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Protecting your work by timestamping your file fingerprints
Are you sharing or producing photos, images, music, videos, programs, documents or anything else and you are concerned on how to proof that your work is yours? First of all, you need to be able to show that you really … Continue reading
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FileVerifier++ and Karen’s Hasher, GUI Tools for fingerprinting your files with SHA-512
In an earlier blog, a GUI tool called WinMD5 was recommended for maintaining integrity of your files. However, hash calculation based on SHA-512 is more security nowadays. For example, if you need to proof to others, that you possessed a … Continue reading
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Tools for Colors and Color names: “What Color”, SIHwheel, “Name That Color”
This blog is not about choosing the right color, but about identifying what color is being used. Some tools provide numeric RGB values, but there are some ways to get the nearby color name, as will be shown here. Getting … Continue reading
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DIY heater for digital camera
Once, when taking outside photos, the digital camera (Canon SX1) started to get problems. I hadn’t thought about it much earlier, but obviously -18 degree Celsius was too much for the electronics. Quick search on internet showed several DIY heater … Continue reading
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EclipseCrossword, Tool for creating crossword puzzles for training or for fun
EclipseCrossword is one of the crossword creating tools available. It can be usefull as part of the training, for example during security awareness training. Or for creating a monthly competition… Good: Can import your clues and answers text file (csv) … Continue reading
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Tip, how to brighten your night videos (new year) by VLC
The VLC media player can be used for more than just playing videos. For example for converting video from one format into another. (Converting video can also be done with XMedia Recode tool.) But less known is that VLC can … Continue reading
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EIDAuthenticate, Tool for smart card logon
With open source EIDAuthenticate it is possible to use 2-factor authentication, smart card + PIN, to login to Windows. EIDAuthenticate is for Windows Vista & later on stand alone computer (computer not in domain, ie. no Active Directory in use). … Continue reading
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