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How to Partition a Hard Drive without Reformatting

December 10, 2007 · Filed Under How To and Online Tutorials · Comment 

Norton PartitionMagic 8.0 | Price: $79
Norton PartitionMagic is capable of resizing NTFS or FAT (16 or 32) partitions without data loss, and can copy and move partitions, including to other disks. It also has various other features, including being able to convert between FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS, modify the cluster size of FAT16/32 and NTFS filesystems, and merge adjacent FAT or NTFS filesystems (all without data loss, though some NTFS-only metadata is lost on conversion to FAT).

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Key Technologies

  • Partitions hard drive
  • Create, resize, copy partitions
  • Run multiple operating systems

Features

  • Divides hard drive into two or more partitions
  • Runs multiple operating systems on the same PC
  • BootMagic™ makes it easy to switch between operating systems
  • Copy, move, resize, split, or merge partitions
  • Guides you through the partitioning process
  • Easy to find, copy and paste files in both Windows® and Linux® partitions
  • Create and modify partitions up to 300GB*
  • Supports USB 2.0, USB 1.1, and FireWire® external drives**
  • Supports and converts partitions among FAT, FAT32, NTFS, Ext2, and Ext3 file systems
  • Enlarge an NTFS partition without restarting computer
  • Resizes NTFS system clusters to the most effective size

Acronis® Disk Director Suite 10.0 | Price: $49
Acronis on the other hand is slightly cheaper, Acronis® Disk Director Suite 10.0 is the easiest and most convenient partition manager and hard disk toolkit. It brings together the most popular disk management functions, partition recovery tools, and boot disk manager in one suite.

How to Partition a Hard Drive without Reformatting

I’ve tried both Norton PartitionMagic and Acronis Disk Director and found that Acronis’s boot from CD/DVD feature is pretty awesome, it creates a bootable CD/DVD and it will automatically be detected and displayed as a boot option by Acronis OS Selector. Norton has the same feature but Acronis’s OS Selector is my first choice, comes in handy if you happen to be a geek with MacOS, Linux and Windows running on the same comp.

Windows Disk management | Price: FREE
Free stuff, nothing beats freeware. Stop Google for Norton PartitionMagic 8 crack or serial, here is a free partition tool, this method only works if you happen to have an unallocated partition, possible due to some error or you’ve deleted a partition. Windows Disk Management allows the creation of partition within the unallocated space.

How to Partition a Hard Drive without Reformatting

1. Go to ‘Control Panel’ then click on ‘administrative tools’
2. Next, click on ‘Computer Management’
3. Select the unallocated partition and create a new partition.

How to Recover Your Lost or Stolen Laptop

December 8, 2007 · Filed Under How To and Online Tutorials · Comment 

How to Recover Your Lost or Stolen Laptop

Laptop theft is the top 3 computer crimes along with virus and hacking, on a bigger picture, laptop theft is the second most common crime according to FBI. What are your odds of being mugged? or encounter a car accident? How do you protect your data and laptop against theft today? There are hundreds of software and services that promise you the ability to pin point the exact location of your laptop when it is stolen, these services are like insurance and it is costly in the long run.

Inspire Trace | Price: $29.95
nspice Trace is a laptop tracking and remote data destruction software. The security software emails you precise location of your laptop. In addition, it lets you unrecoverably destroy your sensitive data in the laptop to protect the data from any unauthorized access. The highlights:

  • Destroy data in stolen computer.
  • Tamper-proof.
  • Accurate and worldwide tracking.

PC PhoneHome Price: $30
Once installed, PC PhoneHome will secretly send an invisible email message to an email address of your choice containing the physical location of your computer every time you get an Internet connection.

  • Locates lost/stolen computer in virtually any country of the world.
  • PC PhoneHome sends a stealth e-mail message containing its exact location

ComputraceComplete | Price: $49.99
This could possibly be the best tracking software in the market, what makes Computrace stand out among the rest is the guarantee compensation if they failed in recovering your laptop and the software will remain in the laptop after formatting, making it easier to trace the thief.

ComputraceComplete is a comprehensive solution that combines Computer Theft Recovery, Data Protection, Secure Asset Tracking and the peace of mind offered by a Recovery Guarantee. ComputraceComplete allows IT administrators to centrally manage their assets by monitoring computer movement, call history, asset leasing information and software license compliance. It also offers up to a $1000 Recovery Guarantee if a stolen computer cannot be located within 30-60.

  • Connect to absolute-protect.com, which establishes location of the computer.
  • Calls phone number(s) you specify.
  • No monitoring fee required.
  • Saves owner info on hard disk that can prove ownership of the computer
  • Survive hard disk formatting.

XTool Laptop Tracker | Price: $70
What makes XTool Laptop Tracker unique is the camera function; more and more laptops are now made with built-in cameras due to the higher availability of bandwidth and the increasing demand for more personalized contacts. XTool Laptop Tracker has the ability to detect a camera connected to a laptop and can take a snapshot of the unauthorized user that is then relayed to the XTool Monitoring Center! Since statistics show that approximately 90% of laptop theft is committed by insiders (friends, employees, colleagues, etc), a picture of the unauthorized user not only quickly leads to the location of the thief but can be used as evidence in case the laptop is sold to a 3rd party!

