Saturday, June 28th, 2008
at 12:06am
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.
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
at 9:29pm
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:
- First download the latest version of wordpress, here
- Then go here and download XAMPP Lite
- When the download is complete extract it to the root of your hard-drive e.g: C:\
- When the extraction is complete go to C:\xampplite and click on setup_xampp.bat
- Then click on xampp-control and start Apache and Mysql
- Then open up your browser and go to http://localhost/ then choose your preferred language on the left column
- Then click phpMyAdmin from the tools section in the left column
- type: wordpress into the create new database section then select utf8_unicode_ci then click create, that is the XAMPP setup complete now
- Unzip the wordpress folder you downloaded into the folder: C:\xampplite\htdocs
- 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
- Then save the file as wp-config.php in the same folder as wp-config-sample.php
- 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
