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Five Best Disk Defragmentation Tools

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Defragmenting your hard drive regularly is an important part of regular hard drive maintenance, and the best tools can defrag your drive regularly or on demand when your games start to slow down or you have trouble loading up large files. The trouble is that there are so many defragging tools that it can be difficult to choose. This week we're going to look at five of the best, based on your nominations.

Best Disk Defragmentation Tool?

Keeping your hard drive in working order doesn't take much maintenance, but making sure you take the time to defragment it from time to time is… Read…

Earlier in the week we asked you which tools you used to defragment your hard drive. You weighed in with more suggestions than we could possibly highlight, but here's a look at the top five.

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Most Popular Disk Defragmentation Tool: Defraggler

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The poll has closed, and the winner has been decided. Head over to the Hive Five Followup post to find out who won and by how much!

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Defraggler (Free)

Defraggler is unique in that it allows you to defragment your entire drive, or specific files or folders (fantastic if you want to defrag all of your large videos, or all of your save game files.) The utility also supports "quick defrag," which can speed up your drive and do get a lot of work done without the time required to do a full scan and defrag. The app is portable, and you can run it from a thumb drive if you need to work on multiple PCs. You can schedule the app to defrag your drive at regular intervals, and even tell Defraggler to only clean up free space on your drive.

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MyDefrag (Free)

Formerly JKDefrag, MyDefrag is a disk defragmentation tool that's easy to use and difficult to master. The app is simple enough that you can fire it up and tell it to work its magic on your drive, but if you want to get under the hood, the app includes a number of scripts and a scripting engine that gives you access to the tool's underpinnings. There's a command-line version, and even a screensaver to run while MyDefrag tidies up your drive. MyDefrag is a little slow, but when it's finished, loading large files like games and video will be much faster.

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Auslogics Disk Defrag (Free)

DIsk Degfrag from Auslogics goes a little further than simple disk defragmentation. The app will also optimize your file system for faster file reads and writes, show you a list of fragmented files instead of a vague report of your hard drive's fragmentation status, and will even defragment single files and folders if you're having a hard time with a specific file or application. Disk Defrag will also automatically defrag your system at specified times or when your PC is idle.

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Smart Defrag (Free)

Smart Defrag is one of the fastest defragmenting tools we've seen, and that's saying a lot. The app supports boot-time degfragmentation so your disk is optimized as soon as you turn your computer on, and just as easily allows you to schedule defrag sessions for times idle times or hours when you know you won't use your system. You can also leave the app running in the background (it does this by default) so it's working while you're working—you won't even notice it's there. If you have more time to spend, Smart Defrag will defrag your drive and optimize your file system to speed up everyday activities as well.

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Windows' Built In Disk Defragmenter (Free)

A number of you said you don't need a disk defragmentation tool: you're happy using the utility built in to your OS to get the job done. Windows' built-in app, Disk Defragmenter, can definitely analyze and defragment your drive at regular intervals, and by default is set to do defragmentation jobs every week, in the early AM when you're likely not using your system. While it doesn't offer advanced tools like the other utilities, like single file/folder defragmentation or idle-system defragmentation, it gets the job done and stays out of the way if you don't need those added features. Plus, it's built-in to Windows, so you don't need to install anything extra.

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Monitor Hard Drive Or SSD Health & Performance With HDDExpert (Check your hard drive health) Torrance Computer Network Help

Monitor Hard Drive Or SSD Health & Performance With HDDExpert

Manufacturers are always pushing boundaries trying to make hard disks as robust and reliable as possible. Despite that, HDD failure and data loss remains an inescapable reality. Therefore, there are RAID configurations, backup systems and other solutions designed to prevent data loss and minimize the impact to an organization when drives simply stop working. While there are various ways to help you prevent data loss, one of the easiest methods is to keep a check on your hard drive’s health using monitoring tools. One such utility goes by the name HDDExpert. It is a free Windows application by KC Software that displays health & performance of your HDD or SSD, decodes S.M.A.R.T. attributes into readable form and recommends ways to maintain the health of your drives.

