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If you're using XP Home Edition, you'll need to grab your original install CD. + +Pop in the XP Home install CD and at the "Welcome to Microsoft Windows XP" screen, click "Perform Additional Tasks." In the resulting window click "Browse this CD." This should put you in Windows Explorer where you'll need to double-click the "ValueAdd" folder, followed by "Msft" and then "Ntbackup." + +Then just open Ntbackup.msi to begin installing the Backup utility. + +Once you have everything installed click the Start menu and navigate to All Programs>>Accessories>>System Tools>>Backup to launch the backup wizard. + +In the Wizard you'll need to click through the opening page and choose "Back up files and settings" on the second page. + +On the following page you'll be asked what you want to back up. + +For most people, backing up the My Documents folder and settings is probably suffient (unless you have multiple users in which case you'll want to select the "Everyone" option). + +From there you can select which folders (if any) to exclude, choose a kind of backup, the location and even set up a schedule for future back ups. To set up the schedule, don't click "Finish" on the last page of the Wizard. Instead hit the "Advanced" button and chose "Later" and set up a future date. + +For Vista users the process is very similar, but there are two different back up programs depending on the version of Vista that your using. Automatic File Backup is available in almost all editions of Windows Vista (except Starter and it has only basic functionality in Home Basic). + +Windows Complete PC Backup is available in the Business, Ultimate, and Enterprise editions, and performs a complete, image-based backup of the entire computer. + +Note that neither of Vista's offerings support tape drives. + +Third Party Offerings + +If you'd like to make a clone of your drive, <a href="http://www.2brightsparks.com/downloads.html">SyncBackSE</a> offers some nice options for a reasonable price ($30). There's also a 30-day trial available. + +SyncBackSE features some nice fine grained controls and can even back up to an FTP server with compressed files, allows for set commands to run before and after backups and will e-mail you in the event of a backup failure. + +<a href="http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/index.html">Acronis True Image Home</a> ($50) is another popular solution and features Vista support. With Acronis you can clone your drive and recover particular files in archives just like in Windows Explorer or restore the whole system. + +Another option is <a href="http://www.novastor.com/pcbackup/backup/n_backup.html">NovaBACKUP</a> ($50) which supports Windows Vista and offers backups to nearly any storage format, scheduling and file integrity verification. NovaBAKCUP can also create a Disaster Recovery CD that can be used to boot an unresponsive system, but note that it does not currently support Windows Vista. diff --git a/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Fri/how-to encrypt email.txt b/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Fri/how-to encrypt email.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f3e7e46 --- /dev/null +++ b/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Fri/how-to encrypt email.txt @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +Do you think of e-mail as a digital postcard or a signed and sealed letter? If you're not using an encryption tool to send your e-mail, regardless of how you answered that question, your e-mail is essentially a postcard transmitted in plain text and available for anyone on the internet to read. + +If you'd like to keep your e-mail, or at least some of your e-mail, from prying eyes, you need to use some sort of encryption. There is a protocol for sending messages in secure format, but since almost no e-mail hosts support it, it isn't yet a very good solution. + +At the moment the best solution is to use either PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) or GPG (Gnu Privacy Guard) a similar, but free and open source, encryption scheme. + +PGP and GPG both rely on shared keys which means that once you send an encrypted e-mail only those recipients with your shared key can read it. + +What you'll need: + +<a href="http://www.pgp.com/index.html">PGP</a> or <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GPG</a>. Both will work, but PGP is not free or open source. + +A plug-in for your e-mail client. + +Solutions by client + +Apple Mail (OS X 10.4, earlier versions require additional steps) + +There's a <a href="http://www.sente.ch/software/GPGMail/English.lproj/GPGMail.html#Download">plug-in available</a> for Apple Mail that utilizes Mail's unofficial plug-in architecture to add GPG/PGP features. + +You'll need three components installed: <a href="http://macgpg.sourceforge.net/">GPG</a>, <a href="http://macgpg.sourceforge.net/">GPG KeyChain Access</a>, and the <a href="http://www.sente.ch/software/GPGMail/English.lproj/GPGMail.html#Download">GPG Mail.app plugin</a>. GPG and the Mail plug-in are available as