2010/09/30

Watch Out: The Copiers Hard Drive May Eat Your Privacy

I just read the news from CBS NEWS talking about the security risk of photocopier. I don't know how much of you know about this. The news was really astonishing and shocked everyone who has read the report. You may read the report from this YouTobe video "Copy Machine, Security Risks".
In this report according to a survey held by SHARP in 2008 that “60% of Americans don’t know that photocopiers store images on hard drives!” It reported that SHARP would charge you additional 500$ if you wanted to erase the stored image information on each photocopier. That sounds really ridiculous.
After watching the video and searching some materials about how photocopiers work, finally some information comes out to the surface.
How will photocopier steal your files or information?
It is estimated that nearly every photocopier built after 2002 contains a so-called hard drive. Like one of your personal computers, it stores image of every documents, scan, copy or email by the machine. The initial design aims to raise the speed of the copy or print processes. When each page of the original work passes over the copy surface, the photocopier scans a digital image of the work using a so-called digital scanner. Depending on the quality of the photocopiers, the digital scan may take from about one second to almost half a minute. Although some very high-end photocopiers can copy one or more pages a second, most copiers process about one page every five to ten seconds. And those high-end photocopier are most likely to attach hard drives. Once the digital image is scanned, it may be manipulated to comply with controls set by the user. After the image is scanned in to memory and manipulated to the user’s preference, it is ready to be printed. Be careful here: after your copy or print demand finished, the file or documents you dealt with is still kept on the photocopier hard drive by means of images. This is why the photocopier may steal your private files even without your permission.
Even if the scanned file images are deleted or formatted from the hard disk after you pay SHARP extra 500$(just imagine), are the images really gone? Absolutely not, those files are also recoverable as you may know if you have learned kind of data recovery. Those deleted or formatted files can be recovered with some file recovery programs, or more preciously image recovery.
So how can we get rid of this photocopier problem and protect our files?
Here are a few tips recommended,
1>> Better not use leased photocopiers from some unknown leasing companies . If have to, make sure your important files are erased permanently by means of several low-lever format or destroying hard drive before deadline.
2>>If possible, try using some low-level photocopiers without hard drives inside.
3>>Don’t copy or print documents or paper containing precious information or privacy outside of your home or company.
Final conclusion:all in all, when we are using some "hi-tech" products, especially digital media. We should always bear in mind the security first and keep an eye on the potential risk. Photocopier has taught us a lession.

2010/09/26

How to Recover iPod Music after Crash?

Q: I need help recovering my ipod music. It was lost after a crash and since repair itunes and limewire got mixed. Apple has recovered my music (i think) it is now visible and my itunes library is straight but I cannot synch it back. Yeah I lack alot as far as pc know how but after 3 days of reads and attempts I'm lost.How do I put them back on?

A: you need to start itunes, connect your ipod then select RESTORE and it will relink it to your itunes library.

if this does not work try holding down the menu key and centre key until the apple appears then when its illuminated then connect it to your computer then select restore.

that should reinstall everything to its normal settings

A: regular reinstalling itunes just download new itunes and install wont erase music if this does not work go to apple online they have lots of instructions for a complete reinstall. Source from http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1925?viewlocale=en_US

2010/09/24

Why Deleted Photos Can Be Recovered from Digital Camera?

A few questions about recovering photos from digital camera.

Q1: I lost the photos on my computer. So now my only other option is to recover the photos on the camera's memory stick! Is that even possible?

Q2: Can you recover your deleted camera photos and videos after you accidently delete them? I was using with my camera when I accidentally pressed the format button and deleted all my photos and videos. I panicked so I decided to take a picture to make sure it wasn't my imagination. To my horror, I had deleted all my 1900 and something pictures and videos. My 4GB core micro memory card was close to full and I have a Canon camera, if that helps. Please, I NEED to get these pictures and videos back ASAP. Is there any hope?

Why deleted photos can be recovered from digital camera?

No matter your photos are deleted due to mistakenly operation or accidental format, all the deleted digital photos can be recovered from your digital camera memory card. As a matter of fact, when you delete the photos from your digital camera, the deleted photos are not actually deleted permanently. You simply delete the associated entry and the photo data are still saved in the original sectors of camera memory card disk. One thing different is those data space is marked as available for other new data to write over or occupy.

