How to recover lost space from pen/flash removable media

Few days ago, I was in a bit strange situation as one of my 2 gbs pen drive shows the total capacity to only 500 mb space. And with in windows system properties almost half of the space about 260 mbs shows in use and around 220 mb of free space, while as I have said the actual space it should show about 1.9 gbs. Then at first I thought it may have been damaged but I was not sure when as everything was fine... means accessibility, reading, copying and even formatting, though only up to 500mbs is perfect then it must be because of any other reason and this derives me to search for format utility to do the job.

And I was lucky as after trying some utilities I found the HP Format disk utility which is quite good as it has restored all the space which the pen drive had missed. And this is not all this utility was even capable of creating a dos startup disk at the same time while formatting pen drive. This is sure the very good tiny application and is very useful as nowdays use of pen drives has increased very rapidly for data transfers between one PC to another PC making this utility into must have utility... If you also like to try it once ... which i am sure then follow the download link at 4shared and make your pen drives works perfect...
Download HP Format Disk Utility from here
This utility can also be considered a must have Utility installed in a PC. May be right now you don't need it, but am sure tomorrow you will sure need it as these days the use of Pen/Flash drives has increased very rapidly and who knows when we need such utility.

Ready to experience Granular 1 - The Power of Linux

If you love the power of Linux but not yet have made your mood to try out any version of Linux, then this time to think again. As Anurag Bhandari has already announced his latest release of the Linux version the Granular 1, a fabulous work produced after months of hard work. This is the Live CD installable Linux distribution especially designed for home or office users. On the occsassion of the release Anurag announced -

"After a long wait, Granular 1.0 is finally out. And we are pretty much excited about this release because this is the first stable Granular release since about a year, and because it's version 1, of course. This final release of Granular 1.0 brings with it solid stability, out-of-the-box usefulness, great multimedia experience, support for running Windows software, all of this & much more in the size of a CD (livecd). [...] Wishing you a very happy Granularing!"

In the real world it also promised to serve the same things as said by Anurag by offering KDE 3 and E17 desktop environment and includes applications such as Amarok, Filezilla, DigiKam, Kaffeine, Skype, Bluefish, KTorrent, Smb4K, DeVeDe, TVTime, SMPlayer, Xgnokii, AbiWord, soundKonverter, Synaptic Package Manager, Krusader, KPackage, Yakuake. Granular Linux 1.0 has its own kernel and software repositories. And like the other version of Linux this new release is also absolutely free to download.

If you are keen to have a look of its specification which are added into this new release have a look further

• Brasero was replaced by the popular K3b, as the default CD/DVD burning application
• Greatly improved the Granular Control Center
• Added ATI and Nvidia drivers
  
• Added MPlayer and Xine, two great multimedia playback engines
• The old system:/ was replaced with the sysinfo:/ kio slave
• Added support to write on NTFS (Windows) partitions
• Added Wine
• Added a FAQs section to Granular StartPoint.

So now what are you waiting for visit the link below for an explanation and download link

Granular 1 : Visit the Official Website

Very Very Tiny tool to control your start up applications

Now never worry regarding the start up programs which automatically starts with Windows. As a very small application only 59 KB in size is around us which is capable of doing the task on our behalf. This is a very simple to use and won't burden your system.

Startup Control Panel is compatible with all modern versions of Windows through Windows XP. Windows Vista, after all these years, finally has a very good startup manager built-in; go to Control Panel > Performance Information and Tools, and then click on Manage Startup Programs on the left.
Though being very small it is a must have tool for everyone who love to stays with computer.

Visit the link for a Download

Now arrange your pix collection in a stunning 3d style

Do you have thousands of pix collection of your own?
Do you love the unique visual style to arrange your photos?
Do you want a freeware application to arrange your digital photos?
Then you should install the following add-on compatible both for Windows or Vista. Must be wondering.....Why? Then the answer is, it is the unique application, may be you have never heard or seen this before ( As myself was also got amazed with its 3D visuals). It is capable of displaying photos or videos in a 3D accelerated way as shown in the snapshots below:



It is is absolutely free to use though the corporate users have a slight fee. This doesnot mean that the free version have lack of features, it gives access to all of Pictomio's feature as well as almost all geotagging functions. means photos taken with GPS-capable cell phones (iPhone, Nokia, etc.).

Pictomio requires a ShaderModel 2.0 graphics card with at least 128 MB of graphics memory.

I am sure you will love this small piece of software and opting for a download. Am I not right?

Visit the link to reach at the publisher website for a download.

AmoK Exif Sorter 2.5.1 - Categorize pictures from your digital camera

If you use your Digital Camera very often and every time you forgot to download pictures you have captured in your computer, leaving with thousand of pictures stored on camera chip. This way it would become very difficult to find the pictures taken on a specific day or separating pictures that have the same exposure values or other technical details. Then the following application is only for you. Try Amok Exif Sorter 2.5.1 which enables you to move and rename your photos based on information contained in the EXIF and IPTC data. The program can automatically generate folder structures and file names based on dates, camera model, exposure and other technical details. This way it manages all the pictures perfectly organized in folders by the date they were created, the camera they were taken with and a lot more filters.

This program also have a wide range of program option to renaming file according to their EXIF information available. The only minus point it had is the lack of documentation to help every feature explain it has. But overall look it is a great companion for all digital camera owners.

Download this small application its free to use so why waiting

Light and Compact CD Recorder and Converter - AbleBurn Freeware CD player for Windows

If you are looking for a small handy application through which you can convert your audio cd's to MP3 or wave then you should use AbleBurn Suite - the best CD player for windows. It is only 2.5 mb in size, but even though it can habdle several purposes mentinod below:

• Create all kinds of discs - data, audio (with CD-Text) and CD Plus (mixed),
• copy data and audio CDs,
• read and write CD-Text and get CDDB (download music information from Interet databases),
• create and record disc images (ISO and CUE),
• get disc and drive information,
• erase CD-RW discs,
• convert WAV to MP3 and MP3 to WAV,
• check and repair MP3 files - MP3 without problems,
• normalize WAV files,
• export file list in HTML and text format,
• automatically check for update

AB-CD also has a very nice look and you can change its background image or you can also choose its compAct mode covering only a small portion of the desktop area. And you can also choose the always on top mode if you want to have it on over any application.

Though this is very small application but looking at its capabilities there is no harm to once try it. Click here if you want to have a look on it.