MobileTrans – A secure phone-to-phone transfer solution (Sponsored)

Wondershare mobiletrans phone transfer

If you have just purchased a new phone and feel daunted by the task of transferring data from your old phone, Wondershare MobileTrans secure phone-to-phone transfer solution could be a lifesaver. Trusted by more than 500,000 users worldwide, the MobileTrans program can help you transfer WhatsApp data, photos, apps, messages, videos, and more between your new and old phone, no matter if you’ve switched from Android to iPhone or vice versa, or kept faithful to the same operating system. WhatsApp Data Transfer The software allows users to migrate WhatsApp data easily from iPhone to Android and vice versa including messages, stickers, media such as photos, videos, and audio messages, as well as documentation, locations, emojis, and contacts. It’s also possible to restore WhatsApp backups from Google Drive to an iPhone. MobileTrans also works with Whatsapp Business Transfer and GBWhatsApp, as well as other messaging apps such as LINE. Kik and […]

WinX DVD Ripper Platinum supports Level-3 hardware acceleration (Sponsored)

Winx DVD Ripper Platinum

While it’s possible to tip DVDs without compression, doing so takes a lot of storage space, so most people will transcode DVD to MP4 or other video formats. One program that can help is WinX DVD Ripper that will convert an ISO image or rip a DVD to MP4 with H.264 or HEVC codec, AVI, WMV, FLV, MOV, MPEG, etc…, to save the file a hard drive or NAS, and let you watch it on a computer, HDTV, Android, iPhone, iPad, Xbox One S, PS4/5, etc… WinX DVD Ripper is a free program that works in Windows 10/11 or Mac OS, with a premium version called WinX DVD Ripper Platinum that relies on Level-3 hardware acceleration leveraging NVIDIA, AMD, or Intel GPU acceleration to slash encoding time, as well as support recovery for scratch optical media, 99-title DVDs, and provide editing features. If you own a small collection of DVDs, […]

Wondershare Repairit Online, a free online video repair tool (Sponsored)

Online Video Repair Tool

Videos may get corrupted due to issues during download, transfer to PC, or corrupted storage. But if that happens to you, don’t despair as there are tools to repair videos such as Wondershare Repairit Online. The free online video repair tool allows you to simply upload one of your damaged videos to the website, no signup required, and after processing, you’ll be able to download the repaired video directly from the website. The screenshot below shows a video uploaded anonymously from the latest Firefox browser in Ubuntu 20.04, so it really works with any browser and OS, and I did not need to provide any information like email or name. Repairit Online can repair damage to the video containers (metadata, index, header, parameters, etc.), quality issues (black screen, stuttering, out of sync audio), and various Windows video error codes (0xc00d36c, 0xc1010103, 0xc10100aa, etc..). Beyond videos stored on your computer, Repairit […]

EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard easily recovers lost files on Windows and Mac OS (Sponsored)

EaseUS data recovery software preview

You should always make regular backups of your important files, but sometimes bad things happen before you had the chance to make a backup, or maybe your backup is corrupted. Luckily, there are ways to recover from unexpected data loss from deletion, formatting the wrong drive, flashing firmware to the wrong card, etc… but different recovery tools have varying success rates, and EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard may help you recover your lost data (i.e. cat photos) in Windows and Mac OS with a higher success rate than competitors. EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard software offers recovery methods for common data loss scenarios: Lost Data Recovery – EaseUS data recovery software supports deleted data recovery in case of file/folder deletion or emptying the trash bin. Partition Recovery – The program can also performing partition recovery in case it gets lost, deleted, RAW, and inaccessible. Formatted File Recovery – If you’d inadvertently formatted […]

Lnav Log Files Navigator Helps You Analyze Log Files in a Mac OS or Linux Terminal

lnav log files navigator

If you have a problem with your computer, you may have to go through log files, or as a software engineer, you may be looking for clues about a bug in a debug or error log. It can be done in any text editor, but there may be a better way thanks to lnav Log Files Navigator that allows checking those files more easily and efficiently in a Mac OS or Linux terminal. The following log files are supported by default even if they are compressed with gzip or bzip2: Common Web Access Log format CUPS page_log Syslog Glog VMware ESXi/vCenter Logs dpkg.log uWSGI “Generic” – Any message that starts with a timestamp Strace lnav is open-source software released under a BSD-2 clause in Github. It’s not new at all as some commits were made in January 2010, but it’s new to me, and hopefully to some of you as […]

Sponsored: Recoverit 8.0 Data Recovery Software Works on Windows & Mac OS

Recoverit 8.0 Recovered Photo Preview

You should always backup your data as it may become lost or corrupted due to hardware failure, user’s mistakes, or bad actors. However, if your data appears to be truly lost, and backup is not available, it’s possible to use data recovery software such as Wondershare  Recoverit Data Recovery available for Windows and Mac OS. The program will scan your computer or specific folder/storage device to locate any kind of deleted or corrupted files and ask you which files or/and folders to retrieve. This works on drives that have been corrupted due to a crash or power failure, formatted by mistake, and so on and the program can handle both internal and external drives. Wondershare has recently released Recoverit 8.0 version with various new features and improvements: Simpler and more user-friendly interface – Recoverit 8.0 comes with a simpler and more user-friendly design as shown above. The software will show […]

Intel Neural Compute Stick 2 with Myriad X VPU Finally Announced

Intel Neural Compute Stick 2

Intel Neural Compute Stick was first introduced in early 2017 as a USB compute that allows AI inference at the edge with low power consumption. The stick is based on Myriad Movidius 2 VPU (Vision Processing Unit), and was found to significantly improve inference performance on Raspberry Pi 3 board over a proprietary GPU accelerated solution. However, a little later last year, Intel also announced Movidius Myriad X VPU with claims of up to 10 times DNN performance over Myriad 2 VPU. But so far, we would only see solutions launched with the latter, and it looks like Intel is finally ready to bring Myriad X VPU to the market with the company announcing Intel Neural Compute Stick 2 at Intel’s artificial intelligence (AI) developer conference in Beijing taking place on November 14 and 15. Intel NCS 2 (Neural Compute Stick 2) specifications: Processor – Intel Movidius Myriad X Vision Processing […]

Droplet Computing Aims to Run Apps on any Device (Regardless of the Operating System)

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The most popular apps are normally ported to all commonly used operating systems such Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Android and iOS, but apps will a lower user base or older apps may not to ported to all operating systems due to the development time / costs involved. In order to solve this issue, UK based Droplet Computing has introduced Droplet Universal, a patent-pending application container solution that decouples applications from the operating system, and enables applications to run on any device, on- or offline. The solution relies on WebAssembly, and allows you to run the app – placed in a low footprint universal container – from a web browser with Chrome v60 (v62 for Android), Firefox v52, Safari v11, and Edge v16 or greater currently supported. Arm and x86 platform are supported, although it’s not yet possible to run Arm apps on x86 with Droplet Universal. It’s hard to know […]

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