Shred your documents on the Dashboard
There's something very satisfying about the way shredding machines eat up your private documents. Of course, you can´t quite shred digital documents in the same way as real ones, but now there's Shredder Widget.
Shredder Widget acts as a virtual shredder for destroying your most private and confidential information. Shredder Widget has three settings - 'Low' for items you'd normally drag to the trash, 'Medium', which shreds documents with a US Department of Defense-compliant procedure, and 'High', which basically pulps your document into something that can never be recovered. Each procedure uses a different algorithm.
To shred a document, click and drag a file from Finder. Then simply use the F4 Dashboard hotkey (or F12 on on some keyboards) to call up Dashboard. Drop it on the Shredder Widget to permanently erase it from your system. If you want to adjust the shred level while dragging, simply press the spacebar while hovering over the widget. You can even toggle sounds on and off by pressing the 's' key, for maximal authenticity.
Shredder Widget is a clever piece of software, although having to recall the Dashboard every time is a bit annoying. It would be better if you could drag documents to an icon in your Dock or on your dashboard.
Shredder Widget is a fun and secure way to shred your most personal documents.
User reviews about Shredder Widget
by Anonymous
Useful wigdet.
Really good utility in order to completely remove file without any possibility to recover personal info. This easy to use app offers three shredding algorithms. The most advanced deletion mechanism won't leave a trace of any private file you do not need anymore. Pros:
easy to use
leaves no trace of private file you no longer need
Cons:
secure empty trash does the same More
by Anonymous
Shredder Widget.
Great program, Apple needs one like it the trash won't empty certain programs. The shredder will do it.
Pros: When the trash can won't empty on my Mac. The shredder does it no problem. It is a great widget
Cons:
None does what emptying the trash won't do. More
by Anonymous
You can put this widget on your desktop.
Open the terminal and type in the following, exactly as you see here:defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YESYou'll get another regular system prompt within Terminal if it works, there's no other output to the defaults program.Now log out of your account by choosing Apple --> Log Out, and log in again (You need to restart Dashboard).Ready for the fun now? Press f12 or F4 to bring Dashboard up, then drag one of your Dashboard widgets around. While you're still dragging it around (that's critical: keep that mouse button down!) press f12 or F4 again.Poof! Your Dashboard vanishes, but the widget's still visible. Move it to where-ever you want on your screen and it's there, running, fully functional, without the rest of Dashboard around!You'll notice that it lives above everything else on your screen (at least, I don't know how to push it behind other app windows) so I think you'll have the best results with small widgets that can be tucked into a corner or lined up neatly on an edge.To move the widget back into the Dashboard world, reverse the trick: begin dragging the widget, then, while still keeping the mouse button down, press f12 or F4, then let go of the mouse button. The widget will be restored to its regular Dashboard layer. More