6 Portable iPod Managers – iTunes Alternatives

Posted by rajivvishwa On March - 29 - 2010

This post talks about few portable ipod managers which can directly run from USB devices and sync with your iPods. If you don’t want to install the heavyweight iTunes in your PC, choose any of the apps discussed here.

Various apps discussed in this post are

  1. Floola
  2. iDump
  3. YamiPod
  4. SharePod
  5. SongBird
  6. MediaMonkey

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Calculator Acts as a Safe For Your Confidential Files

Posted by rajivvishwa On April - 15 - 2009

SafeCalculator is a tiny file encryption application which disguises as windows calculator and acts as a digital keypad for your locker. Windows calc would definelty be a perfect hideout for our confidential files and might not be suspicious enough so as to be guessed by unintended users.

Safe Calc
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Quickly Mount Truecrypt Volumes With Launchy

Posted by rajivvishwa On March - 19 - 2009

Some of us use Truecrypt for storing our files in an isolated partition and might be less concerned on its security (Update: check the details at the end of this post). For example, my thumbdrive has a single encrypted file created with Truecrypt which I always mount it in W: drive, which helps me to run many of the non-portable apps in portable mode. Another possible reason, to sync various frequently used folders between different PC’s by creating a truecrypt volume and transferring only a single file so that you never missing anything while syncing and the copy can be done whole lot quicker.

But it will be a tedious and boring task to repeatedly follow a sequence of steps to get your volume mounted. But we can find out a simple solution for this…

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Store And Encrypt Passwords Online with Password++

Posted by rajivvishwa On March - 1 - 2009

Many of us register with some interesting sites by submitting a userid, password and our emailid for verification. We also choose different passwords for different sites so as to make sure that our credentials are never compromised. Remembering passwords for a huge of sites would be a Herculean task. We might use offline password managers like Keepass, but if you are a person like me who work with multiple PC’s; then syncing those passwords created, would be a problem. So the best option would be to store passwords online and safely retrieve them whenever required. And we have Password++

Password++ Sreenshot
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Sync Your Files Across Multiple PCs With Dropbox

Posted by rajivvishwa On February - 11 - 2009

Dropbox allows users to store, share and sync their files across multiple computers via multiple sources. The sync is transparent and continuous. The best part is the process runs in the background and it consumes very less amount of RAM.

Dropbox download is available for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Setting up Dropbox is very easy. We need to install dropbox, then

  1. Create a Dropbox account.
  2. Specify the Dropbox location in your PC (All the files and folders are sync’d with your online dropbox)

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