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Fastboot Files for ATRIX 2 and DROID Bionic Leak

In case of emergency, reverting the handset to its stock configuration can always prove a great option. Owners of Motorola ATRIX 2 or DROID Bionic handsets can now do so, courtesy of leaked fastboot files that have just made an appearance into the wild. In case something wrong happens with their phones, they can ...

30 December 2011
16:01 GMT

Apple Posts OS X Lion Recovery Update

Apple has issued a Lion Recovery Update that improves the behavior of the OS X recovery function. The update is tasked with fixing a Find My Mac problem as well. Read on to learn more. On a more specific note, Apple explains that “The Lion Recovery Update includes improvements to Lion Recovery, and addresses a...

13 October 2011
07:29 GMT

New Backup Appliances from Symantec

Symantec launched two new backup appliances at the VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas, which should help organizations modernize and improve their backup infrastructures.The newly released devices can be deployed in as little as 30 minutes, thus helping organizations in the quest to better protect their information, in both p...

5 September 2011
08:07 GMT

Apple Giving Free Flash Drives to Customers Bitten by the Lion

Apple hit a snag recently when its OS X Lion ended up injuring the hard disk drives of some customers, so the Cupertino-based company decided to make amends by shipping some complimentary flash drive units over to those affected. Software updates are usually a cause to rejoice, but that is not the reaction that t...

5 August 2011
09:03 GMT

Recover Data from Formatted Drives

The times when you had to pay a small fortune to recover data lost in all sorts of accidents are long gone. Nowadays there is plenty of software available to get your files back if you deleted them from Recycle Bin. MiniTool Power Data Recovery Free Edition goes a step further and even finds data on formatted or dele...

14 May 2011
06:21 GMT

Painless System Recovery Administration

Creating restore points on your computer can be really useful especially when the operating system becomes unresponsive and grinds to a halt. Nursing these little helpers, though, is not an easy thing to do, unless System Restore Manager comes into play. Protecting your PC from software crashes that would affect t...

2 February 2011
12:11 GMT

Spinal Cord Injuries Recover Naturally

Recovery after severe brain and spinal cord injury is very limited, but milder injuries are usually followed by a good functional regeneration, and a new study led by researchers in the Department of Neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, proved that primates have a quite unexpec...

15 November 2010
05:34 GMT

Clonezilla 1.2.6-40 Is Available for Download

Steven Shiau announced earlier today, November 9th, the immediate availability of a new stable release of his system-cloning Linux distribution, Clonezilla 1.2.6-40. The new version is powered by Linux kernel 2.6.32-27, and it introduces a couple of important bugfixes, as well as many enhancements and changes."This r...

9 November 2010
06:38 GMT

Using Robots for Rehab

A five-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will be used by UC Irvine biomedical, mechanical & aerospace engineering professor David Reinkensmeyer, to test the effectiveness of robot-assisted recovery in stroke patients.Strokes affect more and more people every year, in Orange County alone,...

29 October 2010
09:00 GMT

Despite Taking a Severe Blow Bredolab Is Not Giving Up

Following a take down effort orchestrated by Dutch authorities, Bredolab was severely crippled, however, security researchers warn that the botnet still has a fighting chance.At the beginning of the week, the High Tech Crime Team of the Dutch national police, together with the Dutch Forensic Institute, the Computer E...

29 October 2010
04:04 GMT

SystemRescueCd 1.6.2 Comes With Linux Kernel 2.6.35.6

Last evening, October 11th, François Dupoux announced yet another maintenance release of his popular SystemRescueCd Linux-based operating system for rescue and recovery tasks.Besides the usual bug fixes, the new SystemRescueCd 1.6.2 Live CD includes the latest stable version of the Linux kernel, an updated ver...

12 October 2010
13:11 GMT

Pessimistic Patients Recover Slowly from Heart Problems

According to an extensive review of specialty literature, it would appear that people who are more pessimistic and grouchy tend to recuperate slower if they are suffering from heart problems.The researchers behind the investigation are quick to point out that these conclusions are not meant to make people doubt or tr...

15 September 2010
08:29 GMT

Cheating Spouse - There’s an iPhone Spy Stick for That

The folks at BrickHouse Security have released a USB dongle that connects to an iPhone and downloads all of the information stored on the device, including deleted files.The best use for it, apparently, is to find out if your spouse is a cheater.The iPhone Spy Stick will be able to reveal this via detailed views of t...

