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Software to recover permanently deleted files

December 15, 2012 by admin 2 Comments

You accidentally permanently deleted a big folder or file in your pc and now want to get it back but cant find it because your pc said its permanently deleted.

If you got a problem with any of these situations below

“permanently deleted mp3 folder”

“Permenantely deleted Video or movie”

‘”how to undelete deleted file”

“recover deleted files”

Recover accidentally-deleted files

Then read below for some solutions.

Before you try expensive data recovery services ,giving this software one shot is probably worth it specially if you are on a budget

Well guess what – it isn’t permanently deleted !!

When a file is deleted from your computer, its contents aren’t immediately destroyed. Windows simply marks the hard drive space as being available for use by changing one character in the file table. If you manage to start an undelete process before Windows overwrites that part of hard disk with new files. You can set that flag back to "on" and get your file.

I recently had this situation and immediately did a Google search and found this software listed on a website.

Its called Panda Recovery and it worked like magic . I managed to recover most files in click of a button. You can check out their software on their website Panda Recovery

Website and download : http://www.pandorarecovery.com/

Other File undelete software

There are two more software that you can try out if you want more options

Undelete plus

Website and download - http://undelete-plus.com/

The plus in this software, It can also recover files that have been emptied from the Recycle Bin and permanently

eSupport UndeletePlus Scan

It also recovers files

Deleted files within Windows using the Shift + Delete
Files that have been deleted from within a Command Prompt.
Works with win 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista operating systems.
The program supports FAT12/16/32,NTFS/NTFS5 and image recovery from CompactFlash, SmartMedia, MultiMedia and Secure Digital cards.
Program is only 583 KB in size and requires no installation and is Portable

With so much features and so small size i would buy a special usb drive just to have this loaded and kept ready for emergencies

Tokiwa Data Recovery software - Japanese software untility

DataRecovery is a freeware tool that does the job of undeleting permanently deleted files even from recycle bin.

recover permanently deleted files

It supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS undeletion including NTFS compressed files and EFS encrypted files.

The Zip file is only 198 KB in size, no installation required and it’s portable.

Download: TOKIWA Data Recovery or Download CNet Link

Best home pc to tv gadget wifi USB media drives

August 27, 2012 by admin 5 Comments

This post was originally written in 2010 but a lot has happened since then, tv’s have become smarter and so a lot of these gadgets reviewed below have become obsolete now in 2018 and beyond. The eye-fi pro still stands out as a gadget that can stand the test of time for its unique capabilities. Do check out our latest Google home gadget & tech reviews too.

Share Your PC media to your TV wirelessly

The IUM has built in WiFi and pairs to the WiFi Interface of your laptop.The IUM is paired with one Host PC/Laptop then can be used in any USB Equipped Device that accepts USB Flash Drives

3 Great wireless USB Memory Media sharing drives

Infinite IUM USB Media drive

~~Open for orders from 01 august 2010~~

The device has built-in wireless and uses the wireless interface of your laptop on the end. The connection is point to point and not via other access point or internet.

PC to PC works fine. The shared files are visible on the IUM like a normal flash drive so the PC will read them as if they are actually on the device.

It’s very nice and handy, but as you said, $129 is a bit much for something like this.

“instead of storing data inside the stick it uses any thing that has a USB port as the storage space, enabling “infinite” data sharing ( videos, photos, doc..etc) using WIFI network meaning the device act as wireless connector between a personal computer and anything that is USB-enabled.”

More features for this drive at the vendor website at http://www.infinitec.com/ium_drive/features.php

HSTI Wireless Media Stick™ @ $99 Only

THE Option similar to this which is already available in the market is the “HSTI Wireless Media Stick™”.

Simply share your files from any computer within your home/work wireless network, plug the Wireless Media Stick™ into the USB port of your playback device and stream your media instantly. The Wireless Media Stick™ references shared media files from any networked computers and NAS devices and presents them to the playback device it’s mounted to as if the files were stored locally.

Once a file is selected for playback, the Wireless Media Stick™ then streams the file via a wireless router from any PC, Laptop and NAS device.

MSRP: $99.99 – Introductory Price!

The Wireless Media Stick™ is a patented technology (Patent Pending and World P.C.T) that streams media files from any computer connected to a home/office wireless network to any USB enabled media playback device.

