One day of your life you took the decision of buying a small portable drive for your school or your office or just for fun (maybe you received this drive as a giveaway at a trade show),maybe you have heard it called by a lot of names : memory stick , flash drive , thumb drive ,or USB Drive.

So What is an USB drive?

Of all of the past terms the correct one is USB Drive with ‘universal serial bus’ for USB. The push for this new protocol came, not surprisingly, from electronic manufacturers and software developers who were facing increasingly complex configurations of devices to be connected to computers. In 1994, a group of seven companies – Compaq, Dell, DEC, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NEC, and Nortel began development of the USB drive (and corresponding USB ports). Intel produced the first silicon for USB in 2005. By 2008 over 2 billion USB devices were being sold each year.

So Where Did The Other Names Come From?

The drives enabled files to ‘jump’ from one computer to another, the cheapest drives look like small plastic ‘sticks’ (usually black), and they’re about the size of your ‘thumb’ (though getting smaller all the time!). The term ‘flash’ refers to the ‘flash memory’ chip (that pre-dated USB drives by about 15 years) that could be electrically erased and reprogrammed multiple times.
IBM produced the first commercially available USB drive in 2000 with a storage capacity of 8MB – pitifully small by today’s standards but still more than five times the capacity of the floppy disks in use at the time. Storage capacity has grown exponentially since then – Kingston introduced its Data Traveler 300 in 2009 with 256GB of storage capacity, and the 512GB can’t be far behind.
Unfortunately, transfer speed hasn’t grown quite as quickly. USB1.0, released in 1996, allowed a data transfer speed of between 1.5 and 12 Mbits/s (Megabits of memory per second). USB2.0 was released in April 2000 with a “Hi-Speed” bandwidth of 480 Mbits/s (about 60MB per second). USB3.0 was announced in November 2008 with transmission speeds of up to 5Gbits/s but new drives are only just starting to come to market.

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Protect your Firefox passwords

When we are using internet we have to deal a several logins and passwords and some sites impose some weird usernames and passwords that are impossible to remember.here comes our favourite browser The biggest Mozilla FireFox to store all of our passwords so when you try to access your facebook ,gmail , twitter … accounts you dont have to write every time your informations

this is really great but there is a little problem in this , the problem is that every person using your computer can go and see all of your stored passwords with just a few mouse clicks. hopefully firefox have a feature that can help us to make this private and dont lete anyone except us to see those passwords.

so how you are supposed to Protect your Firefox passwords ,the answer is so simple “set a master password”

The steps to Protect your Firefox passwords are :

1. Start Mozilla Firefox
2. Click to Tools
3. Select Option
4. Go to Security Tab
5. Check Use a Master Password
6. Specify your password and VOILA it’s done

before finishing i will send you to see this steps by video this will help all of those that are not making it by following the steps click here to see the video

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Sometimes a virus or some malicious script makes the Folder Options not visible even when it is explicitly enabled.

In this case you can’t configure your computer to let you see your hidden files and folders,your fles system ,the extensions of your files and a lot of other features

Now lets see how to fix it :

Go to start/run or ctrl+r and write regedit (see the picture)

and go to HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesExplorer

and then select nofolderoptions click on it and change his value to 0 and then push OK

And it’s all what you want to do to fix it and this is what you will see after the finish

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Hard Drive Failure

As we know all the hard drives are the best way to store manage and retrieve big volume of data even the big number of new storage devices available in the market, none of them can take the place of our famous hard drive. The hard drive has a special place in the storage devices available in the market. Without our famous disk we can’t survive on this world of big data

If you plan to use your drive to store crucial data I will give you the following advice “buy the best quality hard drive you could find”. This way you will be a little bit more secure and this can avoid you big problems like Hard Drive Failure and lost of data on the future .however, after several years you may get some problems I, can list them for you but I will just talk to you about the most common: With the time platters and sectors get damaged and this cause failure of your disk, also detaching and re-attaching of your drive may lead him into its failure

When your drive gets failed, you can’t access his data anymore. At this time you often seek help of data recovery experts who may retrieve a good amount of data from you disk experts may help you get the maximum of the data back.

