Summary: When it’s time to recover deleted files from an SD Card, Hard Drive, Flash Drive, etc., this powerful open source portable recovery application, (despite its command line type interface), makes deleted file recovery just about as simple as it gets. In previous reviews, I’ve […]
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Not an imaginary conversation. Me – How are you handling all the crazy new cyber threats currently being thrown at us on the Internet? She – I’m cool! I’ve got the best Anti-virus program there is (her reference – the neighbourhood geek.) Me – Good
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World Backup Day (31st March) has been and gone again. So, did you? Backup, that is? I have some bad news – sad news – for you this morning. Those graduation pictures you treasured, the pictures of your toddler’s first steps, this year’s income tax
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[important] INTRO: This article was first published by Bill in March, 2010. However, the topic remains very relevant to this day, and the article is, of course, presented in Bill’s usual honest, sometimes irreverent, always entertaining fashion. Enjoy! Jim[/important] MEMO TO: SNEAKY FREEWARE DEVELOPERS You give me
We don’t want your rotten toolbar! Read More »
I’m an Internet privacy advocate (regular readers will now pause – laugh – and say – “no kidding!”), and while the fight to rein in Google, and others, might seem unwinnable, privacy advocates have not lost the battle – yet. Which is why, I have
Little TunnelBear (free): Simple & Speedy VPN Read More »
Back when the World was young (1984) – and, me too for that matter – I bought my first Hard Drive. A mega sized 10 MB HD (yep, 10 MB – not 10 GB) with a seek time of 198 ms. I paid $800 ($1,780
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I’ve been running Windows 8, almost exclusively, since the first (beta) release in September of last year. Despite my initial impressions (not favorable), I’ve made a 180 degree turn – I’m really into Win 8. Despite the clunky Metro GUI, which I’ve managed to deal
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I’ve long made it a practice to treat my Windows machines as if they have already been compromised. No, that’s not paranoia – that’s 30+ years of practical hands on computing experience. If there’s one thing that experience has taught me it’s this – I
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