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Many of you want to reach that mobile audience out there with your articles, here’s the basic information on how to create a qrcode / qrtag. Open the website you wish to create the tag from, click to highlight the URL at the top (http://www.coredatarecovery.com/ in this case). Copy the link. Open http://qrcode.kaywa.com, select where… [Continue Reading]
So, you are building the client a new website, using wordpress. But how do you spin it up so you can edit it quickly and efficiently? My recommendation is DNS redirection. This will allow you to login to yourdomain.com and check the site out, from your 1 computer has access as if it were a… [Continue Reading]
First, let it be said this is general advice if you can’t read a usb drive and you understand tampering with the device could lose all the data contained in the device. I had a recovery job come in for a hardware encrypted USB key, when plugged into any USB port: Device Not Recognized was… [Continue Reading]
Q: Help, my Logitech M505 Mouse stopped working. I’ve changed the batteries but can’t get the mouse to work. A: Often times wirless mice have a button to reset, this one does not. Here’s how I solved the problem: Take a pair of pliers, crimp the end of a Q-tip flat for about 1/2″. Put… [Continue Reading]
https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/16130-The-Urban-Legend-of-Multipass-Hard-Disk-Overwrite.html For those of you out there interested in ensuring data destruction via overwrites. This is a great article about why old advice and worries may not be valid in data destruction.
To make a ubuntu cd-rom, go to www.ubuntu.com get the LTS 10.10.10 i386 version and burn a cd-rom from the downloaded ISO file. Alternatively, go to Pendrivelinux.com and download the pendrive utility and make a ubuntu 10.10.10 bootable 1gb thumb drive to boot from. boot from either, click try ubuntu click system, administration, disk… [Continue Reading]
Video explains how to save data/backup data using linux on a drive that won’t mount in windows (or causes blue screen of death when you plug it into any windows system to attempt recovery.) In this case it’s a western digital 640gb 2.5″ SATA drive that has failed.
This is a list of awesome Add-ons for Firefox Comment below to add your’s to the list: Ad Block Plus will remove annoying advertisements as well as check your site for what may be blocked by ad-blockers. You can even selectively block images or items on a particular site. AddThis is a plugin that allows… [Continue Reading]
This is a short video on how to create a custom video message to embed in a card or an email for playing on another iphone/android simply by shooting the QR Code with the barcode scanner on the smart phone.
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How to download combofix.
Question: I just ghosted my vista laptop 120 Gigabyte hard disk over to a brand new 640 Gigabyte SATA drive and the laptop just reboots and never shows the vista boot screeen? Answer: If you boot the vista boot disk up and fix the boot with advanced options, I it will repair the boot sector… [Continue Reading]
For all you people who have just been browsing and suddenly find your computer infected with junk! here’s why. http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/vulnerabilities/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=218500140 Go here and PLEASE select the fix it and apply it to your computers. the fix it turns off the part of active x that is vulnerable.
Data Recovery
Question: I just ghosted my vista laptop 120 Gigabyte hard disk over to a brand new 640 Gigabyte SATA drive and the laptop just reboots and never shows the vista boot screeen? Answer: If you boot the vista boot disk up and fix the boot with advanced options, I it will repair the boot sector… [Continue Reading]
