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With Snow Leopard officially out in stores we share our opinions on Apple's latest OS. Convert that old PC into a something useful like a NAS, FTP, or SMB file server. Learn how to securely wipe your PC's hard drives before giving it away, and find out why Time Machine is a big fat lemon.

Wiping Your Hard Drive

Matt was interested in tools that would let him wipe his old PC's hard drive before he donated it to charity. This is something that everyone should do before selling, donating, or giving away a computer. The most effective free tool that we know is Dari's Boot and Nuke. This tool effectively wipes your hard drive by writing random data multiple times over the hard drive. Using one of the preferred modes you can take a quick and fast approach or a more serious approach to wiping your hard drive clear of data.

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Snow Leopard, Make Your PC a NAS, Spotify Preview, Time Machines Sucks and Stop Data Theft: Wipe your HD.

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

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