COMPUTER TRICKS Every Daily Pauler Should Know!

Go to http://www.truecrypt.org/ and download TrueCrypt. Read the documentation first, then use it to encrypt your hard drive, especially your system drive. Put a really long password on it too. Then, every time windows boots up, you will have to enter in your long password before windows logs in. Whenever you leave your home, shut your computer off. If the cops or feds ever come to take it, don't worry, cause anything on your hard drive that might be used against you in a court of law will be safe. They will not be able to break in.

Warning: Please read up on this and learn what you are doing 1st. I've only scratched the surface. I don't yet know how to send encrypted e-mails, other than using hushmail, but i do want to learn how to secure my communications. I like privacy.

One thing I do fairly often is select a bunch of text I want and copy it to notepad. It's quick and easy to do.

Windows+R, notepad, Enter, Alt+Tab, Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, Alt+Tab, Ctrl+V

Can save info from web pages, comments that might change, etc...

The thing I use it for most though, is my own writings on a website. Too many times I've spent a good lenghth of time creating a post/comment/idea and then when clicking "Submit" the site crashes, or the computer, or browser crashes or something. Just copy/paste what you're working on into notepad and you'll never lose those hours of thought again.

I also use it on some websites to put together rebuttals where the conversation and who said what when gets twisted (often on purpose). Copy/Paste quotes from who you're speaking with and put it all together with rebuttals in notepad then copy/paste it into whatever conversation.

Edit: whoops, surrounded some text in greaterthan/lessthan symbols heh.

When you are discussing "sensitive" information, use a free IP mask proxy. This hides your ip and if you use a couple of them, you can not be tracked. When you don't mind everyone tracking what you say - use regular browser settings.

Detective Krum Investigates:
http://victory1project.wordpress.com/
http://v1-p.com/

You just plug in a usb drive and it does the rest.

One of the coolest features in Mac 10.5 is Spaces. Go into system preferences and learn how to use spaces and expose. It gives you access to unlimited desktops at the flip of the wrist.

First things:

*don't be afraid of it
*learn to make back-ups, backups, backups...
*learn how to redo the operating system
*tweak it, manually if need be cause most tweaking programs are for the know-nothing general population (main stream). There are some that are good!

couple of sites, yes there's more but I haven't done any tweaking in quite-a-while:

http://www.mdgx.com/0.php

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/supertweaks.htm

To use Linux as your OS. I use pclinuxos, winblows free fer 4 years :)

and probably some other browsers as well is:

Space bar for page down
Shift - Space bar for page up

Most people don't know it, but there is a keyboard shortcut for just about every function and navigation.

We used Norton anti-virus "products". Norton really slows your computer down and is a perpetual pain-in-the-neck to use.

Now we use ESET for anti-virus. It's fast and simple to use.

Run something like peer guardian and have ipcop on a standalone between you and the world

I always recommend downloading mozilla firefox, installing it as your default browser, and throwing the icon for internet explorer into the recycle bin as a "first thing" on a new install. Add a "open a new tab" shortcut next to the home page shortcut on the toolbar, and you're all set to go.

I have anywhere from 5 to 15 tabs at all times. That's how you really start to dig for information. People link nowadays so much, you can take your information gathering LEVELS past what you'd normally do with just one window or tab.

But the real important thing is to try and never use internet explorer, but if you must, be careful. Firefox and Opera much better IMO. Definitely worth a look if you've never used another browser.

"You are a den of Vipers.I intend to rout you out and by the Eternal God I will rout you out."