How to keep your Memory Stick data safe

Subject : Encrypting (keeping safe) data in Memory sticks
Purpose : To secure the data that you stored in Memory sticks in case of loss or theft of these USB flash drive or hard drive.
Provider : TRUECRYPT
Requirements : Not Required
Price: Free
Complexity : Easy
Initial set up : Not Required
Updates : Required when you want to increase the safety Level
Useful To : Every one
Techieszone suggest : Every computer user or Flash disk users definitely at some point will store personal info in their disks. To avoid others to steel this info the TRUECRYPT will makes easier your work. So Techies zone marked it as must have software.

Description : As per the International Cyb er security surveys, 15% of the computer users store their all personal information, like phone numbers, Credit Card Numbers, Bank password, Date of births in USB Memory sticks or computers. If some one has stolen these devices means then you have to face all the damages happens because of this.

Also there will be some situations that you have store some of your stuff and you dont want to see other this stuff with out your permission. Of course there are many free or paid software's are available in market to keep a password for your folder.But the problem with those software's is, all those passwords will be stored some where in your computer and than can be recoverable by any cracking stuff.

This TRUCRYPT doesn't store any of your passwords in the system and takes millions of years to crack your passwords. using this soft you can get the following additional features.

• Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk.
• Encrypts an entire partition or storage device such as USB flash drive or hard drive.
• Encrypts a partition or drive where Windows is installed (pre-boot authentication).
• Encryption is automatic, real-time (on-the-fly) and transparent.
• Parallelization and pipelining allow data to be read and written as fast as if the drive was not encrypted.
• Provides plausible deniability, in case an adversary forces you to reveal the password:Hidden volume (steganography) and hidden operating system.
• Encryption algorithms: AES-256, Serpent, and Twofish. Mode of operation: XTS.

Added to above main features to use any of your docs of file you no need to do decrypt all the time. You just need to correct password that's it, now you can work on your stuff as you worked before using this soft. You can play the video files directly with out decrypting. Also The entire file system within a TrueCrypt volume is encrypted including file names, folder names, and contents of every file. And it is possible to boot Windows installed in a hidden TrueCrypt volume. For more information please read the TRUECRYPT FAQ Page

Free Conference Call - Totally free conference calling service through web.

Subject: Totally free conferencing service.

Purpose : To set up a conference call upto 99 members with no cost.
Is it required for me ?: If your phone don't have option to setup a conference calls then you need this, Other than this there are many more options available that you wont get with normal phones. Check description section for more information.
Provider : Totally Free Conference calls

Requirements : Computer with internet connection and phone numbers to set up conference.
Price: Free
Complexity : 0%
Initial set up : Need to sign up in conference service site for free.
Updates : No Updates, Its complete online process.
Useful To : Every one, Read description section.
What Techieszone suggest : Its a free and complete online process and you can use when ever you want. With simple sign up you can use many features that available in this site. Techieszone Marked as Best useful site.

Description : To stay in touch with friends and family members or to communicate with multiple participants at a time conference calls are most using method. In organizations conducting a business meeting with partners from different places, then conference calls are the only way. Now lets discuss about some common problems about regular method of setting up conference.

• The devices that required to set up conference calls are costly (In TFCC - No devices req).
• Conference service need to activate at network provider (In TFCC its activated by default as soon as you create account).
• May possible to setup call between limited number of participants, it can be max of 5 to 6 members - (In TFCC allows upto 99 members)
• If you set up the conference by calling all participant, then you need to pay the money for all calls. (In TFCC - You will be charged only for your call, Remaining participants are charged for their calls)
• May be you need to pay some bucks for every conference call setup (In TFCC - Name itself describing its totally free).
• If it is organization level meeting then its tedious job to set up a request for conference call (In TFCC just pass your Conference and Dial In number that's it...)
• Device may not have option to record and replay call (In TFCC you can record the call and can play back it when ever you want).

By using the Totally free conference calls service you can overcome the all above problem. Process of setting up conference is very simple that just you need to signup in the site, after that you will get a Dial in number and Conference ID. You just pass on these 2 numbers, time and date. Participants will join in the call by dialing these numbers. its that simple. Then what your thinking for, click here to sing up in the site. Check out the totally free conference calls site for more options.

Gsplit File Splitter - Split larger files into small to upload in Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail.

Subject: Splitting larger files into small.

Purpose : For splitting larger files to small pieces and combining these splitted files using the generated Self-Uniting Executable

Is it required for me ?: Yes you need this, Read description for more information.
Provider : G.D.G Software

Requirements : NO Specific Requirements

Price: Free
Complexity : 5 %
Initial set up : Download the latest version of the software from Here.
Updates : Required only when the latest version is available.
Useful To : Every one.
What Techieszone suggest : If you are dealing with the files which are larger than 2MB in size then you need this, plus this software is free with many features that you wont get with other splitting softwares. Techies zone marked it as must have software

Description : Before going to give full description, let me give some examples why you need to split a file into small pieces.

• In Gmail you can send a file max of 20 MB as attachment
• In Yahoo you can send file max of 10 MB as attachment
• In floppy you can store max of 1.4 MB file
• If you have two 400 MB files, how can write these into a 600 MD CD disk with out wasting space.

Ok these examples are enough, in all above cases you need to split files when you are dealing with the larger files than the mentioned limit. This Gsplit do exactly what you required. Now we will see some considerable point about Gsplit why Techieszone recommending this software.

