This data recovery software is free and developed by a Russian named Ivan Komlev. It features a friendly user interface and only three steps required to copy files from damaged CD.

1. Choose source drive
2. Selecting destination drive and folder
3. Copy files automatically.

Dead Disk Doctor – allows copying files from scratched or damaged CD, DVD disks, unreadable Floppy and Hard Drives or other media. It replaces lost data with random bytes reading files by expandable blocks.

The Dead Disk Doctor website says that this freeware “works excellent with Video or Audio files”. From logic, I think that’s true because you can skip a few seconds in video or audio files and you can still play it. As for data, if any part of the bytes are being replaced by random data, it will definitely corrupt the data.

Another good news is Dead Disk Doctor works on Intel Pentium 133Mhz or equivalent supporting Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP or higher with only 32Mb RAM and 7Mb free disk space on hard drive for installation. Of course you’ll be needing more disk space to recover and copy your dead disc data to your hard drive.

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Many of us own more than one computer, but unless they are connected to a network, moving files from one machine to another is laborious. We advocate synchronisation tools such as Sugarsync or Dropbox, which enable you to synchronise your favourite and most important files across multiple machines, irrespective of operating system. Snag is, if you have a slow broadband connection, or need to move across large movie files, synchronisation is going to take way too long to migrate your files.

The other option is to backup your data to a removable drive then connect that drive to another machine and restore the content. Of course, if you have a system problem in the future, you can simply restore the content back to the host computer.

FBackup is a free backup tool from the makers of Backup4All that offers you basic backup for your Windows computer. It ships with some pre-defined templates, so you can backup your email, My Pictures, My Documents and other key folders. The tool will enable you to backup to a connected drive, removable flash drive or even across your network.

You can use ZIP compression to get the most from your storage location. You can even use it to backup your most important files, even if they are open and in use by an application. All in all, it’s a simplistic tool designed to make sure you backup your files, quickly and easily with the minimum of fuss.

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Many applications and servers create log files that record events. Log analyzers are being used to analyze the log files more comfortably. It’s theoretically possible to use a text editor to analzyze log files or a desktop search tool that indexes contents but log anyalyzers usually provide access to features that these general tools do not offer.

Log Lady might be a strange name for a log analyzer. The portable software program does offer an interesting feature that many other log analyzers do not offer. It can load multiple log files in its interface to search them simultaneously.

Only two steps are needed to perform a log analysis of multiple log files. A directory on the local computer system has to be selected. The software program will automatically display log, txt and xml files and filter the rest. It is possible to display all files that reside in the folder which can be useful if the log files have a different file extension. All or only some of the log files can then be selected for analysis.

The log analyzer will recognize the columns of the log file and offer to search in all columns or a specific one.

The results of the search are then displayed in the central area of the program. It is furthermore possible to export the results of the log analysis in a csv file.

Log Lady is a free software program for the Windows operating system. The log analyzer can be downloaded form the developer’s homepage.

In the past 50 years car crashworthiness has improved. Demonstrating this was a crash test between a 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air and a 2009 Chevrolet Malibu.

Time Magazine has released their list of 50 Best Inventions of 2009 and there are some amazing inventions which you might have never seen before.

The Best Invention of the Year is NASA’s Ares Rockets; and they call it the “the best and smartest and coolest thing built in 2009 — a machine that can launch human beings to cosmic destinations we’d never considered before”.