Software/Tip of the Week
How is Chrome more secure? Just curious, because it is blocked here at work because of its "security flaws". Some of them being its p2p traffic and that it shares every URL with google.
Thought I'd share some software a buddy of mine told me about the other day. I've been looking for this software ever since I got my mac.
The two pieces of software are SizeUp (http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/) and Cinch (http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/cinch/)
They do what NVidia's software has been doing for years, but for the mac. In a nutshell, SizeUp allows you to create grids on your screen which you use to maximize windows to and much more. Cinch simply creates hotzones on the four edges of your screen. Drag a window to that hotzone and hte window maximizes to that side of the screen.
Been using it for a few days now and love them both. And buying a license for them is very cheap.
The two pieces of software are SizeUp (http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/) and Cinch (http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/cinch/)
They do what NVidia's software has been doing for years, but for the mac. In a nutshell, SizeUp allows you to create grids on your screen which you use to maximize windows to and much more. Cinch simply creates hotzones on the four edges of your screen. Drag a window to that hotzone and hte window maximizes to that side of the screen.
Been using it for a few days now and love them both. And buying a license for them is very cheap.
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I'm over Firefox, I'm not a big fan of extensions and add-ons mainly cause they usually are of mediocre quality and cause FF to crash all the time and I really don't care about what feature they add. I've switched to Chrome and the beta builds of chrome do support extensions and there's a few out there already covering the more popular types of extension like ad-blocking and IE Tab (I do use IE Tab occasionally).
Also in Windows FF has questionable security especially now that it's gained such a strong market share. FF version 3.5 is now the most popular browser version on the Interwebs, it has more users than IE 6, IE 7 or IE 8 (not combined though). So it's days of not being a targer due to smaller marketshare are over. Which is a problem cause FF does NOT run in low privilege sandboxed mode (IE and Chrome do) which means malware that comes in through FF has much more access to the system folders and files than if it came through IE or Chrome which means it has a better chance of success. Also FF doesn't have Tab isolation like IE and Chrome. Which means in IE and Chrome each tab runs as a separate process so if one tab crashes it doesn't take down the entire browser and the other tabs are unaffected. In FF if one tab crashes the whole browser goes down. Plus add in the meh interface compared to Chrome's minimalist look and I choose Chrome over FF because of increased speed (it's a faster browser), security and look and feel. And now that the beta version has extensions I think you FF users should give it a shot!
http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/chrome/beta/
http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/1...7-market-share
Also in Windows FF has questionable security especially now that it's gained such a strong market share. FF version 3.5 is now the most popular browser version on the Interwebs, it has more users than IE 6, IE 7 or IE 8 (not combined though). So it's days of not being a targer due to smaller marketshare are over. Which is a problem cause FF does NOT run in low privilege sandboxed mode (IE and Chrome do) which means malware that comes in through FF has much more access to the system folders and files than if it came through IE or Chrome which means it has a better chance of success. Also FF doesn't have Tab isolation like IE and Chrome. Which means in IE and Chrome each tab runs as a separate process so if one tab crashes it doesn't take down the entire browser and the other tabs are unaffected. In FF if one tab crashes the whole browser goes down. Plus add in the meh interface compared to Chrome's minimalist look and I choose Chrome over FF because of increased speed (it's a faster browser), security and look and feel. And now that the beta version has extensions I think you FF users should give it a shot!
http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/chrome/beta/
http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/1...7-market-share
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I'm not saying chrome is more secure only cause of it's obscurity while that does help (look at mac users, security is at the bottom of apple's priorities and they seem to be doing OK) but Chrome has the "protected mode" feature that debuted on IE7 on Vista while FF and safari do not. this is a good feature that sandboxes the browser from the rest of the system.
I guess my 
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We are only allowed to use FF and IE at work for the reasons I listed above. (Opera has built in BT, so we can't use that either).
I use chrome at home....I enjoy its speed over the other browsers.
smiley didn't show up.We are only allowed to use FF and IE at work for the reasons I listed above. (Opera has built in BT, so we can't use that either).
I use chrome at home....I enjoy its speed over the other browsers.
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This software pick is StreamTransport. It's program that allows you to download Hulu, Youtube, Google and a lot more. Hulu being the most significant. So get it while you can.
www.streamtransport.com
www.streamtransport.com
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This software pick is StreamTransport. It's program that allows you to download Hulu, Youtube, Google and a lot more. Hulu being the most significant. So get it while you can.
www.streamtransport.com
www.streamtransport.com
For mac users there is an application called DiskWarrior it's $99 but well worth it if you've had an HD crap out. As with most applications it may be possible to I used this program last week to recover 40GB off my hd that had crashed, OS X wouldn't even mount the drive but this program did it's thing and got my stuff back.
I used this program last week to recover 40GB off my hd that had crashed, OS X wouldn't even mount the drive but this program did it's thing and got my stuff back.
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Ok here's a tip for you! I just bought a 1TB external hard drive, I formatted 500GB HFS+ for Time Machine backups and the other 500GB I wanted to make it so that it could be read and written by both Mac and PC. That used to mean only one option, the FAT32 file format. I'd like to use NTFS but that is Windows only and Mac can only read and not write to NTFS. Even though Mac and PC can read and write to FAT32 I'd rather not use FAT32 because it's a very old disk format that doesn't have advanced features like NTFS. Mainly, it's a 32bit file format can't hold individual files that are larger than 4GB which I do run into.
In comes exFAT to the rescue! It's the newish file format that Mac and PC can write too and it supports files larger than 4GB since it's 64bit like NTFS is. Vista SP1 and newer support exFAT out of the box and you can get drivers for XP and Server 2003 to enable exFAT support. exFAT is becoming the go to format for flash media larger than 32GB like SDXC.
