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Entries for the ‘Digital Media’ Category

Hard drive destruction ‘crucial’

The only way to stop fraudsters stealing information from old computer hard drives is by destroying them completely, a study has found.
Computing magazine Which? recovered 22,000 “deleted” files from eight computers purchased on eBay.
Criminals source old computers from internet auction sites or in rubbish tips, to find users’ valuable details.
via BBC NEWS | Technology | [...]

USB & CD Custsomisation (Windows)

A number of people have asked me how to customise their USB stick so that it does different things depending on the machine into which the stick is inserted.  Perhaps when you insert the stick into one PC you need it to synchronise with a folder or make a backup of the stick, but when [...]

How to strip iTunes DRM from your music files

Update:  It seems QTFairUse has disappeared and the last version around only works on iTunes 6 - it looks like the only way for now is to burn to a CD and then re-rip the music - crazy.
The iTunes shop allows you to purchase and download music legally - it is also cheaper than going [...]