I will list you some steps to follow if you’re getting signs of hard drive failure:

• if you get a hard drive failure Never try to restore data yourself if you don’t know what are you really doing
• if you get a hard drive failure Try to recovering expert who can execute a physical data recovery.
• if you get a hard drive failure If you want to have some tutorials on how to restore data you can search in our blog you may find some great and useful post.

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What is AutoBlogging

“Autoblogging” this term mean a blog who get its content itself, Waaaw this is really great this way you can got hundreds or even thousands of sites with one setup and one configuration so you will not waste any time and this can bring you a lot of money of them without touch the blog or write anything on it. God Bless AutoBlogging

Start AutoBlogging

To start AutoBlogging you need a website  up  and running ,the best choice is  Wordpress .Wordpress is a free, easy to install blog system and  don’t require any programming experience to set it up, I can’t tell you that I already seen an autoblog on anything else than wordpress but you may see some other examples . Once you finish installing WordPress you will need to install the autoblogging plugins, you can use anyone you think is good for you, there are some free plugins like AutoBlogged   or some paying ones like WpRobot. Installing this is fairly straight forward, the main problem people have is making the cron update the posts.

If you are using some free plugins for autoblogging you may have to find the source of the content yourself by pointing the plugin at an RSS feed ,if you use WpRobot you don’t need to search anything he do all the job for you ,you just need to configure it  and he got a lot of source of RSS feeds. The plugins take the information’s from the feeds and post them to your website.

Generate traffic when you are autoblogging

Some of the sources of Rss feeds are article directories like  EzineArticles or forums or any other blog you think it have an interesting content.to get some traffic when you are autoblogging let him use twitter and facebook by twitting each new post on your site and also you can do some SEO to get some traffic.

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Before starting if you are not a great reader or you like to see this in video you can find it HERE

Instructions

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Follow the tips below:

· Uninstall IE 9 Add-Ons

· Disable Hardware Acceleration

· Reinstall IE 9

· Fix IE 9 Registry Keys

> Uninstall IE 9 Add-Ons

Installing too many add-ons affects the overall performance of the web browser. This may be a reason of Internet Explorer 9 crashing. Although some of these toolbars are of great use but often we install the ones which are not frequently used. For instance, some softwares come up with the option to install the browser toolbars. In many cases these are less important to the computer users.

To fix this issue uninstall all the unnecessary add-ons. Follow the steps below:

1. Run IE 9

2. Click on Tools (at top right corner) and then click on Manage Add-Ons

3. A new window will appear on your screen select unwanted add-on and click on Disable

4. Press OK and Restart your browser

> Disable Hardware Acceleration

Internet Explorer crashing can also be fixed by disabling hardware acceleration. The acceleration shall be adjusted in order to watch multimedia content specially. You can adjust the acceleration easily. To do so follow the steps stated below:

1. Click on Start and open Control Panel
2. Click on Network and Internet

3. Click on Internet Options

4. In Internet Option click on Advanced tab

5. Check the box “Use software rendering instead of GPU rendering”

6. Click Apply button

7. Restart PC

> Reinstall IE 9

This browser is installed as a Windows update and incorrect or corrupted installation may lead to crashing issues. In sever cases you can uninstall the browser to reinstall it again. The process to uninstall it is a little different as compared which is given here:

1. Click on Start

2. Open Control Panel

3. Now click on Programs and Features

4. In the left panel of Programs and Features click on View Installed Updates

5. Right-click on Internet Explorer 9

6. Click on Uninstall

7. Restart your computer on completion of process

> Fix IE 9 Registry Keys

Registry contains all the information of the applications that we install in our PC in the form of keys. If keys of any program get corrupted it won’t work properly.

i hope this informations will help you.

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What is the Blogger Data API?

