December 7, 2008
We’ve talked about file recovery tools on MakeUseOf before, including one that I discussed last September in How To securely Retrieve and Delete PC files. But several friends have constantly urged me to try out Recuva, which is made and supported by the same people who created CCleaner (another favourite app of mine and MakeUseOf). The [...]
November 4, 2008
Recovering deleted/lost files on a Windows system is easy to do as there are plenty of software (both paid and free file recovery apps) that allows you to do so like a CSI expert. But what about Linux? Recently my Linux hard disk crashed on me and it was then that I discovered that there [...]
October 28, 2008
How many people out there have deleted something by accident, or if not by accident, have you ever deleted something out of anger (like your ex-girlfriend’s pictures)? No hands? Well, if you don’t want to admit it haven’t done it, you will need the program Undelete Plus in case you ever do it in the [...]
June 4, 2008
So how many coasters do you have that started life as critical backup CD/DVD’s? Or the CD/DVD’s that you entrusted to store a lifetime of photo memories? Well if you’re like most of us, you may have more than one. As a long term file storage medium, CD/DVD’s are, in effect, all-purpose, durable and generally [...]
May 19, 2008
While working on a project that requires a lot of writing – like coding, or authoring a book – it is a good idea to make backups or even better, maintain a sort of version control so that you can go back in time to see changes you’ve made to an article. In Windows you [...]
September 9, 2007
I’m sure you’re all familiar with the scenario in TV crime shows. The cop is at a dead end and the evidence needed to nail the bad guy has been deleted off the hard-drive. Enter a geeky computer technician, wearing a Ghostbusters T-shirt and muttering techno-speak and whammo, before the cop can finish his doughnut [...]
