Thanks to GIZMO again, you can Get EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard worth $69.95 for Free. This is a great tool (much more than a normal un-delete tool) which can help you recover data lost due to reasons like formatting, partition damage, improper shutdown and unknown reasons too.

Advanced data recovery software to do format recovery and recover deleted files emptied from Recycle Bin or lost data due to partition loss or damage, software crash, virus infection, unexpected shutdown or any other unknown reasons. It will do an amazing job when the data loss disaster strikes, especially when you want to recover data from formatted drive. Data Recovery Wizard supports hardware RAID and hard drive, USB drive, SD card, memory card, etc.

FEATURES

• Recover deleted or lost files emptied from the Recycle Bin.
• File recovery after accidental format, even if you have reinstalled Windows.
• Disk recovery after a hard disk crash.
• Get back files after a partitioning error.
• Get data back from RAW hard drives.
• Recover office document, photo, image, video, music, email, etc.
• Recover from hard drive, USB drive, memory card, memory stick, camera card, Zip, floppy disk or other storage media.
• Support FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS/NTFS5 file systems.
  Windows 2000/XP/2003/VISTA.
• Bootable media based on WinPE.
• High quality of file recovery.

The offer runs for 24 hours from 12.01 AM Thursday 12 November, 2009 USA Pacific Daylight Time.

How to get Data Recovery Wizard for free

1. Once the offer starts on November 12 you can download the product for 24 hours using the link below:
http://download.techsupportalert.com/DRW443.zip (5.86MB)

2. Unpack the archive DRW433.zip to a folder and then run the program DRWSetup.exe from that folder to install the product. The program is complete; it does not need a license number in order to be installed.

If you need to go through a comprehensive review, then navigate to the URL below.

http://www.howtogeek.com/reviews/easeus-data-recovery-wizard/

Many of you must have encountered problems with video formats not being compatible either to your portable player or media player and hence you cant transfer it from one media to another. For doing that you normally need a video format converter. There are rarely some good converters which can convert any format to another ( paid ones included). Handbrake is one of those good converters and that too without a price tag.

HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.

Supported Sources:

• Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (unencrypted–protection methods including CSS are not supported internally and must be handled externally with third-party software and libraries), and some .VOB and .TS files
• Most any multimedia file it can get libavformat to read and libavcodec to decode.

Outputs:

• File format: MP4 and MKV
• Video: MPEG-4, H.264, or Theora (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer/rate encoding)
• Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 and DTS pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks)

Misc features:

• Chapter selection
• Basic subtitle support (burned into the picture)
• Integrated bitrate calculator
• Picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling
• Grayscale encoding

For those of you, who are not comfortable with different settings, there are many presets available (on right side column) which help you to choose settings depending on your requirement ( whether you need it for IPhone, TV ,IPod, Animation etc).

Give it a try and Let me know the feedback too. Also, tell me if you use some other tool for converting your videos.

[Download Handbrake]

Advanced SystemCare PRO (formerly known as Advanced WindowsCare Professional) is a Windows system utility developed by  Iobit which provides an always-on, automated, all-in-one PC Healthcare Service with anti-spyware, privacy protection, performance tune-ups, and system cleaning capabilities.

IObit is offering a free giveaway will be available within 24 hours randomly from November 20 to 27 as a ThanksGiving gift. The idea of random 24 hours between a week is a new one making you check the webpage everytime now and then to grab it for free.

HOW TO GRAB IT FOR FREE

1. Visit this promo page “frequently” between 20 November to 27 November, 2009. If the offer is still to be “Live”, then the page will show message as shown below.

Just check it whenever you feel like between Nov. 20 to Nov 27.

Its time to announce Winners of three (3) licenses of Audials one and three (3) licenses of Radiotracker worth $300 giveaway. Thank you everyone for participating. The winners are listed below. First three guys (S.No – 1,2,3) in the list will be getting license of Audials one and Rest 3 (S. NO- 4,5,6) will be getting the Radiotracker license.

