The bootable Acronis True Image ISO file created by the Bootable Media Builder can be easily booted from your USB Drive or Hard Disk using the ISO Emulation feature of Grub4Dos.

Acronis True Image is a powerful disk imaging software that creates backups and recovers PC systems.Unfortunately this software is not free.However Acronis has an agreement with Seagate and Western Digital and provides a re-branded version of Acronis True Image completely free.

A website monitoring service checks your website at regular intervals and notifies you via email or SMS if it becomes unavailable.Most free site monitoring services send free email alerts, but charge for SMS alerts.In this guide I will show you how to set up a website monitoring service with free unlimited SMS alerts.

Hotmail is offering free mail alerts via SMS.The best thing about this is that it works on any phone which supports SMS.You need not have a GPRS connection or a JAVA enabled phone.This is one important feature lacking in gmail.

Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10 can be directly booted from the hard disk without any secondary media.This is done by making an partition in the hard disk to appear as a USB drive to the Kaspersky Rescue Disk.