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More Useful Free Software |
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Written by Nathan Woodcock
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Friday, 23 January 2009 |
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2009 is well and truly upon us and I hope your new years resolutions are still intact. If not, don’t be too hard on yourself - there’s always today to remake a decision. Today I’m mentioning a couple of simple but free tools I found this week. Read on.
Data recovery – hopefully you will never have to embark upon it. But if you find you have accidently deleted an important file, or a heap of files, there are some tools about which can help you find those files even when they have been removed from the Recycle Bin. A great free data recovery tool I discovered this week is Recuva (www.recuva.com). Very simple to use it just scans your hard drive or a particular folder and shows you all the files it is able to recover. With both a quick and “deep scan” I was able to retrieve some critical files for a client. And it’s free! If you find the tool useful though please consider donating some money to the author via the webpage. DVD authoring is the process of creating a DVD on your PC that will play in a normal DVD player. Most authoring tools are part of paid for software suites, however DVD Flick (www.dvdflick.net) is completely free and recognises a tremendous range of video formats. This means you can add a range of videos on your PC such as .avi’s, .m4v (Itunes/Quicktime), .wmv (Windows Media) to DVD Flick and create a simple DVD with a menu for use on a DVD player. Enjoy!
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