1. Murphy
2. tugra
3. ripy
4. imaloke
5. greatarablion
6. OMNAMONARAYANA

Please check your spam/junk folder if you do not recieve a email from me in next 24-48 hours. Hope you will enjoy the free licenses.

After the freebies, its turn for learning something. Today i will talk about something simple to do but very effective if you want to encrypt and password protect your sensitive files and folders. Many of you use Winrar for normal day to day compression of files & folders.

Using Winrar you can  encrypt and password protect your files & folders in a single click. The process is too simple and may be many of you may already be knowing this. So here’s how to do this.

Do you know some other ways to do it? Please let me know by commenting below

1. Select the Folder or the file you want to password protect. Just right click on it and select “Add to archive“.

2. Now in the window that opens, just navigate to “Advanced”  and in that click on “Set password“.

3. Now you can set the password as per your need. If you want more security, you should just check the option to “encrypt file names” too. This will make even the file names encrypted making your files and folders more secure.

As far as this encryption and password safety is concerned, its too difficult to break it anyway. You can not open it until you use the correct password. If you forgot the password , then in no way the file or folder can be opened. Just a remote possibility if you used a dictionary word as password, then may be by using a dictionary brute force hack, you can get it otherwise not.

Its freebies raining again and again. You can  Download 1 Year McAfee VirusScan Plus 2010 With SiteAdvisor for Free thanks to a promo ( by Mcafee and VMware) and Blogger . Mcafee Virus scan along with Site Advisor protects your computer from virus, trojans, malicious attacks phishing etc.

Some of the Features that are offered along with it are :

HOW TO GET IT FREE FOR 1 YEAR

1. Visit the promo page (copy and paste the URL in your browser).

http://us.mcafee.com/en-us/affiliates/vmware/landingpages/16288.asp?cid=48523

2. On the page, you will find a “download trial” button for 12 months.

3. You need to create a mcafee account to download it. Remember the account details as that will be used while activating the product.

4. Install it and enjoy great virus protection for 12 months.

Those of you who work on Laptops are well aware of the importance of Batteries of your laptop. You need to take proper care of them so that battery life is extended and its available when you require it for its full time.

There are many manual ways by which you can extend the battery life but what if a software tool can monitor your laptop battery and manage it so that you are well aware of when to charge or do a full discharge of the battery and many more things associated with it. And that too for FREE.

BatteryCare is a such a tool which lets you optimize the usage and performance of the modern laptop’s battery by monitoring it all time. Battery’s discharge cycles is monitored by it which helps to extend its lifetime.

The status screen of battery care gives you the amount of battery remaining  along with the number of discharge cycles the battery have and its present status too. It also displays CPU temperature (You should be logged in as administrator for this display to be visible).

When the full number of discharges for the battery are complete it will ask you do calibrate the battery by doing a full discharge.

It also lets you some between different power plans or let it choose automatically. A tray icon sits quietly in your taskbar monitoring and managing your battery.

Its a great tool to have if you work on a laptop. Give it a try and leave your feedback below.

[Download Battery Care]

Just a few days back, i wrote a review of Audials one version 4 and i told everyone that I will be giving away Three (3) licenses of Audials one and three (3) licenses of Radiotracker  worth $300 to subscribers of Avinashtech. So here comes the giveaway.

The rules are pretty simple for this giveaway. Just a note, if you prefer one of the applications above the other (Radiotracker or Audials one), you should indicate that in your comment below.

HOW TO TAKE PART IN LUCKY DRAW

For being eligible to participate in contest/draw, you need to do the following:

1. Subscribe to Avinashtech by entering your email address in the subscribe box on right sidebar of the blog or by clicking this link.. Do remember to verify your email address when you get the verification email from Feedburner.
2. After that , you need to leave a comment on this post downunder.

