6th July 2011 Recovering Deleted Data & USB

I just read a short communication written by Rik Sargent, with the question 'Can USB or a memory card keep data that had been deleted?'

 

It went on to say that it's an error to think that the data in an USB, in a memory card, or including in the PC itself, disappear for always. When you delete something, what you eliminate normally is not the file itself, but the link that the PC used to know where to find that file.

 

There exist different programmes of software which permit 'resuscitating' things that have been deleted purposely or by error. Nearly all the files stay in series of zeros or one's and, although some parts could be lost definitively, there's no reason for you to fly into a panic if you had deleted something by mistake.

 

That was it. He didn't say what kind of software nor explain the procedure of how to recover the lost data.

 

A couple of months ago, a file very important to me, one I created myself containing a whole year of all my own written articles, disappeared all by itself, or by whatever reason I wasn't aware of, nowhere to be found (every nook and corner of the PC had been thoroughly searched), despite with help from experts of the site I use. If any of you knows what exactly Mr. Sargent was talking about, I would surely appreciate your help to let me know how to recover it. I have not used USB or any memory card.

 

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6th July 2011 New (to me) Discoveries

Rainbow in my room ~

It's a lamp that projects a spectacular light of a rainbow on the walls of your room. It features 5 lights, LED, of colours red, yellow, green, blue and purple, reflected on curved mirror, to achieve an impressive spectacle of a perfect rainbow that can reach an area of 28x22x12 cm.

It functions with 4 AAA batteries and houses the automatic mechanism that disconnects the illumination after a prefixed period of time. 28€ at: curiousminds.co.uk

PhotoFit Me ~

It's a free APP, version 1.1 (12.7MB), that permits you to create robot portraits from an ample collection of facial features (eyes, brows, mouth, nose, jaw, chin, beard, moustache ...), newer, more effective, easier to use, more accuate system developed for the police by the professor Graham Pike of the Open University. It reproduces images in the same way our mind works when trying to remember a face. You can even download the embed codes to put on your own page just for fun; describe to some friends how you (think) you look, and let them show you what they come up with, or vice versa. Or try to create a celebrity face from your memory.

Champagne with ice ~
It's usually a big NO-NO; never with ice, considered a sacrilegious desecration, in Spain, although 'okay' in France. Till now in this country experts always recommend a very strict degree of chilled temperature for drinking this special bubbly. But the famous House of Moët et Chandon  has just introduced a new version denominated 'Ice Imperial', which you are supposed to drink it adding ice. The house is taking this very seriously, wishing to convince even the most purists that the added ice cubes would induce the explosion of the full flavour and bring out the tropical notes.

Moët Chandon is one of my favourite Champagnes. Wonder whether they meant only the Ice Imperial should be taken with ice? A sure way to find out is ... Cheers, try them both ways! And give yourself the verdict soon-ish. After a few, you wouldn't notice the difference anyway, with or without!

Tags: rainbow, champagne

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