several times of
late, which prompted reader Gred Landerkin to send in this note about a
decidedly eccentric British application of the technology:
Fred, A month or two ago you had a few articles
related to GPS
and it's uses. Here is a link to an article (
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52989,00.html
) about
something called GPS drawing
. Basically,
these two guys drive
their car around the streets of different English
cities and
translate the GPS data into pictures (see
http://www.gpsdrawing.com/Gallery/belephant.htm
for an elephant
in
Brighton)
.
I doubt the designers of the GPS system could
have predicted something like this... cheers, Greg
Landerkin
Thanks, Greg!
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10) Just
For Grins
Reader Bret Hegmann sends along this "Investment strategy for today's
market:"
If you had bought $1000.00 worth of Nortel stock one
year ago,
it would now be worth $49.00.
With Enron, you would have $16.50 of the original
$1,000.00.
With Worldcom, you would have
less than $5.00 left.
If you had bought $1,000.00 worth of Budweiser (the
beer, not
the stock) one year ago, drank all the beer, then
turned in the
cans for the 10 cent deposit, you would have $214.00.
Based on the above, my current investment advice is to
drink
heavily and recycle.
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