The program doesn’t confuse you with excessive technical jargon, unlike most similar tools. It’s simple interface makes it an easy tool to use even for novice users. It doesn’t confuse you with .
Once launched, HDDExpert scans through all drives and partitions in your system. It then displays manufacturer name, model, firmware, serial number, temperature reading and cache size of the disk(s). The app also displays warning messages for temperature and health, and lets you know whether a backup or spare HDD is needed or not.

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The lower part of its interface carries information related to damage or errors at different sectors on the disk. In addition, the app displays total power cycle count and total operation time.
Right beside these readings, you’ll find three buttons labeled ‘Fans’, ‘Spare’ and ‘Backup’. The first two take you to an Amazon search page, which contains recommended products such as cooling fans and HDD replacement parts. The Backup button links to ‘Backup & Recovery 12 Home’, a paid program that you can install and use to create backups of the data on your disks. In the ‘Message’ section beside these buttons, the tool displays its verdict on the state of your drives and recommendations to prevent (Spare) or prepare (Backup) for failures.
All in all, a simple disk health monitoring software that could save your precious data before it’s too late. The tool can come in handy to test old drives as soon as they start posing problems, so you may get a replacement before complete failure of the disk and the loss of all the data on it.
HDDExpert works on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8.
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Best 100 Most Interesting Blogs and Websites of 2013

The 100 Best, Most Interesting Blogs and Websites of 2013

 

by Shaw Adli

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Welcome to one of the web’s most anticipated lists of the year: The 100 Best, Most Interesting Blogs and Websites of 2013. This is the second such list I have made since founding DailyTekk and it’s very special. A website can only be featured ONCE in this annual series, so make sure to check out last year’s list so you don’t miss 100 other amazing sites and blogs. I’ve broken this monster list down into 19 categories and limited myself to five links per category (except for the last category) to ensure I whittled away all but what I thought were the most deserving candidates of right here and right now in 2013. This post kicks off a whole new year of incredible top 100 lists (see a summary of the best curated content from last year in The Ultimate Lifehack for 2013: 200+ Incredible Sites and Services). This isn’t a wussy list like Time’s 50 Best Websites of 2012 which contains a bunch of web tools; nope, this is essentially a treasure trove of pure content.

When I make this list I consider 3 things: content, design and style (you know, that x-factor that really makes a site stand out). Throughout the year I save screenshots, bookmark, email myself links, star and favorite the best web content I run across. It’s a year-long process but I start getting pretty excited when I’m finally getting close to publishing it because I’m so excited to share with you my good finds. Actually, I took a few really good suggestions from readers (in the form of comments from last years post), and I had some valuable input from my wife, so I can’t take full credit for what you see here, technically.
Apparently, as of March 2012 there were 644,275,754 active websites (according to Business Insider) and you know the number has done nothing but rocket up since then. Someone has to go through and find the best, most interesting web content to make it easier on everyone else–but what does this have to do with technology? After all, DailyTekk IS a tech blog, right? Yes it is, and to me, great web content has everything to do with technology; as TechCrunch pointed out, the world is being eaten by technology to the point that all journalism is becoming tech journalism. Here’s another way to look at it: what good would your smartphone or tablet be if you had no good content to read, watch, interact with or play? You’re welcome.

Cool

1. Climbur – Get big ideas delivered to your inbox every Monday!
2. Visual News - The cure for eyeball boredom.
3. moddea – Visual catalog of everyday modern objects.
4. Very Short List – Cultural gems from a different curator every day.
5. SoulPancake - Art, culture, science, philosophy, spirituality and humor.

Viral

1. BuzzFeed - High quality original reporting, insight and viral content.
2. UPROXX – The culture of what’s buzzing.
3. PocketHits - The most popular stories, videos, images, recipes and more from Pocket.
4. What’s Trending - See it first.
5. Viral Viral Videos - Videos going viral right now.

