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Rescue Your Database with Recovery Toolbox for MySQL

This is a sponsored article and was made possible by Recovery Toolbox. The actual contents and opinions are the sole views of the author who maintains editorial independence, even when a post is sponsored. Ask anyone who uses databases, and they’ll be quick to tell you that databases are complicated things. Even what appears to be a relatively simple database on the surface can be quite complex underneath. They can also be quite tough to fix when something goes wrong. There’s a reason most software that relies heavily on databases frequently backs that data. It’s much simpler to… Read more

Recovery Toolbox for Access, Vital Tool If You Rely on Microsoft Access

This is a sponsored article and was made possible by Recovery Toolbox. The actual contents and opinions are the sole views of the author who maintains editorial independence, even when a post is sponsored. Microsoft Access isn’t a piece of software that you use casually all that often. Chances are, if you’re using Access, you’re using it for your job or something equally important. Because of that, if something goes wrong with your Access databases, you’re probably in big trouble. That is where Recovery Toolbox for Access comes in. This is part of a group of applications from Recovery Toolbox focused on data recovery. This… Read more

How to Use Rufus to Create a Bootable Flash Drive

It is very common to use a bootable USB drive instead of a CD/DVD drive to install the operating system. For Windows there are a ton of software programs that help you create bootable USB drives. Even Microsoft has its own tool. Of all the available tools, Rufus, a free and open-source application, is one of the best. In fact, Rufus is one of those tools that every Windows user should have in their software catalog. Let me show how you can use Rufus to quickly create a bootable flash drive in Windows. Note: This tutorial assumes you already have the ISO file. If you… Read more

How to Encrypt Files with Gocryptfs

Encryption is almost a necessity now that security and privacy standards are not strictly adhered to by companies anymore. If you are really concerned about the security of your data that you stored in the cloud, and you really need to store it in the cloud, it is best to encrypt it first before you upload it to the cloud. Gocryptfs is an encrypted overlay filesystem written in Go and is built on top of the go-fuse FUSE library. Unlike full-disk encryption systems, gocryptfs encrypts files individually using chunked AES-GCM (Galois Counter Mode) and encrypts filenames with AES-EME (ECB-Mix-ECB). It is also cross-platform compatible, which… Read more