One of the most important security measures you can take when getting rid of old computer equipment is to wipe the hard drives of all data. In some cases you may even want to wipe all the free space on your hard drive just to make sure those deleted files stay deleted. This is where DriveScrubber from iolo Technologies comes in. It is a very simple to use application that’s…

Hard drives are constantly changing. From sizes getting bigger to solid state drives becoming the new hot idea we can’t get away from them. The problem is that for the most part we don’t have the first clue about all those technical terms that sales people like to boggle us with. After all do you know what the difference in RPMs (revolutions per minute) is or how about MTBF? While…

I realize that all the really cool soft geeks are talking up a storm about all this cloud computing and services like Google Apps, Flickr, Hulu, YouTube and a bunch more with the idea being that why use local applications or storage when you can store it on some-one’s cloud. However for the real geeks, those of us who really use our machines, there is nothing better than a couple…

Even though the launch of Windows 7 has been a success with something like 90 million units sold there are still a whole bunch of folks out three who, for whatever reason, have stuck with XP. Now there’s nothing wrong with that after all once Service Pack 3 is install the venerable XP is a rock solid operating system. However the future must come to all of us at some…

If you fool with computers enough, you’ve got no option: eventually there are going to be computer parts stashed all over the place. What are these cables for? Why do we have 22 56k modems? What’s on these hard drives? I don’t know. Open one of the machines and install it. Which of them has SATA? I think that one over there is IDE-only. And that one has problems recognizing…

With as big as hard disks are getting, managing them effectively is more important than  ever. Any one hard disk can have a terabyte or more of data. This presents a few issues that didn’t exist when HD’s were only 500megs, such as actually FINDING that file among thousands of others. Also, if even one sector of a 1TB drive goes bad, recovering your data can be a time-consuming chore….