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TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software!

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TestDisk

TestDisk is OpenSource software and is licensed under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL).

TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy.

TestDisk can

 

• Fix partition table, recover deleted partition
• Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup
• Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector
• Fix FAT tables
• Rebuild NTFS boot sector
• Recover NTFS boot sector from its backup
• Fix MFT using MFT mirror
• Locate ext2/ext3 Backup SuperBlock

TestDisk has features for both novices and experts. For those who know little or nothing about data recovery techniques, TestDisk can be used to collect detailed information about a non-booting drive which can then be sent to a tech for further analysis. Those more familiar with such procedures should find TestDisk a handy tool in performing onsite recovery.

Operating systems

TestDisk can run under

 

• DOS (either real or in a Windows 9x DOS-box),
• Windows (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003),
• Linux,
• FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
• SunOS and
• MacOS

Source files and precompiled binary executables are available for DOS, Win32, MacOSX and Linux from the download page

Filesystems

TestDisk can find lost partitions for all of these file systems:

 

• BeFS ( BeOS )
• BSD disklabel ( FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD )
• CramFS, Compressed File System
• DOS/Windows FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32
• HFS, HFS+ and HFSX, Hierarchical File System
• JFS, IBM’s Journaled File System
• Linux ext2 and ext3
• Linux LUKS encrypted partition
• Linux RAID md 0.9/1.0/1.1/1.2
  • RAID 1: mirroring
  • RAID 4: striped array with parity device
  • RAID 5: striped array with distributed parity information
  • RAID 6: striped array with distributed dual redundancy information
• Linux Swap (versions 1 and 2)
• LVM and LVM2, Linux Logical Volume Manager
• Mac partition map
• Novell Storage Services NSS
• NTFS ( Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008 )
• ReiserFS 3.5, 3.6 and 4
• Sun Solaris i386 disklabel
• Unix File System UFS and UFS2 (Sun/BSD/…)
• XFS, SGI’s Journaled File System

Documentation

Documentation de TestDisk en Français.
German TestDisk documentation.
Spanish TestDisk documentation.

 

• How to get TestDisk
  • Download - Binary executables and source files are available for DOS, Win32, MacOSX and Linux.
  • TestDisk compilation
  • TestDisk and Live rescue cd
• Working with special media
  • Recover Damaged Hard Disks (bad sectors)
  • Disk image
  • CD-R/CR-RW/DVD…
• Using TestDisk
  • OS specific notes
  • Running the TestDisk Program
  • Recovery examples
  • Scripted run
  • Support
• After using TestDisk
• Technical Notes
  • Intel Partition Table
  • Microsoft Fdisk
  • SMART monitoring
  • Norton GoBack
  • Current Limitations
• How to help
• TestDisk & PhotoRec In The News
• TestDisk Team

To recover lost pictures or files from digital camera or harddisk, run the PhotoRec command.

TestDisk home: http://www.cgsecurity.org.
Christophe GRENIER grenier@cgsecurity.org

How to tell if 802.11n-enabling software is installed

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How to tell if 802.11n-enabling software is installed

How to tell if 802.11n-enabling software is installed

The Apple Extreme 802.11n Enabler for Mac is available at the Apple Store Online or on the disc that comes with the Airport Extreme (802.11n) Base station. To tell if this software is installed on your computer: From the Finder’s Go menu, select Utilities (or navigate to Applications/Utilities in the Finder). Open Network Utility. Click the Info tab if it is not selected. Select Network Interface (en1) from the pop up menu. In the section “Model: Wireless Network Adapter,” if you see “802.11 a/b/g/n”, then you have the 802.11n enabler installed. If you see “802.11 a/b/g” (without “n”), you do not have the 802.11n enabler installed. Note: These Macs have 802.11n hardware built-in: MacBook Pro with Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook with Intel Core 2 Duo Mac Pro with AirPort Extreme option iMac with Intel Core 2 Duo (except the 17-inch, 1.83GHz iMac)

10.5: Get a free upgrade to 802.11n in 10.5:
This is not quite a hint, hack, or anything, but it’s still of interest for those who like me were interested in upgrading their 802.11n-capable iMacs to the rank of 802.11n-enabled iMacs.

Well, I happened to decide only now that I would do that update after many months of resistence. (I didn’t have the need for it as my router doesn’t support 802.11n, but I am actually thinking of changing my router to a better one, so why not get an “n” one?). To my surprise, the Enabler wouldn’t install or work on my iMac, even though it is 802.11n capable. So I looked into some Tech Support Docs, namely this one which describes how to tell if your machine is n-enabled or not.

To my surprise, I found…

10.5: Use the Get Info window’s proxy icon:

Leopard’s Finder Get Info panel now has a proxy icon on the panel’s title bar. It can be dragged like the proxy icon in a Finder window title bar, and behaves in the same manner. Dragging while holding Option-Command will create an alias. Dragging while holding Option will copy the file if the destination is on the same volume. Just dragging to a destination on the same volume will move the file.

[robg adds: You can also Control- or Command-click on the proxy icon to see the path to the chosen item. Select a spot in the path, and the Finder will open a new window showing that directory.]

Mac OS X 10.5: When to use Time Machine or .Mac Backup to back up data:
If you have Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and are a .Mac member, you may be wondering when to use the (.Mac) Backup application or Time Machine to back up your important files and data. The answer depends on which files you will be backing up and where they will be backed up.
Note: You should not back up any data outside of your Home folder with Backup. See this article for more information. Time Machine can easily back up files outside your Home.