Culture

1. Open Culture – The best free cultural and educational media on the web.
2. Trendland - Your daily dose of fashion, trends, art, design and photography.
3. Slacktory - A comedic blog about the pop culture of the internet.
4. Flavorwire - Culture curation. Highbrow, lowbrow and everything in between.
5. Internet for Beginners – About.com’s guide to participating in online culture.

News

1. Quartz - Digitally native news outlet. Bracingly creative journalism.
2. The Daily Beast - Read this skip that.
3. Matter - Commissions, crafts and publishes unmissable journalism about science, tech and ideas.
4. PostDesk - Indepth news, analysis, discussion and debate.
5. WhoWhatWhy – Groundbreaking investigating journalism.

Design

1. NOTCOT – A visual filtration of ideas + aesthetics + amusements.
2. The Exaltation - A collective of creatives sharing inspirational projects.
3. The Khooll - A digital design and lifestyle magazine.
4. dsgnWrld - Propagate design.
5. designboom - A large independent publication dedicated to design and architecture.

Humor

1. Twaggies – Funny tweets illustrated.
2. Team COCO – Conan O’Brien presents…
3. White Whine – A collection of first-world problems.
4. Improv Everywhere – They cause scenes (funny videos).
5. PassiveAggressiveNotes.com - Pictures of funny passive aggressive notes people have left.

Men

1. Valet - Men’s style, grooming, living, shopping and how-to guides.
2. Por Homme - Men’s lifestyle, fashion, footwear and culture.
3. Bless This Stuff - Web magazine for guys. Categories include: wear, living, culture, sports, vehicles and more.
4. The Art of Manliness - Men’s interests and lifestyle.
5. Dappered - Affordable men’s style.

Women

1. Goop – Limited edition collaborations, recipes, travel notes, shopping ideas curated by Gwyneth Paltrow.
2. The Hairpin - Ladies first.
3. HelloGiggles - Entertainment for creative women.
4. The Everygirl – The lifemap for everygirls everywhere.
5. Pick the Brain - Motivation and self-improvement.

Photo

1. In Focus – News photography from The Atlantic.
2. Amazing Things In The World - Photos of, you guessed it, amazing things in the world (Facebook).
3. NPR Picture Show – Photo stories from NPR.
4. Feature Shoot – Travel, fashion, documentary, editorial and portrait photography.
5. White House Photos – Photos from the White House.

Video

1. Freddie Wong – Action shorts from Freddie Wong.
2. Vsauce – Amazing facts and the best of the Internet.
3. All Time 10s – The funniest, most relevant and informative top 10 list videos you’ll ever watch.
4. Household Hacker – Mods, life hacks, science, cheats, pranks and gaming.
5. WatchMojo – Profiles, videos, top 10s.

Audio

1. SoundCloud – Hear the world’s sounds.
2. Studio 360 – What’s happening in pop culture and the arts.
3. Blank on Blank – They find lost interviews, you listen.
4. Fresh Air – Contemporary arts and issues (from NPR).
5. Radiolab – A show about curiosity.

Read

1. Longform - Recommends new and classic nonfiction from around the web.
2. Byliner Spotlights - Read more from your favorite authors.
3. Longreads - The best long-form stories on the web.
4. The Feature - A hand-picked selection of the finest articles and essays saved with Instapaper.
5. The Paris Review – Introducing you to the important writers of the day.

Tech

1. Skillcrush - Learn about technology and how to put it to work for you.
2. Singularity Hub – The future is here today.
3. Gizmag - New and emerging technology news (lots of cool hardware).
4. Internet Today - The best internet and tech news from LinkedIn.
5. ExtremeTech - The only tech site I’ve ever seen with a category labeled “Extreme.”

