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On the road of life, it’s best not to go it alone If all you want is directions to the nearest diner or coffee joint, MapQuest and Google Maps have you covered. But if you really want to explore your world, Wayfaring’s social mapping is a better way to go. The service is based...
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The most infamous error message is the Blue Screen Of Death. It’s so well known that it has crept into the vernacular: “Aw, Fxxk! I was almost finished with my project when I got bluescreened!” The phenomenon is also known by its acronym, BSOD. The conditions that cause a blue screen have changed since...
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Though you’ll always hear people reminds you all to back up regularly, even the most religious backer-uppers sometimes need to retrieve data from unreadable hard drives, floppies, CDs, and various flashbased media. In these cases, Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a virtually indispensable tool to retrieve the otherwise irretrievable, provided the underlying hardware...
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12 million hours of video, No stupid self submissions Some people love whiling away the hours sifting through idiotic home-video footage on YouTube. If you don’t, try Blinkx. Built on a powerful search engine, Blinkx scours the web for videos, then analyzes and tags them for retrieval. So when you search for White Stripes,...
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Most backup software can be categorized as either a drive imager, a file archiver,” or a snapshot taker. Very rarely does a single product fall into all three of these categories while still doing each job well, but FarStone Technology’s DriveClone 3 Pro is one of those products. It isn’t without a hiccup or...
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