Utilities I’ve used in the past week

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

Things have been crazy, crazy busy, but in the midst of it all, it occurred to me that instead of trying to piece together some coherent thoughts from my addled brain, I’d share a few utilities I’ve found ever so useful in the last few days.

Diskdigger:

DiskDigger can recover files from any type of media that your computer can read. This includes USB flash drives, memory cards (SD, CompactFlash, Memory Stick, etc), and of course your hard drive. The types of files that it recovers include photos, videos, music, documents, and many other formats.

PstPassword:

PstPassword is a small utility that recover lost password of Outlook .PST (Personal Folders) file.

WordPress for iPhone: self-explanatory, really.

Malware Bytes: -anti-malware tool

I won’t get into the details of why I needed to use these this past week, just know that I did use each of these, and they worked as advertised!

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  1. I used PstPassword just last week, actually. I hadn't used it before and couldn't understand how it worked, but it did so I wasn't going to question it. I actually keep a flash drive on me at all times with all sorts of portable apps, including several things from NirSoft and just about everything from Sysinternals.

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