April 08 Issue of CPU: Cover Your Tracks, NTI Shadow 3, Ad Mucnher, and More!!!

Though none were cover stories this month, the April 08 issue of Computer Power User Magazine has a lot to offer you if your primary goal in life is to see how much I can write in a single issue. So I guess it offers you a lot if you are my Mom. Or my Grandma.

Page 59 has a 7-page article of mine on "covering your tracks" while online and using other computers, though the advice applies to pretty much any computer you use, such as a PC you share with family members at home, or your office PC. I also cover some hardware that can enhance your security, like the Corsair Flash Padlock (which is good, though not foolproof, security), APC's BioPod fingerprint reader (which doesn't work with Firefox - come on!), and the Rohos Login Key, which transforms any USB Flash Drive into a key that can lock and unlock your PC.

My monthly beta column, "The Bleeding Edge of Software," is on Page 72 this month, covering FeedReader (a great RSS reader) and AdMuncher, which manages to remove ads from both web pages and from any program that has an ad-displayer-dealy built-in.

Finally, on Page 79 I cover MojoPac Freedom, which is a "virtual windows running on a thumbdrive" kind of program that actually works and is free, and NTI Shadow 3, which is a near-revolutionary backup program that sort of acts like a software RAID running in Windows. It watches folders you designate, and then automatically copies files to a second device (hard drive, thumb drive, etc.) as they are added or updated. It's a bargain at about $30.