Files are not copied or moved from the original location. The capacity of the stick varies according to how many files are shared and can grow in relation to the file systems that are shared. – Ref ( More info @ HSTI Media Stick )

Features of the HSTI Media stick

Wireless USB Dongle
Wireless Media Streaming
720p Resolution Limit
Windows Compatibility
2.4GHz Wireless Technology
Preloaded Software

SPECS

Wireless: IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n (2.4GHz)
Host Interface: USB 2.0
Frequency Range: 2.412 ~ 2.4835GHz
Security: WEP 64/128, WPA, WPA2, TKIP, AES
Data Range (802.11a/g): Up to 54Mbps
Data Range (802.11b): Up to 11Mbps
Data Range (802.11n): Up to 300Mbps

“Eye-Fi Pro” Wireless memory card

The cost for this convenience is $129, which seems rather steep to me, although (for what it’s worth) it’s generally equivalent to the Eye-Fi Pro, which offers the same kind of wireless ad-hoc network functionality.

Also released recently “Eye-Fi card”, the “Eye-Fi Pro”. It costs $150, and is able to handle RAW files, as well as connect to a computer via an ad-hoc wireless network, i.e. no router necessary. These are certainly nice features, although RAW support at least seems more like a firmware upgrade, and it would be cool if Eye-Fi would push that option out to their other cards

Get your eye-fi pro from amazon here –> Eye-Fi Pro X2 8 GB Class 6 SDHC Wireless Flash Memory Card EYE-FI-8PC

Overview:

The Eye-Fi Pro X2 Features:

Fast wireless transfers of photos and videos from your camera to computer or favourite online site.
Instant photo and video sharing while on the go.
Loads of storage space with 8GB of high performance Class 6 memory capacity.
Location information that is captured and stored in each photo.
RAW file wireless uploads so you can edit photos like a pro.
Wirelessly uploads your photos (RAW and JPEG) and videos via Wi-Fi or via an ad hoc connection
Wirelessly uploads only the photos and videos you select to your computer

Importing Users from word press user back up

August 26, 2012 by admin Leave a Comment

I learnt this the hard way . I recently re installed on my blogs. I had 5000 registered users in that blog. I did a back up of my users from the blue host cpanel.

WordPress plugins for import users does not work

Then i re installed the blog and tried one wordpress back up plugin after the other and they all failed to import my CSV back up file of the 5000 users. I typed import users and tried the first five plugins that import users with csv files . There was one that at least did something and worked , but worked wrong ( CSV user import – Visit plugin site). It uploaded the file but put the passwords salts as the username.

It got all messed up, then i realised in should have done this in the first instance. I went back to my bluehost cpanel / php admin where i did the back up in the first place , and then deleted all the wrong entries that got uploaded ( deleted 400 entiries in one go and repeated—maybe you can do more than 400 )

Then i clicked import and imported the csv file an hey presto in a second all the 5000 users were back up.

This goes to prove that use the same tool or process to export and the same tool to import , wether it is from the php my admin or then from the wordpress admin panel , make sure the plugin does import and export or then the same author of the toll has created similar plugins for import or export ,w hereby you have a better chance of them working both ways together.

Also attached some snapshots of the cpanel and php my admin in blue host.

Let me know if this helped you and give us a like Smile

From Panda to penguin with Google link building algorithm

August 3, 2012 by admin 3 Comments

IF your stats are out of whack and you have been linked to to your website with a majority of the same keywords ( or anchor text ) to the same home page and those words are quite popular ( or pricey) keywords too . Then you have probably been officially been demoted on the Google search by Google.

And yes, they can do it because they are the market leader in search. I do remember something similar happening with Microsoft as well in a different aspect.

So how to get the Monkey ( penguin ) off your BACK

As you can see in the above pic for eg

if you got a website with a name “Australian stock market” and a majority of the links are mentioning Australian stock market ( green or brown in pie chart) and pointing to the home page then its quite likely you could be hit by the Google penguin.

The solution for linking properly and to show some love to the penguin

Here is what to do

Linking to be distributed in 4 different forms as below including to home pages and internal; pages

digitalgrog.com.au

www.digitalkgrog.com.au

https://www.digitalgrog.com.au/

Http://digitalgrog.com.au

How to use anchor text

we will take the example of Digital grog Blog

Digital Grog Blog

DigitalGrogBlog

Digital grog blog

DGB

[Carefully notice the differences in linking above]

How to also use Mixed anchor text

Tech blog – digital grog

Australian Blog Digital Grog

Digital grog, a Australian tech blog

Common Anchor text is back in action

If your website is popular your are going to get genuine links like these( below) to your website and Google knows this

“click here,” “visit this website,” and “here.”

