UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for a variety of Linux distributions from Windows or Linux, without requiring you to burn a CD. Take you favorite flavor of Linux, and create a bootable USB drive that you can take with you.  You can select from the list of pre-defined distributions, or point
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This is a short tutorial on how to use Clonezilla to make a backup copy of your hard drive.  Having the backup copy will allow you to restore your drive back to this point in time in case of a hardware failure or data corruption.

Clonezilla is an open-source clone system solution capable of both unicasting and multicasting. Clonezilla is a free alternative to other cloning systems like Norton Ghost and Symantec Ghost Corporate Edition.  This software comes in two editions, a live CD for backing up and restoring a single machine at a time and  the server edition which
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“Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux” Truecrypt has been my favorite encryption software by far for both Windows and Linux. I discovered it a few years ago and haven’t stopped using it since. It was the first encryption software I found, and after trying some others, there was
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Ever been working on your laptop and needed something that you left at home on your desktop? I do it all the time. I think I have found my solution. Dropbox is a internet “cloud” service that allows you to set a folder on your workstation as your “dropbox”. Anything in that folder will sync
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WinFF is a GUI for the command line video converter, FFMPEG. It will convert most any video file that FFmpeg will convert. WinFF does multiple files in multiple formats at one time. You can for example convert mpeg’s, flv’s, and mov’s, all into avi’s all at once. WinFF is available for Windows 95, 98 ,
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