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Securely Erase Your Sensitive Data Without Leaving Traces Behind With Erase
2008-05-14 02:30:00
If you thought that by locking your private files and folders with folder protection tools and disabling your USB ports to prevent people from copying your files into their USB drives are enough to protect yourselves from data theft, then I can tell you that what you?ve done were far from enough. So what else ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Securely Erase Your Sensitive Data Without Leaving Traces Behind With Eraser", url: "http://mytechquest.com/windows/eraser-er ase-your-sensitive-data-securely-without- leaving-traces-behind/" });
More About: Security , Windows , Freeware

Disable USB Port to Prevent Data Theft When You?re Away
2008-05-12 04:56:00
Some of you may prefer not to turn off your computer when you?re away. Leaving your computer unprotected may result in data theft, because people can easily stick their pen drive into your USB port and copy data off. The next thing you know, your half-naked pictures are spreading wide throughout the Internet. Or maybe ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Disable USB Port to Prevent Data Theft When You?re Away", url: "http://mytechquest.com/windows/disable-u sb-port-to-prevent-data-theft-when-you%e2 %80%99re-away/" });
More About: Tips and Tricks , Freeware

USB FireWall : Track and Destroy ?Autorun.inf? Virus in Your USB Drive
2008-05-11 01:07:00
In my previous post, I?ve talked about Autorun Eater, a freeware Windows application that automatically removes ?autorun.inf? virus from your USB drive. Thus, blocking such malwares from spreading over your Windows. USB FireWall is a freeware Windows application that works much the same like Autorun Eater. USB FireWall works as background process and detects automatically when ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "USB FireWall : Track and Destroy “Autorun.inf” Virus in Your USB Drive ", url: "http://mytechquest.com/windows/usb-firew all-track-and-destroy-autoruninf-virus-in -your-usb-drive/" });
More About: Firewall , Tips and Tricks , Freeware

How to Remove Infected Autorun.inf File from Your Pen Drive?
2008-05-07 12:05:00
I always try to avoid using my pen drive on the computer in my campus. From my past experience, almost every time after bringing back my pen drive from the computer lab, my anti-virus will detects a virus in my “autorun.inf” file. Some of you might have this kind experience. Once your USB drive is ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "How to Remove Infected Autorun.inf File from Your Pen Drive ?", url: "http://mytechquest.com/windows/how-to-re move-infected-autoruninf-file-from-your-p en-drive/" });
More About: Tips and Tricks , Freeware

April 2008 Monthly Highlights
2008-05-03 06:18:00
This is the first time for me to highlight the popular posts on My Tech Quest since the migration from Blogger. So here you go the Top 5 Posts for last month, April 2008 . Watch Star Wars Episode IV in Your Command Prompt for Free (16,835 Views) How to Lock/Hide Your Folder in Windows XP without Using ...
More About: Blogging , Highlights

Magic Pen : Physic-based Crayon Game
2008-05-03 06:00:00
It’s game time! But before playing, you might want to recall a few basic physic knowledge that you?ve learned back in the school? Inertia? Gravity? Friction? Do this sound familiar to you? Why, you ask? Because we are going to apply it in this game. Magic Pen is a fun but challenging physic-based crayon drawing game ...
More About: Games , Game

Completely Remove Programs Without Leaving Traces Behind With Revo Uninstal
2008-05-02 06:00:00
The Windows Add/Remove Program utility is probably the worst uninstaller around. It is slow at loading all your installed applications and the uninstalling is never clean, leaving traces behind, such as registry entries. Every windows users seriously need a better uninstaller than the default one. One of the alternative is the Revo Uninstaller. I came ...
More About: Programs , Freeware , Leaving

Keep Your Wallpaper Fresh Every Time Your Windows Starts with WallChanger
2008-05-01 06:00:00
How often do you change your desktop wallpaper? If you do it frequently, it must be tedious for you to change the wallpaper manually from the Display Properties. That?s why most people rather choose to face the same old wallpaper on their desktop everyday than to change their wallpaper. How would you like if the ...
More About: Windows , Wallpaper , Time , Tips and Tricks , Freeware

How to Find Out if Your Friends Have Read Your Email?
2008-04-30 06:00:00
Have you ever wondering whether the emails that you sent to your friends has been read by them? You are curious to find out, aren’t you? But how, without the need to ask your friends ( are you serious? ) whether they have read the email or not? SpyPig – I Know You’ve Read My Email Forget all the guessing, because SpyPig is here to let you know. SpyPig is not an ordinary pig from the farm, it is a simple email tracking system that will notify you via email once your friends open and read your messages. Interested to try out? To start using SpyPig, you need to enter your email address, recipient’s name, message title, select your SpyPig tracking image and finally embed the tracking image into your email message. For firefox user, you need to drag and drop the tracking image instead. You should choose a blank image instead if you don’t want your recipients to aware it. That’s will make you a true spy! Lol! How does it works? SpyPig works by using a tracking image whose ref...
More About: Friends , Find

Make Your Windows Visible Again After System Crash
2008-04-29 07:22:00
When was the last time your Windows Explorer crashed? You probably have experienced this sometimes after crashing Windows Explorer that you cannot get access to your programs that was minimized to the system tray. Then you have no other choice other than to quit the windows applications that you?re unable to access and kiss goodbye ...
More About: System , Tips and Tricks , Make , Crash

