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- SoftAmbulance Outlook Recovery 2.3 (Windows)
- Recover and repair deleted, lost and corrupted Microsoft Outlook databases. Outlook Recovery will automatically locate, recover and repair damaged Outlook databases complete with email messages, attachments, address books, and contacts. If an Outlook database has been deleted or lost after a disk or system failure, Outlook Recovery will perform a...
- Tags: Database, Recovery, Microsoft Windows, Outlook Recovery, Microsoft Outlook, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software
- Software downloads 2009-11-23
- Microsoft gives up to 1 million Xbox modders the boot from Live
- Exactly. I could not agree moreno different then many other things.In NASCAR, the team owns the car, NASCAR the rest.You are perfectlly free to do with your car whatever you wish, NASCAR just will not allow you to run it at their events.Microsoft is not stopping them from modifying their...
- Tags: Game players, Linux, Games, EULA, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, hardware functionality, hardware
- Discussion threads 2009-11-11
- Easeus Partition Master Home Edition 4.1.1 (Windows)
- EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition is an excellent partition management freeware. With its help, you can extend system partition, have better disk space management, settle low disk space problem! The most attractive feature is it can resize/move partition without destroying data.This free partition software works perfectly with hardware RAID and...
- Tags: Disk, Microsoft Windows, Partition, EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition
- Software downloads 2009-11-08
- Dear Microsoft: What's the deal with Windows 7 upgrades?
- Location?38.921473?N 77.066946?WYep, same here ...... stonewalled at every turn. With you ...... I can see, because you've been pulling on Microsoft's scab lately. But in Ed's case, I don't know why they would treat him like that.^o^Message has been deleted..Believe it or not ...... it makes little difference. The...
- Tags: upgrade media, reverse engineering, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
- Planning to install Windows 7 on your netbook, here's a couple tips
- The problem with Windows on netbooksNetbooks need SSDs. I do not like very portable devices with a spinning disk, they are just not robust enough. Windows space requirements coupled with their poor performance so far on small, low end SSDs, makes Windows a poor choice.It seems that most of the...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, netbook, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- Netbooks worth the upgrade to Windows 7? Heck yes!
- my thoughts"As I wrote the day that 7 launched, 'Windows 7 is just another OS.'"An article sitting at a -1 rating (out of 33 people) as I type this, and with quite a bit of Talkback discussion. Not exactly a shining pillar of truth."Most netbooks ship with Windows XP Home...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, Boot-time, Waking Up, netbook, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Netbooks worth, Heck Yes
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- 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
- 'Evil Maid' USB stick attack keylogs TrueCrypt passphrases
- nonsenseanybody who is truly concerned about security will have set the BIOS to require a password at boot...and will set 'boot from USB' to 'Disabled'.Can't you password protect from even booting up?I assume we are talking about business class laptops.InterestingPhysical security is paramount - especially when it comes to data...
- Tags: Notebooks, maid, BIOS, laptop computer, USB, Evil Maid, hard drive, Evil, attack
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- 'Evil Maid' USB stick attack keylogs TrueCrypt passphrases
- Security researcher Joanna Rutkowska has released a PoC proof of concept of a keylogger that is capable of logging TrueCrypt's disk encryption passphrase enabling the attacker to successfully decrypt the hard drive's content. Dubbed, the 'evil maid' attack due to its 'plug-and-exploit' functionality requiring 1-2 minutes for...
- Tags: Disk, Passphrase, USB, Laptop Computer, Attack, TrueCrypt, Hotel Room, Mobile Proximity Alarm, Notebooks, Security, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Sony DCR-DVD650
- DVDs were never a perfect solution for directly recording video to with a camcorder. The medium makes even less sense now with hard-disk-drive and flash-memory models reasonably priced and able to store much more video in far smaller packages. About the only advantage camcorders like the Sony Handycam DCR-DVD650 have...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Consumer electronics, Flash memory, Memory, Monitors & displays, video, DVD, camcorder, Sony Corp., memory stick, pixel
- Product reviews 2009-10-13
- Time to ditch Windows for online banking and shopping
- Instead of a live CDWould I be able to install Linux in Windows and do the same?Amen! Happened today to a gov't computerhttp://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2009/10/computer_hacker_steals_479000.htmlYet another infected computer stealing OUR money.Absolutely ridiculous and irresponsible article!Show me an instance where a flaw in Vista/7 has led to a user being compromised? ...
