How to Move a Blogger Blog to Your Own Domain: Tips and Tricks

What a week this has been for this tech blog! I finally moved it from blogspot subdomain to a custom domain. I have been wanting to do this since a long time (ever since this blog started getting some attention) , I somehow couldn't manage to do so because of the fear of losing search traffic.

Google's recent move to redirect blogspot.com to country specific sub domains helped me solidify my

Recover Deleted files in Windows with Free Tools

Have you ever deleted a file that you did not wish to and wanted to recover it but did not find it in the recycle bin? You probably deleted it permanently with Shift+Delete or emptied the Recycle Bin. Now what? Don't worry, you may still have a chance to get it back. This article lists some free software that can recover deleted files from your hard drive or any other storage device instantly.

Computer Glitches Can Lose Important Files Very Easily

By: Stewart Wrighter

The era of the computer is very much with us and there are not many people in the world today who do not have access to one in one form or another. Unfortunately, along with computers come the difficulties of having electronic machines which can and do go wrong occasionally. Finding someone who can deal with getting information out of something which appears to be broken is not hard, but there are some things that the novice can do to attempt hard drive recovery. If an expert is needed, try looking under ‘data hard drive recovery’ on the internet and follow instructions from there.

One of the first steps that anyone has to make is to not write anything more to this damaged part. Sometimes we delete files by mistake but if these are to be recovered, again, do not save them to the damaged part. One very good reason for this, and which most of us technically challenged individuals do not know, is that nothing on the computer is ever erased completely. All that happens is that it is flagged as being deleted but it is still sitting there. This is how detectives can find out what business has been transacted on the computer when they suspect crimes have been committed.

However, if there is a lot of information or files being saved, these deleted files will be written over eventually when every other space is taken and this is why saving anything at all when the computer obviously has problems may just lose important files that will never be recovered. The HD can be put into another computer, which hopefully is running the same system, and this sometimes works to retrieve some files from the HD.

Although it is highly recommended, most people who work with computers on a daily basis to not back up the information being kept there. Indeed, people only realize that they have made this fatal error when they have lost some important information or photos which will never be replaced. If the HD stops functioning, it may just be that this information is lost forever and we all have to face this at least once to realize the importance of backing up files regularly.

Local repair guys can do this work for those who just do not have enough knowledge about what they are doing. They are merely using something that we ourselves could use, that is the same program for recovery, however, they do have the knowledge and the confidence to go in there and do what they can. With novices, they often compound the problem by pushing buttons all over the place without really knowing what they are doing.

Online help is available too and these sites walk the novice step by step through the whole process. Take a look to see what is on offer and do not touch anything until the way forward is clear. After this scare, and hopefully recovery of at least some of those important files, it is advisable to back up all and any information that is deemed irreplaceable.

Get to Know What Web Development Means to the World

By: Adriana J. Noton

The broad term for work involved in building an Internet based web site is called web development. This all includes the web design, content, scripting, server, configuration of network security as well as e-commerce development. Web professionals however refer to it as the two most important non-design aspects of web building such as coding and writing markup.

It can range from developing a very simple static one page with plain text to a very complex internet application, social networking service or electronic business. Large organizations and businesses usually make use of a whole team to build their web site and these teams can consist of a lot of people instead of one professional.

A smaller corporation or business will require only one webmaster, usually the person will be contracting for that company or do it on a permanent basis. Sometimes webmasters do it as a secondary assignment to an already related position in the workplace such as an information systems professional or graphic designer. It often is collaboration between different departments instead of one designated department.

With the web growing it has been since the 1990s one of the industries with the fastest growth in the world. The automation of business work flow is being helped enormously and all businesses wish to sell services and products online. With the growth the costs has dropped dramatically not only for development, but also the hosting. The amount of content, graphic design and complexity however will still determine the ultimate cost.

Web design currently is made accessible to individuals and small companies by individual web masters and companies, thus making growth in the industry even more prominent. To aid in the building of a site there are hundreds of systems and programs available for anyone for free. This manifested into millions of individuals as well as small companies setting up new sites daily, thus contributing to the popularity.

Easy to use software is available which enables virtually anyone with no knowledge of web sites and designs to develop a web site in minutes without any coding. There is no knowledge required concerning programming languages or Hypertext Markup Language, although it can provide a more professional result for the individuals web page.

Other tools used are Java Platform, LAMP and Microsoft to name a few to enable a site to run applications online. Applications which were only available on a desk based computer can now are found as an Internet service. A user can now interact with the use of online applications in the creation of new content, instead of running an executable code from a computer.

New methods of communication are created this way and allow for a lot of opportunities in decentralizing information as well as media distribution. Applications are used to interact from any location, instead of working from a specific location at their workplace.

