Tools & utilities
There are a range of freely available tools and utilities which might help you with the management of your data.
Version Control Service
The Version Control Service allows users to store documents (program code, theses, papers).
A basic service is available to University of Edinburgh staff at no charge. This provides a default quota of 50MB for all repositories.
TortoiseSVN
Windows subversion client implemented as a Windows Explorer shell control. As such, it has all the usual features of a source code control system, as well as the ability to version folders, rename and delete files, etc.
Git: fast version control system
This is a free and open source distributed version control system, designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
Truecrypt
Truecrypt is well-regarded free encryption software that is available for all platforms.
This article was published on Jun 20, 2011