RadicalCodex - For eBooks & Digital Comics

In the past I have used ComicbookLover for archiving and viewing my collection of digital comic books. It's an excellent application, however it is (OSX only). Increasingly, I have been aggregating a growing number of documents and ebooks in the form of Text & PDF's in addition to the comics. So I've been looking for a more versatile cross-platform solution that can handle & organize such tasks.

Enter RadicalCodex, an eBook and digital Comic Book reader ,organizer, syncer and converter.

RadicalCodex currently supports .txt, .pdf, .cbr, .cbz, .zip, .rar and supports conversions to Amazon's Kindle & the Sony's PRS-505.

The software costs $19.95 to register, and is available for Linux, Windows and Mac OSX. You can find the different versions at:

• RadicalCodex 1.3 for Windows
• RadicalCodex 1.3 for Linux
• RadicalCodex 1.0 for Mac
  

Evernote

"Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere."

Use plain text, images, clippings from the web, or attach pdf's. Evernote lets you tag every note giving it context or categories. You can then search your information very easily via keywords or tags including the contents of your pdf's. Additionally, Evernote does some OCR on the server side, allowing you to also search the text in the hand written notes you scan in.

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Recover your lost Data

Have you ever accidentally deleted some data files? Ever pull out your memory card from your camera, only to find that the pictures somehow got corrupted once inserted into your computer? Maybe you deleted a partition?

Most of the time, your data is still there. Unless you have already written over it, the table of contents has been corrupted or the location to your deleted file is gone. There are several data recovery tools to help you in such a case. Best of all, they're free

• Recuva - Windows
• TestDisk - Windows, Mac, Linux
• PhotoRec - Windows, Mac, Linux
• Undelete Plus - Windows

If your data loss is due to something a bit more complicated like a bad or missing sector, then you may want to try Spinrite from GRC. It's not free ($89.00). However, short of real physical damage, this tool can sometimes bring hard drives back from death. Well worth its price.

Disk Usage Apps for the Mac

Trying to clear out some unknown space on your Mac? You need a disk usage utility. An application that analyzes your hard drive, and gives you a visual representation of your stored files. This helps you keep track and clear out older files you may have forgotten about, taking up valuable space.

Here are my favorite free tools to accomplish this:

Disk Inventory X
GrandPerspective
OmniDiskSweeper

Citrix XenClient Virtualization

Last week, Citrix demonstrated their new XenClient virtualization solution. The plan since earlier this year was to introduce a Virtualization solution called "Type 1 hypervisor" usually usually used in server side virtualization. VMWare & Parallels on the client side are referred to as "Type 2 hypervisors". This new technology aims to be both faster and a more secure virtualization environment than previous solutions. "Type 2 hypervisors" need to run on host operating systems. Easy to implement, but the results introduce possible security vulnerabilities and a performance hit due to the added abstraction level.

XenClient being a "Type 1 Hypervisor" runs natively on "bare metal" hardware, giving the virtual environment full access to system resources and 3D hardware acceleration. The benefits of this become evident once you view the video below from the Citrix keynote event.

Citrix