Monday Morning Links Serving: The February 16th Edition

February 16, 2009 by Geeks are Sexy | 0 comments

-Properly Erase Your Physical Media
A whopping 40% of the used hard drives on eBay contain easily recoverable personal data. Use the following guide to ensure your personal data never makes it out into the wild.

-55 Firefox Add-Ons To Increase Your Security And Privacy
The following contains Firefox add-ons that protect the user from various threats on the Internet. They have been divided into the categories Browsing, Cache, Cookies, Identity & Privacy, Passwords and Misc.

-A Computer Repair Utility Kit You Can Run From a Thumb Drive
Technibble, the Australian site for aspiring computer techies, recently released the second version of its popular Computer Repair Utility Kit, a collection of 57 hand picked tools to help you diagnose and repair your Windows machine. [Via]

-Moonlight – Run Silverlight on Linux
Moonlight is an open source implementation of Silverlight, primarily for Linux and other Unix/X11 based operating systems. Download it here.

-Build the Perfect PC! Step-by-Step Illustrated How-To Guide
Automobile buffs can tune and customize their factory-built cars and trucks, but computer geeks like us get to build something new and unique almost entirely from whole cloth. And it’s so easy that you have to wonder why anyone would buy a preassembled PC in the first place.

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