Tech by Victor

Saw a tweet from someone I follow on twitter asking if it was possible to recover a file deleted from her recycle bin and one of the replies she received was "FOREVER GONE!!" I am writing this to tell you that the file isn't indeed 'FOREVER GONE!!'. Infact it has gone nowhere. From my knowledge of the harddisk, files are not erased when they are deleted from the recycle bin, they are only marked by the Operating System as 'to be written over' but not erased. New data will be written over these files when there are no other free space. Recova is one software that I've tried which worked for me, the software enables you to recover files that might have been accidentally deleted from your system. You can download a free version from www.piriform.com/recova/download Another software that have versions for both Windows and Mac users is 'Data Recovery'. Others you may want to try are Panda Recovery, TOKIWA Data Recovery and Undelete Plus.

Word on the mobile street is that Blackberry 10 devices would be released armed with 1.5GHz dual cord processor. This would actually land Blackberry 10 devices on the same speed range with the likes of Samsung Galaxy SII, Sony Xperia S, HTC One S and LG Nitro HD, these devices are in the 4th place in the list of fastest processor ~mobile phone category~. Smartphones in 1st place are LG Optimus 4X HD and HTC One X, which both possess an impressive 1.5GHz Quad core processor. *sighs*

A man walked into a pet shop and was looking at the animals on display. While he was there, another customer walked in and went over to a cage at the side of the shop and took out a monkey. The shopkeeper fits a collar and leash, handed it to the customer, saying, ''That'll be N50,000.'' The customer paid and walked out with his monkey. Startled, the man went over to the shopkeeper and said, ''That was a very expensive monkey. Most of them are only a few hundred naira. Why did it cost so much?'' The shopkeeper answered, ''Ah, that monkey can program in C - very fast, tight code, no bugs, well worth the money.'' The man looked at the monkey in another cage. ''That one's even more expensive - N100,000! What does it do?'' ''Oh, that one's a C++ monkey; it can manage object-oriented programming, Visual C++, even some Java. All the really useful stuff,'' said the shopkeeper. The man

Heard about this term a while back ~about 2 years ago precisely~, when an IT firm that was handling a web design contract of the organisation I was working for came to brief us about their progress. Imagine just being there and nodding having no clue whatsoever and not wanting to appear naive. So I thought I should share the little I know about this term. Search Engine Optimization refers to tweaks and modifications made to a webpage(usually homepage of a website) in order for the page to be easily found by a search engine or someone searching for the site but don't know its address. Optimizing involves editing the content of a webpage ~html and other associated coding~ to includes keywords and other elements detected by web crawlers*, for example adding keyword 'meta tag' to an html document. Search Engine Optimization is usually done to ensure a site is ranked high on various search engines or atleast appears on the first page when you search for a term particula

Just an highlight of various things we do innocently, sometimes out of laziness, that have far reaching effects than we imagine 1. Using a password for multiple accounts If you're like me that's involved in lots of online activities like social networking, online forums, blogging or you just own gadgets that requires a password, chances are that you use a similar password for one or more of your accounts. The bad thing about this is that once someone gets hold of your password then all the accounts you use the password to access will be compromised. 2. Not logging out of a public computer You're checking your mail in a cafe and just when you're about to log out your time expires and locks you out, so you stand up and walk away hoping the next customer would log you out. I don't even need to highlight the damages this could cause you. Also saving your credentials on a public system is not a good idea. 3. Not updating your Antivirus Frequently Countless ha

Even though I have only been developing software "professionally" for around two years, there is a ton of information that I can pass on to fledgling developers and hackers. Learning how to program is just the beginning of learning software development and actually becoming awesome at it. If you are taking computer science or MIS/CIS courses at a university, I can imagine that you are learning technical aspects, system design, programming languages, computer logic, and maybe even a little user interaction design. The problem is that with any technical field, there is almost too much to learn. So, here are the top 5 things that every new developer needs to know to prepare themselves for the "real world" of software development. You can't please everyone all the time. So don't. When it comes to designing and implementing new software and systems, you will inevitably have some system users. Also, you tend to have more than on

Rainmeter A multi-featured desktop customization tool for creating a better looking or atleast geek-like desktop. There's so much you could do with this tool i.e. customizing a calendar , configuring an RSS feeds etc to display on your desktop. VLC media player This is by far the best media player I've come across, highly customizable, flexible and light weighted, users have option of boosting volumw upto 400% and can download skins. I'm yet to come across a video format that can't be played using this media player. And with Windows media player not being included by default in the upcoming Windows 8, all you have to do is download the latest version of the VLC media player and you're good to go. Google Earth This software will fasinate you, but only if you've got a fast internet connection. A friend once told me that you sure could use Google Earth to zoom in on a small goal post ~i believe they call it monkey posts~. Haven't come around finding ou

Adblock is a content filtering add-on that enables a browser to block or eliminate ads(short for advertisement) on webpages which makes browsing sometimes annoying or less interesting. Ads causes distraction and other times slows down the loading of webpages as unwanted images and other contents ~still talking about ads~ are usually downloaded along with requested webpages. The downside of adblock is that it sometimes blocks innocent webpages but this happens on rare occasions. So if you are having problems with a particular webpage loading, you might want to temporarily disable it. Adblock can be installed as add-on any of the following browsers (listed in order of personal favourite); chrome, firefox, opera, safari and lastly ~ the browser used to download every other browser ~ internet explorer.

Users of blackberry devices all around the world are fast abandoning their devices in favor of Apple and Android devices as RIM doesn't seem to meet the ever changing standard of the smartphone and other mobile devices. Studies shows that Blackberry devices accounts for a miserable 1% of all mobile web traffic with Apple representing over 65% and Android having about 20% of the traffic. What this means is that more and more people are making use of Apple and Android devices in place of Blackberry devices. Also Apps developers are getting less eager about developing for the Blackberry 10 OS, as most are crossing over to the Android platform which many consider as the King of the mobile world. As a result there is likely going to be less range of Apps for Blackberry users to choose from or download for their devices. As a matter of fact, RIM plans to borrow some features from Android in order to compete in the mobile market, a user's contact in a blackberry 10 device will b