While listening to a recent episode of the Security Now! podcast I caught mention of an interesting product called LockNote. In short, this is an application that looks a lot like Notepad but encrypts your docs and saves them as part of the executable. Great stuff for portable applications.
It really is quite simple to
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I had an interesting challenge today: Needed to edit a large XML file (about 2 GB) to find and fix some bad data. I often use Notepad++ for quick and dirty editing, but not for this file. It told me the file was too big.
I tried a few other options and didn’t have much luck,
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The IEBlog has a non-IE related post up touting the wonders of the Consolas font. Even better, it has a simple little reg command that will help you run Consolas in a command window.
I once wrote about my love for the Consolas font many years ago. Unfortunately, that post didn’t make it to this current
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I found a nice little windows utility the other day, courtesy of Larkware News. It has the world’s worst name but works so well that I think that can be excused. (but seriously, ask a co-worker, “Did you grab StExBar yet?” and marvel at the looks you get…)
The utility is called StExBar and
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Earlier this month I acquired a new 1GB USB Key and was pondering what I should do with it. Since then, I discovered Torpark which seemed like something useful to lug around. Last night I realized what would be truly useful, for me, would be a USB Key with my typical blogging apps
Continue reading USB Key Fun -or- What I ended up tossing on my new key