• It allow you to split file in 2 ways, one is equal pieces and second is required varying sizes.
• Splitted files are rebuild back to original file using self created executable file
• Supports all type of files like Self-Extracting archives, music, images, Softwares, multimedia, , video, log, large text, Zip archives, document files
• With fast performance check it notifies the user like which piece of splitted file is corrupted.
• Easy customization of title, file names, size, author
• Pause and Resume options are helpful while splitting larger files (more than 500MB)

and Many more options with easy understandable user interface. Check author website for more information on this software.

Send pictures to your phone for free.

Subject: Transferring you favorite pictures to mobile phone.
Purpose : For sending your favorite pictures or images from computer to Mobile phones with out using cables.
Is it required for me ?: If you don't have cables or don't like to use cables for transferring images or mp3 to your mobile then you need this.
Provider : Pix2fone

Requirements : Computer with Internet connection and your mobile should have WAP Browser(means you can able to access any wap site from phone, By default all latest phones have this facility if your not sure then confirm with your mobile operator).
Price: Free from Pix2fone and your mobile network operator may charge Internet browsing cost.
Complexity : 0%
Initial set up : Download this browser Add -on from Here.
Updates : Required only when the latest version is available.
Useful To : Every one, those who use to transfer images and mp3 files from computer to mobile. What Techieszone suggest : If you are comfort or have option for transferring files using cables then you may not need this, or else download this now.

Description : Most of the cell phone owners like to have the latest wallpapers or new mp3 files in mobiles. Generally this file transferring process happens with PC-to-phone cables. But its not possible to carry these cables every time. In case if you dont have this file transferring option then you can download the pics only from the wap enabled sites, and these sites charge you for downloading stuff. Added to this in Internet only 10% sites can access using Wap browser (These sites need to design separately to access using mobile).

For all above problems Pix2fone providing a free service. For this you need to
download a small browser add-on. The size of this browser is 47KB for Internet
explorer and 8KB for Mozilla FireFox. Once installed this add-on, when ever you
want to send any image from any site, just right-click with your mouse on a
desired photo in your browser and select "Save Picture to Mobile Phone" from the
drop-down menu. Alternatively, select "Upload File to Mobile Phone" from
browser's "Tools" menu to upload a picture or MP3 file from your computer. When
you’re doing this first time Pix2fone prompted to a settings window where you
can select your phone model, and then you can edit the picture by resizing,
cropping, or automatic optimization based on your phone model.

Once the designing process is over, then pix2fone will assign a unique download code for the designed image. Now you have to access the pix2fone wap site (wap.pix2fone.com ) from your mobile browser. When it is asked to enter the code, Type the Unique code that you got after designing and start downloading picture. If you want even you can send this downloading link directly to your mobile using free sms messaging service. Currently this free this free sms messaging option is available for users in the USA and Canada.

Now you can use this images as screen savers, logos, backgrounds or
wallpapers. This service is completely free from pix2fone side, may be your
mobile operator will charge minimum amount for downloading files using WAP
browser.

Track your stolen laptop with free Adeona software.

Subject: Laptop Security software to trace location of the stolen laptop or personal computer.

Purpose : Tracking or Tracing or locating stolen Laptop.

Is it required for me ?: If you owned a laptop, then you must need it. Even you can use this software for desktops.

Provider : Adeona

Requirements : Laptop or desktop with Internet connection.

Price: Free

Complexity : 5 %

Initial set up : Download the latest version of the software from Here.

Updates : Required only when the latest version is available.

Useful To : Every one, who have the Desktops or lap tops.

What Techieszone suggest : Its a small peace of software (2 MB ) available under open source license and do great things when your device stolen. So if you have desktop or Laptop then you must need this software. Techies zone marked it as must have software.

Description : Ever lose your laptop or desktop, If answer is yes then you might know the pain of losing laptops. And also any of your friends or family members asked you that

How to track a Stolen Computer
Can a Stolen Laptop Be Traced
I want to know who Stolen my Laptop
Can I Find a Stolen Computer on the Internet
How Do I Get My Stolen Laptop Back

For all above questions single solution is Adeona software, This Free small peace of software helps you to find the location of you laptop that may have been lost or stolen. You just need to download and install this software, as soon as you create a account Adeona software start working and sends the location information to openDHT that stores the collected location information from this software. It doesn't matter weather the laptop is with you or at thief, but this software keep sending the updated location information to this OpenDHT. The tracking of Location is happened with IP address, Means after the stealing your laptop when the thief connected to Internet, then this software sends message with its own IP address (both the external and internal IP address of the computer along with location of nearby routers). You can retrieve this information using the Adeona Recovery tool.

Using this IP address along with any IP tracer software we can find out the location and ISP (Internet Service Provider) to that particular IP. This information helps you a lot to catch the thief when you approach the ISP. If you using MAC OS X version then there is option to capture the image of the person who using your laptop using Build-in camera and iSight software.

But some points to notice that as this software still in beta stage provider didn't made this software difficult to remove. May be this feature available in future. It the thief aware of this Adeona software then he can easily identify this from Task Manager window. So if the thief disabled this before connecting to Internet, then you wont get any clues from the laptop location. Similarly this software helpless if the thief is re-installed the OS. Other than these its worth to having in your system.