XTool Laptop Tracker is a service designed to locate and recover lost or stolen laptops. The XTool Laptop Tracker service uses a smart agent designed to collect and transmit critical information needed to pinpoint it’s location when lost or stolen and/or to identify the unauthorized user in case of a theft.

  • Laptop Camera Information, snap a pic of the theft
  • GPS location detection
  • Wifi Connection Information
  • Gurantee Recovery or else Xtool will compensate your lost

Laptop Alarm | Price: FREE
Yes, Laptop Alarm is a freeware, it doesn’t monitor or track your stolen laptop, it prevents. Once installed, Laptop Alarm will emit a LOUD ALARM on

  • A/C Power Removal provided the battery is attached
  • Mouse Removal
  • Mouse Movement
  • Attempt to Shutdown / Suspend

The hardest part when it comes to losing a laptop is when all of your important data is not recoverable or worst, it falls onto the wrong hands, thus making you and your company vulnerable to potential lawsuits and lost of profit. If purchasing these services appears to be expensive, try some of the freely available encrypt software, they may not be the best but at least it keeps your data safe for a certain period of time.

It is crucial to backup your data to a portable harddisk at least every week. Here are some interesting facts on Laptop theft:

  • One out of every 10 notebook computers stolen, 90% are not recovered.
  • Laptop theft doubled over the past year.
  • Over 85% of theft is insider job.
  • Laptop theft is one of the top 3 computer crimes along with virus and hacking.
  • 81% of U.S. firms lost laptops with sensitive data in the past year.

How to Install Multiple Internet Explorer 6 and IE7 on the Same Computer Simultaneously

December 8, 2007 · Filed Under How To and Online Tutorials · Comment 

TrendSoft released an easy to use installation of multiple IE for web designer, gone are the days when you have to hack the Windows Registry for re-installation of both IE6 and IE7, the installer was made to work with Windows XP.

This is an essential tool for Web designers, currently Internet Explorer 6 and 7 command an equal share of the IE market, thus making sure your web render according to the specific browser is crucial. Not only that, tab browsing is a relatively new feature in IE7, unlike younger generation that can easily adapt to new changes, senior citizens that been using Windows XP together with IE6 could find it user unfriendly and possible scratching their head wondering where is the newly launch window under the start bar.

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How to Install Multiple Internet Explorer 6 and IE7 on the Same Computer Simultaneously

How to Rip or Compress DVD to Fit Into a 700MB CD and iPod Touch

December 8, 2007 · Filed Under How To and Online Tutorials · Comment 

How to Rip a Movie for your iPod with HandBrake? Handbrake has a list of tutorials on how to rip a movie to your iPod or fit to a DVD movie to a 700MB CD. HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter, it has a relatively user friendly interface, and is available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.

How to Rip or Compress DVD to Fit Into a 700MB CD and iPod

How to Rip or Compress DVD to Fit Into a 700MB CD and iPod

What makes Handbrake different from other DVD ripper is the various output format, unlike other video encoder or compressor, Handbrake can compress a DVD movie for your iPod, not only does it keeps the quality of the output video to the highest, file size are small as well, here is the list of features:

Supported sources:

  • Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (encrypted or unencrypted, but protection methods other than CSS are not supported and must be handled externally with third-party software), and some .VOB and .TS files
  • PAL or NTSC
  • AC-3, DTS, LPCM or MPEG audio tracks

Outputs:

  • File format: MP4, MKV, AVI or OGM
  • Video: MPEG-4 or H.264 (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer/rate encoding)
  • Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks)

Architecture Optical Illusion

December 6, 2007 · Filed Under Optical Illusion and Magic · Comment 

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Winston Churchill once said, “We Shape Our Buildings and Afterwards, Our Buildings Shape Us.” What did you see? Robert Laws, a Scottish missionary working in Malawi, Africa, showed this image to the Africans and Europeans and the answers varies according to their respective cultural background.

East Africans that took part in the experiment said the lady was balancing a box on her head and the family is sitting under a tree, on the other hand, Europeans which as used to corners and rectangular architecture visualize the family in an indoor space with the box as a window opening. For more Architecture Humor and Optical Illusion visit miragestudio7.

How to Convert Images to Editable Text Without OmniPage 16 Crack

December 6, 2007 · Filed Under How To and Online Tutorials · Comment 

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Naunce OmniPage 16 is the market leader in OCR, it delivers maximum productivity with 99% character accuracy and has the capacity to re-create the same document as an editable digital document in any format in less than 2 minutes, what makes OmniPage 16 stands out among the other freeware is the ability to reformat the layout of the document just like the original format with tables, cells, bullets and graphics.

