How to recover damaged Microsoft Office Word, Excel or PowerPoint files

If you have corupted Microsoft Office Word, Excel or PowerPoint file, the usual file recovery software won't help you much. That means you need a specialized software that won't damage the files.

• Restore damaged or corrupt MS Word documents

To restore MS Word files you need special tool. There is an tool that is easy to use that can repair files like that.

You can recover .doc and .docx files with Stellar Phoenix Word Repair, it will recover your file without making changes in the text, fonts, links, images...

There are 3 options for repair: Simple repair, Advance repair and raw recovery. 

Simple repair brings back .doc and .docx files with small corruption, Advance repair fixs seriously corrupted .doc files and Raw recovery is for heavily corrupted files (it's in RAW text or machine readable format)

STEPS:

1. Select the corrupted Word file by clicking on 'Add File' icon on the 'File' ribbon.              
              
2. Click on the 'Save' icon in the 'File' ribbon. For advanced option, select 'Advance Repair'.

• Restore damaged or corrupt MS Excel documents

For .xls and .xlsx documents you can use Stellar Phoenix Excel Repair. This tools saves you lots of time. Follow the steps and recover the file without changing the tables, cells charts, images...

The steps to repair MS Excel files are the same like the steps for Word documents.

After the scan and repair you will get log report for further analysis.

• Restore damaged or corrupt MS PowerPoint documents

We use PowerPoint to make different kind of presentations for work, school or other activities. Many times all the hard work on presentation can be gone because the files gets corrupted. Use Stellar Phoenix PowerPoint repair and save your work.

With this tools you can repair .ppt, .pptx and .pptm files. Use it and I'm sure you won't be sorry about that.

The steps are the sames as the steps for Word and Excel documents.

If your file is seriously damaged use the option for RAW recovery. This tool repairs the macro-enabled PowerPoint presentations, too.

Recomend this tool to all your friends who have problems with corrupted MS Office files. 

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source: FOSSBYTES

KickassTorrents is back!

For those who haven't heard or don't know about KickassTorrents(shortened KAT), I will write a small explanation.
KAT was a website that provided a directory for torent files and magnet links to facilitate peer-to-peer file sharing using BitTorrent protocol. It was founded in 2008. In November 2014 KAT was the most visited BitTorrent directory in the world, but this it was shut down on 20 July 2016, when the domain was seized by the US goverment.


Millions of people were using KAT and when it was shut down, they have lost their favourite torrent site. The site had lots of active admins, moderators and members.
Many fake proxies were made, which helped to other websites to gain glory. They claimed that they are new KickassTorrents and they looked just like the old website.
After the shutdown, several KAT-crew members grouped to build a community website. The name of the site was KAT.cr, but they didn't offer any torrent links.

These days KAT-crew launched new torrent site KATcr.co that looks identical to the previous site. The website is back with clean user database. Soon the website will be filled with fresh content.

"The majority of our origina; Staff, Admins and Moderation team joined us after Kat.cr went down - which is something we're very proud of. This shows the loyalty, dediction and real love for KAT that we all share," said the KATcr.

According to the KATcr crew, the site was rebuilt and the safe elements were kept, to keep the members safe.

"In order to keep our members safe we chose to rebuild and keep only safe elements. Despite the fact that a rebuild took longer, the safety of our community comes first," they said.

Because of the huge amount of users who are trying to open KATcr.co, you might not load it or you will, but very slowly.

Will the new site regain the old glory, tell us your opinions in the comments below.

source: FOSSBYTES and  torrentfreak

Turn on visual desktop notifications in Windows 7,Windows 8 and Windows 10

Did you know that there are options in Windows 7,8 and 10 operating system, to turn on visual notifications on the desktop when sound is played?

Windows operating system diplays different sounds for different kind of notifications, like sound notification for messages on your account on social networks, sound for errors and many different things.
If you are not in front of your computer you might not hear the notification and you can easily be late for something important. 

You can turn on the visual notifications in the Ease of access center in Windows.

