Windows SteadyState: Free Hard Drive Virtualization for Windows July 4, 2008
Posted by Jeffrey Vergara in : Downloads, Windows , add a commentHard drive virtualization is very important when you’re managing hundreds of computers at a library, cybercafe or a school institute. One of the place where I am working at has more than 500 workstations and is used by students. Even though the students are on restricted limited account, some smart virus still manage to infect the whole computer. I’ve spent countless of hours just by scanning and removing virus. Some virus even made it impossible to clean that I had to reinstall the whole system.
Antivirus don’t really help much because new undetected virus can still infect the computer. So the best is to use a virtualization software. Previously I’ve mentioned about Returnil Virtual System which is able to restore everything to its original state by a reboot. They have a free version but it is only for personal use, not commercial use. The finance people checked the price and told me that they couldn’t afford it. So I had to use another solution…
UndeleteMyFiles: File Recovery June 30, 2008
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If you guessed that UndeleteMyFiles is a program that hacks into government databases and gives you the secret launch codes for nuclear missiles, you really need to stop watching Cold War era movies. But what you can use this free Windows utility to do is recover some recently deleted files on your computer.
There are several other free programs that do pretty much the same thing. But there are a few features that set UndeleteMyFiles apart. First of all, the program features a nifty preview function. Just hit the check box next to the file you want to see and hit the preview button and the program will restore the file to a temp directory so you can check it out before deciding whether you really want to restore it to your hard disk.
UndeleteMyFiles also has several different modes for scanning your hard disks or removable storage media. For example, you can use the Media Recovery mode to scan a disk just for media files. Or you can use the Deleted File Search to scan for files meeting certain size or file type. The File Rescue wizard, on the other hand will show you all deleted files on a disk.
The program also includes a file wiper, which lets you securely delete files so that they will be nearly impossible to recover. This feature could come in handy if you happen to be in possession of oh, say a nuclear missile launch code that you probably shouldn’t have.
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Humyo offers 30GB of free online storage June 30, 2008
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Humyo is an online storage service that offers users up to 30GB of free storage. But here’s the catch (if you can call it a catch), 25 of those gigs are reserved for media files. That means you only get 5GB for backing up other documents and files, which makes Humyo useful for saving and sharing media, but not quite as useful as an online backup solution.
Humyo does have some nice multimedia features. It will automatically arrange music by album, artist, genre, and year based on the file metadata. And there’s a built in media player for playing media files.
For $5 per month, you can sign up for a premium account which gives you 100GB that you can use to store any type of file. Humyo also offers a desktop client for Windows that lets you add a virtual hard drive to your PC for drag and drop uploading. You can try the desktop client for two weeks for free, but if you want to continue using it after that you need to sign up for a premium account.
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Find PDF Files Online June 30, 2008
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Pdf search engine bills itself as a search engine to locate ebooks on the Internet. Enter in the title you are looking for and it scour the world wide web displaying links to pdf files it comes across that matches your search term.
But you’d be wrong if you thought pdf search engine was just a one trick pony. While it does call itself a book search engine, the site can also locate any pdf document that’s out there. In our testing, we were able to locate tax return forms, DMV applications for specific states and other pdf documents floating around the ‘net.
Powered by google, pdf search engine might be the site to visit when you’re looking for pdf documents on the Internet. Or you could simply just enter what you’re looking for plus filetype:pdf in google and achieve the same results.
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