Read Your Email on the Go

One of the most powerful email clients available for Symbian devices, ProfiMail, developed by Lonely Cat Games, allows you to read and send your email on the go, without the need of a Desktop PC. The email client is a complete communication solution for Symbian smartphones, which has been designed for businessmen who are using mostly the mail as a means of communication. The interface of the program is simple and offers easy control, as well as many functions that will really ease the work with the emails.

Besides being a standalone email client, ProfiMail works in synchronization with any mail servers, and can be used in conjunction with another email client (Outlook or other). When synchronized, ProfiMail shows the same list of messages as on the mail server. Read more

Yet Another Disc Format?

How much data can you cram onto a CD/DVD sized optical disc? Well, we know CDs manage around 800Mb, DVDs can ramp that up to around 20Gb using both sides and multiple layers, and a two-sided Blu Ray disc manages around 50Gb, but that’s small beer, compared with the new General Electric Holographic Versatile Disc (ugh!) or HVD.

Instead of the reflective pits used on conventional optical discs this uses a ‘microholographic’ process to store data, raising the bar to an impressive 500Gb per disc, enough to store more than 100 DVD movies. Read more

Data recovery experts !

Until now, the computer did not crash, not an important user information is not lost. Short-term problem that the computer’s turn our head outside the main danger comes from people who use computer malicious.

Working against the company’s information to company employees who sell, not like a company’s data base which removes hackers or environments, such as MSN and Facebook malicious people now do not surprise us when we heard, one part of our daily life became. Information stored in digital media with the offense starting to become more digital. Today, 85% of crime by using digital media or digital media is being processed … Read more

USB 3.0 in the Pipeline

Now contain yourself! News that Intel has released the final draft specification for USB 3.0 has been sending ripples of excitement throughout the PC industry. You too will have to come to terms with a whole load of new jargon if you want to stay ahead of the game. Provisionally dubbed ‘SuperSpeed USB’ the big selling point is that data transfer speeds are up to 10 times faster than USB 2.0, which means a whopping 5 Gigabits per second. That’s really fast, quick enough to whizz a DVD from one place to another in just a few seconds and it’s going to make things like data transfer from things like MP3 players, cameras and storage devices virtually instantaneous. Plugs and sockets look superficially similar, and it should be backwards compatible but USB 3.0 sockets have an extra 5 contacts, set behind the front five contacts and these are the ones that carry the SuperSpeed data. Read more

Flash in the Can

Hard on the heels of Hitachi’s 5 terabyte hard drive (see below) comes more data storage news, this time the promise of cheaper and more reliable and longer lasting solid state drives (SSDs). Later this year Samsung are about to start production on 64 and 128Gb SSDs, with 256Gb drives in the pipeline later in the year. The Flash memory modules are mounted inside a metal case that’s the same size and can directly replace standard SATA II type hard drives in laptops, and since there are no moving parts they are not only faster than HDDS but they also out-perform and consume less power than rival first generation SSDs.

Surfing with Onions….

A growing number of people, concerned about personal privacy and security are opting to get off the grid but that’s always been a bit difficult with the Internet. It knows where you are, and what you are doing, but there are ways to become totally anonymous.

One way is to use TOR, or The Onion Router. It’s a network of virtual connections or relays, dotted around the world, operating in complex ‘layers’ (that’s where the Onion bit comes in) that stops you from being identified or tracked when you are online. Ironically much of the development work for TOR was sponsored by the US Naval Research Laboratory but now it’s gone independent, and it is free to use. Read more