Backing up to a network volume, external hard drive, or different disk

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1. Run Windows-only applications on your Mac.Many of today’s most popular applications are Windows-only. Parallels enables you to run these applications on your Mac. Play computer games? Most PC games only run on Windows. With Parallels, you no longer have to sacrifice your favorite games!
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3. Use phones, MP3 players, and cameras with your Mac. With Parallels, you can use your favorite devices, even if they’re Windows-only. Connect your phone, camera, and MP3 player to your Mac!
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An interesting observation was noted on the Wine mailing list. As it turns out, new in Leopard is the ability to load and understand Windows Portable Executable (PE) files which is the common format for Windows applications and libaries. Understandably, the author raises a number of questions about the discovery:
So this leads to the question. Whats going on? Is this a hold over from EFI which is PE by default? Why would the OS need to load the EFI files? Maybe just for easy of development and testing? Or is something else going on? Is Apple going to be adding a win32 compatibility layer to OS X? Is having a loader of any use to us?

This, of course, leads some to the most dramatic conclusion: that Apple may be integrating Windows virtualization into Mac OS X itself. Of course, rumors of this possibility had been circulating for the months prior to Leopard’s official release.

Apple Corps Ltd. is a multi-armed multimedia corporation, founded in January 1968 by British rock band The Beatles, to replace their earlier company (Beatles Ltd.) and to form a conglomerate. Its name (pronounced “apple core”, as in Peace Corps) is a pun. Its chief division (and the only profitable one) is Apple Records, which was launched in the same year. Other divisions included Apple Electronics, Apple Films, Apple Publishing, and Apple Retail, whose most notable venture was the ill-fated Apple Boutique in London. Apple’s headquarters, in the late-1960s, was at 3 Savile Row in London, known as the Apple Building, which was also home to the Apple Studio.
From 1970-2007, Apple’s chief executive was former Beatles road manager Neil Aspinall though he did not bear that title officially. The current CEO is Jeff Jones.

The Beatles’ accountants had informed the group that they had a large amount of capital which they could either invest in a business venture or else lose to the tax man. In addition to providing an umbrella to cover the Beatles’ own financial and business affairs, Apple was intended to provide a means of financial support to anyone in the wider world struggling to get ‘worthwhile’ artistic projects off the ground. It was pitched to the world’s media by John Lennon and Paul McCartney as an attempt at ‘Western Communism’.

The company name originated with McCartney, coming from a René Magritte painting he’d acquired; ‘Apple “Core” (Corps)’ was a play on words all the Beatles enjoyed. The ubiquitous logo was designed by Gene Mahon, with illustrator Alan Aldridge transcribing the copyright notice to appear on record releases.

The first two years of the company’s existence coincided with a marked worsening of the band members’ relationships with each other, ultimately leading to the break-up of the band in 1970. Apple quickly slid into financial chaos, which was resolved only after many years of litigation.

When the Beatles’ partnership was dissolved in 1975, dissolution of Apple Corps was also considered, but it was decided to keep it going, while effectively retiring all its divisions. The company is currently headquartered at 27 Ovington Square, in London’s prestigious Knightsbridge district. Ownership and control of the company remains with McCartney, Starr and the estates of Lennon and Harrison.

Apple Corps has had a long history of trademark disputes with Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.). The dispute was finally resolved in 2007, with Apple Corps transferring ownership of the “Apple” name to Apple Inc., and Apple Inc. licencing it back to The Beatles’ company. In April 2007, Apple also settled a long running dispute with EMI and announced the retirement of chief executive Neil Aspinall. Aspinall was replaced by Jeff Jones.

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Apple - Some Background Information

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Apple Inc. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL, LSE: ACP, FWB: APC), formerly Apple Computer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation with a focus on designing and manufacturing consumer electronics and closely related software products. Established in Cupertino, California on April 1, 1976, Apple develops, sells, and supports a series of personal computers, portable media players, mobile phones, computer software, and computer hardware and hardware accessories. As of September 2007, the company operates 194 retail stores in the United States, and more in the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, and Italy,and online stores where hardware and software products are sold. The iTunes Store provides music, audiobooks, iPod games, music videos, episodes of television programs, and movies which can be downloaded using iTunes on Mac or Windows, and also on the iPod touch and the iPhone. The company’s best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of personal computers, the iPod line of portable media players, and the iPhone. Apple’s software products include the Mac OS X operating system, the iLife suite of multimedia and creativity software, and Final Cut Studio, a suite of professional audio- and film-industry software products.

The company, incorporated January 3, 1977, was known as “Apple Computer, Inc.” for its first 30 years. On January 9, 2007, the company dropped “Computer” from its corporate name. The change followed Apple’s announcement of its new iPhone smartphone and Apple TV digital video system and reflects the company’s ongoing expansion into the consumer electronics market in addition to its traditional focus on personal computers.

Apple employs over 20,000 permanent and temporary workers worldwide[2] and had worldwide annual sales in its fiscal year 2007 (ending September 29, 2007) of US$24.01 billion.

For a variety of reasons, ranging from its philosophy of comprehensive aesthetic design to its countercultural, even indie roots, as well as their advertising campaigns, Apple has engendered a distinct reputation in the consumer electronics industry and has cultivated a customer base that is unusually devoted to the company and its brand, particularly in the United States.