If you use computers, there are times when certain rather daunting maintenance and recovery tasks need to be ‘undertaken’.  If you are like me, you want these tasks to be easy, straightforward, and ‘free’.  You also want the ‘tools’ you use to work regardless of the operating system installed on your PC/ CPU. I can’t guarantee that these tools will work in every situation, but they will work in most. They are also available to you at no-cost. The tools in this posting include: GPartEd: to partition and/or resize disks Clonezilla: to clone your PC environment GPartEd GPartEd is a free partition editor for graphically managing your disk partitions.…

Are you a person who worries about your browsing security, privacy, etc.? If you are, perhaps this post will be helpful. If your computing platform will allow, the following tools will certainly make you more secure and reduce the invasiveness of the sites you visit/ research. The advice that follows is geared toward those using Chrome (Chromium) & Firefox derivative browsers (I do not know if they will work with, or are even available on, other platforms). If you are worried about your browsing security/ privacy (and cookies are not the issue), you might benefit from installing HTTPS Everywhere.  To paraphrase their site: HTTPS Everywhere enables sites’ HTTPS protection which…