Omnipage 16 works with every hardware in the market, the only drawback is the price tag, the entry-level version of the world’s best selling OCR software cost about $150, expensive. Download OmniPage Professional 16 crack and serial? Why waste time and perform something illegal when there is other alternative OCR available free for everyone? We’ve compiled a list of FreeOCR softwares, these OCR softwares may not be the best but it doesn’t cost a bomb and no keygen, serial or cracks needed.

FreeOCR

Softi FreeOCR is a free OCR program for Windows, it is very simple and straightforward to install and use. It supports multi-page tiff’s, fax documents as well as most image types including compressed Tiff. The only drawback for FreeOCR is it inability to read PDF documents, certain PDF documents has the copy and paste feature locked, having an OCR scanner would definitely speed things up.

Convert Images Documents to Text with Free Optical Character Recognition

Free OCR is an open source software, thus making it a freeware, unlike other OCR software which is only made available freely for personal use, Free OCR is available for commercial use as well. The free OCR engine is distributed under the Apache V2.0 license, meaning to say the continuation support from the open source community would never ceased to exist. Download FreeOCR

SimpleOCR

Convert your scanned images to text files or Word documents with SimpleOCR, the only OCR (Optical Character Recognition) application that is free. Unlike other OCR software, SimpleOCR comes with a developer toolkit (aka SDK or API) that you may use to add OCR to your custom software application. SimpleOCR features include TWAIN scanning, ability to manually specify text and image zones, English, French and Dutch dictionaries, interactive correction with suggestions from dictionary, output to plain text or RTF (MS Word) formats and more.

How to Convert Images Documents to Text with Free Optical Character Recognition

SimpleOCR provides all of the most commonly used OCR features and competitive recognition rates for many types of documents. SimpleOCR is as good as OmniPage Professional 16, if you happen to be a student and wanted to convert a few images into text once in a blue moon, why waste $150 and time searching for OmniPage Professional 16 Keygen when you are going to use it once? probably twice a year?

Developers can use the SimpleOCR API to add OCR capabilities to their custom software. If your application deals with document images, SimpleOCR will let you add full-text searching or automate the indexing process with zone OCR. Download SimpleOCR

TopOCR 2.6

TopOCR is an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) application, which supports digital cameras, smartphones and scanners, and can recognize 11 different languages. TopOCR has a user configurable camera filter that you can customize for a particular camera or smartphone. This software comes handy in places where camera phones are prohibited, like in a library or book shop.

How to Convert Images Documents to Text with Free Optical Character Recognition

The OCR results can be reformatted into both text and images, and the final output can be MS Word or any other compatible word processor, this includes PDF, Plain text or audio through Text to Speech. TopOCR 2.5 now features an image straightening function for capturing images from books. Download TopOCR

Phentermine, Milena Velba and Chloe Vevrier are the Top Keywords in Blogspot

December 5, 2007 · Filed Under Make Money Online · Comment 

What are the Top Keywords in Searched by Blogspot Readers

What are the top 10 searched keywords by blogspot readers? For your information, we’ve embedded the Google Search function in some of our Blogger Templates, by doing this, it allows us the ability to harvest the various keywords keyed in by Blogspot readers through out the world. Before I move on to the next topic, Google AdSense on the other hand has announced in their blog that an update on December 10th will affect your top queries reports, top queries data older than a year old will no longer be available.

Therefore we (geckoandfly.com) have decided to download the 2 years worth of data (keywords) and release it to the public. Below are some of the most searched keywords in Blogspot for the past 2 years, the total search for the top 26 keywords are 31,334, making up 2.96% out of 100%.

Keywords (Total Search) %

None (14,264) 1.35%
viagra (1,468) 0.14%
nero (1,035) 0.10%
radiohead (824) 0.08%
milena velba (799) 0.08% [Czech nude glamor model]
phentermine (789) 0.08% [Weight loss drug]
sexo (781) 0.07%
PheNTermine (780) 0.07%
videos (775) 0.07%
musica (700) 0.07%
muse (694) 0.07% [Web Application]
filmes (690) 0.07%
bjork (677) 0.06% [Music artist]
interpol (671) 0.06% [International Criminal Police Organization]
tropa de elite (633) 0.06% [Movie]
photoshop (631) 0.06%
linkin park (622) 0.06%
Phentermine (587) 0.06%
playboy (584) 0.06%
chloe vevrier (578) 0.06% [German model and porn star]
video (567) 0.05%
guia (554) 0.05%
chris brown (551) 0.05% [American hip hop/R&B singer]
examenes (548) 0.05% [Exam in Spanish]
234523 (532) 0.05%

It appears to me that most readers simply hit the submit button without typing anything in the search form, funny right? What amazed me is the consistency in most of the keywords, they are somehow related to sex, on the bright side, some keywords are considered safe. The funniest thing is, 234523 appears to be a Canadian Patents Database code for Turbine? What has that got to do with blogs?

Two years of compilation, these 26 keywords made up of 2.96% of the total search, with the diversification in term of readers geographically and blog topics, this could possibly be the most accurate top 26 keywords anyone ever released to the public.

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