How to turn on these settings?

 1. Open the start menu and search for Ease of access center
 2. Open Ease of access center

 3. Find and click on Use text or visual alternatives for sounds

 

 4. Now, tick the checkbox for Turn on visual notifications for sounds

 5. Then select Flash Desktop(it's under Choose visual warning)

 6. To save the settings click Apply

Test the flash desktop notification by activating the sticky keys. You can do that by pressing the Shift key five times in a row and you will see a flash on your screen. The flash screen will aprear for all other system sounds.

To reset this option, untick the Turn on visual notifications for sounds 

If you don't like the flash notifications, you can enable text captions for sounds.To

enable this, tick the checkbox for Turn on text captions for spoken dialog.

Post your opinions in the comments bellow.

source: FOSSBYTES

Windows tools that will help you to lock your keyboard and mouse

Many times when we move away from our computer someone else might search our stuff or some small kids could press some commands and make problems on our computer.

I had the experience with small kids. Once they were visiting me with their parents while I was in front of my computer. I moved away and when I came back, they've deleted some of the files, moved their order and more stuff. I was angry, but I did not tell them anything. After that I searched for tools to lock my keyboard and mouse. I found some usefull ones. Now my computer will be safe, at least they can do is to break my mouse or keyboard.

Here are 3 of them:

1. KeyboardLock

You don't have to install this app. Just download it, open the downloaded package and then double click on the .exe file. 
After you open it, press run. A window with password will pop up. The password by default is cake. You can change it in anything you want. After you type the password you want press start, type the password again and the keyboard and mouse are locked.
You can move the cursor in locked mode, but you can't select or do anything.
If you want to unlock them, type the same password correctly again and the mouse and keyboard will be unlocked.

Note that keyboardLock allows the Ctrl+Alt+Delete command, so someone who knows that can acess Windows Task manager and swith to open windows.


2. Child Lock

An icon in the systray is created by Child Lock at start-up, which has four buttons displayed in the main window. If you want to automatically lock the application, click Auto Lock, if it hasn’t been active in the last 10 minutes. Double-click the tray icon of Child Lock and click Cancel in the main window, if you wish to cancel this task.

Click Lock to block the keyboard and mouse immediately or press Shift+Alt+End. While they are locked, any key press or mouse click will turn the mouse pointer into the prohibited sign.

Click Allow Only to allow only a few keys to be pressed: Space, PageUp and PageDown, or Click Block Win Ctrl to block only control keys, i.e. Ctrl, Alt and Win key. This mode starts a few seconds after clicking its button to give you time to choose a window to limit the buttons inside it. The mouse pointer cannot be moved in this mode.

You can activate the Shift+Alt+Home key combination to unlock the keyboard and mouse. In the main app window, click Options to review the hotkeys for locking and unlocking, if you forget them. It’s not possible to change them.

Note that Child Lock allows the Ctrl+Alt+Delete command, so someone who knows that can acess Windows Task manager and swith to open windows.

3. BlueLife KeyFreeze

Since BlueLife KeyFreeze isn’t enclosed in a setup kit, you can double-click the .exe file from the downloaded package to run the program. It gets integrated into the systray.

Right-click the tray icon to lock the keyboard and mouse, and choose Lock All Keys or press Ctrl + Alt + F. There’s a small interruption before locking, during which you can cancel the task.

You can lock only the keyboard or the mouse (right-click the tray icon and choose Lock Keyboard or Lock Mouse).

Press Ctrl + Alt + F to unlock the keyboard and mouse. If you want to make changes to this combination (Ctrl + Alt + any letter or number), right-click the tray icon, go to Options, click the menu next to Hotkey for lock/unlock: and select the preferred combo. You can also block mouse movement (clear the Allow mouse movement box) or Hide mouse pointer (tick this box). Once you’re done, click Apply Options to commit alterations.

Note that BlueLife KeyFreeze also allows the Ctrl+Alt+Delete command.

