Announced at the latest 2015 Consumer Electronics Show in California, the storage and memory manufacturer recently released their new innovation in portable data storage. Based on the DataTraveler Locker series, Kingston’s new portable flash drive takes the secure hardware encryption and matches it with cloud based technology so that your data is safe, secure and always ready for you to use. With automatic backup solutions from Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Dropbox and ClevX all available to work flawlessly, the user can ensure that files never go missing again. Furthermore, if the drive does happen to be misplaced, the high-level Kingston encryption…
Author: Justin Vendette
Countless times, whether it be at work or here on the forum, I have seen users with a desperate desire to recover their old deleted data. Whether it be by accident or not, some of our data can be priceless and with many people lacking a secondary backup, recovery software can truly save the day. The Windows recycle bin is where many files are temporarily stored until the user chooses to delete them for good. Most peoples’ understanding is that emptying the recycle bin means that their files are completely deleted without recovery. Fortunately, should they wish to recover those…
How would you like to make a contribution to the publication of articles and blogs in this burgeoning section of TSF? Don’t worry if you are not a great writer. As long as you can contribute something useful we can always sort out things like grammar and spelling. What we need from you is the technical input. Don’t feel that this needs to be at scientific journal level. We are looking for anything from short, newsy, technical blogs to lengthy, detailed technical articles with everything in between. If, on the other hand, your strong point is as a wordsmith, but…
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For those who have to carry around a large heavy laptop design for desk operation this can be quite tedious. Furthermore, while on a business trip a computer is required for daily emails, PowerPoints, and other related tasks, so a smartphone won’t suffice. While businesses are beginning to transition into the era of tablets, it spawns a new concern as when the employee has returned to the office, they are surrounded by a desk, monitor, mouse and keyboard, but cannot use any of these on their tablet. Although some tablets, like the Microsoft Surface, make a good attempt at replacing…
In a country that is dominated by the classic American Football game, the gentleman’s game of Golf still features in the top ten most watched sports in America. Where eye coordination, proper stance, and ball positioning are all crucial towards achieving that hole-in-one, understanding yourself is the true way to become one of the professionals we all see on TV. As mentioned by the famous golfer, Arnold Palmer: “Success in golf depends less on strength of the body than upon strength of mind and character.” Similar to how a gamer may watch his previous matches, professional sport players tend to…
Whether you are a home based computer enthusiast, local computer repair shop owner, or an IT Manager, chances are you’ve experienced troubling hard drive issues. A hard drive is a delicate component of any computer due to the trust people put into them to store data. While modern technology has allowed for mechanical hard drives to become more robust, hard drive manipulation software has been lacking from both the manufacturer and third party companies. Although Windows’ built in Disk Management tool offers a free and easy to use interface for hard drives, certain tasks like adjusting partition sizes on the…
When purchasing online, signing up for forums, or logging into an account, chances are you’ll face the irritation of guessing the curvy words inside a captcha box. Known as a Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart, a captcha box is the standard defensive against spam bots that scour the internet. Although captcha boxes offer a great defense, the words used can be nearly impossible to read for a human. As shown below, captcha attempts to take words from books, pictures, and other sources and attempts to distort the image, making the text unreadable to spam…
One of the most crucial components of any computer is the type of memory used within a system. Offered in different styles, capacities, and speeds, a computer’s memory can severely affect performance when it comes to gaming, video editing or even internet browsing. A computer’s random access memory (RAM) is used to store data that are currently being used, or have recently been used. Because the speed of access is independent of the position that the data are stored in, and because no mechanical components are used in data retrieval, data that are stored in RAM can be manipulated far…
We all have our favorite song or favorite band that we listen to until we get sick of it. Music excites us, changes our mood, lets us recall memories, and it’s something that we seek. With smartphones overtaking the portable MP3 market, the built-in smartphone speakers are mediocre at best, due to their small size. If we’re having a group gathering or want to play some music as we work out in the yard or inside the house, a durable portable speaker is desirable. A while back I had the opportunity to review the outstanding Logitech UE Boom, a water-resistant,…