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Toolbox: Buy Yourself Some Time With File Destructor
h4. Hey sailor, welcome to Toolbox. This is the place where Motherboard’ll be telling you every week about this or that bit of software that you really need to have on your computer or phone-computer now. Requirements for something to be in our toolbox...
It’s like the dog ate homework thing updated for the internet age and maybe. . . usable? Judging by the File Destructor 2 website’s grammar, I’d put its creator in middle school. But the tool works, creating an instant fake .doc file (or other extension) that, upon opening, just looks like a broken file. So sub “crappy PC” for “dog” and you’re there.Granted, I’ve had more professors than not that would still mark this paper or whatever late, but I guess it’d be worth a shot if you need some small extension on a due-date. Of course, in the journalism world if I tried springing the ol’ broken file trick it would just mean working all night. No, this isn’t really living up to the day-to-day functionality promise of Toolbox, but I find some humor in File Destructor’s existence.And this: “Send trashed files and blame your faulty computer, instead of confessing that you are a lazy bum who just wants to play videogames.” Maybe that’s not the voice of a middle schooler. Thinking more middle-age Russian programmer.Reach this writer at michaelb@motherboard.tv.