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We have all deleted a file unintentionally with Shift+Delete or emptied the recycle bin with a lump in our throats later on. To save the day, there are a number of software available, here we review one of those. And a good one!

How We Reviewed

Well, here is what we did, in short: we filled a 10 GB partition with files and then deleted and added some files in such that it assured us that one of the files was over-written. We did not use targeted overwrite method to stay closer to the real-world scenario than to a perfect, ideal world that does not exist. We then ran the 7 Data Recovery to attempt recovery of those files.

Overlook – The UI, the Options and Ease-of-use

7 Data Recovery is one sweet program for the purpose. There are 4 options. It is pretty easy to use, save the fact that the options sound a little confusing. Well, hovering over each option would tell you what it does. But still, in our opinion, a little change in names of those options would help a novice. Also functionality is more or less the same – so giving one option which works instead of 2 is a good strategy, too.

If you love speaking from from any one of the sides - Open Source or Closed Source software and tell your friends to use or stop using Windows and vice versa, there is a huge chance that you are prejudiced about OSS in some manner. You might have already convinced yourself that people who use Windows should be boiled in water before being baked or that Linux users should be sent naked into a jungle full of meat-eating wild animals. If it is so, I would request you to please empty your cup and just read this.

Coming back to the point - why are the open source alternatives far from being perfect for an end user. Let me tell you in detail, beginning with my usage habits. First of all things - I am a web developer and I mostly use Linux for my work. But lately, to get the change-of-taste, I did go back to Windows and installed it on my desktop. And then came up the parts where I saw that those very software packages I so advocate to my friends are quite lack the usability. Below I present the 5 reasons for these two packages; and why they stand short in front of propriety solutions.

​Once upon a time, there lived a King, mighty kingdom of whose lay in the grandeurs of Amazonia. Okay, cut the crap!

Disclaimer: This post carries no offense towards Apple Inc. or its users. This is only a humor post. It does not intend to hurt anybody's sentiments or feelings. Anybody hurt or offended would barely mean overdose of Apple shit.

Now, it's high time people have been bitching around about "iPhone Competitors". Now, I don't own an iPhone neither do I bag a high end Xperia/Galaxy/Lumia thing. SO WHAT? Does that mean

One of the prime reasons why Linux users advocate Linux is the 'virus free' tag. And for most cases they are not wrong. But the harder-to-digest fact is that they are just right enough to not be termed 'wrong'. Let's see the coin. The better side first.

Linux - a form of Zen

Linux is a form of Zen - the right way how software should have been developed - in open so that people could build things which are needed but not present yet. It is such a development stance which has led to the widespread popularity of Linux. But that is just the beginning.

Among many other advantages of Linux is the fact that for a DVD install of any popular distribution, you would probably not require any extra driver installation. You would not have to install 134 extra applications like PDF reader, office suite, email clients and a 'good' web browser and so on. Basically, with Linux, your system is ready for use right after the install. The great thing - you do not have to worry about getting the antiviruses because you don't have any viruses, and that, is fantastic. So why does Linux not have viruses?

​VirtualBox might be famous for a million reasons. One thing it is certainly not famous for is the lack of the screenshot feature. It does not allow you to take the screenshot of the running virtual machine from the VM Window. This is one place where VMWare Workstation wins over VirtualBox! Or well, may be not! The fact is that VirtualBox does actually allow you to take screenshots of running VMs...from the mighty command line! And hey, I don't know about Windows or other furniture-type Operating Systems; I am talking about the Linux command line :D. Let us roll over to the command

Command to take Screenshots in VirtualBox

Take out the finest sword in the Linux arsenal (the Linux console) and write onto it the command (and read the lines below before pressing enter):

VBoxManage controlvm Mint screenshotpng ~/Desktop/Mint_Scr/LinuxMint.png;

First thing - this command will not work if you do it without understanding! The parts Mint and ~/Desktop/Mint_Scr/LinuxMint.png are actually the name of the guest OS window and the path where you want to save the file in respective order! Change them according to your need.