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A sudden chance to recover
Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 22/12/2010
» Well, here is something really grating, and something really gratifying, all wrapped up in a single package.
Plan now to recover files
Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 15/12/2010
» It is my strong opinion that everyone should have - right now - a program to recover lost files. That is because everyone, once in a while, realises just a half-second too late that, whoops, she just deleted the wrong folder, or wiped the camera card before she copied the photos.
Little things mean a lot
Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 15/12/2010
» Every so often, it's worth looking at the latest in small utilities, what the former Database columnist and programmer John "The Maven" DeHaven called sharp-edged tools. I like to look over the new offerings at least every 100 days.
Fast, easy document reader
Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 08/12/2010
» Effective as of last month when I first found it, my choice of a document-reading program is Free Word Reader.
Internet site of the Week
Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 01/12/2010
» Splashup made me feel, just for a few moments, like one of those old people caught with the DVD on fast reverse to rewind it to the start.
Getting up close to the screen
Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 01/12/2010
» A valued reader writes with a problem that I suspect is extremely common but gets little attention in the computing mainstream. He asks what he can do when he can't read teensy-weensy type on his screen.
Tame and change PDF files
Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 01/12/2010
» If you want to do anything with completed PDF files, you are usually in trouble. They are a handy way to distribute formatted and attractive information to people with various types of computers, but they are not meant to be changed.
Faster launcher
Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 17/11/2010
» Macists have long made us envy their Quicksilver applications launcher, a program that is about 38 times better than Finder at locating and starting software, documents, websites and more.
The leading cleaner gets better
Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 17/11/2010
» You have to clean up your Windows PC. That's not a question, that's a statement. The way Microsoft works, they figure it's fine to leave cra... er, stuff lying around on your disk, accumulating like the trash bin in my editor's office. Except that eventually a cleaning person takes out my editor's trash, and you have no one to work on your personal computer but yourself.
Every breath you take ...
Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 10/11/2010
» You didn't lose your privacy over the past 10 or 15 years _ it was taken from you.