Have you accidentally deleted important files before? Even emptying the recycle bin as well?

How do you recover those deleted files? Here are some good software that help you recover the files.

16 Free File Recovery Software Programs

  

How to increase Dropbox size for free?

If you are are an existing Dropbox user, you can increase your storage size (500MB to 16 GB) by inviting friends to use Dropbox.

Here is the link.

How to access Gmail using Microsoft Outlook

The Story :

My friend emailed me to teach him to access Gmail using Microsoft Outlook. With outlook, he can download his company and personal email and work from one email client instead of checking the web based Gmail.


Here's how to do it,

• Log into Gmail and have IMAP access is enabled . (Check bottom)
• Select Tools | Account Settings... from the menu in Outlook.
• Go to the E-mail column.
• Click New....
• Choose Microsoft Exchange, POP3, IMAP, or HTTP is selected.
• Click Next >.
• Type your name, under Your Name:.
• Key in Gmail address under E-mail Address:.
• Please include "@gmail.com". If your Gmail account name is "mike88", make sure you type "mike88@gmail.com" (not including the quotation marks), for example.
• Choose Manually configure server settings or additional server types.
• Click Next .
• Select Internet E-mail .
• Click Next .
• Select IMAP under Account Type:
• Type "imap.gmail.com" under Incoming mail server:.
• Enter "smtp.gmail.com" under Outgoing mail server (SMTP):.
• Type your Gmail account name under User Name:.
• If your Gmail address is "mike88@gmail.com", for example, type "mike88".
• Type your Gmail password under Password:.
• Click More Settings ....
• Go to the Outgoing Server tab.
• Choose My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication is checked.
• Go to the Advanced tab.
• Select SSL under Use the following type of encrypted connection: for both Incoming server (IMAP): andOutgoing server (SMTP):.
• Type "465" under Server Port Numbers for Outgoing server (SMTP):.
• Click OK.
• Now click Next >.
• Click Finish and Close

To access a Gmail account in your email program or mobile device via the IMAP interface:

• Choose Settings from the top Gmail navigation bar.
• Go to the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab.
• Make sure Enable IMAP is selected under IMAP Access:.
• Click Save Changes.

Get SkyDrive 25GB Free now

ATTENTION MY FRIENDS!!

Just now when I logged into my SkyDrive, it showed 'upgrade 7GB to 25GB free'.

So, I clicked' Free 25GB' and woola.. I get 25GB free cloud based storage.

I can now put all my work and fun stuffs in the SkyDrive for free. Cool.

Wonder how will Google Drive or Dropbox respond to this.

If  each give 25 GB free, we would have 75GB free. :-)

Lets hope so!

P.S. If you are wondering what is cloud storage, let me explain. Cloud storage is a virtual storage in the internet that act like a hard disk in your computer. You can copy and save any files into the virtual storage and the files can be accessed from the Internet on any PC, tablet or smartphone with Internet access.

However, the files aren't stored in your PC, it will be stored in the server in the Cloud Storage provider. You must have Internet to use it.

More information : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_storage

How to repair this blue screen?

Hi,

I just got this PC and haven't managed to test what's the problem. Can you tell me?

Specification
Intel Dual Core
4GB RAM
500GB HDD
Windows 7 Pro
Nvidia GT 520.

What I did:

After testing the hard disk with HDDscan and testing the RAM with PC Check. I initially thought that it was the hardware problem. I then run a virus scan on the hard disk and found it to be infected by virus. 

In order for a virus to cause blue screen, it is likely the system files are damaged. The best choice would be to format it.

How to resize existing hard disk partition with Easeus Partition Magic Free

The story:

My staff told me that her PC is running really slow. I check and found that her C drive (partition) is almost full with only 450MB left. The PC slow down as Windows does not have enough space for virtual memory. (Windows uses drive C to write virtual memory unless specified otherwise).

Note :Virtual memory are like RAM. But Windows use the hard disk instead of RAM due to some programs uses more memory then the RAM memory you have.

Then, I saw that she has 45GB of unused space in drive D. I decide to resize drive C and merge the free space of drive D into C to make it bigger.

This is how I do it:

• download Easues Partition Magic from Easues website.
• install Partition Magic in the PC you want to resize.
• start Partition Magic
• check the partition information (below picture)

• I wanted to merge the 45GB of drive D into drive C (picture above)
• first, I would copy all the files in drive D into an external hard disk because the data in drive D will be deleted upon merging the partitions.
• delete the D partition by right click and choose delete, OK and Apply (picture below)

•  once complete, you will see you have 45GB of unallocated space in drvie D.

• 'right click' on drive C and choose 'resize' (picture above)
• drag the partition size to the size you want (picture below)

• I wanted to make the C partition 70GB and then choose 'Apply' (pictures below)

• Once finish, I now have a 70GB drive C instead of 29GB previously

Additional note:

• Be advised the above process will only destroy data in drive D, not drive C. Once done, all files in drive C is preserved.
• Caution: I would suggest you backup all files in drive C and D into external drive before starting the above process. We never know what will happen during the process. Bad sector or power failure may render your data loss.

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Which is the best desktop processor? AMD vs Intel?

The story:

I wanted to know what are the better processor to use if I need to upgrade my Core2Duo PC at home (maybe for the sake of Diablo III.. Wahaha.).

I found this article. Maybe it will help you too.

Best CPU: the 8 top processors today

How I started using free Office programs - Open Office and Google Docs.

The Story,
I started using Open Office since 2008. I started a business then and had limited capital. I tried free Open Office instead of Microsoft Office which will cost me.

I had downloaded Open Office and tried it. I fell in love with it and use it since then. Even I have MS Office 2010 on my laptop, I still use Open Office as my main Office Editor.

Why I like Open Office :-

1. Simple interface and easy to use
2. Functions are easy to access
3. Good menu layout
4. Able to open almost all MS Office files
5. Spreadsheet meet all my basic need without complicated menus.
6. Fast 

Now I also use Google Doc. It is mainly for shared document among my team members. With Google doc, my team members can update reports, notes and listing in real time and I can read it where ever I am.

No need to call, email and ask for the documents. I can access them on my Samsung Galaxy Note, My Dell Laptop and also from anyone's PC.

It's so flexible and convenient. I have the following reports in my hand :-

•     ‎IT Daily Report
•     ‎GPS Report 
•     ‎Monthly Stock Movement
•     ‎CCTV Site Record 
•     ‎Computer Settings 
•     ‎Software License Key

I have to tell you that Microsoft Office is still the best Office software out there. But if you are a general user and looking for an alternative, please look into Open Office and Google Docs first.

You can download Open Office here.

You can start using Google Docs here.

Here's an interesting article by CNET, How I learned to say, 'Hi, Google Docs; bye, MS Word

Additional notes:

• Open Office isn't a cloud service. The software are installed into you PC.
• Open Office sometime open Microsoft Office Documents a little different. Especially Office 2007 and 2010 templates. You may need to convert those files to 2003 version first.
• Power Point 2007/2010 animation aren't all supported. 
• Google Docs are Cloud based service. You do not have the software in your PC, you need internet access to use it and access your files.
• You need at least broadband speed to use Google Docs properly.
•  With cloud based Google Docs, you will not lost any files even hour Pc hard disk is damaged or even stolen. All files are stored in the Internet inside Google's Server.