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TrueCrypt is encryption software: it can keep your files from being accessed unless the correct password/keyfile(s), or encryption keys, are used.

TrueCrypt will hide operating systems, also!

BEFORE USING THE SOFTWARE, I strongly recommend you at least browse through the TrueCrypt User’s Guide. It is included in the download, and available to you after you execute the file you downloaded. It is best that, before you use TrueCrypt, you become familiar with: some of the terms, what the software will do and how it will perform, and where you can refer to if you have a question. The Beginner’s Tutorial chapter can be viewed at http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/tutorial.php

[One of those terms you will need to be familiar with: a TrueCrypt volume is also known as a “container”, a file that contains the encrypted files.]

After you download the setup file (from http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads.php), and execute it, you are offered to: “install” it, or to “extract” it. If you choose “extract”, you can save the files to a folder…and carry and use it on an external drive. This is a version of “traveler” mode (which can also be used if TrueCrypt is installed to an operating system).

The User’s Guide states that there are two ways to run TrueCrypt in ‘traveler’ mode:
1) After you unpack the binary distribution archive (what you downloaded), you can directly run TrueCrypt.exe.
2) You can use the Traveler Disk Setup facility to prepare a special “traveler” disk, and launch TrueCrypt from there.

You will need to create a TrueCrypt file container on the USB flash drive (see the Beginner’s Tutorial), so…

Before you use TrueCrypt on a USB flash drive, know that:
1) If you encrypt the entire USB flash drive, you will not be able run TrueCrypt from the USB flash drive.
2) Before you choose the size for the TrueCrypt container on a USB drive, if you leave enough space on the USB flash drive for TrueCrypt (not IN the “container” file – along WITH the “container” file), you will be able to run TrueCrypt from the USB flash drive (see the Traveler Mode chapter in the User’s Guide).

It is not difficult to use…do not fear trying it to see if it will work for your security needs.

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Mozilla Firefox 3.0.2

Firefox 3 Release Notes

Firefox 3.0.2 contains the following updates:

  • Fixed several stability issues.

  • Official releases for Sinhala and Slovene are now available.

  • Beta releases for Bengali, Galician, Hindi, Icelandic, Kannada, Marathi, Telegu, and Thai are available for testing.

  • Fixed a number of minor issues with the layout of certain web pages.

  • Fixed several theme issues that affected right-to-left locales.

  • Fixed issue that caused some users with customized toolbars to have their Back and Forward buttons go missing (bug 426026)

  • Add new Extended Validation (EV) roots to Firefox 3.0.2.

  • On certain IDN sites, the password manager would not fill in username and password details properly.

  • Fixed several hangs and crashes that occurred when using screen readers.

      • Fixed Mac-specific issues:

      • Keyboard shortcuts would stop working in some cases.

      • Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Indic characters can not be entered (using IME) into text fields in Flash objects (bug 357670)

      • Firefox 3.0.1 could not be used when the user profile is stored on an AFP directory (bug 417037)
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      Photoshop Cafe

      PhotoshopCAFE Presents:

      It’s been exactly three weeks since the Photoshop World Convention in Las Vegas. I haven’t had a chance to write a thing about what I had seen and what products we had a chance to look at and bring back with us from the convention.

      I’ve tested out some of the products we brought back like Fluid Mask 3, the #1 still-image masking tool and SiteGrinder 2 which turns Adobe Photoshop into an easy-to-use and powerful website design and production tool. I’m also going to take a look at LicenseStream, a product by ImageSpan that lets you manage the rights, permissions, and licenses for your photos and videos.

      The product I did get a chance to test out and use in depth was the training video that I received from Colin Smith of PhotoshopCafe. The Photoshop and Dreamweaver Integration Tutorial DVD he hand us at the conference has saved me hours and hours of website design work.

      This training tutorial has been the most useful tool for me as a web designer. Yes, I’ve seen videos on YouTube that helped me in certain areas of what I do but the Photoshop and Dreamweaver Integration Tutorial Video from Colin Smith helped me in ALL areas of what I need to do for the Photoshop designs that I created.

      Mr. Smith also gave us “Flash CS3 for Designers” to try out and I am excited about this DVD as well since we are finding out more and more that our clients really want to add some Flash on their websites. I have only scratched the surface when it comes to Flash, but I know that Mr. Smith will teach me quite a bit more of what I need to know to help our clients!

      So, if you are searching for a tutorial video that will help you in your web design skills, I highly recommend Colin Smith’s PhotoshopCAFE Training Tutorials. You can find his Tutorials by visiting http://www.photoshopcafe.com/.

      Take a look and browse around the site. He has some useful snippets of videos for products like the new CS4 products, CS3, Lightroom and much, much more!
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      Adobe Launches Creative Suite 4

      Adobe this morning outlined the offerings in the companies new Creative Suite 4. For Web Designers, graphics designers and multimedia producers; each suite offers something for everybody. A Master suite is available which combines the design, web and production suites.
      For more infomation, check out the article at http://www.techtalkradio.com/articles/adobecs4launch.html

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      ANSI versus Unicode

      After our radio show, we received a call from Rudy. He wanted to know about ANSI…

      The American National Standards Institute is an organization that promotes standards. One of them was the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) character set (letters, numbers, and symbols) that computers use. One major draw back to ASCII was you could only have 256 different characters.

      Unicode allows for up to 65,536 different characters. In the past, Unicode was not compatible with all operating systems. If you are using a current operating system, I expect you should not be concerned about choosing Unicode.

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