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Speedy flash drive?

Submitted by EOBeav on March 7, 2011 - 12:40pm

Just a question about flash drives. I love using these portable apps, but a few of the heftier ones--namely OOo--run unacceptably slow on my flash drive. Is there a way to speed them up? Or is there a recommended kind of USB drive that will work best? Thanks in advance for your answers.

PS--thanks a ton to the developers who make these available at no charge to me.

PA.com Apps Flagged by avast 6.0 Sandbox

Submitted by Chim on March 3, 2011 - 3:21pm

This morning I went to use PA.com's Revo Uninstaller for the 1st time.
avast 6.0.1000 popped up informing me that this App was a potentially dangerous App and prompted me if I wanted to run it in the Sandbox. I figured the App was likely good since I've been using PA.com Apps without issue for a while. But, out of curiosity, I let it run in the avast Sandbox just to see how that worked.

CamStudio Portable miscategorized

Submitted by cfdavis on March 3, 2011 - 12:03pm

CamStudio Portable is in the wrong category on the Portable Apps Directory. It is under Utilities but should be in Music and Video.

CamStudio is a great addition to Portable apps. I have used the regular version for quite a while so am delighted to have it in a portable version now. Together, Audacity Portable, CDex Portable, CamStudio Portable and Impress in Open Office Portable provide a solid multimedia production suite in portable form.

Be careful when attempting to wipe a flash drive of sensitive data (you probably left some bits behind)

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Submitted by BuddhaChu on February 28, 2011 - 2:46pm

Did you know that it's really hard to wipe an SSD or USB flash drive of data? The following quote is from a ComputerWorld article entitled "Can data stored on an SSD be secured?"

"USB flash drives didn't fare much better. Between 0.57% and 84.9% of the data remained on the drive after an overwrite was attempted."

Read the whole ComputerWorld article here.

The original research from UCSD is here.

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