Winner will be chosen randomly after 5-6 days . You can ask your friends too to participate here.

Many of you must be aware of the fact that there are people, organizations all over the world who try to watch what you do when you are online.  Whether you are downloading something, browsing something someone is trying to find that out. These include anti P2P organisations (like RIAA, MPAA) , spyware creators, unscrupulous advertisers, and just many other people trying to look at what you and your computer is doing.

PeerBlock is one such tool which helps you to hide identity of your computer and you too by blocking a extensive range of IP addresses related to these unwanted sources.

PeerBlock lets you control who your computer “talks to” on the Internet.  By selecting appropriate lists of “known bad” computers, you can block communication with advertising or spyware oriented servers, computers monitoring your p2p activities, computers which have been “hacked”, even entire countries!  They can’t get in to your computer, and your computer won’t try to send them anything either.

PeerBlock basically works on the concept of “IP Blocker“. Whenever your computer connects to outside, Peer Block compares the IP address of the connection source IP to its extensive IP bad list. If the IP is matched with its database, then it blocks the IP and no connection is possible later on with that IP.

The IP bad list database is constantly being updated and you can configure Peerblock about the way and frequency with which it updates the IP database.

This update makes you and your computer safe from unwanted people and organizations to peep in your system. Also, if you are one of those guys who downloads too much from Torrents etc., then this tool is a must. Above all, its free and open source.

[Download PeerBlock]

Some of you may remember i did a review of Audials one few months back. If you are a music & movies freak and love to collect them or buy them for yourself, then Audials may be the perfect tool for you. A new version of Audials (Ver 4) is released now. Audials let you record web, Web radio , legally get free music, videos, podcasts and much more.

Here is what Audial’s website describes itself as :

The best option to get free music, videos, films and podcasts. Amasses a media collection in a matter of seconds and records from the largest selection of Internet radio stations and the best video portals. The universal recorder records everything. 100 playback formats for all of your portable and at home playback devices. Your existing music collection will be freed from copy protection without sacrificing quality and will automatically be augmented with ID3 tags, album artwork and song lyrics. Media management, plus lots of extras.

If you read it above, you will find it also includes a DRM protection remover tool making your music free from restrictions without any loss in quality. Audials one has a extensive menu consisting of Radio, Search, Wish list, Web, Podcast and Converter.

On radio tab, you can start searching for web radio by typing the keyword and it displays lists of online radios almost instantaneously. You can search radio stations based on Genre too just using its default options. After that you can start playing the radio station of your choice. And you can just click on “start recording” button to start recording the music.

I will be giving away Three (3) licenses of Audials one and three (3) licenses of Radiotracker  worth $300 to subscribers of Avinashtech in a giveaway in 2-3 days. If you want to take part in that give away, then stay tuned to Avinashtech.

You can even customise the recording settings and for how much time or tracks you want to record. AudialsOne helps you record films you watched on internet streams. Audials network lets you find and record customized music faster than ever before as it keeps track of radios across the web and songs being played over them.

AudialsOne includes a universal converter for every file format for PCs, cell phones, iPods, as well as other portable devices letting you have your music in the format you need it and you can directly transfer it to your device.

It even handles problems arising from DRM copy protection on music, movie and audio book files.

It also lets you organise the files and burn them to CD/DVDs or transfer to a portable device like IPod etc.

You can even use this to generate Ringtones for your mobile / cell phone. Overall, this is a complete product.

Just in case, If you dont need too much functionality and need to just record & listen to online radio, then Radiotracker (one of the components of Audials) can be great tool for you.

Only Radiotracker can simultaneously monitor many thousands of online radio stations via the users’ Audials network and finds specified radio stations within the shortest amount of time possible to automatically record targeted music.

Radiotracker is the only software on the planet that records music in the music store quality you desire. And only Radiotracker can automatically record songs from all broadcasting radio stations without any commercials or talk.

If you love music , you wont regret using them.