Formatting digital camera is also similar case. When you format the camera memory card, all the photo information is not deleted permanently just the file system erases the information about where those photo data are allocated and what size are the data etc. And all your deleted digital photo data still lie there waiting to be occupied. So as we can see, when your delete or format photos from camera, as long as the deleted digital photo data are not occupied or overwritten, it is highly possible for you to recover those deleted digital photos.
 
How to recover deleted photos from digital camera?
The best way to recover deleted digital photos from camera is to try some photo recovery programs. As they will apply specific advanced data algorithms to analyze the camera memory card to look for the lost photo data, once found it is quite easy to recover the whole deleted digital photos.
 
Moreover, you may find these articles helpful.
5 Free File Recovery Software - talks about the 5 completely free file recovery software.
 
8 famous data recovery software - a review of 8 famous data recovery programs, some are free.
 
One more tip: when your photos are deleted from digital camera, do put your camera memory card in safe place and do not attempt to take more photos. Because physical damage and data overwritten will make your deleted digital photos unrecoverable even with the best recovery program.

2010/09/20

FAQ on How to Recover Lost Photos from iPhone

Recover deleted photos off iPhone question 1: I have photos i really liked and they got deleted off my iPhone. Is there a program out there that can like help me and go into it and undelete them or recover them? There has to be at least 1 program that actually works. How to recover deleted photos off iPhone?

Recover deleted photos off iPhone question 2: How can i recover deleted iphone photos? Okay, so i had an album on my iphone of holiday photos. I then got a new laptop and synced my ipod to that. the photos deleted but when i went to add new albums it told me that my iphone was synced with another library, anyone know how i can get those photos back or any data back ??

Recover deleted photos off iPhone question 3: Is it possible recover deleted iphone 4 photos? One guy deleted photos off my iphone 4 last night. I found out after I checked my phone this morning once it had a full charge. Is it possible to recover them? I was told Stellar Photo Recovery would work well but idk. Its taking forever to do it and im not sure im doin the right thing. Please help me if this is possible.

Why deleted photos on iPhone can be recovered?

When you deleted photos on iPhone, the photo hasn't been permanently deleted, and you can still recover them. Because what you deleted is the entry index which says what and where the file is. The space in which the deleted file located is available for immediate and re-useable use. It means that the space can be occupied by new file at anytime. So Time is of the essence. The success to recover photos depends more or less on how quickly you act! Therefore you must act fast and try not to save new photos, or videos onto the iPhone. Because this will minimizes the chances of the space in question being overwritten by new files, thus increasing the likelihood of success to recover lost photos off iPhone.


How to Recover Deleted Photos off iPhone?


The best way to recover deleted photos off iphone is still very simple: try some recovery programs. Or more specificly some Mac photo recovery programs to see if they will help. But as with my personal experience, deleted photos off iPhone is a little tricky to be recovered even with some programs because data recovery engineers in the industry still are not so good at handling iPhone operation system.
As to recover photos off iPhone 4, the lastest new version. I don't think there are programs that can recover deleted pictures from your iphone 4. Still need some more time for the engineers to look into the system of iPhone 4 and figure out if there is a possibility to recover lost data on such device.

2010/09/19

How to recover lost images on Mac

Mac OS X, one of the great operating systems, is used by most of people especially for designer and graphics editors, because it provides good tools and features for creative designing. Even a non-professional user can edit images, and videos with relative programs available in Mac OS X operating system. However, like any other application, this application is also prone to malfunction due to 'preferences' corruption, virus infection, and similar reasons. In some situations, you cannot access the images stored on Mac and encounter critical data loss. In order to get your mission-critical images recovered, you have to opt for Mac image recovery software, if there is no backup in place.

Photo Recovery for Mac is this kind of Mac image recovery software
The read-only application doesn't overwrite or modify your original data on your storage media. which can recover lost images from Mac. It is a powerful yet easy -to-use Mac image recovery software to recover lost or deleted images, raw digital images, videos and music files from both Mac hard drives and all popular storage devices like Mactonish HDs, memory cards, USB drive, iPods, etc..

Key Features of Mac image recovery

Powerful Recovery Ability

Deleted recovery and deep recovery can fully recover your images not only from Mac iPhoto, but also from storage media such as hard drives, iPods, and flash cards, while most Mac image recovery software on current market can only recover photos from media storage.

