How many times have you deleted a file by complete accident and could not get it back, gone forever is what you think. Well not exactly!

There is a way of getting back your deleted file just as it was before you deleted it. When a file is stored on a windows computer it is giving a place on a table known as the “file allocation table”, then when you delete a file from your computer it is removed from the file allocation table and so you think it is gone, in one way it is however it is not really, for a while after you delete a file it is still on your computer, you cannot see it but it is still there, when you check to see how much free space you have it tells you how much you should have.

After you delete a file or empty the recycle bin the computer just adds some additional characters to where the file was stored, say a file was called 100110 in your memory well when it is deleted the few characters are put in front of it so the file might look something like this: ###100110 when the computer is scanning through the computer and sees this symbol ### before the 100110 it will know to skip the following sequence of 1’s and 0’s. These files will remain on your computer for a while, but if you are putting something large on your computer the space might be required so your old files with the # symbols will be removed.

So if you want to get a file back your best chances of getting the file back would be shortly after you deleted it. You can do this by using a program called UndeletePlus with UndeletePlus you can bring back the files you deleted.

You can retrieve files you deleted off your camera or computer once you connect it to the computer and scan it with the Undelete program.

Try doing this by making a file such as taking a picture on your phone, delete it then connect it to the computer and scan it with the Undelete program you will see loads of files you deleted some of which have been overwritten these are the files that are to late to be retrieved, but then you will see others saying that they can be retrieved so simply select the file you want to get back and click: start undelete, and within a few seconds your file will be back as good as new.

If you want to get your files to go forever after you delete them you have to use a shredder and it will completly wipe out the file when it is deleted.

How many times have you made changes to your website that might not work that could cause an inconvenience to anybody that is trying to view your website? Well if you are using wordpress you usually edit your website online, and as soon as you save it the changes will take effect on your live website, this can be a nightmare because it could mess up the appearance of your website and cause your visitors to become confused on where everything is.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could simply test these changes before putting them into action on the live web for everyone to see. Well now you can, i was looking around the internet a few days ago and found out a way of installing wordpress locally on your own computer, this means you can make as many changes as you want to your website and it will not effect your live website, therefore making the ease of visitors to your site more comfortable, then when you are ready you can simply upload your changes to your live website.

Ok so in order to setup wordpress locally on your computer this is what you have to do:

1. First download the latest version of wordpress, here
2. Then go here and download XAMPP Lite
3. When the download is complete extract it to the root of your hard-drive e.g: C:\
4. When the extraction is complete go to C:\xampplite and click on setup_xampp.bat
5. Then click on xampp-control and start Apache and Mysql
6. Then open up your browser and go to http://localhost/ then choose your preferred language on the left column
7. Then click phpMyAdmin from the tools section in the left column
8. type: wordpress into the create new database section then select utf8_unicode_ci then click create, that is the XAMPP setup complete now
9. Unzip the wordpress folder you downloaded into the folder: C:\xampplite\htdocs
10. Then browse to the folder wordpress in C:\xampplite\htdocs then you should see a file called wp-config-sample.php open it up in a text editor such as notepad or textpad then replace the default values with these:
    

    // ** MySQL settings ** //
    define(’DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’); // The name of the database
    define(’DB_USER’, ‘root’); // Your MySQL username
    define(’DB_PASSWORD’, ”); // …and password (needs to be empty, just for local install)
    define(’DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value

11. Then save the file as wp-config.php in the same folder as wp-config-sample.php
12. Then open your browser and type in http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php
    Then follow the instructions and that’s it enjoy!

Have a look at the video below, i made it to show you how to do the above in case you had trouble doing it, i added some music so it wont seem so long!

Original instructions source: Geeksaresexy

This site soon will be here 3 months on the 12th of july that means that i am going to have to renew my hosting account, the reason i only paid for 3 months of hosting was so that i could test out the service that this provider is offering. I am currently using GoDaddy for my hosting but i think the server is a bit slow, i have been looking around for slightly faster servers at good prices and have found some on Lunarpages, Dreamhost and Webair

My next purchase of hosting will be for 2 years, i decided to go for 2 years because you get bigger discounts and more services for the longer you buy the hosting for. Once this new hosting is faster i will be happy, of course it has got to have support for php5 because this current theme requires it.

The prices on the 3 different Web hosting services are as follows:

Lunarpages:

• 24 Months
• php5
• Also $775 of bonus products (Most likely wont use these, nice to have though!)
• $6.95/Mo
• Storage: 1,500 GB
• Bandwidth: 15,000 GB/Mo
• Subtotal $166.80
• By using the promotion code “spring” i can save $48
• Total: $118.80 (€76.55)

Dreamhost:

• 24 Months
• php5
• Storage: 500 Gb
• Bandwidth: 5 TB/Mo
• For signing up for 2 years you get a 18% discount!
• $8.95/Mo
• Total: $214.80 (€138.40)

Webair:

• 24 Months
• php5
• Storage 1,000 GB
• Bandwidth: 5 TB/Mo
• For signing up for 2 years  you get a 26% discount!
• $8.05/Mo
• Total: $193.20 (€124.49)

So those are the 3 hosting providers that i have been looking at and i have to say the service looks great. The only thing i find hard to believe is the amount of storage & bandwidth you get, i suppose i have roughly that amount with my current supplier. Im still not sure which one i am going to go with, i have to take into account that with Lunarpages i would be using a discount coupon but when you go to renew the price will go up and you cannot use a coupon more than once.

I think that i will most likely either go for Dreamhost or Webair, yeah they cost a little more but they have fantastic service response time and with the quotes i got for them they will be the same price everytime i go to renew, no nasty higher prices.

I was considering going for some local hosting here in Ireland, but to be honest who in there right mind would pay for the high prices, and also they give you very little storage space, a few hundred MB of storage for a ridiclous price. Its cheaper to just buy away from home.

It seems that i am forever in work these days. I never have any time to myself. Since i got transferred over to a different branch about a month ago i have been working non stop!

I had intended to get up late today and just relax for the day, but then my phone rang and i was asked to come to work because they were short staffed, so i said i would go in because i need the money since i am going away to Galway at the end of this month.

But the good news is i am off work Monday and Tuesday of this week, so plenty of time for what i want to do.

Well as you can see i have recently changed the complete appearance of this website. I think that it was about time because everything kind of looked all over the place. This new theme (Wicketpixie) i have was created by Chris Pirillo and can be found here. This theme has everything in it, it allows all of my different accounts that i am signed up into to be all displayed on the one page, My Site!

When you get this theme it has all of Chris’s content in it such as live video’s and his Flickr and youtube account. It is a very easy process to change all this to your own content 

I have just recently signed up to Flickr and you can see all my pictures here.

There is one problem that everyone was having with this theme when it came out and that was that it would not display properly on Internet Explorer 7, like come on it works perfectly on every other browser such as firefox and safari. Considering that this theme is FREE to everyone, what you get is unbelievable. This theme could just have easily been made for purchase only!

Back to the problem with IE7 the reason it is not displaying properly is because this theme is still in development. This theme has been released early so that people can get the feel of it and if they like it they can donate for the further development of it.

I have made some CSS up to help fix the problem of the appearance of this blog in IE7, this CSS will align the navigation and search bar at top back to where they should be, the code is as follows:

#nav {

 

float:left;

position:absolute;

left:0%;

top:224px;

 

}

 

#topbar {

float:left;

position:absolute;

left:0%;

}

 

#mid {

padding: 30px 0 0 0;

 

}

 

 

You can just paste the above CSS code into the IE7.css file in the CSS folder of wicketpixe or download this file and replace it with the original.

Download Wicketpixie Theme Here