Today we are here to talk about the Google API or to be more specific the Blogger Data API, this API allows client applications to view and update Blogger content in the form of Google Data API feeds this mean that this API let you do all of the CRUD (create read update delete) operation on your blogs without having to access to your blog with the Web Browser by implementing this API in a programing language .NET or Java or even use it in a web Interface with PHP

If you are a developer you can create an app that describe your needs and to do it you should take a look on the Blogger API website ,else you should try to use some existing tools like the Autoblog samurai or even use the demos application provided with the API

Before finish this post I would like to give you some links to learn how to use this API or find a product using it to handle your blogs without wasting a lot of time on some steps that you can avoid

Blogger API official website here

The Auto blog Samurai official website here

In the future I will create some posts on how to create application with this API and other APIs and I will keep you updated, so stay tuned

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Backups are the single most effective method of preventing data loss on computer systems. The following article will list the 10 best Windows backup software programs.

Cobian Backup is a free for personal use backup software that supports both local and remote backups. The software is constantly under development by the developer which means that features are included regularly. Some of the key features include full, differential and incremental backups, file compression including the popular 7-zip format plus strong encryption for data security.
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An Open source backup solution supporting incremental backups, one-click restore options, task scheduling and email notifications. Some advanced options include ssh tunneling and connecting to rsync daemons.

It makes use of a server client system. One or multiple backup servers can be created on computers running Windows by installing the server version on these computer systems. The client will be installed on the any computer system where files should be backed up regularly.

The backup software supports authentication, scheduling and connection by IP or hostname.
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Cucku Backup calls itself social backup. It provides local backups but also backups on friend?s computers. It supports complete and continuous backups and can automate the remote backup process to take that of the user?s shoulders. All files that are backed up use encryption algorithms to ensure data safety and integrity so that the backup partners cannot see the filenames nor contents of the files that are send over to their computer systems.
It works best in computer networks but can also work over the Internet if enough time or upload bandwidth is provided.

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Backup Maker provides extensive backup capabilities. It comes with a standard and expert mode to suite both the needs of experienced and inexperienced users. The software supports full and partial backups, local and remote backups, selection of a backup execution interval and execution on certain events like USB detection or start and shutdown.

All in all an excellent software program to backup files on the Windows operating system.
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Powerful backup software that supports multi-versioning, backups to local and remote locations, file compression and encryption.
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SyncToy is offered by Microsoft as a free download
for the Windows operating system. It can be used to easily synchronize data between computer systems. The program offers five different synchronization options that the user can choose from including a preview option before starting the process.
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Mozy is an online backup solution that offers backup clients for Windows NT based systems and Mac OS X. Every registered user receives 2 Gigabytes of free space with the option to sign up for a paid account for currently $4.95 that offers unlimited backup space. Several pre-configured backup sets are populated after installation including bookmarks, documents and multimedia files. These can but do not have to be backed up. Expert mode provides access to the full file system to pick files or folders to backup directly.
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A backup for the advanced user that provides great file filtering options. It comes with the usual set of features including local and remote backup creation (including SFTP), file compression and encryption, status reports and log file generation.
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Another software that has been primarily designed for file synchronization that is also supporting file backups to a local drive, over a local network or the Internet. It works on a per directory basis and can be installed on as many computer systems as the user desires. The software comes as a setup or portable version.
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Another free backup solution for Laptop Computer users. Comodo Backup can backup files and folders on a local computer system to other drives, network locations, ftp servers and removable media. Backups can be scheduled and notifications can be send to inform about completed backup jobs. Other features include compressing backups, data recovery options, support of multi-session backups and incremental backups.
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DriveImage XML is more a drive imaging software than a backup program. It can however be used to backup a full hard drive or partition to another drive. It uses the Volume Shadow Service to create exact backups during runtime. It is afterwards possible to restore the backup either from within Windows or with the use of a boot disk.
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Top 10 FREE Data Recovery Software

In my experience, accidentally deleting important files or forgetting to backup important files before formatting are quite often. At first when i lost my data in a External Hard-drive crash i didn’t know how to restore my data. But recently i came across these bunch of free softwares which can restore data from crashed HDD and flash drives.

