3rd Party Backup/Cloning Apps For Windows

Whether you're backing up your desktop(s) for archival, preparing for disaster recovery or just re-formating a PC, it's inevitable that you will need a good backup solution in your Windows environment. Here's a short list of common ones you may want to look into:

• Norton Ghost
• Paragon’s Drive Backup Express
• Acronis True Image
• DriveImage XML
• XXCLONE
  

Depending on your needs, some of these have personal free or demo downloads available. Although, I've used or seen most of these in action, the 2 most widely used i business/corporate with support for both multicast & unicast are Ghost and Acronis True Image.

Frhed for windows

I use Frhed as my Hex editor within Windows. It simple, straight forward, lightweight and Open Source. If you have such a need for a Hex editor, you'll find this one very handy.

Here is a list of it's features:

• Editable file size limited only by available system memory
• Load files partially
• Export as hexdump to file or clipboard
• Search for any combination of text and binary values
• Compare files

Grab your FREE copy here.

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.