Danish blogger Henrik Kramshøj has posted a very impressive screenshot of Activity Viewer in overdrive, in the process of writing 30,077 changes to disk.

As far as I can tell (thanks, InterTran ) the burst of activity was caused by changing internet service providers and email addresses at the same time:

Today sweat my laptop by one long-winded disk by that synchronization whole bulk item, because I’ve switched internetudbyder, addresses and tænkte it was pÃ¥ the time that bulldoze awhile up.

Machines are not about to make human translators obsolete any time soon.

Still, the picture is worth a thousand words in any language:

Tags: activity viewer, Apple Mail, Apple Mail Trivia, caches, mail.app, the labours of Hercules, writing changes to disk

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NetShred is a stand-alone app that protects your privacy on the Internet by shredding the browsing histories and caches of your browsers and email clients.

It supports all the main browsers and the following email clients - Mail.app 1 and 2, Eudora 5, Eudora 6, Mailsmith 2.x, Mozilla 1.x and Netscape 7.x.

After launching the app (a process that can be automated so that occurs at start-up) , its main screen presents you will an overview of its abilities:

Installed browsers are highlighted in green, active ones in red.

Caches and histories can only be securely shredded when the app is closed. You can either do this manually, or set NetShred X to perform the shredding automatically when you exit the app.

The Preference Pane provides further options:

Here you can set the degree of automation that you want, what you would like the app to shred, what degree of shredding you require and how many write-overs you would like.

A further tab allows you to specify which browsers and email clients NetShred should monitor and shred.

In this day and age people have more reason than ever to think about their online privacy. NetShred X takes care of that for you and is a good complement to ShredIt, a general purpose shredder from the same developer.

NetShred is shareware (USD 19.95). A fully featured demo is available from the developer’s web site.

Tags: browser, browsing histories, caches, Eudora, Internet, mail.app, Mailsmith, Mozilla, online privacy, privacy, shredding

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