STEPS To follow

When recovering data from accidental deletion, there are some rules to follow.
1. Stop using the hard drive you want to recover as main hard drive (Windows has disk and registry activity in background. Don’t believe? Run RegMon, FileMon and DiskMon)
2. Do not install the data recovery software on the hard drive that you want to recover.
3. Do not save the recovered files on the hard drive that you’re recovering.

Do take note that these are my top 10 picks for FREE data recovery software. Number 1 does not mean it is better than number 5.

PC INSPECTOR File Recovery

PC INSPECTOR File Recovery is a data recovery program that supports the FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems. Finds partitions automatically, even if the boot sector or FAT has been erased or damaged. Recovers files with the original time and date stamp. Supports the saving of recovered files on network drives. Recovers files, even when a header entry is no longer available. Setup file is 5.83 MB in size.
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Recuva

From the maker of the popular CCleaner. Recuva (pronounced “recover”) is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses! Setup is only 646 KB in size and it’s portable.
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Panda Recovery

Pandora Recovery actually recovers files permanently removed from Recycle Bin, files originally deleted using Shift + Delete keys bypassing Recycle Bin and files deleted from DOS prompt. Pandora Recovery allows you to find and recover recoverable deleted files from NTFS-formatted volumes, regardless of their type – you can recover pictures, songs, movies or documents. Setup file is 2.12 MB in size.
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TOKIWA DataRecovery

DataRecovery is freeware and written by TOKIWA to undelete accidentally deleted files even from recycle bin. It supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS undeletion. Even in both NTFS compressed files and EFS encrypted files. Zip file is only 198 KB in size, no installation required and it’s portable.

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SoftPerfect File Recovery

SoftPerfect File Recovery is a free and useful tool to restore accidentally deleted files from hard and floppy disks, USB flash drives, CF and SD cards and other storage media. It supports the popular file systems such as FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS and NTFS5 with compression and encryption. If your important files disappeared and you can’t find them in the recycle bin, try this software product and get the files back to life. Easy to use, no installation is required. Program is only 247 KB in size.

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Undelete Plus

Undelete Plus is a quick and effective way to restore accidentally deleted files. It can also recover files that have been emptied from the Recycle Bin, permanantly deleted files within Windows using the Shift + Delete, and files that have been deleted from within a Command Prompt. Undelete Plus works under Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista operating systems. The program supports all Windows file systems for hard and floppy drives including FAT12/16/32,NTFS/NTFS5 and image recovery from CompactFlash, SmartMedia, MultiMedia and Secure Digital cards. Program is only 583 KB in size and requires no installation. Portable.

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FreeUndelete

FreeUndelete is data recovery program for deleted files. In case of accidental deletion of files on a NTFS (used by default in Windows XP, 2000 and NT), FAT32 or FAT16 file systems FreeUndelete is the utility to help. Setup file is 866 KB in size.

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ADRC Data Recovery Software Tools

ADRC Data Recovery Software Tools contains a collection of DIY data recovery tools that supports a wide variety of drives and file systems. The software incorporates extremely simple GUI with novice users in mind. The software zooms in to do only critical recovery functions with minimum complexity so one could recover the data easily. It gives you full control to undelete files, disk image back up, restore a backup image, copy files from hard disk with bad sectors, disk cloning, backup, edit and restore your boot parameters. No installation required, portable and program is only 132 KB in size.

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Glary Undelete

Glary Undelete is a free and easy-to-use yet powerful file undelete solution for FAT and NTFS file systems. It will bring back files emptied from the Recycle Bin, in a DOS window, from Windows Explorer with the SHIFT key held down. It will even recover files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses! Glary Undelete works under Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista operating systems. The program supports all Windows file systems for hard and floppy drives including FAT12/16/32,NTFS/NTFS5 and image recovery from CompactFlash, SmartMedia, MultiMedia and Secure Digital cards. Setup is 1.17 MB in size.

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Avira UnErase Personal

Avira UnErase recovers data that have been deleted from the hard drive – either accidentally or as a result of a virus infection, an uninstaller or defective software. The danger of important data being lost forever is averted with Avira UnErase. Setup file is 402 KB in size.

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There you go, the top 10 free data recovery software. That should help you get your data back.

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