Secure Your Password - Chrome extension

https://secureyourpassword.com
http://code.google.com/p/secureyourpassword/

Passwords are notoriously insecure. Secure Your Password changes that.

How your password is exposed
1. Logging into a non-secure website from a public WiFi network
2. All website which you log into have access to your password
3. 3rd party password security sites keep your password

What Secure Your Password does for you.
1. Never stores or receives your password, your password never leaves your computer
2. Creates a salt (random word) which obfuscates your password on a website by website basis
3. Stores the salt on a secure (https) server, and retrieves that salt whenever you want to access the website
4. Does all of this transparently after the initial creation of the password

libpst and readpst... the hacked way on vista / xp - fixed

So have you ever backed up your PSTs and then needed a good way to look at them. Well I have. I backed up my PSTs, and without Outlook I was a bit stuck. After checking around I found that the only free option is libpst. libpst has an executable called readpst which can open up the folders and parse your files. Problem is that libpst is written for Linux. Nobody packages a Windows friendly readpst.

I looked around to see what should work, and I didn't want to pollute my newly installed Vista with all sorts of stuff. Here are the steps I took to make readpst compile without too many installations:

libpst:
libpst-0.6.45.tar.gz
MinGW:
Install MinGW (MinGW-5.1.6.exe), choose GCC only.
GnuWin32 tools:
Install GNU Regex for Win32 (regex-2.7-setup.exe).
Install GNU ICONV for Win32 (libiconv-1.9.2-1.exe).

Now you can compile readpst, here's the command:

From the libpst src directory run:
"c:\MinGW\bin\mingw32-gcc.exe" -DHAVE_REGEX_H -I"c:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\include" -include "C:\MinGW\include\inttypes.h" -DVERSION=\"0.6.45\" -include "C:\MinGW\include\errno.h" -include "C:\MinGW\include\sys\stat.h" -include "C:\MinGW\include\limits.h" -DHAVE_ICONV -DICONV_CONST=const -L"c:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\lib" debug.c libpst.c vbuf.c -liconv libstrfunc.c timeconv.c lzfu.c readpst.c -lregex -o readpst.exe

Modify your path to include 'C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin\;'. This is how the required DLLs will be found. Thank you to everyone who pointed out that it was missing libiconv2.dll. Since I use the GnuWin32 tools all the time I naturally had this set in my path before I had ever heard of libpst.

If you are running on a 32 bit OS then you will have to change the 'Program Files (x86)' to 'Program Files', or if you install 64 bit versions you'll have to change stuff around, and so on and so on.

If anyone has some good pointers on an easier way to compile readpst I'd love to hear it, and no I'm not interested in a full MSYS or cygwin install!

Link to readpst x32 : https://www.dropbox.com/s/gfeyp1tn5yuv7rk/readpst.exe?dl=0

Registry editing - powerful and very dangerous - made easier

I started playing around in the Windows Registry on Windows 98 and it was a time when registry editing was much easier. Sure it didn't have the robustness of an XP or Vista registry, but there also wasn't all the hassle of permissions everywhere. With the onset of this permission madness the steps it takes to delete a key can be daunting. Take ownership, replace permissions, take ownership and replace permissions of newly appearing subfolders one by one... It's a pain. The solution:

Registrar Registry Manager! http://www.resplendence.com/, there is a lite version that can be downloaded for free.

Permissions don't matter anymore! This way you can still edit the registry as if you're the administrator of the system, and I mean real administrator (like root), not just wimpy Windows cut-down version of the administrator.

Enjoy,