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TrueCrypt Is Back, But Should It Be?

June 3, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Last week I wrote about the suspicious and abrupt announcement that TrueCrypt, a popular free open source encryption solution, was being abandoned and is considered “harmful and no longer secure”. In the article I covered the potential motives for this including the technical challenges with producing full disk encryption on modern hardware and operating systems. Whilst at this time there is little to add in terms of the potential motives for this sudden announcement a variety of interesting things have happened to the project since – including announcements that mean TrueCrypt may not be as dead as we thought. When the page at truecrypt.sourceforge.net was changed to a warning (and a set of migration instructions for Microsoft Bitlocker) the source code and old versions …

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TrueCrypt Is Back, But Should It Be?

You Can Grab the Same Software Pixar Used to Make Wall-E For Free Soon

June 2, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

If you’re an aspiring animator, this might be the best news you’ll hear this month: Pixar is giving away – that’s right, giving away – a version of RenderMan, its in-house rendering software. Gratis. No catch. You’ll be able to download the program some time in August. Pixar has used RenderMan, which costs $500 a pop for commercial use, to render some of its best-known animated features like Wall-E, Up and Toy Story, so this is a really, really big deal. It’s just one part of a larger software suite that goes into a Pixar blockbuster – it’s not an animation program, and you’ll definitely need one of those – but it’s remarkably capable. And it’s free. Simply fill up a registration form, download the program when …

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You Can Grab the Same Software Pixar Used to Make Wall-E For Free Soon

12 Free Ebooks For Designers

May 25, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

We’ve done some extensive research and found these brilliant free ebooks for you to download and read – but let us know in the comments if you’ve come across a good book we’ve missed! There has always been a healthy market for commercial books written by experts, and this isn’t likely to change any time soon: sometimes there’s just no substitute for splashing your cash and getting high quality content in return. That said, there’s a growing movement towards free and freemium content on the web, and the quality of the content is often on a par with the books you’d part cash for. What’s on offer Obviously nobody can afford to print and distribute free books (with the exception of the excellent World Book Night movement), but …

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12 Free Ebooks For Designers

5 Free Tools for Hyper-V

May 8, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

by Aidan Finn – May 7, 2014

Everyone loves a free lunch, so I thought I’d write a post to let you know about some free tools and add-ons for Hyper-V that you can download and use right now. And the best part about all of these utilities? Like I said, they’re all free, so you can download and install without getting the accounting department involved.

1. Hyper-V Backup I have two options in this space for you. Altaro is a small European company that has been making friends in the Hyper-V community. I’ve been dealing with them for several years, and some of my customers have bought their commercial product. Quite honestly, I and others have found them to be a great bunch of …

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5 Free Tools for Hyper-V

All of Bach for Free! New Site Will Put Performances of 1080 Bach Compositions Online

May 5, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

in Music | May 4th, 2014

Bach wrote 1080 compositions during his lifetime. And now thanks to the new and certainly ambitious All of Bach web site, you can eventually watch the Netherlands Bach Society (founded in 1921) perform each and every one of those compositions. The site features six performances so far (see below), which means there’s only another 1074 to go. A new Bach recording will go live every Friday. So you mark your calendars and check in weekly for the next 20 years. Thanks to Erik for sending this our way! First recordings: Related Content: A Big Bach Download: All of Bach’s Organ Works for Free

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All of Bach for Free! New Site Will Put Performances of 1080 Bach Compositions Online