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Test USB Flash Drive And Hard Drive Integrity And Size

Portable software program H2testw has been designed to test the integrity and the size of usb flash drives, memory cards, hard drives and even network shares. The software program works by writing, reading and verifying test data that is written on the selected device. Existing files that are already stored on the device will not [...]

Author: , Friday August 28, 2009
Categories: Software, Windows

1 Million Public Domain Books Added To Google Books

Google Books is an extensive books and magazines search engine that is maintained by Google. Users can search for books online, browse them on the website if the publishers or authors have given permission, look at references or buy or borrow it. The service became more interesting to a lot of readers thanks to the [...]

Author: , Friday August 28, 2009
Categories: Google

Chrome Plus Is A Custom Chrome Build With Extra Functionality

Skilled programmers can use the Chromium code to build their own version of the Chrome web browser. That’s how the Chrome Plus project started. The developer’s have taken the default build of the Google Chrome web browser and have added extra functionality to it. Chromium Plus offers five additional features next to the full feature [...]

Author: , Friday August 28, 2009
Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Connect to a remote virtual machine with rdesktop

VirtualBox is an incredibly useful tool. You can run different OSes for testing purposes, you can set up servers on machine that wouldn’t normal act as servers, the sky seems to be the limit. And VirtualBox is an easy tool to use. One of the really cool aspects of VirtualBox is that it can also [...]

Author: , Friday August 28, 2009
Categories: Advice, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic, Windows

Recover Deleted Files With Glary Undelete

Restoring deleted files does not necessarily have to be a complex task that only specialized companies offer. The restoration chance depends on the time that has passed between the deletion and the restoration attempt as well as the activity on the storage device. We have reviewed file recovery tools in the past including popular solutions [...]

Author: , Friday August 28, 2009
Categories: Software, Windows

Backup And Restore USB Flash Drives With USB Image Tool

USB Image Tool has been designed to create and restore backups of connected USB flash drives. These flash drives can be USB sticks, mp3 player, digital cameras, cell phones and basically anything that uses flash storage to store data. Quite a few usage scenarios are possible because of this. The USB Image Tool can be [...]

Author: , Thursday August 27, 2009
Categories: Software, Windows

Digital Photo Recovery Software PC Inspector Smart Recovery

What’s the worst nightmare that can happen when you are on holiday with your digital photo camera? It’s probably the thing that happened to me while walking on the walls of Jerusalem. My shiny new Casio Exilim S12 digital camera was suddenly displaying a card error making it impossible to take additional photos or to [...]

Author: , Thursday August 27, 2009
Categories: Software, Windows

Vacuum Places Improved Firefox Database Optimization

The first Firefox add-on to optimize the SQLite databases that are used to store data like bookmarks or history was a Russian add-on that worked but did not please non-Russian speaking users. Vacuum Places Improved is a relative new add-on that features internationalization and additional options that make it a recommended add-on for users who [...]

Author: , Thursday August 27, 2009
Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Google Desktop: Search just about everywhere (especially Google)

Searching a PC filesystem is something people do on a daily basis. I am always shocked at how often I see people searching for files they have created and can not locate. There are a lot of tools out there to aid the user in their searching. For the Linux operating system there is Beagle, [...]

Author: , Thursday August 27, 2009
Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Linux, Mac, Search Engines, Software, Tutorials Basic, Windows

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