Dramatic transformation includes e-commerce as millions of consumers purchase services and products online at auction sites and resellers. A Blog is another great example of the web development of communication. New ways of communication and interaction is at the tip of every ones fingers and socializing is just one of the many advantages which are included.

Lost Data Can Be Recovered If Care is Taken

By: Penny Lane

With the popularity of computers growing every larger by the day, it is obvious that we will need more help when things start to go wrong. When the computer ‘crashes’, taking with it all the information that we need, then most of us run screaming to technicians to see what they can do. Indeed, nothing is lost really and hard drive recovery is simple for those who know what they are doing. Data hard drive recovery means that any information stored there should be recoverable if the right methods are undertaken.

The first thing that people do when anything goes wrong with the computer is to start pressing this key or that to see if anything will happen. Wrong move in this instance since this can overwrite what is trying to be saved. Since the work that we want is still there, why risk writing over it in the quest to recover it? Even if the information is flagged as being deleted, it is still just sitting there waiting for some clever soul to go in and retrieve it. This is why police can normally find out what people are doing on their computers even if they have deleted files just before.

What most of us fail to do daily is to back up the work which we are doing. In fact, this can be done several times a day if the work is ongoing. This would be particularly necessary, for example, in a busy reservations office if the computer is the main way of taking bookings. Imagine this system crashing and no one knowing who has booked what and where. Therefore, any good reservations manager will certainly back-up files every hour or so depending on how busy their office is.

Local technicians will undertake this work at a good rate since it is quite common. Although we should learn to do this for ourselves, those of us who just cannot work out what the computer does would much rather leave it to the expert. With the amateur having a go, they often lose exactly what they were trying to save in the first place.

There are online sites too which will walk people through this process, keystroke by keystroke, so it may well be a good idea to try this out. However, some personnel in companies do not like the idea of interfering with company property in this way and they insist upon the experts being called in.

Some companies have help lines where a person can call in and be guided through the whole process step by step. This too is a bit like a learning process and they may well remember next time what to do in an emergency.

It is clear then that disaster does not strike every time the HD decides to go on strike. By some careful maneuvering, most, if not all, the work should be recovered and the person can get back down to work quite quickly. For those who lose files, this is a very important lesson indeed!

Editing Professional Videos With Adobe Premier Software

By: Adriana Notton

A few years ago it was virtually impossible to edit a movie on a home computer, but over the past two decades there have been incredible advances made in both the hardware and software for PCs and Macs. Now virtually anybody can make professional videos with Adobe Premier Software, Final Cut Pro, Avid Media Composer and other similar packages.

Many top editors, filmmakers, videographers and creative professionals use a package like Adobe Premier to capture and edit their footage. The price is very reasonable, it has excellent features and is quite simple to grasp. It also available for both the PC and Mac, but make sure your computer has enough power to handle the software.

A lot of editing can be time consuming, but Premier has a number of features that can help make things go faster. It comes with codecs to read almost any type of video format so there is no need for transcoding the footage before importing it in. And this of course means that you can export your final edit into many different formats too, and through the program you can also deliver it online, burn it to a disc or export it to a hard drive.

But of course what makes a good editing package is of course what you can do to the raw footage to turn it into your final product. There are many simple drag-and-drop type programs available, where you edit in a very linear format, and for some simple projects or home movies they are ideal. But if you want to have no limits when editing, then a non-linear package like this is your answer.

You can edit and add effects to clips before you put them into the time-line, or even create sub-clips from those clips. You can also apply an effect to multiple clips with one move. And there are hundreds of basic effects and transitions which you can customize to suit your project.

There are some brilliant plug-ins that come with the program, and hundreds of third-party plug-ins available on the net. Depending on what you want from your video, using some of these can take it to the next level. A good example of this is the 3 way color corrector, where you can match clips to look similar with just a few basic adjustments. This can really make a difference if for example two scenes were shot at different times of the day and the light is different.

Apart from Premier, Adobe also has a number of other software options that can enhance your project, from the widely-used and loved Photoshop for photo manipulation amongst other things, to the fantastic OnLocation, which automatically digitizes your footage on set and captures it to disk. There is also After Effects which is brilliant with regard to adding effects or digital motion graphics to your project.

So whether you are a Mac or PC user, you can be editing professional videos with Adobe Premier Software in no time. There are thousands of tutorials available on the net, many by top industry professionals, to get you going. There are trial versions of the software available online, so try it before you buy it, I am sure you will be won over in no time.

Convert FAT32 to NTFS Without Formatting or Losing Data

You have a flash drive or probably an external hard drive that currently has FAT32 file system and you want to change it to NTFS, because FAT32 does not support handling large files (over 4GB) or it is just simply old for your taste but there is just one problem, you don't want to lose your saved data. This article is for you then as it explains exactly how you can achieve seamless transition