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Adeona from University of Washington provides an open source, free and completely non-proprietary way to track your stolen laptop. No 3rd party servers are required, only a small client needs to be installed on the laptop !!  The software is available for Windows XP, Mac OS X, and Linux!  Only the Mac OS X version [...]

This entry is about VirtualBox! This is open source virtual systems on a single computer!  If you have no idea what I am talking about then you don’t need this software!  Instead I suggest SandBoxie, which is not Open Source, and costs $30 for a lifetime personal license.  For the rest of my audience that [...]

This open source application call Mediacoder can be used in batch mode to convert, music files of one format to another format. I have used this software to convert APE files to FLAC so I don’t have to use wxMusik, or Media Player Classic just for the APE files, while I prefer to [...]

Can you say steganography ? This has nothing to do with the possibly more well know stegosaurus, you remember the dinosaur with all the plates on it’s back that acted like heat radiators ? This is all about hiding a message inside another larger and possibly meaningless message. In this case the [...]

This entry is not really open source, but since so many people including myself use Firefox, and Thunderbird then you should all know about MozBackup. I once made the mistake of overwriting my boot partition, thinking that all my Thunderbird, and Firefox bookmarks, and e-mails would be safe. Boy was I wrong !!!! [...]

I apologize for not writing in a long time, but my son’s end of school year activities were just running me ragged. I was lucky to have time to clean the house, cook meals, and still get any work done during the day. To top it all off I was foolish enough to try and [...]

Today I am sitting at home waiting, hoping to hear from several people hoping waiting for a job to come so that I can have some income to go with the outgo this weekend. In that vein how about your income and outgo, do you create content, generate files, or just plain help other [...]

This application can take a plethora of video and audio formats and change them into another format in batch mode.
From the sourceforge web page
Feature Highlights

Convert to and from many audio and video compression formats and re-multiplex into various container formats, on the fly, in batch
Give you the control over the transcoding process and all [...]

This is a jave application that can used in batch files, WSH (Windows Shell Host), or other scripting languages to en/decrypt files with passwords that you can provide, or extract from a database. This tool is so good that I have insisted that all our sales people keep their customer lists encrypted using this [...]

This entry is like atomic energy. There are good and bad uses for this encryption technology. Us honest folk can use it to make sure that we will never have our customer lists stolen or be the object of another stolen laptop or PC stolen story. The other side of the use is of course [...]

This entry is all about using one of several open source projects that bring a technology to Windows that has been on Linux and available from commercial sources for several years.
This technology is called virtual desktop, and essentially what you do is setup a desktop with icons or shortcuts on the desktop, but instead of [...]