Versatile Preview Ability

Demo version allows preview of images, and camera raw files before Mac photo recovery to let users enjoy Mac photo recovery in advance and evaluate recovery quality before they buy.

Precise Mac Image Recovery

Recover images from Mac with original file names and storage paths to get precise Mac image recovery and save you much time.

2010/09/17

How to Recover Deleted Photos from Sigma Digital Camera?

Sigma is a company established in 1961 and specialized in the field of manufacturing digital cameras, flashes, lenses and other accessories about photography. After nearly 40 years of development, Sigma has gained well-earned reputation for its originality, innovation and leadership in the world’s most advanced line of photographic products particularly digital cameras. Sigma digital cameras are in the line of best quality which really amazed all of its users. And a lot of happiest and fascinating photos are captured right with Sigma digital Camera.

When you need to recover deleted digital photos from Sigma camera?

Even Sigma has offered us with best photography technology and optical options, it cannot eliminate human errors when we are using Sigma digital camera to take photos. Human errors such as accidental deletion or format without backing up digital photos, for example, you have purchased a new Sigma SD14 camera and taken lots of digital photos while go out traveling with family. Suddenly the camera SD card is out of space which means you have to delete some photos in order to move out some more free space for new photos. So you deleted some that look not so nice, but back home found several other nice photos were also deleted due to your mistakenly operating. In this case, will it be possible to recover deleted digital photos from Sigma camera?

Another scenario you may need to recover deleted digital photos from Sigma camera. As we know all the photos we take with Sigma camera are stored or saved on memory cards such as SD, SDHC, MMC, and CF memory cards. Sometimes when we insert the camera memory card to our computer or laptop to backup all the precious photos in case of emergency, the system cannot recognize your camera memory card properly and asks you to format it. You follow the instruction without thinking too much and format your Sigma camera memory card, the result is all your valuable digital photos are deleted. Any way to recover such deleted digital photos from my Sigma camera memory card?

Why deleted digital photos can be recovered from Sigma camera?

No matter your digital photos are deleted due to mistakenly operation or accidental format, all the deleted digital photos can be recovered from your Sigma camera memory card. As a matter of fact, when you delete the digital photos from your Sigma camera memory card, the deleted photos are not actually deleted permanently. You simply delete the associated entry and the photo data are still saved in the original sectors of camera memory card disk. One thing different is those data space is marked as available for other new data to write over or occupy.

Formatting Sigma camera is also similar case. When you format the camera memory card, all the photo information is not deleted permanently just the file system erases the information about where those photo data are allocated and what size are the data etc. And all your deleted digital photo data still lie there waiting to be occupied. So as we can see, when your delete or format digital photos from Sigma camera, as long as the deleted digital photo data are not occupied or overwritten, it is highly possible for you to recover those deleted digital photos.

How to recover deleted digital photos from Sigma camera?

The best way to recover deleted digital photos from Sigma camera is to try some photo recovery programs. As they will apply specific advanced data algorithms to analyze the camera memory card to look for the lost photo data, once found it is quite easy to recover the whole deleted digital photos.


One more tip you have to care: when your digital photos are deleted from Sigma camera, do put your Sigma and the camera memory card in safe place and do not attempt to take more photos. Because physical damage and data overwritten will make your deleted digital photos unrecoverable even with the best recovery program.

2010/09/15

Free Get This Photo Recovery Software Worth 40 USD

I just came across Giveawayoftheday and find this wGXe Photo Recovery is Givingaway.Only 24 hours limited to get a free license. It is said the price of this product is 39.99$ and now you can get it for free. I don't know how the quality of this photo recovery software. But it's worth to get a free copy in case of emergency.

Here are some descriptions of this products.

When you will need photo recovery software

When bad things happen to your data, either accidentally or on purpose, you lost your beloved digital photos, you get frustrated and depressed. You feel you badly need a way to recover them.

If so, wGXe Photo Recovery is exactly what you need. Its photos recovery function allows you to search and recover your photos which were lost due to emptied from the Recycle Bin, partition loss or damage, software corruption, virus’s infection, unexpected system crash, shutdown or any other unknown reasons.

key Features of this photo recovery software 
  • Easy-to-use interface.
  • High scanning speed.
  • Get lost data back due to partition loss or damage.
  • Recover digital photos from emptied recycle bin or a formatted disk.
  • Recover lost data from hard drive, USB drive, memory card, memory stick, camera card, or other storage media.
  • Preview the pictures before recovering them back.
  • Support FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS file systems.
This is the information I got from its official site. Seems like it's good but don't know how its recovery capability. I'll get a free copy first and then test it.

