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October 04, 2008

Review: NXPowerLite Revisited

Richard Kuper
The Kuper Report
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Back in July 2006 I reviewed a product called NXPowerLite, the file compression software developed by British company Neuxpower Solutions Ltd., that did some serious shrinking of powerpoint files. The product has expanded its capabilities since then and can now compress Word and Excel files as well.

Back in 2006 I reported that NXPowerLite was able to shrink some of my PowerPoint files by up to 77%. I went back and used a more recent version of NXPowerLite and got similar results to those reported in my previous review. Now that the product also shrinks Word and Excel files, I went in search of some large files. I don't use Excel much these days, and so I didn't have any files that needed shrinking. I did, however, have a few Word files I could try, and I did. In some cases I got minimal shrinkage, but with one very large file (16.3MB) containing lots of text and embedded graphics and documents, NXPowerLite reduced it to 5.1MB, or to less than 1/3 of its original size using "normal" compression, and it shrank it down to 4.5MB with "extra compression." Amazing.

Even more amazing, the price is still only $45 for a single copy, and less if you get multiple copies. It is also available in a server edition.

NXPowerLite even received NATO accreditation after being successfully deployed by Headquarters Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (HQ ARRC) for a demanding military campaign in Afghanistan.

Are you looking for a product that will enable you to carry around many more of your files on your usb drive? Perhaps you need to shrink that file so you can send it in an email? Maybe you need more space on your hard drive and wish you could just shrink some of your larger PowerPoint, Word, or Excel files. If you need to shrink your files for any reason at all,
NXPowerLite is the product for you.

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September 24, 2007

Privacy and Security Watch: Are you giving away your personal or corporate data to thieves?

Richard Kuper
The Kuper Report
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I came across a couple of articles that continue to bring home the fact that many companies and individuals still do not have a handle on ensuring the privacy and security of data:

What's on your hard drive?

When businesses or individuals discard old computers, apparently many are not ensuring that personal or business data has been securely removed first. According to this article, from a sample of 350 hard drives acquired in online auctions, details about salary, company financial data, medical data, credit card numbers, visa applications, details of online purchases, and even online pornography were found.

There are many tools available today for corporate and individual use that can shred the data on your hard drives and other storage devices. They are not very expensive, especially for individual use. Simply reformatting the hard drive, for example, will not wipe the data from it.

Do you or your employees connect to a file-sharing network?

If you connect your computer to a file-sharing network, such as BearShare or LimeWire or the like, you are opening up your computer to anyone who cares to search it and copy stuff from it. According to this article, "Three spreadsheets containing more than 5,000 Social Security numbers and other personal details about customers of ABN Amro Mortgage Group were inadvertently leaked over an online file-sharing network by a former employee." In this case, the computer had the BearShare software installed.

A common search, by those seeking something other than a song, is to search on terms like "password" to find data on connected computers that will net usable information for identity theft and other crimes. In addition, it would seem that most users of file-sharing networks do not take the appropriate steps to limit what can be searched on their computer. Any time you allow your computer to be accessed by others whom you do not know and therefore have no known level of trust, you are looking for trouble.

Regarding the leaked spreadsheet with over 5,000 Social Security numbers and other personal customer details, according to a spokesperson for ABN parent company Citigroup Inc.: "Citi's information-security standards require that confidential information be stored on Citi-managed devices." In the case of the spreadsheet, it would seem the employee had it on his home pc.

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