ClockworkMod or CWM as they call it allows you to flash custom ROMs. backup or perform other advanced maintenance operations on your Android device. codeworkx from the XDA forums has created a CWM for the Samsung Galaxy S2 (II) that will be used to power the upcoming CyanogenMod 7 (CM7) that we have already talked about a few days back. If you want you can install it right away as ClockworkMod 4.0.0.2 is available right now for download provided by the developer. First download it from here, and ...

Photo Rescue is a useful little application for the users that lost their iPhone/iPod Touch (or any other iDevice) or somehow the device got damaged. In that case this app can help restore all the photos from an iTunes backup that you performed earlier. Note that this will only work for the non-encrypted iTunes backups which is the default. One drawback of the application for now is that it only works on the Mac. Let’s hope they develop a Windows version too, as most of the users are on the Windows ...

Here is a nice video tutorial that I came across through the XDA blog. It explains the process of how to make a Nandroid Backup on your Android based device. For those who don’t know Nandroid Backup is simply a backup of your phone’s NAND memory state to the SD card, so that in case something bad happens you can go back to the working state. For the Android modders out there it might be a trivial process on how to do a Nandroid Backup. So this tutorial is more aimed on the beginners I think. ...

Here is a very simple guide for the new/novice users to the Android/Nook rooting stuff on how to get in to the ClockworkMod recovery mode. I am assuming that you have this already installed via the Rom Manager, using Auto Nooter or some other way. This is one of the key operation that is required in almost all kinds of flashing ROMs/kernels, backup data and other similar tasks. Basically you have two options, both of them are described below: Get in to ClockworkMod Recovery ModeOption 1 You ...

Well, this might seem obvious for expert users on how to create a bootable ClockworkMod (CWM) SD Card, while for other novice users it might be a daunting task. And for some rooting stuff related to the Nook Color it might be required. Update 1: Added a direct link to the NOOK-CWM3028-imgfiles.zip file.So here we present a simple guide to flash the CWM 3.0.2.8 on your SD card: Flashing Bootable ClockworkMod on SD CardStep 1: First you need to download the image for your SD card size here, containing ...

If for some reason you happened to have a broken partition table on some hard disk, or have a partition that is deleted accidently and now you cannot access the data that was stored on that partition then a great system software that can allow to recover this deleted partition can be a god send. Actually, I was in a similar panic situation some time ago when I accidently deleted one of the partition on a hard disk in my Toshiba laptop. After I realized this I panicked a bit because there was some ...

Have you ever faced the situation where you had some valuable data stored on a CD/DVD and later you found that CD is physically damaged(for example scratches) and data cannot be copied back from it. It happened with me a couple of times in the past. But I discovered a useful utility that allowed to recover data from the my damaged CDs. In my case I was not able to completely recover all the data because of the excessive scratches on the CDs. I used the recovery utility Unstoppable Copier for recovery ...

Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8 is an extremely high quality system application that will allow to perform partitioning, backup, file system format conversion, repairing and many more operations on your hard disk. In many ways you can compare it to the excellent Partition Magic 8 that has almost become an industry benchmark for any other software that involves partitioning and other operations of this kind on your hard disk. However Partition Magic has not been updated for a long time and remember it ...