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Recovery Toolbox for Word: An Easy Way to Repair Corrupt Word Files

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. Just like any other program files, Microsoft Word files too can get corrupted due to different reasons. When that happens, your first thought would be to try the built-in repair tool for Word. But as we all know, the probability of recovering data from a corrupted file using the built-in Office repair tools is always next to nil. While this may seem rather frustrating, it’s not the end of the road…. Read more

LibreOffice vs. OpenOffice: Making the Write Choice

Anyone who’s been following all the drama and intrigue of office suite software development news for the past several years will know that LibreOffice has basically risen from the ashes of OpenOffice, as developers from the latter decided to go off to start their own project (while using the open-source code from the work they’d done on OpenOffice up to that point). For a while it looked like OpenOffice was doomed, with Apache announcing that their development team was dwindling and unable to keep up with updates addressing everything from UI improvements to security vulnerabilities. But after record-low download numbers in 2017, OpenOffice seems to… Read more

FreeNAS vs. Unraid: Which Is Best for Your Storage Needs?

If you’re building a Network Attached Storage (NAS), you’ll know it’s more than just the hardware that matters. You need software to run on it as well. While you can use nearly any operating system, such as the Linux distribution of your choice, there are more specialized options. FreeNAS and Unraid are two popular options, but it can be tough to figure out which one is best for you. There are a few factors that make it easier to choose which one to use. Pricing FreeNAS is free, both in terms of price and in that it’s open source. The project is based on the… Read more

FreeNAS vs. Unraid: Which Is Best for Your Storage Needs?

If you’re building a Network Attached Storage (NAS), you’ll know it’s more than just the hardware that matters. You need software to run on it as well. While you can use nearly any operating system, such as the Linux distribution of your choice, there are more specialized options. FreeNAS and Unraid are two popular options, but it can be tough to figure out which one is best for you. There are a few factors that make it easier to choose which one to use. Pricing FreeNAS is free, both in terms of price and in that it’s open source. The project is based on the… 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