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Dust Signs File Copier 1.1 (Windows)

File Copier is a program which can copy multiple files and detect corrupt ones by filling unreadable blocks with p.e. binary zeros. Besides various search options files and whole folders can be excluded deliberately, enabling the program to create backups. Features: Recursive file search with the possibility to exlude folders...

Tags: Exclusion, File, Photocopier, Dust Signs, Copiers, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-05-04

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A word of warning on hard disk recovery by swapping logic boards

Freezing it?"Popping it into a sealed plastic bag and freezing it for a few hours."Pardon my ignorance - what does this do to help?Except in this case, the problem is almostcertainly fried electronics because of the method in which the drive failed.Strange. Hu?I can't say how it works, but I...

Tags: logic board, hard drive, hard-disk recovery, Cooling

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

News to know: IDF; Skype; New neutrality; HP; Palm; Madoff

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. John Morris: Intel: 32nm is just the beginning Sam Diaz: Intel on laptop chips: Speed kills Mary Jo...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Hewlett-Packard Co., Twitter Inc., Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Skype Technologies S.A., Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-24

Open source file-system vendor signs patent deal with Microsoft

All these patent deals that linux vendors are signing with Microsoft, there must be something that Microsoft has going for it. Poor TomTom, wasn't smart enough to do this and keep themselves out of trouble.RE: Open source file-system vendor signs patent deal with MicrosoftAnother one bites the dust! ...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, open source, Microsoft Corp., GPL, Tuxera, software, Linux, patent, patent deal

Discussion threads 2009-08-26

Could this be the hardware spec for Microsoft's Pink phone?

Could this be the hardware spec for Microsoft's Pink phone?YES! FINALLY!About bloody time. The biggest problems with WiMo phones are:- No retail OS upgrade path. Microsoft fobs this off to the manufacturer - who has literally NO incentive to offer an upgrade. Thing is, a high end phone is $400...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., phone, hardware spec, Pink, hardware

Discussion threads 2009-05-12

Samsung SGH-A657 (AT&T)

The market for rugged phones remains relatively small, but it shows no signs of waning. For a long time Sprint and Nextel had a monopoly on sturdy designs--Sprint with Sanyo models and Nextel with Motorola handsets--but other carriers have begun to catch up. Last fall, AT&T offered its second...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Samsung SGH-A657, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., phone, AT&T Corp.

Product reviews 2009-04-17

T-Mobile G1 to be available in stores today and tomorrow

T-Mobile G1 to be available in stores today and tomorrowIt's a phone. What's the rush?Sorry, I don't get it. It's not like they're going to discontinue it next month. More likely they'll mark it down. What's the hurry?Anxiously awaiting...Mine is "Out for delivery."WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!RE: T-Mobile G1 to...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Phone quality, phone, T-Mobile G1, T-Mobile, Loverock

Discussion threads 2008-10-21

Software needs to feel SaaSy

Softletter packed about 100 suits into a tiny meeting room at the Embassy Suites-Buckhead today to hear the good news about Software as a Service SaaS. That's good news as in dollars-and-cents good news. As in survival of the firm good news. As in getting through the next...

Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Sales Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Management, Sales, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-01-30

My Mac mini - Initial thoughts

We've had the Mac mini at the PC Doc HQ for nearly a week now and while the system isn't fully integrated into the ecosystem, it's not been left to gather dust either.  So, with a week under my belt, I thought I'd pass on my initial thoughts about Apple's smallest...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Intel Mac Mini, Desktops, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2007-11-02

Microsoft to dispute FCC on vacant TV airwaves

Microsoft to dispute FCC on vacant TV airwavesEven MS may not have enough...money to pull this off. Only telephone companies get what they want from the FCC. Microsoft needs to get AT&T to ask the FCC. Then everything will be OK.Huzzah to Microsoft ; Free Universal...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Federal government, digital television, TV, Microsoft Corp., FCC, broadcast-TV

Discussion threads 2007-08-13

HP to safety official's e-mail regarding potentially dangerous laser printer emissions: 'Delete'

Apparently, my recent coverage of the potentially harmful emissions coming from laser printers including those from HP have raised some important questions in certain government circles. After reading the two blogs I wrote on the issue (first the news of the Australian study, and second, HP's response), San Francisco...

