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The most annoying thing about air plane travel is where to park you car. Airport parking is always too expensive and crowded.

But, if you are going to Gatwick in London, could be a great idea stop at Gatwick Parking website. They have great offers there: pre-booking, Gatwick Hotel Parking room’s prices cheaper than the parking alone and - the best thing - room’s televisions displaying the departures board. Isn’t it cool?

So, since you are saving your time parking at airport, you can waste it having some fun: try this Parking Game, and try to park the car in less than 60 seconds. I couldn’t.

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Problems with your Hard Drive? Lost all your pictures in your memory card? There’s still a chance.

Zero Assumption Recovery (or ZAR Recovery) is a tool to recover lost data in a drive unit. The best thing with this tool is you don’t need to be a computer expert to use it. It’s easy to use and all process can be done automatically.

How to use it:

1. Selecting a drive to recover:



2. Selecting a volume to process:



3. Analysing a volume:



4. Choosing files to recover:

Things you can do with Zero Assumption Recovery:

1. Recover FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS.
2. Copy a hard drive sector by sector.
3. Or, insert 0’s (zero) in all sectors. (This one is for those that don’t want to recovery anything, if you know what I mean)
4. There are some new features as RAD0 and RAID5 support and experimental support for Linux ext2.

Demo version limitations:

- You can recover just 4 folders
- You can record the information scanned in drive unit, but you can load it again.

Zero Assumption Recovery is a tool really great for professional and amateurs photographers (like me), because it can recover digital pictures from you memory stick.

Zero Assumption Recovery works with several memory card formats (CompactFlah, MemoryStick, SmartMedia, etc), since they can be opened by operating system. Supports several file formats: GIF, JPEG, TIFF, CRW, MOV, WAV.

It has a friendly interface, self-explanatory, step-by-step, to help you with the best solution for your problem.

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It’s time to recycle using your hand craft abilities!

Computer Chip Trivet

Don’t you know what to do with those old computer chips laying around? What do you think about a stylish trivet? Instructions are simple to follow: all you need are some computer chips , grout, adhesive, and a tile square.

Once you’re all finished, you’ll have a nicely geekified trivet for all your hot stuff.

You’ll really impress your geeky friends with this genuinely useful kitchen tool that you can make: a trivet built out of old computer chips.

Follow this link for full instructions.

Hard Drive Wind Chimes

The drive platters themselves are also quite remarkable: precisely made aluminium patters with a surface not unlike recording tape. The disks make a lovely clear note if you strike them, so it was only natural to make them into a set of wind chimes.

An interesting side effect is that the shiny shiny platters reflected little spots of light into the house. Naturally, if you have cats, they’ll love it too.

Follow this link for full instructions.

Hard Drive Picture Frames

So, you’ve disassembled hard drives, taken the magnets out, made wind chimes out of the platters, and so on. One thing that you might have left over is a set of printed circuit boards. Funny shaped printed circuit boards, with holes in them.

Here’s how to turn those leftover PCBs into fabulous geek-chic picture frames.

It’s done! Hang it on something ferromagnetic!

Here’s a completed picture frame, hanging on a wire bookshelf.

Follow this link for full instructions.

Credits: Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories

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Last week I introduced you Active@ File Recovery as a useful computer forensics tool and file recovery software

Today, we go a bit further in Active@ File Recovery usage.

A few tips when using Active @ File Recovery to recover your lost files:

1. Before install Active@ File Recovery for Windows it’s a good idea create a Recovery point, so, that way, if you don’t like the software or if it doesn’t work properly, you can easily restore your system for the situation before to install Acite@ File Recovery.
- Actually, it’s a good idea set up a Recovery Point for Windows every time you will install any software in your Windows System. It will provide the basis for recovery if and when needed.
- A recovery Point is the basis that allows you undo all changes made in your system and recover all your configurations.
2. Try to use Active@ File Recovery without install, so, there’s no risk to overwrite your files.
3. Install Active@ File Recovery in a different Hard Drive or partition of the affected drive partition to avoid of writing over data that you wish to recover.
4. After install Active@File Recovery, you can open it and navigate just like you do in Windows Explorer.
5. Go to the file or folder you want to recover and choose recover option.



6. When you choose this option it will open a new windows asking where do you want to place the recovery file or folder.



7. If you chose to save at the original place, the system will warn you to save it in another place to avoid overwrite your file or folder. In this case, it will be impossible a future recovering operation.

But remember, not every lost file can be recovered. You have to think about the following possibilities:

We have to assume that the file entry still exists, I mean, it was not overwritten. The more the files have been created on your HD, the less chances that the space for that deleted file has been used for other entries.
We assume that the file entry is more or less safe to point to the proper place where file clusters are located. If the operating system had been damaged file entries right after deletion, the first data cluster becomes invalid and further entry restoration will not be possible.

So, as a general advice, do not write anything in the drive containing your deleted data and do not try to recover your files to the original drive data.

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First of all, if you thought Internet Explorer and Firefox were your only options, you were mistaken. This section reviews Internet Explorer and Firefox basics and introduces other viable Web browser options.

Microsoft Internet Explorer is a common target for browser hijacking. Internet Explorer 7.0 provided a significant upgrade to Microsoft browser security but, still have flaws, like the one discovered for an Israeli vulnerability researcher. Aviv Raff warned in a posting on his blog Wednesday that Attackers could exploit a new flaw in Internet Explorer 7 (IE 7) to launch phishing expeditions. Raff said IE 7 running on Windows XP and Vista is susceptible to cross-site scripting attacks.

So, you don’t have options and you have to use IE, or maybe, for some weird reason, you just like it.

IE has the ability to provide a secure browsing, but it’s the responsibility of the organization or the user to configure it.
Yes you have to do your homework. You can start reading this How-to articles from Microsoft.

If you are tired of patching your IE browsers every week (at least) may consider migrating to Mozilla Firefox, a popular third-party browser that is generally thought to be more secure than IE. However, Firefox is not immune to attacks, and as the browser increases in popularity, it’s likely to become a bigger target for attackers.

In this link you can find a list of security tips for Firefox users, but it’s great reading for other users as well.

Not satisfied with Firefox or IE? Yes, there are other options, such as Opera, Safari, Konqueror, Lynx (this one just for grown ones) and others. They all have theirs pros and cons, visit their webpages and and learn what you should expect if you’re not using IE or Firefox.

And remember: on the second Tuesday of every month, Microsoft releases hot fixes for its newest flaws which almost invariably include Internet Explorer patches. Yes, at least twice a month you will have to patch your IE.

Others Web browser of your choice will release their patches eventually.

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Are you planning change your keyboard and you don know which one choose? Maybe it could help you.

Are you old-fashioned? Full instructions for how to convert a 1980s era “clicky” IBM keyboard into an input device that would look at home in a movie adaptation of a Jules Verne novel are available on The Steampunk Workshop

For those who likes more futuristic stuff, the Bluetooth Laser Virtual Keyboard could be a great idea.

If you want to impress your colleagues and friends, you could use the Das Keyboard - 100% blank.

Windows user? Try the Microsoft Wireless Entertainment Desktop Keyboard 8000, with a magnetic dock for you wireless mouse and a bright Windows key.

Are you travelling all the time or maybe you just want to use your blackberry with a keyboard? So, the Elkensen Fabric Keyboard is perfect for you.

They have both wireless and wired version.

So, which one?

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