Note: This can't stop the others to press the power button and switch off your computer and then log in again to acces your files.

Tell us about your experiences in the comments below.

source: TECHWORM

After Galaxy Note 7 explosions, now Samsung's washing machines exploded

One of the best smartphone makers, Samsung, is having a very bad time. We heard about a phone that exploded in a car and the car started to burn. Another one exploded while it was charging and many other cases with the same problem.

After all those incidents with Galaxy Note 7 phones that exploded because of their battery, now Samsung's washing machines in the U.S. exploded.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has issued a warning to owners in regards to certain top-loading Samsung washing machines after receiving few complaints about the machines exploding.

More than a month after the federal class-action lawsuit was filed by the customers claiming their machines exploded during use, the warning was finally released on Thursday.

In a statement on their website, CPSC said it is “actively and cooperatively working with Samsung to address safety issues related to certain top-load washing machines made between March 2011 and April 2016.”

While the lawsuit did not specify which models are potentially dangerous, it alleged that there were at least 11.

“It was the loudest sound. It sounded like a bomb went off in my ear,” said Melissa Thaxton, one of the plaintiffs in the class action lawsuit. “There were wires, nuts, the cover actually was laying on the floor. I just remember covering my head and leaning towards my son and just screaming this scream that I didn’t even know I could scream.”

The explosions made big damages to the surroundings around them. Glass and other metal parts from the washing machines were being shot across the garages and rooms.

In a statement released by Samsung, it said, “We are in active discussions with the CPSC to address potential safety issues related to certain top-load washing machines manufactured between March 2011 and April 2016. In rare cases, affected units may experience abnormal vibrations that could pose a risk of personal injury or property damage when washing bedding, bulky or water-resistant items."

Samsung is recommending that consumers with affected models use the lower speed delicate cycle when washing bedding, bulky or water-resistant materials. There have been no reported incidents when using this cycle. It is important to note that Samsung customers have completed hundreds of millions of loads without incident since 2011.

With accidents like these Samsung is loosing it's market value. Last month they lost more than $26 billion.

source: TECHWORM

What exactly is deja vu?

Deja vu is a phenomenon that everyone of us have experienced, that creepy feeling when you enter a room in a new situation and you tell yourself:

"I've been here before. Here, everything is familiar to me".

It turns out that we can provoke forms of deja vu of subjects in experiments. Because of that there is a theory that tells us that deja vu simply cause fragments of memories that we've already stored somewhere in the brain, and they can be awaked with entering a new environment that is similar on something that we've already experienced.

Because of that we don't have to call on parallel universes, we don't have to call multiverse to explain the phenomenon of déjà vu.

Again, there is another question:

Would it be ever possible on any scale to turn between different universes?

And the answer is actually unclear.

Physicists believe, for example, that somewhere there really is a multiverse that exists even in our living room.

We are waves, vibration waves given from function. These waves vibrate, then divided into portions over time.


You can see more in the video below.

Watch videos on YouTube without using internet with the new app YouTube Go

Everyone uses YouTube-the most famous app for music, videos and films. With the new app YouTube Go you can download and watch videos with slow internet speed.

This is very usefull for the users with slow internet speed and also for all others.

This app was created most because of the very slow internet speed in India. Many people in India use YouTube to watch videos and listen music, but when they tap on the play button the videos doesn't want to load because they have 2G internet.

That's the main reason why YouTube created this new app.

In 2014, YouTube launched the app YouTube Offline, few months after that they made the new Smart Offline.

With Smart Offline you can watch the video that you want with tapping on the offline icon at any time of the day. You can find your videos in the "Saved Tab" under your account.

YouTube Go allows the users to save videos for offline viewing, giving options over quality and file size so it's clear how much data a download will use. The users of this app can use it for local sharing with other users nearby without using any data. YouTube Go build upon the Smart Offline feature that YouTube launched first in India, this year.

Indian users can sing up now to test YouTube Go, but we still don't know when the app will be launched in the country or anywhere else in the world.

source: YouTube Go