Posts Tagged ‘Software’

Set Up Your Firewall With Firewall Builder

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Firewall Builder (fwbuilder) is a graphical application that can help you to configure IP traffic filtering. It can compile the filtering policy you define into many specifications, including iptables and various languages used by Cisco and Linksys routers. Separating the actual policy you define and the implementation in this way should let you change what hardware is running your firewall without having to redefine your policy for that platform.

Link: Linux

How To Encrypt Your USB Drive

Monday, October 6th, 2008

TrueCrypt allows you to make all kinds of encrypted containers, but one of the most interesting is a hidden partition. The trick here is to convert all of the space on a USB stick into an TrueCrypt container.

Link: LinuxHaxor

Rename Your Id3 Tags Using FreeDB

Monday, October 6th, 2008

CDDB MP3 Tool is a software that will treat a directory of MP3 files as an Audio CD and access a FreeDB server to retrieve information about the MP3 files and can rename and ID3-tag the files based on the information retrieved.

Link: Softpedia

Download Torrents Anonymously

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

Privacy has always been a major concern for BitTorrent users and there are only a few ways to remain anonymous. By using a secure connection, as the new TorrentPrivacy tool offers, you can bypass almost every firewall or traffic shaping application, while making sure that nobody can see what you’re downloading.

TorrentPrivacy software has been developed so that anybody can use it, from BitTorrent novices through to experts. TorrentPrivacy uses a pre-configured version of uTorrent, so there are no settings that have to be entered manually.

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