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- Want to do more than just live? Get more out of life? Need help with life's everyday issues?
- LifeMag.info
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- The Right Way To Save A Life, Including Your Own, According to Dr. Heimlich and the Red Cross
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- Ingredients in our personal care products, cosmetics, foods, water and air are also dangerous to our health. How to be a safe shopper.
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- Have chronic, searing, debilitating muscle pain? If caused by trigger points, you can relieve it yourself and avoid unnecessary surgery. Learn more.
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- What you need to do to keep your child safe at MySpace.com and other Web hangouts.
- Too smart for the dangers at MySpace? Think again!
- Beware the CyberLover [Bot] That Steals Personal Data in Chat Rooms and Social Networks Through Social Engineering
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- Virtually Worry-Free Computing - Sufficiently Secure and Private Web Surfing
- Sold, recycled, donated and discarded computers, PDAs and cell phones can contain recoverable private data even after a delete, format or reset. How to securely erase your data.
- How to avoid becoming a victim of or recover from America's credit card debt crisis and recent fee deregulation.
- Parent! Seriously consider moving your preteen or earliteen from MySpace or another Web hangout to imbee or YoKidsYo. Here's why.
- Thinking of buying Windows Vista or a Windows Vista PC? Before you do, seriously consider this first.
- Putting up with a noisy computer? Give your ears and nerves a break. Buy or build a quiet or silent computer.
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- Does the Bible say God will torture bad people in hell for eternity?
- Was Jesus just a man who married Mary Magdalene? Has the church been hiding information from us for years about Jesus? Don't decide too quickly. Examine the evidence first.
- Think conclusive cases can't be made for the Bible and Jesus as the God/Man Messiah? You'd be surprised. The overwhelming mountain of factual, historical evidence is too compelling, too convincing to be ignored.
- Investigate the Reliability of the Bible
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- If God exists, why is there evil in the world?
- If you're angry at God or see Him in a negative way, discover the good news about God's character and gifts of peace, joy, meaning and eternal life.
- Examine false assumptions about God and Christianity, and why they make us so miserable and unhappy.
- Videos of What God Has Done for Others
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- ''We are living in very interesting times. Too many people are confused about what the Bible says about the future, and a lot of that has to do with confusion about Israel.'' Learn more.
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- Don't automatically assume the entertainment industry is harmless. Listen to ''Escape From the Black Hole'' or get the DVD.
- Don't automatically assume the growing fascination with Harry Potter, witches, wicca and the occult is harmless either. Explore these controversial topics.
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How to Securely Erase Private Data
Crucial Steps You Need To Take Before Typical After-Work Erasing With Eraser
CAUTION: Reading the following steps carelessly could cause you to disable your system and / or lose data you want to keep. So be sure to read them carefully.
Previous Step: Secure Windows and Your Data
Encrypt Windows or Move Private Data to Read-Only or Encrypted Removable Media
- WARNING: Storing private data on your hard drive leaves them vulnerable to viewing or theft, even if encrypted, if a key logger is installed on your PC.
- I strongly recommend moving your private documents, browsing history, e-mail and chat conversations to an encrypted removable medium, securely erasing the private data on your hard drive, switching to portable software and checking for hardware and software key loggers before entering your encryption key.
- Note: If you use Internet Explorer and want to keep its cache for faster web page viewing, I recommend either moving your Temporary Internet Files folder to a separate encrypted partition on your hard drive (fairly secure) or removable medium (more secure) created and sized only for that folder...
- ...or better yet, switching to a portable, alternative browser to minimize privacy risks, significantly reduce defragmentation of your system files and help keep Windows from committing errors or slowing down.
- If you don't need the cache, disable it. (I recommend doing that even if you're going to switch to a more private and secure browser, to maximize your privacy.)
- WARNING: Failing to securely erase your private data after copying or moving them to a removable medium, leaves them accessible to those willing and able to recover them from their original location.
- So after moving them, make sure you either delete the original data and then erase the free or empty space on your hard drive, or erase the original files with Eraser or one of these other free secure-erasing software.
- Lock it Easy (free - manages flash partitions and encrypts data)
- How to Move All of Your Valuable Data from Windows to a New Partition
- How to Move Your Outlook or Outlook Express E-Mail
- How to Move Your Thunderbird Profile or E-Mail
- How to Move Your Opera E-Mail
- How to Move or Disable Internet Explorer's Cache
- How to Move Firefox's Profile or Cache
- How to Move Opera's Cache
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- How to Change the Mail and News Folders' Default Locations in Outlook Express (IMPORTANT: If you change the location of the mail store to either a mapped drive or a removable drive, this action is not supported by Microsoft. In this case, use the procedure described in this article at your own risk.
- How to Change the Default Locations of Outlook Express's Mail and the News Folders with a Registry Hack
- How to Move Your Outlook Mail, Contacts and Settings to Another Location
- Lexar 256MB, 512MB and 1GB JumpDrive Traveler USB Flash Drive (private browsing and portable and synchronized Outlook Express e-mail)
- Lexar 128MB JumpDrive Traveler USB Flash Drive
- Note: Lexar's JumpDrive Traveler has been discontinued and not replaced.
- Software that create portable Outlook and / or Outlook Express e-mail: skip
- EssentialPIM (free and commercial - imports, exports and synchronizes Outlook)
- P.I. Protector Mobility Suite (commercial)
- (all Carry it Easy software are commercial and require administrative access)
- Carry it Easy (commercial - portable Outlook Express only - U3 edition available for U3 smart drives, which will be replaced by StartKey in last half of 2008)
- Carry it Easy +Plus (commercial - creates portable Outlook and Outlook Express e-mail - U3 edition available for U3 smart drives)
- How to Move Your Thunderbird Profile (includes your e-mail)
- How to Move Your Thunderbird E-Mail Folder (if you only want to move your e-mail, not the whole profile folder)
- How to Move Your Temporary Internet Files Folder (Cache) in Internet Explorer
- A Guide to Temporary Internet Files (includes how much disk space you should use for cache)
- How to Mostly Disable Internet Explorer's Cache (it's not possible to completely disable Internet Explorer's cache)
- How to Move Your Firefox Profile (includes cache, cookies, form history, bookmarks and preferences)
- Specify Where to Store the Cache in Firefox (if you only want to move the cache, not the whole profile folder)
- Moving Opera's Wand and History Files, Cache and Mail Folders to Other Locations: skip
- How to Change Their Paths in the opera6.ini File (never edit while Opera is running)
- How to Change Their Paths in the opera:config page
- Where to Change Paths:
- In User Prefs:
- Cache Directory4
- Opera Directory (profile folder, includes Direct History File - typed-in URLs - and Global History File)
- Wand Storage File
- In Mail:
- Mail Root Directory
Secure Erasing Guide
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- Section 2: Crucial Steps You Need To Take Before Typical After-Work Erasing With Eraser
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