Awesome Techs

Why Did I Code this?

The simply answer is “because I needed this tool”. the thing is I have been around in the IRC’s and various other help forums and if I ever had a doubt or if I was helping someone, the most crucial thing was a screenshot of the current set up. I have been using linux as my primary Os for years now. I missed a screenshot upload tool. every time I take a screenshot, I have to do a lot of stuffs, just to share the screenshot. It was wating a lot of time. So I thought why don’t I code something so that everything will be done automatically!

So long story short. You can download the py script from here: Download ScrShot

Dependabilities:

Unfortunately this script has a few dependabilities.

• Scrot
• xclip
• Curl
• libnotify-bin
• Python

All of these will be installable via your linux distributions’ software manager.

After downloading you can either

1. Run the command “python scrshot.py” and select the area for taking the  screenshot.
2. Or Assign this command to any short keys(this depends on you distribution – on ubuntu this can be done by going to Settings -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts 0> Custome Shortkey, type down the command ie” python “<path to the downloaded scrshot.py file>, and then assign the shortkey to it!)

For more info on this please read the README file included in the archive!

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Do you think that a credit card with the computer chip embedded in the plastic will be superior to one that does not have a chip? The smart cards are those that contain chips and they can’t simply match to the supposedly dumb credit cards with the ordinary magnetic stripes across their backs. As the dumb credit cards don’t need a brain of their own, the network offers the necessary smart cards in order to outshine the credit cards. About 13 million magnetic stripe cards are found out in the US and some of them don’t even need a counter to sit on.

A smart card also has a magnetic stripe but the stripe enough provides all the same information like the conventional credit card. To use the smarts, the card needs to be matched with a smart reader and an increasingly large number of sale terminals are equipped for the smart cards.

How does the smart credit card work?

The smart credit card is an innovative financial object that includes all the aspects of secret coding, known as cryptography. The smart credit cards have a microprocessor in-built in the card and in order to use these cards, cryptography is the most vital part. Here are some ways in which you can use such cards.

Both the card reader and the card will implement a series of encrypted sign like the exchanges to confirm that the dealings are from a legitimate counterpart.
The user of the smart card must corroborate his identity each time he makes a transaction in a similar way in which the PIN is used in the ATM.
Once it is established that this is a legitimate counterpart, the entire transaction is carried out in the encrypted form.
The smart cards were first used in France and with time, they’ve emerged as the smartest financial tool that can ensure a transaction. Soon it is believed that they will replace the conventional credit cards due to smart technologies and immense memory processing capacity.

Here I am writing a review for one of the best video converter software I have ever tried.

Look & Feel

The software has got very nice look and feel. the way they’ve worked on the buttons and other graphics are simply incredible. One look at the software and we are a fan of it. The Video Preview window, the button to start the conversion, the option for selecting the presets and the button for customizing the presets, etc everything is arranged very neatly and in a proper way. Overall its very easy on the eyes too.

Feature Sets

First of all I will have to write about the extensive file type support they are having. I would say they support almost all possible file types one person would ever use. AVI, MPEG-1,2, MP4, WMV, ASF, 3GP (3GPP), 3G2 (3GPP2), MOV (QT), MKV, FLV, DVD (VOB, IFO), MOD, DAT, M2T (MTS), VRO, HTML5 (WebM, OGV), MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG, AAC, FLAC, Monkey’s Audio, etc to name a few.

It has lots of other feature sets such as capturing any frame, converting an entire dvd or a group of files, converting through command line, sharing online, uploading to psp, adding water mark to the videos etc. Along with these options this video converter do have all those options which are common to almost all the other converters. For example, cropping, increasing brightness etc.

There are lots of predefined presets for converting the videos. These number of presets are large enough to include almost all standard video resolutions, and almost all standard devices such as ipad, ipod touch, iphone, microsoft zune, all android devices, samsung, PSP, Nokia, BlackBerry, etc.

This application has one added advantage of making use of the graphics adapter of our system to speed up the whole conversion process. As of now this feature support only for nvidia powered systems. I hope they will add their support also to the other manufactures’ graphics adapters soon. For now I say I am quite more than just satisfied for these options.

There is also an option to add the converted videos or audios directly to the itunes library using this application.

Overall Verdict

The application developers have done a very good job in my opinion. They have created a masterpiece with almost all the options one could include in a video converter. For now they are providng this tool for free as a 30 day trial version. I hope you download this video converter and check it out.

It been long since I added an article on to this blog entirely by writing which is not based on how to. Anyway here it is and I hope it will be worth reading for you guys.

Data Recovery, is a big issue if your hard disk has sensitive informations. Like the saying its, prevention better than cure. Here you better prevent the data loss by making sure of a updated backup for the original data. so that even i fyou loose the original data you will have the copy.

You can do this back up in several ways:

1. Using Applications such as

• Norton ghost
• Sync Back
• Acronis True image

2. Using RAID

For normal home usage first option is better. So you just have to install an application in your system and do as the manual says. Raid needs higher knowledge about computer and requires some configuration changes in hardwares.

Data Recovery(not the worst case):

If you deleted some files and removed them recycle bin also accidentally, it would be very easy to recover if you just stop using the computer. If you use the computer for a long time after the deletion, it will be very difficult to recover the data. Now The best option is boot into a live cd of either windows, linux, or any custom recovery solution. In that case the recovery wil be very easier and less time consuming.

In windows, you can use lots of applications like recuvva, ontrack easy recovery professional, etc. In this Recuvva is free and the options are very limited. Ontrack is a very professional one but you will have to pay for that application. Like this you will get lots of applications for recovering the data. One thing you have to make sure is, use a external hard disk to save the data. Do not use the same device on which the data recovery is being performed.

Now in linux also there are lots of similar tools. But if you are into linux, it better you ask the support forum for the recommended recovery application. Include the reason, and what kind of files you are trying to recover.

Data Recovery(Worst Case Scenario):

Now if your HardDisk failed and you didn’t have any backups also, then you need to try other options to get the data.

First of all let me point out something in bold and underlined.

If you don’t know what you are doing, you could lose all the data, which would have been recoverable if you didn’t try anything but give it to a professional.

You can find lots of professionals for these by a simple google search. Data recovery is a highly competitive field and there are lots of good companies which give you optimal result. But the prizes will not be cheap. For good services you will have to give good amount of money. But most of the data recovery professionals give you a free consultation. Now by this you will come to know the gravity of the situation.

So only try these kind of things, once you are sure about what you are doing.

My favorite tool is testdisk. Google search it and you will find the package to install. But you will have to try it from linux, ubuntu recommended.

TestDisk have 100s of options and configuration set ups. It will be impractical to list them all. The best part of test disk is, this application will try to find and list the previous partitions and volumes. And if you found that to be correct you can just, try to recover it.

This Wiki Community Page from ubuntu will help if you chose to try this with ubuntu. But before trying you must read through it once or twice, and clear all your doubts before starting.

even if you lost the partition from windows, do try these kind of recovery stuffs from linux only. I recommend it because the options and file system support is more in linux than in windows.