The holidays are behind us and I want to wish everyone? a Happy and Prosperous New Year and extend my thanks once again to everyone who made their generous donations during the Holiday Giveaway. If you donated, your gift is on the way to you via USPS First Class mail. I’ve received a few inquiries [...]
Picture this: Someone tries to steal your laptop off your desk and as soon as they pull the plug from the wall, your latpop emits a screaming siren that won’t quit until your password is entered to unlock the laptop and disable the alarm.There’s another scenario: You take one of your old USB thumb drives [...]
UPDATE! The BLTDVS Toolkit in its original form as referred to below is now obsolete. The current state of the art has yielded self-contained USB installer tools for most of the popular anti virus rescue CDs. I have updated this article with the latest information and put two versions of popular rescue CD USB installers [...]
NOTE! The BLTDVS Toolkit in its original form is now obsolete. The current state of the art has yielded self-contained USB installer tools for most of the popular antivirus rescue CDs. I have updated this article: Make an Anti Virus Bootable USB Thumb Drive with the latest information and put two versions of popular rescue [...]
Spam-o-Meter is a Kool Tool that gives you an idea of how much spam is on the Internet. You can download a Mac OSX gadget, Flash for a website (like you see here), even a screen saver for Windows, all free. Check it out. I’ve posted it on a page over there to the right.
The original article and subsequent updates require a change of procedure. Avira, who acquired NTFS4DOS, apparently changed the installation procedure and included a new program to create a bootable floppy disk. If you use the program floppywz.exe to install NTFS4DOS to your thumb drive, you end up with a 1.44 MB thumb drive and cannot [...]
Please note: the information in this post is outdated. This post has been superceded by “How to make a bootable thumb drive virus scanner for NTFS: 2008 update.†Please do not post a comment saying that this post is out of date–I just told you that! Go to the latest post. Some nice folks have [...]
(Well, maybe not just a Tekkie Tool; it’s quite a useful tool for anyone to carry on a thumb drive.) If you have ever had to read a PDF file on a PC that doesn’t have a PDF reader installed, then Foxit Software’s Foxit Reader is for you. At less than 3MB installed (a single [...]
Please note: the information in this post is outdated. This post has been superceded by “How to make a bootable thumb drive virus scanner for NTFS: 2008 update.†Please do not post a comment saying that this post is out of date–I just told you that! Go to the latest post. My latest Kool Tekkie [...]