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. 

Feel free to post your comments about this post.

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