Effortlessly create a secret disk on your hard drive

Do you have sensitive files or data you want to keep away from prying eyes? Secret Disk will create a space on your hard drive, only accessible with a password, and invisible to Windows explorer.
When you install Secret Disk, you have to set a password (which you mustn't forget). This will create a 'drive' with a letter like Z. When you open Secret Disk, enter the correct password to open the drive folder. You can store whatever you like in here, as long as you have space on your hard drive! Close and lock the folder, and it will disappear from Windows.
Your secret disk only appears when you open the application and enter the right password. In the program's settings you can choose to have Secret Disk notify you if there are failed attempts at accessing the hidden drive. Secret Disk is a pretty effective application, although the application itself isn't hidden, so other users may notice there is something to find!
Easy to set up and use, Secret Disk is a quick way to set up a private folder on your PC to safely store your sensitive documents.

Pros

Really simple to set up
Excellent settings menu

Cons

You can't name your secret disk
Can only create one disk.

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Easy And Reliable Windows 7/Vista/XP/2008/2003/2000 Password Recovery Tool

Windows Password Unlcoker Professional provides you an easy and safe solution when you forgot logon password for Windows 7/Vista/XP/ 2008/2003/2000 machines. It allows you to instantly remove forgotten Windows logon password by burning a bootable password reset CD/DVD or USB flash drive. And its good compatibility and performance guarantee you high Windows password recovery speed with 100% success rate. 1. 100% Windows password recovery rate Reset Windows administrator password, standard user password, and guest password Support CD/DVD and USB flash drive Work on various Windows OS like Windows 7/Vista/XP/2008/2003/2000 2. Easy and Instant Recovery Intuitive GUI interface allows you to smoothly reset Windows password within 3 steps
1. Reset Windows password within 3 steps : Download and install - Burn a bootable reset disk 2. Reset Windows password Instantly reset Windows password in 5 minutes, regardless of its length and complexity 3. 100% secure and cost-effective No any damage or loss to your computer data and settings 4. No need to learn the old password 5. No need to reinstall Windows or resort to PC experts. Burned bootable disk can be repeatedly used for a same computer.
Reset Windows password within 3 steps : Download and install - Burn a bootable reset disk Reset Windows password Instantly reset Windows password in 5 minutes, regardless of its length and complexity 100% secure and cost-effective No any damage or loss to your computer data and settings
Efficient Windows password reset software for you to reset or bypass the forgotten or lost Windows login password

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Upload your work locally with this superb tool

XAMPP is a collection of easy-to-install web servers – in other words, programs that let you test dynamic web pages locally.
Setting up an web server isn’t always an easy job, so to make it as efficient and quick as possible, download XAMPP, which includes Apache, MySQL, PHP, PEAR, PERL, OpenSSL, FileZilla FTP Server, Mercury Mail and more. These are the instruments you’ll need to create your databases and/or manage web sites.
XAMPP is perfect for web developers and avid bloggers. Don’t expect a clear explanation of each part, though, and certainly not a built-in XAMPP tutorial – you’ll need a certain amount of programming knowledge to get to grips with this software.
Crucially for a web server, XAMPP is very easy to install, and doesn’t require any complicated set-up. Add that to the program’s easy-to-use interface and the wealth of extra information and help available online (check under Extras), and XAMPP shapes up as a very worthy tool.
XAMPP is an all-in-one tool for dynamic web page developers. Free and open source, it’s primarily designed for professionals, but with a bit of effort can be mastered by most.

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MySQL (5.5.11)
PHP (5.3.6)
phpMyAdmin (3.3.10)

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The philosophy behind XAMPP is to build an easy to install distribution for developers to get into the world of Apache. To make it convenient for developers XAMPP is configured with all features turned on.

The default configuration is not good from a securtiy point of view and it's not secure enough for a production environment - please don't use XAMPP in such environment.

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All-in-one app
Free
Good online community

Cons

Not for beginners
Help is just ok

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Microscale Medical Sensors Inserted Under Skin Powered Wirelessly by External Handheld Receiver

Mar. 27, 2013 — Implantable electronic devices potentially offer a rapid and accurate way for doctors to monitor patients with particular medical conditions. Yet powering such devices remains a fundamental challenge: batteries are bulky and eventually need recharging or replacing. Jia Hao Cheong at the A*STAR Institute for Microelectronics, Singapore, and his co-workers are developing an alternative approach that eliminates the need for a battery. Their miniature devices are based on wireless power-transfer technology.