2010/09/13

3 Methods to Restore Deleted Photos from Memory Card

Nowdays memory card has been widely used. Unlike computers, if you accidentally delete photos from memory card, those photos are just gone instead of delivering to the recycle bin as we know there is no recycle bin function with our memory card. So you may wonder how to restore deleted photos from memory card or is there any ways to restore memory card for the deleted photos. Here I will share with you 3 methods to restore deleted photos from memory card, meanwhile help you figure out the right steps to take as with recovering the deleted photos.

Method 1: Use third party photo recovery software

If you have some knowledge of data recovery, I guess you should know it is possible to rely on third party photo recovery software to recover deleted pictures from memory card. As deleted pictures or photos from memory card are not deleted permanently, those deleted photos are still intact there in the memory card waiting to be written over by new data. And the deleted photos are inaccessible on your memory card until they are restored. A third party photo recovery tool will apply advanced algorithms to salvage the deleted photos from your memory card.

Method 2: Grab your memory card for professional recovery service

As far as I know, when it comes to recover deleted photos from memory card no matter digital camera memory card or phone memory card, our first reaction should be take the memory card to the manufacturer, computer shop or even professional data recovery companies to consult for recovery solutions. It is indeed a way to restore deleted photos from memory card but not the best way as it may cost you a lot of money more than you can imagine.

Method 3: Regularly back up your memory card photos

By regularly backing up your precious photos on your memory card to other storage devices such as computer hard disk or external drive, when anything unexpected happens to your memory card pictures it won't be a loss as you have always got a copy. Within a few minutes transferring you don’t have to rely on any other help to restore deleted photos from memory card.

Conclusion with different methods

The best way to restore deleted photos from memory card is to avoid photo deletion. So backing up your memory card photos is significant especially for those who frequently make wrong operations to your camera or mobile phone memory card.

If you accidentally delete photos from memory card and forget to make a backup, then turn to a third party photo recovery software to see if your deleted pictures can be recovered. Many picture recovery tools will provide free trial to deep scan your memory card to seek and restore deleted photos even videos. You can also preview those found photos to confirm they are right the ones you have deleted.

No photo recovery software can deal with all picture/photo loss situations. As a result if you find your deleted photos are unable to be restored from memory card with photo recovery software. The only way is to take your memory card for professional recovery service.

2010/09/01

What is the best data recovery tool for Windows?

what is the best that can recover data image n etc

Irina K said:
One of the best solutions on the market is Easy Drive Data Recovery software:

http://www.munsoft.com/EasyDriveDataRecovery/

It uses unique modern algorithms to recover files that other software either recovers incorrectly or is unable to detect. 

Obscurant1st said:

Recuva is a very good free recovery tool.
I hvae tried it and found very usefull.

You can download it from http://filehippo.com

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Netbookin said:
I use Get Data Back and pleased . 

Unixmen24/7.......said:

Use this software
http://www.stellarinfo.com/

Future said:
I have download and tried many data recovery softwares for my accidental deleting data.By comparing, I find Wondershare Data Recovery software is the best one and buy it.
because :1. It is more faster and can scan the subfolder directly to save you time 2 .It is easy to use without any tech skill 3. It is on sale--50% discount.4. it can recover data with nice quality
Source:
http://www.data-recovery-utilities.com/

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Experience

How to recover lost images from sony digi camera memory Card?


Hi, i have 2 sony memory cards one is of 1Gb and other is of 2Gb. Recently i lost images from my 2Gb memory card and i recovered it for 400Rs through at photo studio, he told me that all images from the begining you purchased Camera will be recovered, since it was new camera he recovered all images.
But
Now my CD on which i saved images from 1Gb memory card is also not running, since it was very nice moments of my life i want to recover it, Can i recover those images ? Since those images are of 2008, and after that nearly 700 photos i took with that memory card. When i am recovering with hand recovery and card recovery software its just bringing 300 photos. Also please let me know the free software which provides recovery my photos from beginging, or atleast which can bring maximum images.
 
Vincent Valentine said:
try using soft Get data back for u r memory card.
It's having high rate of recovery.