These links ( anchor text) above which has been regularly used by punters, now also help you escape the Google big hand by diluting your linking profile so that they can see its genuine.

Delete or Dilute your links ( anchor text) to fix them

so if you have been inadvertently been caught up in the big mad Google seo updates algorithm changes. You will either need to dilute your links with more different keywords or gain more genuine links with different keywords or then change your already existing links ( if you can) and anchor text from links that link to you.

Tools for penguin algorithm update checking

Tools like Majestic SEO or Open Site Explorer can help you find out your linking and anchor texts for your website

Get your Author Photo in Google search results to increase site Authority

April 29, 2012 by admin Leave a Comment

How to Show Your Author Photo in Google Search Results

I decided to do a detailed post on how to get your google + profile photo show up on google search results and had made up half a post 1 week ago but now decided not ot post about it as the internet is full of “how to” posts within that 7 days. Serves me right for being so lazy and procrastinating.. so now i have changed my post a bit and made it short for you.

Get your picture in google search results

What you will need to check if you have done the right thing to get your google Plus picture in google search results is the Google rich snippets checker which is also available outside Google webmaster tools, so get a google webmaster tools account if you dont have acess to it and add your website domain while you are there. It will also help to get your google analytics account linked to your webmaster tools while you are doing this b, but its not necessary.

When i put one of my blog posts in this to check if my photo appeared in search results ,its gave me a warning ( VERIFY two author profiles showing up ) that two author profiles were showing up , after a lot o checking i found out that in my word press user profile i had put in my google+ login username in the google username column and then in the theme where it asked for google username after the url https://plus.google.com – i put in my google plus id 103166021597134967036 , so this were actually showing up as two different Google ids creating a problem. so i went back to my word press user profile and changed the username over there to to the user id digits( 103166021597134967036) i got from my google + profile and now both google plus usernames matched and it got verified.

Essentially if you get your pic from google profile in google search results you are stealing clicks from your google top rankers as google searchers always like a image instead of normal boring text. Getting your author profile photos in the search results is a feature Google began rolling out in 2010.

This tutorial is mainly for WordPress blogging platform, but can be applied to tother blogs and websites with minor edits.

Verifiying your Author Profile with Google

There are many benefits to verifying your author name and profile with Google like below

Build Author Rank with Google search.
Facial images in google search results are very eye-catching.
Google will promote your content over duplicate content on the internet.

How to – Google Author Verification in WordPress

Step 1: Create a Google+ Profile

Step 2 : Make sure you list your google + user id ( which is numbers immediately after your google + profile url) in your google username column in wordpress user profile and in your theme settings ( where it asks for google username)as well

Step 3: Check with rich snippets tool to verify if your author photo will show up.( link above)

If you want to read articles with more detailed post on how to do this you can read Micheal Grays post or then Mohammad posts or Virante posts on this.

Google + picture from profile not showing up

If after doing all this and getting verified in google rich snippets , your picture in still not showing up in google search results , it can be because of this note from google (Note that there is no guarantee that a Rich Snippet will be shown for this page on actual search results. For more details, see the FAQ.)

Alternative to Windows livewriter for blogger blogs Publishing

March 13, 2012 by admin Leave a Comment

Simple Free application to make post to Blogger

Simple Blogger is a small and very easy to use FRE software application that enables you to quickly write and publish a new post to your blog.
The tool can get all your blogs from Google account making it easy to publish to nay of your blogs on your blogger account.

Image ref :http//www.softpedia.com

Blogger Publishing tool for users who dont have windows Livewriter software

It also has the ability to post with labels. This is essentially a light and simple program that you can install in a flash on any pc to manages posts to blogger( blogspot)

Key features of "Simple Blogger":

Features

Make post to your Blogger
Labels support
Local draft support
Automatically adds all your blogs from Google account
Tag templates
Upload image to Picasa web service
Image scale and align
Cross platform
Portable

You can either download this tool from the softpedia link below that is tested for any malware or spyware or then directly from the authors (Yauhen Shulitski) sourceforge webpage