Just Got My New U3 Flash Drive.

Well I just got my new flash drive, I’m not a heavy user of them but thought it was time to update from my Kingston DataTraveler II 256mb’s, and looking at the modern stuff I was only going for maybe a 1 – 2 gigs with u3.
So after looking around the online shops for a bit I found a SanDisk Cruzer Micro, well after my short wait it came in the post I didn’t really have much time to check it out but plugged it in and I got this little icon showing in the system tray clicked it and wow I have another start bar, with Skype and Avast antivirus software. I downloaded a couple more programs for my u3 flash drive and you can get loads of things to make you feel at home, on my drive I now have WinRAR, Firefox, Thunderbird and Trillian.
There is a small downfall to these u3 drives which are things like places such as your local school or college will have a high probability of not allowing you to run things like this for security reason which is kind of disappointing because it means you have to go back to using internet explorer, not your portable version of Firefox.
Overall if you don’t have U3 on your current flash drive get it, its simply amazing at how good it is. My favorite part of this is you can synchronies your computer to other peoples so you can put your bookmarks on a computer where you plug your flash drive in or you can change the background to your own, so go buy one its great now I have one I don’t think I could go back to my old non u3 drive.

Set your Num lock Caps lock and scroll lock.

Well here’s a simple tip to make your indicators to be changed when you boot up.

First you want to hold your windows key and press ‘r’ type in ‘regedit’ and hit enter.

Second you want to go in to “HKEY_USERS \ .Default \ Control_Panel \ Keyboard” in that look for the value saying: ‘initialkeyboardindicators’ and double click on it

0 – indicators off.

1 – Caps lock on.

2 – Num lock on.

3 – Caps lock & Num lock on.

4 – Scroll lock on.

5 – Caps lock on & Scroll lock on.

6 – Num lock on & Scroll lock on.

7 – All on (caps, num & scroll lock)

USB Flash Drives Security Issues, And How To Secure Your PC.

I’m a large fan of USB flash drives I always have one on me with everything on it.

But recently my attention has been drawn to the security problems they face, after watching some podcasts I see that people can steal everything that is on your drive or they can use a flash drive to steal passwords etc.

I’ve tried this out on my friend’s pc for a laugh for all of his passwords from msn login passwords to the computer access password.

When looking at the other one that will steal your data on your actual flash drive, which I can see happening a lot I have not yet, tried it out I’m waiting for a new USB flash drive to try it out.

So how can you protect yourself, well for the hack that steals your data from your USB drive you will need to hold down shift when plugging in your USB drive, because it will steal your data when if auto run’s so upon holding shift it will not do this.

YouTube have sold up to Google.

You may have seen one of my posts before saying how Google are planning on buying YouTube, and finally they have sold up for 1.6 billion dollars which is around £883 million.

This can only mean good things for Google, upon reading a BBC news article it says “Google has also signed distribution deals of its own, with Sony BMG and Warner Music to offer music videos.”

So I would say we can see big things coming for YouTube and I can’t wait to see what goes on with it.

Peer 2 Peer, Why Do We Even Use Them!

Well lets get started with mentioning the most well known one kazzaa aka virus city, and we all know that their not for legal things are they the most common files to be seen on there are mp3’s this also goes for Limewire and all the others.

Now for the best of all Bit torrent, this is the most legally used p2p program all around, you will see a lot of pod casters using torrents to hand out their files because it will save their bandwidth and allow their viewers to also help host their videos which is a large help!

So a lot of people ask why p2p the answers simple speed, you’re downloading of several peers allowing you to download faster than the normal http downloads which is where you’re downloading from one person.

So why do people download mp3’s off p2p programs, also a simple answer their free its only illegal to share your files that’s why Limewire has become so popular because you can turn that option off.