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MiniTool Partition Wizard 1. MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition This is a partition manager on steroids. It has everything I ever knew about partitions ( and much I didn't know), and it is extremely easy to use. I figured it out in just a few glances and I think that is a testament to how user friendly its GUI (Graphical User Interface) is. Now I am constantly reformatting my USB card for many different reasons and this program does its job faster than any other partition manager I have seen. I also like MiniTool's manager because it can do more and does everything faster. MiniTool's manager can format a partition for Linux, Macs, or Windows file systems, or can leave the partition it created unformatted, and can create more than one partition on a USB drive without fail. This works in pretty much anyWindows OS (Operating System) except some Windows servers. but there is a separate version for servers, so it doesn't seem to matter. http://www.partitionwizard.com/
Lunascape Web Browser
Luna is my favorite browser, it has Trident (Internet Explorer), Gecko (Firefox/Flock), and Webkit (Chrome and Safari) rendering engines built in, so you can switch between them, or even have tabs with different engines. It has separate settings for each engine, and settings that apply to all three. It is the most customizable web browser I have found. The first few times you run it is a little slow, but it sped up for me after a few times and is almost as fast as my Flock browser. I usually use either Trident or Gecko, simply because I am used to them. It has far more settings than Flock or Internet Explorer, and I do make use of them all in some way. Luna is also compatible with most add-ons for all 3 engines. It is also useful for website owners, because it has a feature that lets you view the same tab in all 3 engines in 1 tab. Overall I think it is an amazing piece of software.
FreeFileViewer 3. FreeFileViewer The Free File Viewer can open many different file extensions from Word documents to pdf files, Excel sheets, some images, some audio files, and who knows what else? I don't use it very often myself, because i have Word and image viewers and don't use audio files much, but it could come in handy. Supported extensions include, but are nor limited to, DOC, DOCX, PDF, TXT, XLS, XLSX, JPG, PNG, GIF, PSD, FLV, MP4, MOV, MPG, FLAC, MP3, OGG, WMA, and various other formats like BIN, CFG, DAT, DIZ and more. I use it to open pdf files. All in all it is a useful program. *Editor's Note: Downloads require you to download associated software such as, but not limited to, tool bars. The author's website URL is: (Uses Microsoft Windows Explorer Interface) 4. ICEOWS (a compressor/decompressor) I use ICE on a daily basis. It compresses ZIP, ARJ, and its own type of compressed file .ICE, but it can decompress CE,ARJ, ZIP, GZIP, TAR, MS-CAB, RAR, ACE, Quake 3 Mime, UUE, XXE, B64, HQX), Java Archive (JAR, EAR, WAR), LZS, LZH, LHA, IMP, and BZ2. The compression/decompression is fast. ICEOWS decompresses file sizes of several hundred megabytes in seconds on a slow computer (an important thing for me as I download disk image files often). The files in question were Anyboot mage files for an operating system called Haiku. it is extremely fast even when I boot it off my USB card. I use Windows Explorer as my file manager and Ice adds its own context side menu to it, for all file and folder right clicks. It makes uncompressing those big files even faster.than other similar programs. Both their compressed folders aren't blue so Ice beats other programs. (yes, ICEOWS files are blue and they are way cooler than the yellow whatever color windows .ZIP files/folders are). Ice uses the Microsoft Windows Explorer Interface.
Left: Truecrypt
Truecrypt and FreeOTFE are two encryption programs. These programs can add excellent hacker protection to your computer, because they can't access your files, system, or really anything at all if you do things right. Both of these programs can encrypt drives. Truecrypt can encrypt the system drive, or any other drive, even if you booted off that drive, without deleting the contents of the drive. Sadly, FreeOTFE can't encrypt the system drive and it deletes all information on the encrypted drive prior to encryption, but it has other features that Truecrypt doesn't have. Both can create an encrypted virtual drive on your computer, encrypt a partition, or the entire disk. I suggest Truecrypt for disks with important files on them, but for an empty drive/partition you can go either way. They both have a great feature, they can both encrypt and mount unallocated data as a virtual drive. The possibilities truly are endless if you can imagine a crazy way to use these two great programs. The algorithms are near military level encryption except for DES and TRIDES (or Triple DES) algorithms. I personally use both of these programs very often. They both use easy to understand wizards for creating drives and explain how to mount them as well. All encrypted virtual hard disk files/disks/disk partitions, are password protected with your choice of password, but Truecrypt has a random password generator. Both of these programs do not say they have truly random data for anything. No program can create true random data, a computer is not capable of it because of its architecture.
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