The research team has developed a microscale electronic sensor to monitor blood flow through artificial blood vessels. Surgeons use these prosthetic grafts to bypass diseased or clogged blood vessels in patients experiencing restricted blood supply, for example. Over time, however, the graft can also become blocked. To avoid complete failure, blood flow through the graft must be monitored regularly, but existing techniques are slow and costly.
These limitations prompted the researchers to develop a bench-top prototype of a device that could be incorporated inside a graft to monitor blood flow. The implant is powered by a handheld external reader, which uses inductive coupling to wirelessly transfer energy, a technology similar to that found in the latest wireless-charging mobile phones. The team developed an application-specific, integrated circuit for the implant designed for low power use (see image).
The incoming energy powers circuits in the device that control sensors based on silicon nanowires. This material is piezoresistive: as blood flows over the sensor the associated mechanical stresses induce a measurable increase in electrical resistance, proportional to the flow pressure.
Key to the success of the device is its ability to work with a very limited power supply. Most of the incoming energy is absorbed by skin and tissue before it can reach the implant, which may be inserted up to 50 millimeters deep.
"Our flow sensor system achieves an ultra-low power consumption of 12.6 microwatts," Cheong says. For example, the sensor transmits its data to the handheld reader passively, by backscattering some of the incoming energy. "We have tested our system with 50-millimeter-thick tissue between the external coil and implantable coil, and it successfully extracted the pressure data from the implantable device," he adds.
Cheong and his co-workers' tests showed that the prototype sensor was also highly pressure sensitive, providing pressure readings with a resolution of 0.17 pounds per square inch (1,172 pascals). "The next step of the project is to integrate the system and embed it inside a graft for [an experimental] animal," Cheong says.
The A*STAR-affiliated researchers contributing to this research are from the Institute of Microelectronics

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Jia Hao Cheong, Simon Sheung Yan Ng, Xin Liu, Rui-Feng Xue, Huey Jen Lim, Pradeep Basappa Khannur, Kok Lim Chan, Andreas Astuti Lee, Kai Kang, Li Shiah Lim, Cairan He, Pushpapraj Singh, Woo-Tae Park, Minkyu Je. An Inductively Powered Implantable Blood Flow Sensor Microsystem for Vascular Grafts. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2012; 59 (9): 2466 DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2012.2203131

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Programming Model for Supercomputers of the Future

June 25, 2013 — The demand for even faster, more effective, and also energy-saving computer clusters is growing in every sector. The new asynchronous programming model GPI from Fraunhofer ITWM might become a key building block towards realizing the next generation of supercomputers.

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High-performance computing is one of the key technologies for numerous applications that we have come to take for granted -- everything from Google searches to weather forecasting and climate simulation to bioinformatics requires an ever increasing amount of computing ressources. Big data analysis additionally is driving the demand for even faster, more effective, and also energy-saving computer clusters. The number of processors per system has now reached the millions and looks set to grow even faster in the future. Yet something has remained largely unchanged over the past 20 years and that is the programming model for these supercomputers. The Message Passing Interface (MPI) ensures that the microprocessors in the distributed systems can communicate. For some time now, however, it has been reaching the limits of its capability.

"I was trying to solve a calculation and simulation problem related to seismic data," says Dr. Carsten Lojewski from the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM. "But existing methods weren't working. The problems were a lack of scalability, the restriction to bulk-synchronous, two-sided communication, and the lack of fault tolerance. So out of my own curiosity I began to develop a new programming model." This development work ultimately resulted in the Global Address Space Programming Interface -- or GPI -- which uses the parallel architecture of high-performance computers with maximum efficiency.

GPI is based on a completely new approach: an asynchronous communication model, which is based on remote completion. With this approach, each processor can directly access all data -- regardless of which memory it is on and without affecting other parallel processes. Together with Rui Machado, also from Fraunhofer ITWM, and Dr. Christian Simmendinger from T-Systems Solutions for Research, Dr. Carsten Lojewski is receiving a Joseph von Fraunhofer prize this year.

Like the programming model of MPI, GPI was not developed as a parallel programming language, but as a parallel programming interface, which means it can be used universally. The demand for such a scalable, flexible, and fault-tolerant interface is large and growing, especially given the exponential growth in the number of processors in supercomputers.

Initial sample implementations of GPI have worked very successfully: "High-performance computing has become a universal tool in science and business, a fixed part of the design process in fields such as automotive and aircraft manufacturing," says Dr. Christian Simmendinger. "Take the example of aerodynamics: one of the simulation cornerstones in the European aerospace sector, the software TAU, was ported to the GPI platform in a project with the German Aerospace Center (DLR). GPI allowed us to significantly increase parallel efficiency."

Even though GPI is a tool for specialists, it has the potential to revolutionize algorithmic development for high-performance software. It is considered a key component in enabling the next generation of supercomputers -- exascale computers, which are 1,000 times faster than the mainframes of today.

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Graphene-Based System Could Lead to Improved Information Processing

June 21, 2013 — Researchers at MIT have proposed a new system that combines ferroelectric materials -- the kind often used for data storage -- with graphene, a two-dimensional form of carbon known for its exceptional electronic and mechanical properties. The resulting hybrid technology could eventually lead to computer and data-storage chips that pack more components in a given area and are faster and less power-hungry.