I'm dealing with less and less XP machines so this shouldn't be a big issue.
Here's where you can download exFAT drivers for older Windows OS
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955704
So if you're looking for an advanced cross platform file format that supports large files then I'd go with exFAT!
P.S. A-ha! OS X didn't get exFAT support until 10.6.5! That's why I was surprised when I saw it as a format option in disk utility, I thought it had been there for years but I just never noticed it. Nope, it's pretty recent add-on to Mac. So yeah, you have to have 10.6.5 or higher to support exFAT on Mac
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT
In comes exFAT to the rescue! It's the newish file format that Mac and PC can write too and it supports files larger than 4GB since it's 64bit like NTFS is. Vista SP1 and newer support exFAT out of the box and you can get drivers for XP and Server 2003 to enable exFAT support. exFAT is becoming the go to format for flash media larger than 32GB like SDXC.
I'm dealing with less and less XP machines so this shouldn't be a big issue.
Here's where you can download exFAT drivers for older Windows OS
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955704
So if you're looking for an advanced cross platform file format that supports large files then I'd go with exFAT!
P.S. A-ha! OS X didn't get exFAT support until 10.6.5! That's why I was surprised when I saw it as a format option in disk utility, I thought it had been there for years but I just never noticed it. Nope, it's pretty recent add-on to Mac. So yeah, you have to have 10.6.5 or higher to support exFAT on Mac
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT
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I guess you could make it hidden and system on top of that if you needed more 
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they tried that. it lasted only a few days! IT admins were pissed! I was gonna mention it. There was a utility called my private folder, I got it back in the day when it came out but they pulled it shortly after because it didn't integrate with group policy and other reasons. You can still get it here but it only works on XP.
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Securit...e-Folder.shtml
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Securit...e-Folder.shtml
"Private Folder 1.0 was designed as a benefit for customers running genuine Windows," a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement. "However, we received feedback about concerns around manageability, data recovery and encryption, and based on that feedback we are removing the application."
While it lasted, the software created a "My Private Folder" on a user's desktop by installing a Private Folder Service. Inside the folder, files were apparently encrypted and locked with a password.
The problem was that the password assigned to the folder was binding so losing or forgetting it locked users out of their data permanently.
"There are lots of passwords out there and with this, if you forget it then there was no way to get back into it," said the Microsoft spokesperson.
While it lasted, the software created a "My Private Folder" on a user's desktop by installing a Private Folder Service. Inside the folder, files were apparently encrypted and locked with a password.
The problem was that the password assigned to the folder was binding so losing or forgetting it locked users out of their data permanently.
"There are lots of passwords out there and with this, if you forget it then there was no way to get back into it," said the Microsoft spokesperson.
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If you don't want people getting in your shit then put a password on your user account and make it so you have to enter your password after resuming from sleep or from screen saver and that should keep most honest people out.
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This shit is dope!
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Looking for a free (NOT trial version) program to provide a directory listing of any location (local, USB, network, etc.) along with folder sizes AND OUTPUT it to CSV or XLSX.
Currently using WinDirSat, TreeSize (free), etc. but none will output to a CSV or Excel. I can print to PDF from TreeSize, but that's it.
Any ideas? Not interested if it doesn't output to CSV or Excel.
I need to regularly audit my NAS and other storage devices based on folder size and move things around based on size of the folders, back things up to other drives, etc...
Currently using WinDirSat, TreeSize (free), etc. but none will output to a CSV or Excel. I can print to PDF from TreeSize, but that's it.
Any ideas? Not interested if it doesn't output to CSV or Excel.
I need to regularly audit my NAS and other storage devices based on folder size and move things around based on size of the folders, back things up to other drives, etc...
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I was going to suggest WinDirStat before reading your whole post 
https://community.spiceworks.com/top...r-treesizeview
Have you tried "Directory Report" as per that site?
https://community.spiceworks.com/top...r-treesizeview
Have you tried "Directory Report" as per that site?
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I was going to suggest WinDirStat before reading your whole post
https://community.spiceworks.com/top...r-treesizeview
Have you tried "Directory Report" as per that site?
https://community.spiceworks.com/top...r-treesizeview
Have you tried "Directory Report" as per that site?
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The NirSoft application SearchMyFiles at that same link from thoiboi does what you want and is 100% free.
Its kind of clumsy, but I've used it to do the same thing as you want to do.
Alternative to Windows Search For Files + Duplicates Search
Its kind of clumsy, but I've used it to do the same thing as you want to do.
Alternative to Windows Search For Files + Duplicates Search
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There was another one I played with back in the day before finding the NirSoft app but I couldn't
remember its name exactly so I was googling what I remembered and re-found it. It works but there is
no documentation of any kind for it and it has a really weird UI - called DirListing. But I recall
it ran really fast.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/dirlister1/
While I was googling to try and re-find DirListing for you, I stumbled across this one. I
have no idea if it works or how well, it was just a hit from google but it claims to do what
you want. I may give it a try as well because the NirSoft app is powerful but confusing.
https://downloads.tomsguide.com/DirList,0301-33049.html
remember its name exactly so I was googling what I remembered and re-found it. It works but there is
no documentation of any kind for it and it has a really weird UI - called DirListing. But I recall
it ran really fast.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/dirlister1/
While I was googling to try and re-find DirListing for you, I stumbled across this one. I
have no idea if it works or how well, it was just a hit from google but it claims to do what
you want. I may give it a try as well because the NirSoft app is powerful but confusing.
https://downloads.tomsguide.com/DirList,0301-33049.html