package installers with instructions GPG KeyChain Access is pre-compiled and can be easily dragged to your application folder. + +Open GPG Keychain Access and create a private key. This is yours alone, don't share it or your GPG messages will be compromised. + +In creating the private key, keychain Assistant also sets up your public key which you can export and share with your friends and associates so they can decrypt your messages. + +Now that your Keys are set up, it's time to open Mail.app. Create a new message and you should see a small toolbar just above the message body with options to encrypt and what key to use. + +Congratulations, no more postcards for you. + +Thunderbird + +Thunderbird on all platforms has a plug-in very similar to that of Mail.app. <a href="http://enigmail.mozdev.org/download.html">Enigmail</a> requires Thunderbird 2.0 and GPG 1.4.7 or later. + +For Mac users the installation and GPG set mirrors that of Mail.app. For Windows users the process is roughly the same and <a href="http://enigmail.mozdev.org/gpgconf.html">Mozilla has a step-by-step guide</a> that walks you through the process. + +Outlook + +There is a <a href="http://www3.gdata.de/gpg/">plug-in for Outlook</a> that supports GPG, but unfortunately it's currently limited to a German version. The developers claim an english version is in the works. + +Network Associates, the corporation behind PGP, offers a <a href="http://na.pgpstore.com/product.aspx?sku=3118545&section_id=58&culture=en-US">plug-in package solution</a>, but it will set you back a hefty $200. + +GMail + +If you aren't concerned about encrypting your e-mail messages, consider that most web providers like Yahoo and Google don't just send plain text messages, they actively scan your messages to deliver targeted ads — paranoid yet? + +Unfortunately, due to the limitations of web-based interfaces, encrypting messages in GMail is no easy task. + +But don't dispair, an industrious Greasemonkey hacker has done the hard work for you. The Greasemonkey script <a href="http://www.langenhoven.com/code/emailencrypt/gmailencrypt.php">GMail Encrypt</a> will work with any browser that supports Greasemonkey to encrypt all your outgoing GMail messages, though as the author admits: + +<blockquote> + Due to the fact that Javascript can not handle stupendously large numbers in a timely fashion, even with the BigInt functionality, this encryption is not bulletproof. This routine will conveniently encrypt your emails well enough to prevent your coworker and probably your employer from reading your emails. However, if you decide to annoy somebody working for the NSA then DO NOT be surprised if some bulky guys pull up at your front door in a black SUV. +</blockquote> + +The rest + +There are a lot more e-mail clients out there than these three and many offer GPG solutions. OpenPGP maintains a <a href="http://openpgp.vie-privee.org/courrier_en.html">list of clients that support GPG</a>. diff --git a/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Fri/iphone4.jpg b/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Fri/iphone4.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..69481d6 --- /dev/null +++ b/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Fri/iphone4.jpg diff --git a/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Fri/iphoneapp.txt b/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Fri/iphoneapp.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a198c21 --- /dev/null +++ b/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Fri/iphoneapp.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +A hacker by the name of Nightwatch has successfully compiled and launched and first third-party iPhone application. Nightwatch's program is a simple "hello world" app and end-user apps are still a ways off, but this definitely opens the door for others to create applications that run on the iPhone. + +Although the iPhone Dev Wiki is at pains to point out the site is a community effort, the progress report specifically says that Nightwatch has apparently pulled off the app on his/her own. + +The "hello world" app was accomplished using the ARM/Mach-O Toolchain, which is also the main brains behind the "jailbreak" app which is a key element of some other hacks, such as the custom ringtone hack we [detailed earlier this week][2]. + +Nightwatch and the iPhone Dev Wiki team have put together a pre-alpha ARM/Mach-O Toolchain for other hackers looking to compile applications. + +And naturally it remains to be seen whether Apple will continue the hands-off approach to hacks that have characterized the company's handling of AppleTV, the iPod and other products. + +Note that I've omitted a direct link in keeping with the iPhone Dev Wiki's requests to minimalize traffic to the site, but a Google search for ["iPhone hello world"][1] will give you some more information. + +[1]: http://www.google.com/search?q=Hello+World+on+the+iPhone&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a +[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/07/iphone-hacks-ad.html
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