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Recover Accidental Deleted Memory Card Files

joyce — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:01:32 +0000

I was glancing through pictures in my camera this morning and found few images which were in internal memory. After moving them to memory card, i checked back to internal memory section and longed to delete those moved pictures. For convenience, i chose delete all. That’s where and when the night mares came. I was relieved after deleting those internal memory pictures, thinking: “Uh… that’s easy! Only one press and all gone”. The night mare is, it’s really “ALL GONE” !! Including pictures in external memory card !!! And it’s lucky that i’m a very calm person (Aquarius!!), what came to mind was “Recover!” So i started my search of files recovering softwares by googling “Recover deleted files in memory card”. Ta-Da… i found Card Recovery 4.0 and downloaded it and started to recover all files. Everything seems pretty smooth and the recovery runs very fast. All the happy going comes to an end when i was being asked to provide the registration key. We users hate this the most. I believe most of us love freeware but of course in the shoes of software company, they need to earn some bucks. But who cares, i still want freeware . So then it goes with my google hunting again and found “PC Inspector Smart Recovery”. The good news is, it’s a freeware, the bad news is, it runs slowly. By the way, i’m recovering a 7 thousand copies of pictures, guess this is what makes it run like snail. Anyways, i really don’t mind it run slowly as long as my precious pictures inside are able to be recovered.

A kind REMINDER here, DO NOT further use your memory card before you recover all your files.

1-2-3 Steps to Perform Recovery:
Using the software is child’s play. The procedure for recovering your photos is:
1. Download and install PC INSPECTOR Smart Recovery
2. Connect your memory card to your computer.
3. Run PC Inspector Smart Recovery.
4. Select the new drive that appeared when you connect your memory card.
5. Leave the format type as JPG. Most camera capture picture in JPG.
6. Select where you’d like to save the recovered photos.
7. Finally, click the Start button and pray.

Good Luck !

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Email Fraud

joyce — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:11:24 +0000

I was checking my email minutes ago, one of the emails subjected “YOUR URGENT HELP IS NEEDED”, from my sis. First thing approached my mind is, another fraud email sample forwarding? Of course, i pressed and read the email. It came to my surprise why has my sis sent such email !! Which it’s very obviously a fraud email sending. Email as follow:

I am contacting you because i know you are the only one i can count on. Something urgent came up, i had to attend to in the Nigeria, so i left without telling anyone, i left 3 days ago.When i came down from the airport i flagged a Cab to take me to the nearest hotel which i paid for before i entered. But to my utmost surprise when i got to the hotel and was about checking in, I noticed my wallet (which contained my passport,ATM card, some money and other valuables) was not with me again.

I talked to the Hotel manager who out of pity saw that i was a foreigner allowed me with the condition that i would pay before he allows me take any of my belongings out when i want to finally leave. I explained to him that i would contact my friends and families to help me.

I am currently very broke and I have no where to go, no where to run to and no one to help me, please i want to ask for your assistance cause there is no one else i can turn to, hope you understand. I would hope and pray you would be considerate enough to help me,Please i would like you to help me with the sum of $2500 to help me get my flight rearrangement and settle my hotel bills so i can get back to the country. I promise will get your money returned as soon as i get back to the country.

Please the money should be sent via western union because thats the only way i can receive money here since i have no access to my account, the money should be sent to me at :

Receiver’s Name : “MY SIS’S NAME”
Receiver’s Address : Ilasamaja
Receiver’s City : Surulere
Receiver’s State : Lagos
Receiver’s Country : Nigeria
Zip Code : 23401
Text Question : Who is your saviour
Text Question Answer : Jesus

As soon as the money has been sent, get back to me with the 10 Digit MTCN Number from western union. Please dont inform anyone since i do not want them to panic, i will be waiting for you to write me. I will really appreciate it if you are able to send the money today, even if you are unable to send the complete $2,500, just send how much you are able to and let me know how much was sent, so i will start paying my bills bit by bit.
I sent you this message because i know i can count on you.

Cheers,
~ Bibi Liew ~

Life In Shanghai…
http://www.bibiliew.com

The mail was sent directly from her yahoo inbox. Imediately i skyped her bout the mail and promptly she sign in into her yahoo mail. She can’t sign in ! Password was changed ! Next step goes to password retrieving. Temporary password was sent to secondary mail box, there she realized that there was already an email of yahoo mail password changed notice. Well, at least she’s able to retrieve her password….. Of course, she checked “sent mail”, 2 emails were sent… by someone else…

What doubted me is, will he or she be able to receive the amount sent ?? Western Union requires receiver’s identification card (or other document proving identity) to receive the amount. The problem is, receiver’s name is my sister’s name, so… how will he or she proves the identity ??

Some advises:

Always clear your cache after closing your browser
Never save your password on your browser
Prevent sending personal details or other important document details through email
Never respond to any email that suspected you and check with sender prior any action
DON’T use email ! … nuh…hahaha kidding ~

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The Swollen Capacitor

joyce — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:55:25 +0000

My desktop called off for a few times the other day. It came to my knowledge that there’s two raws of swollen capacitor, which grew a double size of a normal capacitor, as seen in the picture. It was lucky that the capacitors did not burn and ruin the whole CPU. As most of us understand, it is troublesome to replace a new motherboard, instead, it is better to grab another new desktop. What i did to my motherboard was clean up all the dust (dust do affect a CPU’s operation, sometimes) and leave the casing widely open to allow air flow. This is because when capacitors heat up, the CPU turned off.

Not only that capacitors get swollen, there’s also some leakage of brown liquid from two of those capacitors. Think i’ll only get to change the desktop when the whole CPU totally called off. So in order not to let my desktop overloaded at this condition and has possibility of further collapse, i now switch between laptop and desktop, which makes me crazy searching for files that i stored in different locations in these two different electronics.

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