Secure your USB Files with USB Safeguard

One of the biggest conveniences of using a USB pen drive is that you can bring your data with you wherever you go. But this ease can easily turn into a nightmare if you lose your USB pen drive. It becomes doubly worse if you have confidential files stored in it.
A solution to secure your data is available with the USB Safeguard. You can download USB Safeguard at http://usbsafeguard.altervista.org.
After the download is complete, transfer the downloaded file to your USB pen drive. Look for the file and double-click on it to open.
You will be asked to choose a password and confirm it.
You have the option to use an on screen keyboard by clicking on this icon. This is particularly useful if you suspect that there is a keylogger installed on the machine you’re using.
You can also access other options by clicking on the down arrow icon beneath the keyboard icon.
Choosing Customize your USB pen, if it were to be lost… for example, brings up this window:
Enter your contact details and click OK to proceed.
Going back, when you have already entered your password, click on the OK button. You will be asked if you would want to save your password in a file for you to be able to retrieve it later on.
A window will appear asking you to drag and drop files to encrypt.
After dragging your files, highlight / select them all and click Encrypt. You will be then shown the status of your encryption. First, it will tell you that the program is scanning the files. You can also protect the entire USB drive by clicking on Encrypt All.
After the scanning process, click OK to continue with the encryption.
Once this is done, you will be asked whether you want to remove these files or not. If you wish to remove them, you will then be asked to choose from two different options to prevent other people from recovering your files. Lastly, you will have the option to wipe all free disk space on your USB pen drive.
Again, the status bar changes to reflect the status of your shredding.
After this, the encrypted files will disappear from your USB pen drive’s file listings. To access these, you would need to run the program and supply your password; you will be presented with a list of encrypted files. To access the file you need, simply highlight it and click the Decrypt button.
USB Safeguard is a valuable security tool that is very easy to use. Two things bother me about this though. For one, there is no way for you to retrieve your password if you should forget it or cannot locate the password you saved somewhere.
Moreover, it looks like this program works the way an encrypted zip file does. These are, however, very minor gripes if you consider how safe your data stored in your USB pen drive would be.

Remove Printing Restrictions and Passwords from PDF Files

Many students these days buy their textbooks in electronic, PDF format. The main advantage of this, besides price, is that the PDF can be carried on iPhones and laptops, so we have less junk to carry throughout the day.
Unfortunately, most of these e-books have restrictions on how many pages from the PDF, if any, can be printed, and forget copying any text from the PDF. So, no real studying, with a highlighter and notes in the margins, can ever occur. At least, not without breaking the restrictions on the PDF.
A Web site exists to break all the restrictions—from print limits to passwords—imposed on PDFs: FreeMyPDF.com.

First, click the Choose File button and select the PDF from which you want to remove restrictions.

Then, click the Do It button.

You are then prompted to save the new, free-of-restrictions PDF to your computer. Choose a location for your new file, then open it and use it however you like!
There are a few restrictions for FreeMyPDF.com. First, you must be able to view the PDF without entering a password for it to help you.
Second, there is a file size limit of 7MB. Finally, they ask that you not use the site to do anything illegal. They do not elaborate on what they define as illegal (or immoral), but they do not take any responsibility for your PDF-freeing activities.
For the documents we tried, FreeMyPDF.com worked like a charm. The file size restriction was our only real complaint.

How to Repair Damaged Word Documents

Like any other file on your computer, Microsoft Word documents can get corrupted. Sometimes the damage manifests in obvious ways, like with formatting issues. A corrupt Word document can cause application crashes, system hangs, and many other annoyances that hamper your productivity.
Every new Microsoft Word release introduces new types of file corruption, and can also cause new and different types of problems. There are a few techniques that you can use to repair damaged Word documents, or damaged areas in Word documents, that are quick and easy. None of these fixes work 100% of the time, but these techniques have been proven time and time again.
Document Crashes Repeatedly
This is one of the worst types of document corruption, but it is also one of the most common. You open a document and you’re working in it for a while, and then Word suddenly comes to a halt and shuts down. You re-open the document, and a few minutes later the same thing happens.
Once you’ve determined that the problem is limited to one document and not a larger system or Microsoft Word problem, you can easily fix IT. Open a new blank document, and then open the damaged document. Copy the entire contents of the damaged document and paste it into the new blank document.
Save the new document with a new name in another place (as a precaution incase the problem involves where you were saving the original file). Make sure that the new file has all of the formatting and elements (pictures, tables, etc.) that appeared in the original.
Once you have confirmed that the new copy of the document contains the full contents and formatting of the original document, you can continue working from the new document. This will fix a lot of corrupt documents, but if the problem is linked to a corrupt element in the document (picture, embedded Microsoft Office file, etc.), it is possible that the crashes and application halts will continue.
If that is the case, try removing some of the larger elements from the document and see if it fixes the issue.
Formatting Will Not Change
If you have a document that is heavily formatted, you may encounter issues removing or replacing existing formatting. This frequently happens in Office 2003 and Office 2007 Word documents that have a lot of styles.
We’ve personally experienced this particular issue extensively when editing documents. If you remove a few lines from a document that are formatted in a particular way (e.g., a bulleted list), sometimes the next line will either take the formatting of the lines you removed, or will refuse to take the formatting of the line you removed.
Another good example of this is when you use a Header 1 style to start a chapter after a page break, but after you move items around in the document, the chapter number in the Header 1 style disappears. We’ve all encountered issues like this, and most of us use a trial and error strategy to fix it. Here are some things you should try first.
1. Remove the formatting using Clear All from the Styles sidebar menu.

2. Remove the text that is giving problems (CTRL+X) and paste it back into the document as plain text. Try reformatting it after you do this.
3 . Insert a blank page in the document close to the area that has formatting issues, and move all of the text and document elements to the new blank page. Delete the page that was having formatting issues.
These techniques will not fix every instance of formatting problems, but they will help. If you see this happening throughout your document, consider copying the contents of the document to a new blank document.

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