Accessing and Assessing a Hard Drive’s S.M.A.R.T. Data

Accessing and Assessing a Hard Drive’s S.M.A.R.T. Data DISCLAIMER: These examples use techniques that I actually employ in the real world to deal with real problems. They might be wrong or dangerous. They might be inefficient. If you try them yourself, it might cause damage or irreparable loss. I take no responsibility for anything you […]

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Data Recovery Flowchart

Data Recovery Flowchart Use this when the drive is still detected by the computer but the data on it has become inaccessible. Click any of the flowchart blocks for a more detailed explanation. If you need personal help from me go here

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Windows ‘File Recovery’ series : Part 6 Reading/Editing The Windows Registry From Outside of Windows

Windows ‘File Recovery’ series Part 6 Reading/Editing The Windows Registry From Outside of Windows DISCLAIMER: These examples use techniques that I actually employ in the real world to deal with real problems. They might be wrong or dangerous. They might be inefficient. If you try them yourself, it might cause damage or irreparable loss. I […]

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Windows ‘File Recovery’ series : Part 5 Manually Recover a Deleted File From an NTFS File System

Windows ‘File Recovery’ series Part 5 Manually Recover a Deleted File From an NTFS File System DISCLAIMER: These examples use techniques that I actually employ in the real world to deal with real problems. They might be wrong or dangerous. They might be inefficient. If you try them yourself, it might cause damage or irreparable […]

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Windows ‘File Recovery’ series : Part 4 Recover Files From a Bad Hard Drive

Windows ‘File Recovery’ series Part 4 Recover Files From a Bad Hard Drive DISCLAIMER: These examples use techniques that I actually employ in the real world to deal with real problems. They might be wrong or dangerous. They might be inefficient. If you try them yourself, it might cause damage or irreparable loss. I take […]

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Windows ‘File Recovery’ series : Part 3 Recover A Deleted Partition with Testdisk

Windows ‘File Recovery’ series Part 3 Recover A Deleted Partition with Testdisk DISCLAIMER: These examples use techniques that I actually employ in the real world to deal with real problems. They might be wrong or dangerous. They might be inefficient. If you try them yourself, it might cause damage or irreparable loss. I take no […]

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Windows ‘File Recovery’ series : Part 2 Recover Deleted files with Testdisk and PhotoRec

Windows ‘File Recovery’ series Part 2 Recover Deleted files with Testdisk and PhotoRec DISCLAIMER: These examples use techniques that I actually employ in the real world to deal with real problems. They might be wrong or dangerous. They might be inefficient. If you try them yourself, it might cause damage or irreparable loss. I take […]

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Windows ‘File Recovery’ series : Part 1 Recover Deleted files with Recuva

Windows ‘File Recovery’ series Part 1 Recover Deleted files with Recuva DISCLAIMER: These examples use techniques that I actually employ in the real world to deal with real problems. They might be wrong or dangerous. They might be inefficient. If you try them yourself, it might cause damage or irreparable loss. I take no responsibility […]

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Learning to Use Android NDK With a Neat Augmented Reality Example

I’ve been moving some Flash SWF files over to AIR for Android and while looking into how best to optimize ActionScript code for AIR for Android, I got sidetracked. After reading about the obvious optimizations for memory and CPU resources, I decided to take a look at the AIR .apk file that is installed on […]

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CSS3 Series: Multiple Columns

Even though this wonderful feature has been around for five years, it has yet to be implemented consistently across the major browsers. Hopefully, this will change soon. If you know a reason why this is so, please leave a comment. Thanks. The specification for CSS Multi-column Layout has 10 properties for CSS Multiple Columns. They […]

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