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I knew for quite some time that Google offerd an email service, but I never really cared about it. But recently I completely switched to GMail. Now I’d like to explain why I switched, and maybe convice one or two of you .
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Now I’m going to show you how I use portable programes like thunderbird or firefox on my usb pen drive. Of course everythin is safely encrypted.

The method I’m going to show you uses Truecrypt and Pstart. Administrator priviliges are required, unless the correct version of Truecrypt is already installed on the guest computer. Alternatively you could use special U3 pen drives, their encryption doesn’t require administrator priviliges.
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There are PDF files that you may read, but not print, e.g if you forget the password for the file. I’m going to show you how to bypass this protection and print the file anyway. If you find a protected file on the internet, you have to respect copyright laws and check carefully whether you are permitted to bypass the protection.

You’ll need two programs:

• Ghostscript
• GSView

I will not post the download links here for legal reasons. Google for the names, they are easy to find. You have to install the two programs in the given order.

Then you open “Start -> All Programs -> Ghostgum -> GSView”. Now you can open and print the protected PDF file.

You can also save an unprotected version of the file for further processing. For that, in GSView click “File -> Convert -> OK” and save it under a new name (new.pdf). This new file is now unprotected.

have fun!

Now something different. I’d like to tell you about my favourite software for my mobile phone. I own a Nokia 6120 classic which uses Symbian 9.1 FP1 with Series60 3rd Edition user interface.

• Outbank – Online-Banking Software using HBCI. 12 Months are €10,49.

• GMail – Client for Google Mail, my favourite email provider. Free.

• GoogleMaps – Client for Google Maps, data flatrate recommended! Free.

• Mobipocket Reader
  - Read books on your mobile! Nicely adjustable, you can buy books on the website, but you can as well use txt-files. You can convert PDFs using Mobipocket Creator. Free.

• Papyrus – Great calendar software. Organize your appointments, birthdays and so on. Costs $17,95 once.

• emTube – Youtube on your mobile! UMTS und data flatrate recommended! Free.

• Frozen Bubble – Last but not least some entertainment, a nice little game. Free.

to be continued.

I am a big fan of Truecrypt. With version 5.0 came a killer-feature: system partition encryption! Unfortunately i got an error, when first trying out the bootloader. It said insufficient memory for encryption. I could avoid the error and get it working by setting SATA controller mode from AHCI to IDE.

In the new version 5.0 a of Truecrypt the memory requirements of the bootloader were reduced, so the error won’t occur anymore.

You can download the new version from Truecrypt.org