Many flash drive owners complain that their devices get infected with a virus easily. A flash drive virus works by writing itself onto your flash drive. If you could somehow temporarily disable the writing permissions on your drive, your flash drive would be more secure. At the same time, you will be unable to accidentally delete or modify the flash drive’s contents.

In order to achieve this, you can use a utility called “USB Write Protect” which disables writing or modifying on your flash drive.

USB Write Protect is tiny Windows utility sized at only 11 KB. You download the archive, extract it, and run the executable in it. This is what the executable looks like while running:

Before you click on the “Apply” button, plug out your flash drive and plug it back in. Then check the “Enable Write Protect” option and click on the “Apply” button. Finally click on the “Close” button.

Now head on over to your flash drive folder in Windows Explorer. If you try creating a new document you will encounter a message telling you that the disk is write protected.

If you right click on an object already in the flash drive, you will find no “delete” option in the context menu.

Highlighting a flash drive object and clicking the “delete” button on the keyboard will also not delete the object.

You can place the USB Write Protect executable within your flash drive so that you can use on any computer you plug your drive into. Its function is simple and flawless. Get USB Write Protect.32526d046bf24ff9bb59957cd60d9840

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At times sharing the URL of a site simply does not get the job done. Suppose there is a specific part of a website which you have an opinion about; to share this opinion you will first need to separately share the site’s URL, then tell the recipient which part of the site you are referring to, then share your opinion. Needless to say, that process can be quite long – Bounce provides a much shorter way to perform that task.

Bounce is a free and simple to use website that lets you annotate webpages. Annotation is to comment on any area of a webpage. This way when the recipient visits the webpage, he can view your comments on a specific area of the webpage – thus entire process outlined above can be completed simply by sharing a URL.

You start by visiting Bounce’s homepage and entering the URL of the site you want to annotate. Let us assume the site is Yahoo!.

After you submit the link, Bounce will capture a screenshot of the website. On this capture image, you can make comments. The image is shown under an editing panel.

You should start commenting by naming the page in the top left.

This step is not necessary, but some users might prefer to type in their name in the middle of the editing pane.

When you bring your mouse pointer over to the image, the mouse pointer changes to a crosshair and you can click’n’drag to highlight any area on the webpage. Subsequently a box open beneath this area in which you can leave comments.

There is no restriction on how many red boxes you can create – you can leave as many comments as you want.
To share this annotated webpage, head on to the top right of the site and click on the “Save” button to obtain the URL. From here you can also directly share the URL to your Facebook or Twitter account.

Visiting this URL will show all your red boxes; when the visitor brings his mouse pointer over a to a box, your comment appears beneath it.

Bounce

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Professional font creators have mastered the tools of their trade and know exactly how to bring their font concepts to life. But what if you are a web developer who has only recently entered the arena of font creation. You have not familiarized yourself with many tools yet and it might be a while before you can actually create the font that you are thinking of.

To dodge the traditional font creation tools, you can use a wonderful service named Pilot Handwriting.

Pilot Handwriting lets you create a font in your handwriting. You achieve this in a few easy steps:

1. First, you create an account on the site.
2. Next you print out a template. This template contains empty spaces in front of each font character.
3. You write in the empty spaces, in your own handwriting, or whatever writing you want the font to be in.
4. You provide the image of the filled-out paper to the site. You can do this by scanning the image through a scanner, or taking a snapshot through a webcam or digital camera.
5. Pilot Handwriting recognizes each character and provides you with option to modify each character.
6. Once done editing, you can save your font with a custom name.
7. You can use any one of your created fonts to write a letter on the site and email it to the recipient.

Unfortunately the letter is the only thing you can do with your created font; the site does not let you download the font you create. But still, sending people e-letters in your own handwriting will appeal to many people.

Pilot Handwriting is a website with a very unique font creation idea. Check out Pilot Handwriting.

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Sudoku generator has 3 levels of difficulty, solved
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the created Sudoku grid or play on your computer screen,
no installation is required, simply download Sudoku.exe
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MiniMagics Free Stl Viewer is a free viewer for 3D
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BitNami WordPress Stack greatly simplifies the deployment
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Acronis Drive Monitor is a free, downloadable software
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But those disks are vulnerable to severe failures that
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Genie Timeline free Edition is a backup software that
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