19 August 2010
09:02 GMT

Small Weight Big Muscles

Scientists have discovered that in order to have big muscles, it is not necessary to lift heavy barbells and that lifting small weights also does the job.They suggests that lifting light weights is as efficient for building body mass, as breaking your back into lifting heavier ones as long as you reach muscle fatigue...

12 August 2010
09:11 GMT

SystemRescueCd 1.5.8 Fixes a Couple of Critical Bugs in GParted

SystemRescueCd has been updated bringing newer Linux kernels and a newer GParted. With SystemRescueCd 1.5.8, both kernel lines offered have been updated to Linux kernel 2.6.32.16 and Linux kernels 2.6.34.1 respectively. A newer version of GParted, the graphical partitioning tool, has been included which fixes a coupl...

9 July 2010
16:11 GMT

SystemRescueCd 1.5.6 Features Linux Kernel 2.6.34

François Dupoux announced on June 18th the new SystemRescueCd 1.5.6 Linux-based operating system. Being powered by the alternative Linux kernel 2.6.34, and the standard 2.6.32.15 Linux kernel, SystemRescueCd 1.5.6 includes now the popular GParted 0.6.0 application for partitioning tasks with support for drives...

19 June 2010
06:47 GMT

Kroll Ontrack Improves Its Data-Recovery Solutions for Mac

Kroll Ontrack, a provider of information-management, data-recovery, and legal technology products and services, is pleased to confirm several improvements to its data-recovery tools for Macs. The company offers efficient data-recovery solutions for Mac users, server admins, specific Mac applications and files, as wel...

27 May 2010
02:12 GMT

Parted Magic 4.9 Comes with GParted 0.5.2 and Parted 2.2

Patrick Verner, Parted Magic creator and main developer, has announced the availability of the latest Parted Magic 4.9. It is mostly a bug-fixing release, but there are several new packages and some big changes as well. Google Chrome has been replaced with Chromium, the open-source alternative, and support for old I...

22 March 2010
06:40 GMT

Heidi Montag Is Still Very ‘Fragile’ After Surgery

Heidi Montag is just 23 and, according to many, had very little need, if at all, for the makeover she got with massive cosmetic surgery a couple of months ago. Dealing with very poor self-esteem, the reality television star says the pain she still suffers is a price she more than gladly pays for her new look – ...

8 February 2010
15:31 GMT

SystemRescueCd 1.3.5 Incorporates GParted 0.5.1

On January 25th, François Dupoux released version 1.3.5 of the SystemRescueCd Linux-based operating system. The new SystemRescueCd 1.3.5 is now powered by Linux kernel 2.6.31.12, with an updated Btrfs filesystem from Linux kernel 2.6.32. The popular GParted application for partitioning tasks was updated, as we...

27 January 2010
04:28 GMT

How to Recover Your Mac OS X Home Folder

Last time I installed OS X on my Mac, I did an Archive and Install and selected the "Preserve Users and Network Settings" option. However, people might forget to check if the "preserve users …" option is selected and will end up with a new OS X installation on their Mac but with none of their files. Although y...

11 November 2009
12:11 GMT

Microsoft Says Sidekick Data Has Been Recovered

Redmond-based software giant Microsoft has addressed a new statement release to T-Mobile Sidekick users, announcing them that it managed to recovered the data lost during the recent outage. According to the company, it has managed to recover almost all of the lost data, if not all of it, which means that users affect...

15 October 2009
06:36 GMT

T-Mobile on Sidekick Disaster: Recovery Might Be Possible

Wireless carrier T-Mobile issued on Monday yet another statement regarding the Sidekick data loss issue. According to the company, there are chances that users' data will be restored, and the damage caused by the server failure is not as big as originally believed. The service has been already restored, the mobi...

13 October 2009
03:12 GMT

Kroll Ontrack Launches Global Data Recovery Program for Apple Customers

Kroll Ontrack, a company dealing with data recovery and legal technology products and services, has announced a global Data Recovery Portal for Apple customers. The company offers efficient data recovery solutions for Mac owners, Mac server admins, Mac applications and files, as well as solutions for iPod and iPhone,...

