7/20/2012

Top 5 Best Computer Data Backup Freeware


Your files or data can be lost easily by a sudden hard drive failure, virus attack or even accidental deletion. If you back up your computer data before that happens, you can recover everything instantly without any difficulty. Data backup is simple and easy to do. This article will briefly introduce top 5 best free data backup software to offer complete solutions to back up computer data for free.


Top 5 Free Data Backup Software in Windows


1. Comodo Backup

Comodo Backup is known as excellent free data backup software provided by Comodo Firewall. This free data backup software is very easy to use and has everything you need for PC data backup. With the free backup utility Comodo Backup, the users can easily back up files or folders to anywhere like hard drive, external device, network, DVD or CD, or even FTP server. Comodo Backup also gives an option to be set to back up computer at a specified time.
free data backup software - comodo backup
Like shown above, Comodo Backup offers 3 data backup modes including simple copy, move and synchronization. Whenever you make some changes to the original files, the changes will also be replicated on your backup copy. It’s a amazing feature. It makes everything very convenient.

2. Hinx Backup Easy

Hinx Backup Easy is another free data backup software we recommend here. Different with other data backup programs, Hinx Backup Easy is only a simple automated data backup utility. It has no other extra features. But as a data backup tool, it is very powerful. The users can use this free data backup software to backup computer data to local disk, external portable device or FTP server, as well as make a backup scheduler to get started on the backup at a specified time.
Hinx Backup Easy works on all java-supported systems. Windows computer users can just download the installer and run it. There is no need to install because the installation is automatic. But for OS’s other than Windows, it is a little complicated. Users need to download the software, unzip it, and then run the executable jar file to continue.

3. Acebyte Utilities

Acebyte Utilities is a young backup utility for Windows from Acebyte, Inc. But it develops very fast. With Acebyte Utilities, people can do everything to make their computer faster, safer and stronger. Acebyte Utilities has intuitive and easy-to-use interface, which makes all your operations on Acebyte Utilities easy and convenient.
acebyte utilities data backup freeware

Acebyte Utilities also provides more useful tools for an enhanced PC experience: shred unwanted files beyond recovery by File Shredder, encrypt or decrypt important file or data by File Encryption, undelete the removed files even those emptied from Recycle Bin, unlock locked files or folders locked by system or other programs and help to rename, move or delete locked resources, turn off computer at a specified time by Shutdown Scheduler, etc.

4. SyncBack

Just same to Acebyte Utilities, SyncBack has both free and paid versions. But as an excellent backup toop, the free one offers enough features for your local data backup.
freeware to back up data

5. Free Online Backup Services: Mozy & DropBox

Besides making the data backup files to local hard drive, external portable device, DVD or FTP server, you can choose a online data backup via Mozy. Mozy backup is quick to configure, fully automated and supported by both Mac and Windows OS, although it still has a problem that the free accounts are only allowed to enjoy 2 GB of storage space.
Also you can try another online data backup service named DropBox. Different with other free data backup software mentioned above, the DropBox is especially suitable for people who use several computers in multiple locations. For this free data backup software lets you access your files from other computer as well as keep them synchronized across multiple computers and even keep a detailed log of all changes and recover it to its earlier version.

7/17/2012

How to Recover Deleted Emails in Gmail, Outlook or Yahoo Mail


A message, a folder or even all your mails may have disappeared accidently? To fix this confusing issue, here we explain how to recover deleted emails in Gmail, Outlook or Yahoo! Mail.
First, let’s clear: Are deleted mails really deleted?
When you delete a file in many email programs, it usually is moved to a recycle bin, so you can find the deleted email file there until the recycle bin is emptied. When you empty the recycle bin, the deleted email file will be actually deleted.
So, are deleted mails really deleted? The answer is maybe. The key is that if the email program has a “compact” function for its email storage. Like a file system, messages that are deleted usually are simply marked without freeing up the space immediately. That is to say, the deleted messages are possible to retrieve or recover, unless new messages have overwritten them.

HOW TO RECOVER DELETED EMAILS IN GMAIL?

As a Gmail user, if you have deleted a message by clicking Delete Forever in Spam or Trash, that means you really have deleted the message permanently and is impossible to recover the deleted message by Gmail itself.
However, if you click Delete to move the message to Trash and have not deleted it permanently, you are possible to recover the deleted email within 30 days following the steps below:
Recover deleted emails in Gmail Step 1. Sign in to Gmail account.
Recover deleted emails in Gmail Step 2. Click Trash on the left side of any Gmail page.
To activate Trash along the left side of your Gmail page, go to Settings > Labels tab, and then click Show link next to the Trash label.
Recover deleted emails in Gmail Step 3. Find the message you want to move to Inbox, and check the box next to the sender’s name.
Recover deleted emails in Gmail Step 4. Click “Move to Inbox”. Your deleted email will go back to Inbox immediately.

