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I have showed you the way to protect files and folders with Folder Protector 5.0. Have you take action to protect your confidential files and folders? Well, its all depends on your needs. But I highly recommend you to protect them or at least encrypt those files that consisting your password, bank account, etc.

Now, there is a good news for open source supporter! An open source tool called TrueCrypt let you encrypt files and encrypt an entire partition or storage device. This mean we can encrypt our USB flash drive and hard disk. Others can’t even open or boot up the system if it is stolen. Further more, its software version available for Windows, Mac OS, and of course Linux. Yeah! it’s Free!

How Encryption Works ?

Basically it works almost the same with password locker. It use some advance algorithms bind with your password to hide or mess up your data. Without the password to decrypt, those data are useless. In this case, TrueCrypt is using 3 types of encryption algorithm AES-256, Serpent, and Twofish.

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Have you downloaded and install gOS on your computer? gOS is an Ubuntu (Linux-based ) operating system that bundled with Google applications in case you don’t know.

If you think Linux box is not user friendly and less graphic user interface (GUI) than you are wrong! Now, gOS come with Apple OS X like interface. When people talk about Apple OS X, means must have dock and stack that appear in the latest Apple OS X Leopard 10.5. In gOS, it is called Awn! (more…)

It was already 10 years since Netscape launched mozilla.org to develop its open source project. It’s most well known project - Mozilla Firefox has been reached its success milestone by achieve 500 Millions downloads.

With this achievement, Mozilla willing to donate 500 Millions grains of rice to feed the world’s poor and hungry people.You could contribute part of this 500 Millions grains of rice!

How to Donate Free Rice?

Play the vocabulary game on Free Rice and donation with go to the hunger. No sign up, no login, no hassle. Just goto Free Rice homepage, answer the word meaning with objective choice. For each word you answer correctly, Mozilla donate 20 grains of rice (money earn from ads) through the UN World Food Program to help end hunger in over 75 countries.

According to the United Nations, about 25,000 people die each day from hunger or hunger-related causes, most of them children. While you answer the vocabulary game correctly, you are actually helping one of these child to have some food on that day. So why don’t join now? There is no limit, do what ever you can!

My two cents

Mozilla is so kind to organize this charity work. Hope the money generated from the website can save some life in poor countries. I myself have contributed 100 grains of rice to them by answered 5 question correctly! How many grains have you contributed?

Tips: Check out the word’s meaning at Dictionary.com (English dictionary) or Tigernt.com (Eng to Chinese dictionary)

If you are Open Source supporter, I am sure you familiar with the name of Open Source Office Suite such as Open Office (by Sun Microsystems) and Star Office in Google Pack. Now, you can have another Free Office Suite named IBM Lotus Symphony (by IBM).

Why use IBM Lotus Symphony?

Lotus Symphony won in the Office Productivity Software category beating out other nominees Microsoft Office, OpenOffice 2.3.1 and Think Free Office. hence no worries on its friendliness and features. Since Lotus Symphony is based on OpenOffice.org Technology and supports the ODF (Open Document Format) standard, so it is Free of Charge.

There are three applications that make up Lotus Symphony: Lotus Symphony Documents, Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets, Lotus Symphony Presentations. In my opinion, Lotus Symphony is perfect for business users. It meet office operation requirements yet it is Free! (more…)