Data loss is an unpleasant fact of our life, especially if we loss important personal papers, such as yearly projects, graduate theses, financial reports, presentations, photographs and much more that can’t be downloaded from the Internet and, as always, don’t have a backup. There are a lot of reasons why data losses occur. For example, "accidental" deletion, hardware failure, malware, etc. And, although valuable data can be recovered in many cases, you need to know how and what to do when data loss has occurred. Today we'll talk about it.

Being inspired by some articles at av-school.ru: "Writing a browser in C++" and "Writing a browser in C++. Part 2.", I decided to join to the authors and tell how to make own browser based on the "QtWebView" component. The WebKit engine (it was hiding under this name) is used in such browsers as Google Chrome and Safari. It is considered that exactly WebKit is the fastest open-source browser engine at the moment. In addition, this engine is cross-platform and that’s some advantage over the Microsoft's browser-based component. As you know, I try to pay as much attention to cross-platform technologies as possible.

Good day! Today I will tell you about such a useful thing as an API monitor. API stands for the application programming interface. More information can be found in Wikipedia. An API monitor allows you to track calls to this interface in order to learn what functions are called from a program and with what parameters. When dealing with malicious code this thing is just indispensable. It is very convenient to simply run it and see an API monitor log if you do not have time to disassemble it and to perform a detailed research of functionality of a malicious program. In case of trivial trojans this log actually will be nothing more than a full description of functionality of a trojan.

This article is about how you can use the well-known program Wine as an API monitor

Once I have told how to organize a broadcast using VLC. At that time, the need was caused by the fact that there is no a TV-tuner on a netbook. At this time, the problem is in the other - my cheap netbook is unable to play HD-Video (especially Full HD) without on-screen defects. It just so happened that a higher quality is always a higher priority (it is logical in general) and I can't find some interesting things in a resolution less than 1280x720. So, this story is about how to transcode video to the lower resolution, which can be easily played even by the weakest netbook.

Today I will give you a break from technical details - no scripts, no development tools and no malicious code. Just information. The information that I wanted to share.

To demonstrate some examples in articles which require the use of Linux, I always try to use Ubuntu. Firstly, this is the most common distribution. Secondly, I agree with the opinion that this Linux is the most suitable for people who are just beginning to deal both with Linux and with a computer at all. So, if the idea to experience yourself what the Linux is comes to you mind, I will join those who recommend Ubuntu.

This article examines the next virtualization product - Microsoft Virtual PC 2007. This is a free program, but it didn't gain wide usage. Perhaps it’s due to a lack of information about Virtual PC, while there is a lot of information about the virtual machines from Sun and VMware in the Internet. In addition, binding to Microsoft products as a host system may be critical for some users. And if we can’t do anything with the cross-platform, it is possible to contribute more information about this product.

In this article we will continue to consider the popular virtualization software products. Today we will discuss the VMware Player. This is a freeware program from VMware, an established virtualization company.

It can be downloaded from the official site – http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/desktop_downloads/vmware_player/3_0/

This article is the second in a series devoted to the virtual machines. This time we will discuss one of the most popular solutions in the virtualization area - VMware Workstation.

VMware Workstation version 7 will be considered.

It can be downloaded from the official website - http://www.vmware.com/products/workstation/.

Today I begin to publish a series of articles dedicated to popular virtual machines. We will consider the products of Sun, VMware and Microsoft.

Let's start with Sun VirtualBox. You can download VirtualBox from the official website - http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads. At the time of writing the article, version 3.0.8 has been available. The size of installation package for Windows operating system is approximately 70 MB, and deb or rpm packages for Linux OS are from 40 to 50 MB.

Today we’ll talk about Opera, of course not about an art form. This article will explore how to combat annoying ads using tools of a popular browser.

To conclude the topic of ad-blocking (1, 2), we consider the same for the Opera web browser.