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The only way to ensure that deleted files, as well as files that you encrypt with EFS, are safe from recovery is to use a secure delete application. There are numerous softwares to securely delete sensitive files off your hard drive. In this tutorial we will be using SDelete (by previously sysinternal) which can be [...]

With the Taiwan’s earthquake and international links going down incidents, access to the world wide web has become much slower for most of the users in this region. The temporary workaround is to configure and use a proxy server in your web browser. A proxy server is a computer that offers a computer network service [...]

Have the Tab Mix Plus extension installed in your Firefox and recently encountered weird issues where links which open in new window/tab opens in your current tab instead? It happened to me and ck recently, which after some messing around, found out that the new update to the Tab Mix Plus was the cause of [...]

You probably would’ve noticed the dotted underlined red lines under misspelt words which are typed into text boxes/forms/fields. To me, it’s a rather welcomed feature since I use web applications and services quite a fair bit (I don’t misspell a lot, but automated checking is a bonus I guess ;)), but by default, the bundled [...]

If you have used word processing software such as Microsoft Word long enough, you would probably know by now that all the fancy formatting and styling you have for your document on your computer may look totally horrendous on another machine, especially when viewed with other ‘compatible’ word processing software such as Open Office‘s Writer [...]

We all have our must-have softwares and we at SphereLabs love our free softwares. One thing about free softwares on the net is the endless supply of updated versions. Now no one likes to check sites, download, launch and click through the installation wizard applications-after-application, version-after-versions. No one. Thus the birth of an innovative Windows-only [...]

This guide is based on my previously written guide here, but I’ve updated it slightly since most people are using Windows Live Messenger now, instead of the good-ol-MSN-Messenger. I understand that they are plenty of tools for you to backup your emoticons. However, this is a manual but rather safe way of doing it (since [...]

With the recent release of Firefox 2, there has been numerous changes to the interface as well as additional new features. In this short writeup, I’ll cover 3 tweaks which are the close tab button’s position, minimum tab width and a change to certain shortcut keys used in most forums.