7 August 2009
09:09 GMT

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Available

Acronis has unveiled the latest version of its disk imaging and bare metal restoring solution, rebranded as Acronis Backup & Recovery 10, available immediately with prices ranging from $74 to $2400 US. The company noted that with the latest release it had managed to boost the scalability of the software but also to e...

8 July 2009
08:49 GMT

Mail Synchronization Made Easy by MailShadow

Cemaphore Systems, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and Google Apps Enterprise Partner, is a company that offers email synchronization and continuity software, recovery and migration for Gmail/Google Apps, Microsoft Exchange, Exchange Online, hosted Exchange, and other email systems. Its MailShadow is a product tha...

13 June 2009
03:10 GMT

Brain Damage Recovery Made Difficult by Smoking

The frontal and parietal cortices of the human brain are especially prone to being damaged by excessive alcohol consumption, researches show, but most of that damage can be reversed by simply kicking the habit. However, if patients smoke while quitting drinking, the recovery considerably slows down, a new study publi...

12 May 2009
16:21 GMT

Recover Your Lost PDF Passwords

One of the ways to make sure that your work is protected is to use as a distribution mode the PDF format provided by Adobe, together with the security options it offers. And when I say security options, I mean setting a user and owner password or attaching a digital certificate – as always, good in theory, but ...

8 May 2009
11:21 GMT

HTC Says Asia-Pacific Phone Market Goes Up

It seems that the mobile phone market in Asia-Pacific has recovered after the recession, given the fact that various wireless carriers in the area placed strong orders and anticipate higher sales for the second quarter of the ongoing year, Jack Tong, vice president of Asia business at HTC, stated recently, according ...

9 April 2009
09:35 GMT

Music Therapy Does Wonders for Hospital Patients

Music plays a very important role in the lives of many people. It can get you down or fill you with joy, and it can even influence your mood and perception of things. But patients in hospitals, apart from suffering from various illnesses, are also psychologically affected, as they are deprived of hearing soothing sou...

26 February 2009
04:22 GMT

Deep Freeze 4.10 Can Freeze Status

Faronics has updated the powerful Deep Freeze that protects and preserves baseline computer configurations. Version 4.10 brings new features, such as the ability to deep freeze status (Frozen or Thawed), as well as security enhancements and other improvements.Deep Freeze Mac with ARD Integration provides a completely...

29 October 2008
06:48 GMT

Going Back to Work Helps Beat Depression

Depression is one of the darkest and most versatile demons of our age. Statistics show that 15% of the population of most developed countries suffers from severe depression, and most of those affected by this extremely dangerous affliction are women. In fact, researchers predict that, by 2020, depression is most like...

5 June 2008
12:10 GMT

Jennifer Aniston - Right There for Owen Wilson

Owen Wilson is definitely not the world's happiest camper - but the troubled actor finally seems to have returned to better spirits and his work. But instead of going the traditional rehab route, Owen Wilson seems to fancy making his own choices and not signing up to any of the usual treatments. And so, after hi...

11 October 2007
06:34 GMT

Resurrect Windows Vista After It Crashes and Burns...

Right... Windows Vista crashing and burning is the worst case scenario, but a scenario nonetheless, and even more than that, a viable possibility. If Windows has taught us anything, especially Windows XP, it is that there is a thin line between a completely functional operating system one minute, and a perpetual erro...

11 August 2007
08:08 GMT

Go Around The Windows Vista Logon Password

Recovering lost passwords is not a problem new to Windows Vista. Sure, in a manner similar to Windows XP, Vista will enable users to create an adjacent password hint that the user can turn to in case of need. But what about a severe case of amnesia. No password hint will point you in the right direction. Fortunately,...

12 April 2007
10:09 GMT

Backup Your Handheld Using Over-The-Air Technology

TrackItBack, a provider of global lost and found solutions, announced recently the launch of its newest service, TrackItBackUP. TrackItBackUP is a mobile software solution for smart phones that enables smart device users to backup their critical data to a secure server using over-the-air (OTA) technology. "Protecting...

15 March 2007
04:30 GMT

Memory Testing

Hardware benchmarking software is very important for some of the users. Generally, I do not give a damn if my PC is more powerful than my colleague's or not. The only thing that matters to me is to get my job done fast with it. However, when it comes to testing USB flash drives I would like to have a test made b...

2 March 2007
05:37 GMT


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