HOW TO RECOVER DELETED EMAILS IN OUTLOOK?

After you deleted a email message in Outlook and even after you emptied your “Deleted items” in Outlook, the following will let you undelete or recover the deleted messages easily (Valid for both Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007):
Recover deleted emails in Outlook Step 1. Select your “Deleted Items” in “Folder List”.
Recover deleted emails in Outlook Step 2. In the “Tools” menu, choose “Recover Deleted Items…”
Recover deleted emails in Outlook Step 3. Choose the mail you want to recover and it will be back to the original folder.
Note: only mails less than 7 days old are kept in this location, if older your message was deleted forever and impossible to be recovered by Outlook program.

HOW TO RECOVER DELETED MAILS IN YAHOO!MAIL?

If the deleted mail is still in Trash folder of Yahoo! Mail, do the following to undelete it: Go to Trash folder > find the deleted mail message > click Move in the Yahoo! Mail toolbar > select the folder for example Inbox to recover the message or you can drag and drop the deleted mail message in Trash folder to any other folder.
If the deleted mail has disappeared in your Yahoo! Mail within 24 hours after you have emptied the Trash folder, you can also recover the deleted mails by:
Recover deleted emails in Yahoo! Mail Step 1. Download all the messages you received yesterday and today at your Yahoo! Mail or Yahoo! Mail Classic account, or export them to a different email address automatically or manually.
Recover deleted emails in Yahoo! Mail Step 2. Fill out the Yahoo! Mail Restore Help Form or the Yahoo! Mail Classic Mail Restore Help Form to ask Yahoo! Mail to return your Yahoo! Mail account to the state before you have deleted the message.

7/12/2012

Merge Video or Movie Clips and Convert to iPhone 4 for Playing


Do you collect a lot of videos or movies in various formats on computer and want to play them on your remarkable iPhone 4? It is very simple now by using BlazeVideo iPhone Video Converter. Read this article to find out how to merge video or movie clips and put them on iPhone 4 for playing anywhere anytime. This professional video to iPhone editor and converter toll supports merging and converting almost all video formats like FLV, WMV, WMA, AVI, RMVB, MKV, MTS, M2TS, RM, RA, MOV, QT, MP4, M4V, DV, 3GP, 3G2, DAT, MPG, MPEG, etc. to iPhone 4 playable video format. It works on Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.

3 Simple Steps to Merge Video or Movie Clips and Convert them to iPhone 4 Using BlazeVideo iPhone Video Converter

STEP 1 LOAD SOURCE VIDEO FILES.

Free download BlazeVideo iPhone Video Converter, and install it on your Windows computer. After launching this iPhone video converter, please load all the video files or movie clips you want to merge and convert to iPhone 4 by clicking “Add video(s)…” button.

STEP 2 MERGE THE VIDEO FILES OR MOVIE CLIPS.

Click “Merge” button to make your own movie in the “Merge” window: add or delete source video files, custom your movie by inserting title and credits. Click “Create Movie” to turn to the main interface of this iPhone Video Converter.
merge videos for iphone 4

STEP 3 CONVERT THE MERGED VIDEO TO IPHONE 4.

1)    Go to “Profile” drop down list box to select iPhone 4 as the output format.
2)    Set the output path where the converted file will be placed by clicking “Browse” beside “Output”.
3)    Click “Start” to convert the merged video for iPhone 4.
convert merged video to iphone 4

7/02/2012

Inspirational Graduation Quotes for Graduates


Graduation cards are distributed among friends and classmate in this graduation season. And graduation speeches also come to mind, you may be looking for some wisdom words for the day. Encouraging and hopeful quotes for graduates are the best gifts to guide them on their future journey.

There are some inspirational graduation quotes which are both practical for use in a speech and in a graduation card.

Congratulations! Today is your day.
You’re off to Great Places! You’re off and away!
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own.
And you know what you know. You are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

— Dr. Seuss

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that ‘individuality’ is the key to success.

— Robert Orben

Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may.

– Jon Stewart, the College of William & Mary 2004

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies “commencement exercises.”  Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning.

– Orrin Hatch

Your families are extremely proud of you.  You can’t imagine the sense of relief they are experiencing.  This would be a most opportune time to ask for money.

– Gary Bolding

Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you’ll make a difference.

— Arie Pencovici

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
— Aristotle

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.

— William Arthur Ward

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

— Benjamin Franklin

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”

— Henry David Thoreau

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

— Steve Jobs

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