If you use Tarball or Gzip file archives for storing your data, occasionally you may need to extract only a few select files or directories, rather than the entire archive file’s contents. Many people waste time, CPU, and drive space extracting the entire archive only to get access to a few of the contents, then to discard the rest of the data.

Why should one wait on files to extract that will just be deleted immediately after, without being used? Thanks to the great minds behind the tar application for Unix and Linux; we have been privileged with a solution. A little-known time saving tip is that extracting only specified directories or files from a tar gzip file is possible. Continue Reading

This method of evading key loggers utilizes a method I dub the “The Scissor Method™ ” which takes advantage of my “Scissor Keyboard™”. And, just like Stephen Colbert, I now own the rights to those phrases.

If you’re certain that there is a potential application on your computer, be it at work, at home, or you just don’t trust the computer at the local internet cafe you’ve stopped at, this method may be of interest to you. Please note that this is not for the faint of heart or faint of patience, as it is by far one of the most tedious ways to take the cake from under Mr. Admin’s nose.

This method will utilize the clipboard to bypass key loggers which listen for keys being pressed on the keyboard. Continue Reading