Smart

1. TED - Ideas worth spreading.
2. Co.Exist - World-changing ideas and innovation.
3. Talks at Google - Speakers of all stripes giving talks at Google.
4. Conference Bites - Big ideas for short attention spans. The best quotes from the latest events.
5. Aspen Ideas - Multimedia from around the Aspen Ideas Institute.

Geek

1. Geekosystem – Your guide to tech and internet culture.
2. Geek & Sundry – Eccentricities for your entertainment.
3. So Geek Chic – All things geek and/or chic.
4. Geekologie - Gadgets, gizmos and awesome.
5. DudeIWantThat.com - A gift guide of gadgets, gear and novelties.

Good

1. GOOD – A global community of people who care.
2. Stanford Social Innovation Review – Informing and inspiring leaders of social change.
3. Charity Navigator – America’s largest charity evaluator.
4. Dutiee – Stories that matter.
5. Socialbrite – Social solutions for nonprofits (blog).

Environment

1. TreeHugger – Dedicated to driving sustainability mainstream.
2. Grist – Environmental news, commentary and advice.
3. GoodGuide – Green, healthy and safe product information and reviews.
4. Environmental Graffiti – An eclectic mix of bizarre, funny and interesting environmental news.
5. Food & Water Watch – Works to ensure the food, water and fish we consume is safe and accessible.

Politics

1. POLITICO – Driving the conversation.
2. BagNews – Reading the pictures; visual politics and the analysis of news images.
3. Think Progress – Hard-hitting political news.
4. GovTrack.us – Easily track the activities of the United States Congress.
5. OpenSecrets.org – See who’s getting and who’s giving.

Can’t Miss

1. Mental Floss - Random, interesting amazing facts plus fun quizzes and trivia.
2. Hypebeast - Fashion, arts, design, culture.
3. Brain Pickings - Human-powered discovery engine for interestingness.
4. DROOL’D - Stuff to drool over from gadgets to places.
5. Bored Panda – The only magazine for pandas.
6. ThreadBanger – For people who make their own style.
7. Unhistorical – Day by day reflections on history and culture.
8. Daily Grommet – Discover unique products with innovative design that make unique gifts.
9. I’m Remembering - Pop culture and nostalgery from the 80s and early 90s.
10. Richard Wiseman - Quirky mind stuff including videos, illusions, trivia and more.
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How to Add a Sender to Junk Email list in Outlook 2010

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1. Open Outlook 2010.
2. Start Outlook 2010.
3. In Outlook 2010, on the Home tab, in the Delete group, click Junk and Junk E-mail Options.
   
   
   
   
   
   
4. On the Safe Senders tab, click Add.
5. Enter an e-mail address or domain name. For example:
   someone@exchange.example.com
6. Click OK.
7. To add more e-mail addresses or domain names, repeat steps 3 through 6.
8. Click Export to file.
9. Enter a unique file name for the Safe Senders list, and then click OK.
10. Repeat steps 3 through 9 with the Safe Recipients tab and the Blocked Senders tab to create Safe Recipients and Blocked Senders lists. Be sure to specify a unique file name for each of the three lists.
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Learn any Languages Via Subtitles While Watching Movies With LaMP

A really great way to get good at a foreign language is to watch films that have subtitles in the language you’re learning; this allows you to correlate what you hear with definite, discrete words, and thus enhance your pronunciation. LaMP or Lingual Media Player is a Windows program that can play any film you load into it while reading its SRT (subtitles) file that you have stored on your computer. You can, in fact, have LaMP read two subtitles files simultaneously; one of the language you’re learning, and the other of your native tongue, so you always know what’s going on. What’s more, if you’re suspicious of a potential translating mistake, you can confirm it instantly, using the onboard translation service that’s hooked up with Microsoft Bing and Google Translate. Fascinating! Or should I say 迷人 instead?

LaMP has a pretty straightforward user interface; most users will require no additional information to get started. Playback controls are toward the lower-left. To load a video, click the ‘Video File’ button on the toolbar and browse from your computer’s collection.

The second thing you need to do is load subtitles via the button on the toolbar with the same name; you’ll get the following window.

