Wednesday 4 May 2011

Deleting your personal information before selling your computer

So you’ve decided to sell your computer, I guess you’ll be wanting to erase all your personal information before you let it out of your hands then?!

I'm going to assume that most of you are Windows users so this guide is tailored to it. Now you have two main options before you sell your computer, one is to completely erase the hard drive, the other is to only erase specific personal files securely. Both methods use free software available to download from the internet.....

Thursday 13 January 2011

How to generate, use and remember a strong password or passphrase

We use passwords every day and on lots of different systems, so its not surprising that it’s a bit confusing trying to choose unique, strong passwords that can be easily remembered. In this post we’ll first deal with the criteria of a fairly good password then we’ll look at a few tips to help you choose good passwords that you can easily remember....