- Tags: Operating systems, Cyberthreats, Web browsers, Viruses and worms, Spyware, adware & malware, Microsoft Windows, exploit, phishing, Linux, operating system, Adrian, online banking
- Discussion threads 2009-10-13
- Snow Leopard bug deletes all user data (Updated)
- Proves Apple is not perfectI know many ABMers that bashed Microsoft when a bug that only affected a very small user base came on in Windows 7 Release Candidate and said that Microsoft should pay and how can they release software with bugs. All software has bugs I don't...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, S**t, Snow Leopard, user data
- Discussion threads 2009-10-13
- Measuring Windows 7 performance
- my scoresi have an intel i-940, 9gb, nvidia 9800gt w/1gb, nvidia gts 250 /512 amd 54 seagate 7200 rpm drives.processor 7.2memory 7.6graphics 7.0gaming 7.0hard drive 5.9RE: Measuring Windows 7 performance"I used Excel to color-code the values on this chart with a simple 'greener is better, redder is worse' key."Try doing...
- Tags: Performance management, graphics, Measuring, performance
- Discussion threads 2009-10-08
- Moore's Law of Software is the key to the cloud
- I don't think so[i]Software falls further behind hardware every year.[/i]From where I seat software is not so much behind.In just a few years the hardware becomes inadequate to handle all the software we install.There is also plenty of software that can not be deployed because of the hardware lack of...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Programming languages, Development tools, Urquhart, SOFTWARE IS, software, hardware
- Discussion threads 2009-10-08
- Study: Windows 7 can boot more slowly than Vista
- Windows Boot UpWell you know I think that the average user understand the boot up scenario.the more crap you add to your PC the longer it will take to become usable.All of those little dormant services being energized.Hell a clean install of Windows 7 on a Dell 530s with 4...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, computer
- Discussion threads 2009-10-08
- What do you want to see in Apple's new iMac; MacBook?
- RE: What do you want to see in Apple's new iMac; MacBook?USB 3.0, an included game (got an iBook G4 years ago, came with Tony Hawk 3 preinstalled), wireless A/V support would be awesome. And LOWER PRICES.Absolutely nothing.Keeping them away from my sight should be enough to make me happy.I'm...
- Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, CD Eject, Psychotherapist, Apple iMac, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., CD
- Discussion threads 2009-09-25
- TuneAid 3.3 (Mac)
- TuneAid is an iPod content recovery tool. It will let you import your iPod's content back into a Folder or iTunes in no effort. Hard Drive crash ? Stolen computer ? Corrupted system ? No problem, TuneAid will salvage your Music ! Recovering Music that you've purchased is completely legal,...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple iPod, DigiDNA, TuneAid, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2009-09-25
- Intel: SSDs are coming
- A MisnomerThe term "solid-state" is actually slightly off, if the intent is to distinguish a unit with no moving parts from one with moving parts. The term "solid-state", although it can be used informally to mean "no-moving-parts", actually refers to lack of vacuum or gas-based tubes, thereby implying the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Visual Studio, Storage, Intel Corp., SSD
- Discussion threads 2009-09-24
- Hijacking Windows System Restore for cybercrime profits
- welp.... they are finally getting a taste of their own crap.I wonder what they are doing. We use steadystate on all of our machines. Reboot the machine and everything is restored.Maybe they should move from a PC based environment to a terminal server like system. Each reboot...
- Tags: Terminal services, system restore, Hijacking Windows System Restore, cybercrime profit, SteadyState, operating system, terminal server, security
- Discussion threads 2009-09-23
- MY PC OK 2010 (Windows)
- Unwanted and even dangerous clutter from daily use and Internet surfing builds up over time. This takes up drive space and tracks your Web-browsing habits, leaving a trail for anyone to see. With My PC OK Cleanup, you can safely remove junk files, internet clutter. And it includes one of...
- Tags: PC, Microsoft Windows, MYPCOK, Desktops, Hardware
- Software downloads 2009-09-23
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