In the ‘Subtitles 1’ field, browse for the film’s subtitles in the language you’re learning. In the ‘Subtitles 2’ field, you can enter the SRT file that contains the same subtitles in your own language, or one you already know. The set of subtitles will appear in the right-side panel, and you can navigate anywhere across the entire film with these subtitles by simply clicking the relevant subtitle text from the list.
If your subtitles are lagging or outrunning the film’s sounds, you can sync them using +/- or Crtl+/Ctrl-, or specifying the number of seconds with the selector scroll at the bottom of the panel.
The film can be set to play subtitle-by-subtitle, pausing after every sequence; this allows you time to learn a particular phrase or word; to play the film continuously or to toggle subtitles on and off, you can use the buttons alongside LaMP’s main playback controls.
Let’s take a closer look at the translation function. When you click an entry from the subtitles’ list, it’ll appear in the panel above. Click ‘Translate subtitle’ to get a quick second opinion from Microsoft Bing’s translation service. If you want to use Google Translate instead, clicking ‘Google’ will open the service in a new tab. You can also instantly translate the current subtitle text between any languages you want, by selecting them from the drop-down menus above.

The app also supports three online dictionaries for looking up meanings of individual words. However, this feature works only if your Subtitles 1 (the language you want to learn) are in English. To look up a word, simply select it from the upper subtitles box and click the ‘Oxford’, ‘Cambridge’ or ‘Visuwords’ button.
Another great feature is LaMP’s YouTube Clip List, where you can find a list of clips online, and filter them according to language or category options. The app has an online repository of YouTube videos that you can try out as a test, via the toolbar’s ‘YouTube’ button.

You can also manually add a YouTube video to LaMP. From the ‘Clips list’ drop-down menu, select ‘Add clip to list’. In the following window, you can copy a video’s URL into the ‘URL or YouTube ID text field and click ‘Get’.

LaMP is compatible with Windows XP, Vista and 8. If your system can’t support LaMP, you could try the app’s online version. It’s not going to be as comprehensive as the the Windows software, but it’s definitely worth a check.
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How to remove/uninstall windows easy transfer? WET

How to remove/uninstall windows easy transfer?

So, to remove WET completely and restore 'normal' HD icons and browsing do this:
1. open my computer, select Tolls>Folder Options to open the Folder Options window
2. In the View tab select Show Hidden Files and Folders
3. Right Click each of the hard drive icons (in my case - XP drive & W7 drive) and select Explore
4. Find Windows easy transfer.exe, windowseasytrasfer folder, and autorun.inf and delete them from the root of both drives
5. reboot...

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Creating a System Image in Windows 7 562-366-4177 Array Systems Computers Long Beach

Creating a System Image in Windows 7

• May 06, 2013
• How-To Guides, Windows

A System Image is an exact copy of everything that is on your hard drive (at that point in time) which can be used to recover it back to an operational state if your hard drive crashes or freezes up.
Procedure:
Navigate to Start – Control Panel – System and Security – Backup and Restore. Select on Create a System Image Disc.

The Create a System Image Disc dialog box opens where you can choose where you want to save your System Image Disc. You can save it on your hard drive, on a DVD or a network location. For our example, we choose to save the System Image on a DVD. Click Next to continue.

Note: If applicable, you can include other drives in your System Image backup but keep in mind that this will increase the size of the image.
The confirmation screen lists your settings for the System Image Disc. If you want to make some changes, click the back arrow button on the top left. If you are fine with the settings, click Start Backup.

The System Image Disc would then be created, the time it takes is dependent on the size of the backup. Once completed, you are asked if you want to Create a System Repair disc. A System Repair disc is essential as it is used to re-image your computer from a system image. Click Yes to continue.

Select a CD/DVD to create the System Repair disc on and click Create disc.

If you have to restore your System Image in the event of a hard drive failure, you would be able to use the System Recovery Options – System Image Recovery.
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