How Fast is Your Reaction Time?
2008-04-25 21:52:00
I am sure most of you have read the news earlier this month on how blogging are seriously affecting the health of bloggers, most notably to tech bloggers. People died because of blogging. As a blogger, we must know when to blog and when to rest. When we feel tired, that the time to take a rest, have a cup of tea or coffee. The problem is bloggers have no idea when to rest. Therefore, I recommend you to play this game, Sheep Dash, purposely to test your reaction time. Is this related? Yes, of course! Here is an excerpt from BBC Science & Nature Website Tiredness can affect your reaction times. See how alert you are with this game and test the impact of a cup of tea or coffee on your performance. Game Instruction In this game, you need to click on tranquilizer button whenever you see a sheep leaving the flock and running for freedom. There are 5 sheep to stop. Let see how alert you are. Based on your reaction time, you will be rated – are you a sluggish snail or a ambling armadi...
More About: Time , Fast , Reaction

3 Tools to Hide Your Active Windows Applications from the Taskbar
2008-04-24 06:00:00
Just as you would hide your folders on your desktop to keep your personal details safe and also to protect your privacy, you might probably do the same to your running programs ? hide them from view, so that no one has the chance to peep on what programs that you are running, not ...
More About: Windows , Tools , Applications , Tips and Tricks , Freeware

The Word Clock
2008-04-23 06:00:00
I came across various types of clock designs before, but this has to be the most creative clock design that I have ever seen. I was impressed! So what?s so cool about this clock then? Have you seen any clocks that tell the time in text instead of the usual digits? The Word Clock is ...

Step by Step Windows XP Installation Using Windows XP Setup Simulator
2008-04-22 12:45:00
I still remember the first time I installed Windows XP on my computer and that was the time when I realized that the Windows installation was not as difficult as I thought it was. Since then, I never pay people to format my computer. It is actually a waste of money to pay people to ...
More About: Freeware , Setup , Step , Windows Xp

Watch REAL PORN in ASCII Version
2008-04-21 16:55:00
Warning : This post contains adult material. Please stay away if you feel offended. Do you remember my previous post on “How to Watch Free Adult Content via Your Windows Command Prompt“? There are a few people who actually feeling cheated disappointed because my so-called adult content was not what they expected it to be. So ...
More About: Internet , Interesting , Real

Free Blogger and Facebook Biz Cards for Everyone
2008-04-16 07:00:00
?Hi, I am Steve Yu and here is my Blogger business card.? As a blogger, do you ever promote your blog offline by giving people your Blogger business card? If no, how about getting one for yourselves? Probably not? How about for FREE then? Get Your Free Blogger and Facebook Business Cards OOPrint is very generous to offer ...
More About: Freebies , Blogging

How to Change Google Logo Text to Your Own Text?
2008-04-15 11:00:00
How would you like to replace the boring Google Text Logo with your own name or any names that look appealing to you? It really looks cool to me, now there is no more Google Logo Text in my firefox browser. What’s I have now is the My Tech Quest Search Engine!! LOL! If you find ...
More About: Internet , Interesting , Change

Track the Beijing Olympic Torch Relay Directly from the Web with Google Map
2008-04-13 16:10:00
For those who might not aware about the Beijing Olympic 2008 Torch Relay, it has actually started on March 24th and will travel across the globe till August 8 , starting from Greece into Beijing, then around the world ( in 130 days ) through cities, oceans, and even the world’s highest mountain, Mt Everest!! ...
More About: Google , Internet , Track

How to Lock/Hide Your Folder in Windows XP without Using Any Software?
2008-04-11 07:54:00
Normal Windows XP Users may not find the Windows command prompt to be much useful to them, but here is something useful ( sort of ) that you may find it interesting. Besides watching Star Wars movie and adult content ( mouth watering ya? ) via the command prompt, now you can even lock any ...
More About: Software , Windows Xp , Lock , Hide

How to Adjust Your MP3 Files to Play at Same Volume?
2008-04-10 23:47:00
I am sure that you don’t like to reach for the volume knob every time you play different songs on your computer or mp3 player, just because these songs don’t play at same volume. I found this to be very tedious sometime, why can’t these songs just play at the same volume? Luckily, I came ...
More About: Play , Tips and Tricks , Freeware , Files , Adjust

How to Watch Free Adult Content via Your Windows Command Prompt?
2008-04-08 08:49:00
Warning : This post contains adult material. So you have watched the Ascii version of Star Wars movie via your windows command prompt ( you can also watch the movie using any telnet client )? Now, let go for the real cool stuff, will you? Watch the free adult content right from your windows command prompt!! ...
More About: Windows , Interesting , Free , Tips and Tricks

Watch Star Wars Episode IV in Your Command Prompt for Free
2008-04-06 10:06:00
What can you do with your Windows command prompt? Here is one, watching Star Wars movie Episode IV - A New Hope, directly from the command prompt. How do that sounds to you? Interesting ? Here is how to watch the movie in Ascii. Go to Start > Run. In the Run box, type “cmd” ( without the ...
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Upload Your Files to Multiple File Sharing Services with just One Click
2008-04-05 16:15:00
Do you frequently upload your files to MegaUpload , Rapidshare or any other free file hosting services around? Uploading files to these file hosting services especially when you decided to upload it to multiple services will sure take you some time. I bet you don?t like to do the same uploading process over and over ...
More About: File Sharing , Internet , Services , File , Click

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