Tags: Printer, Hewlett-Packard Co., Laser Printer, E-mail, Laser, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-08-09

Circuit City, I'll never shop you again

Circuit City, I'll never shop you againI stopped shopping there a long time agoI hate to break it to you, but Circuit City employees have never had that much on the ball. Whenever a Circuit City opens, the nearby Taco Bells and Athletic Shoe Factory puts up Help Wanted signs....

Tags: Sales strategy, Circuit City Stores Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-03-30

Indiana wants OK to monitor cellphones

Indianas wiretap law is dreadfully in need of updating, the state police and prosecutors say, and theyre pushing a bill that would allow them to get wiretaps on cellphones and email, The Indianapolis Star reports. Groups supporting the measure testified at legislative hearings yesterday. The existing wiretap law...

Tags: monitor, telephone, State Police, cell phone

Blog posts 2007-03-19

Harvard Business Review: 20 top ideas that challenge what you know

The Harvard Business Review has a list of top 20 "Breakthrough Ideas for 2007." Some interesting, ideas here that are counter-culture in that they challenge accepted thinking in many different areas. Siobhan Ford from HBR says that the list is free to read for all of February and that the...

Tags: Disruptive, Emerging Hotbed

Blog posts 2007-02-05

End of the PC? No, iPhone is the end of the cell phone

You can read a lot from what the Apple iPhone will do, and surely there are a lot of glaring deficiencies. What can we read of them?And what should we make of the iPhones company on stage at this weeks Macworld? Google, Yahoo, and Cingular. The best of the Internet,...

Tags: Home, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology, Mobile, Apple, Microsoft, Windows, SaaS, Patents, content delivery network, Internet, convergence, Google, Google Inc., iPhone, VoIP, Apple iPhone

Blog posts 2007-01-11

Battery recall could go beyond Dell notebooks

It seems that the recent battery recall by Dell could only be the tip of the iceberg as the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has decided to review all Sony made lithium ion (Li-Ion) notebook batteries.Following Dell's recall of 4.1 million notebook battery units because of fears that they could...

Tags: battery, notebook

Blog posts 2006-08-15

Surveillance society: Growing daily?

Surveillance society: Growing daily?Could not Agree More, HoweverYou should take a lesson fropm the "Great Communicator"...keep it simple.The Gipper has the benefit of time on his sideHe said a lot and a few words are remembered the excerpt here came from a speech much longer than my posting. I'm just...

Tags: Vertical industries, Huzzah, government, Gipper

Discussion threads 2006-05-18

Scalix scales up email

Scalix is ratcheting up its quest to move deeper into Microsoft Exchange territory as well as into the growing market for super slick Web and wireless clients. I spoke with Scalix founder and chief strategy officer Julie Hanna Farris (at right, photo taken at Demo 2006) about the latest release...

Tags: Scalix Corp., Julie Hanna Farris

Blog posts 2006-02-13

HP outlines long-term strategy

HP outlines long-term strategyHP - inhouse/online salesI had to check the date when I read your article - ie, that it wasn't April Fool's day. I've been trying to buy, in the UK, either a HP hx2490 or hx2790 Handheld for the last 3 months. HP sales online tell me...

Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, strategy, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2006-01-23

Google Base and Fremont--signs of the Web 2.0 plateau

The technology industry has been experiencing a round of inspired innovation. Venture capital money is pouring into startups, and the new as well as aging giants are burning the midnight oil Innovation will slow as the big companies become slower. to take advantage of this second major wave of...

Tags: Google Inc., classifieds

Blog posts 2005-11-30