The new system works by controlling waves called surface plasmons. These waves are oscillations of electrons confined at interfaces between materials; in the new system the waves operate at terahertz frequencies. Such frequencies lie between those of far-infrared light and microwave radio transmissions, and are considered ideal for next-generation computing devices.
The findings were reported in a paper in Applied Physics Letters by associate professor of mechanical engineering Nicholas Fang, postdoc Dafei Jin and three others.

The system would provide a new way to construct interconnected devices that use light waves, such as fiber-optic cables and photonic chips, with electronic wires and devices. Currently, such interconnection points often form a bottleneck that slows the transfer of data and adds to the number of components needed. The team's new system allows waves to be concentrated at much smaller length scales, which could lead to a tenfold gain in the density of components that could be placed in a given area of a chip, Fang says.

The team's initial proof-of-concept device uses a small piece of graphene sandwiched between two layers of the ferroelectric material to make simple, switchable plasmonic waveguides. This work used lithium niobate, but many other such materials could be used, the researchers say.

Light can be confined in these waveguides down to one part in a few hundreds of the free-space wavelength, Jin says, which represents an order-of-magnitude improvement over any comparable waveguide system. "This opens up exciting areas for transmitting and processing optical signals," he says.

Moreover, the work may provide a new way to read and write electronic data into ferroelectric memory devices at very high speed, the MIT researchers say. Dimitri Basov, a professor of physics at the University of California at San Diego who was not connected with this research, says the MIT team "proposed a very interesting plasmonic structure, suitable for operation in the technologically significant [terahertz] range. … I am confident that many research groups will try to implement these devices."
Basov cautions, however, "The key issue, as in all of plasmonics, is losses. Losses need to be thoroughly explored and understood."
In addition to Fang and Jin, the research was carried out by graduate student Anshuman Kumar, former postdoc Kin Hung Fung (now at Hong Kong Polytechnic University), and research scientist Jun Xu. It was supported by the National Science Foundation and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

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Asus Transformer Book Trio: Runs Both Windows 8 And Android

Asus Transformer Book Trio: runs both Windows 8 and Android

Desperation makes strange bedfellows.
The advent of hybrid devices running both Windows 8 and Android is a painful reminder of what OEMs think of both Windows RT and Windows 8 as tablet OSs.
Two of the major PC vendors (Samsung and Asus) have now released hybrid devices that run Android in tablet mode and Windows 8 in laptop mode. This takes "Windroid" from what looks like a silly experiment and changes it into an earnest attempt to address some of the shortcomings of Windows 8.
The ability to pin Android apps onto the Windows 8 start screen is a clear sign that the real problem with Windows 8 is the availability of apps for its "Metro" mode.
Microsoft will proudly tout a number in the region of 100,000 for apps available for Windows 8 this week at its Build conference but the cool, new and cutting edge apps never seem to be available.
This problem could also have been solved by running an Android emulator on the device – so the choice of a full Android implementation points to other issues in addition to app availability. It strongly implies that the OEMs also do not see Windows 8 as a good user experience for a tablet which is a huge problem for Microsoft.
The whole point of Windows 8 is its flexibility and ability to provide a great user experience in both Metro and desktop modes, but if no one is interested then one may as well stick with the excellent Windows 7.
In desktop mode there is not much to separate the Windows 7 and Windows 8 experiences.
I have long held the opinion that Microsoft has done an incredibly bad job at telling users why they should buy Windows 8.
However, I am not expecting much traction as hybrid OS devices have been tried before and have been show to be very niche with low volumes.
Furthermore, the devices are very heavy for tablets, and the inability to share data between the two modes is likely to substantially limit their appeal.
These devices (and the new Samsung ATIV Tab 3) are also a damning indictment of Windows RT, where manufacturer support has dropped virtually to zero.
The best that I can hope from Windows RT is that it is folded into Windows 8, and devices on the ARM architecture begin to appear where the only choice the user has to make is based on performance, battery life and price. Its persistence as a shadow of Windows 8 confuses users and makes them less willing to join the Windows 8 ecosystem.
If Microsoft can make strides towards informing users how they can live their Digital Lives with Microsoft and solve the confusion around Windows RT then it becomes a very compelling proposition. However, while its biggest OEM partners feel that they have to include Android to make a viable hybrid device, one can tell that something is seriously wrong.
A version of this post first appeared on Richard Windsor's Radio Free Mobile site.

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Microsoft to bring 'Age of Empires' to Apple, Android phones

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By Malathi Nayak and Tim Kelly. SAN FRANCISCO/TOKYO | Mon Jun 24, 2013 10:57pm EDT. SAN FRANCISCO/TOKYO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp will offer its popular "Age of Empires" game for Apple Inc's iPhone and other smartphones through a tie-up ...

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