I am sure, if you are a digital camera user, that you would have had the very unfortunate experience of accidentally deleting media from your memory cards or flash drives. There have been times when I changed my mind after deleting an image! Sometimes, such media somehow gets corrupted or damaged, hence could not be read or retrieved.

If this happens to you as well, you may want to check out Photo Nose, a Photo Image Recovery Software that could help you to recover deleted or corrupted images and video files. The good thing is that this is not only very user-friendly but device and format friendly and you could try it for free.

Photo Nose comes in two versions; Standard and Professional. Of course, Professional offers more features and could even recover media in more formats. The price difference is only US$10 so I don’t see why one should not get hold of the Professional copy.

Right now, I could think of some photos that were erased from my memory card after I have transferred the photos to my computer but then somebody formatted my hard disk without backing up my files. Those deleted photos, numbering a few hundred, are somewhat important. Maybe I should try to recover them with Photo Nose.

If you have used photo Nose before, do let me know how you like it.

I recent learnt of CloudShout, a new blog tool that is an Izea innovation, from someone who posted it on Twitter. If memory serves me right, I have heard (or read) of this name “cloud shout” before. I think it was during a brainstorming session where IZEA was born. Anyway, CloudShout is still in closed Alpha but one could request for an invitation from their website.

The website introduces CloudShout as a blog tool that enables “real time conversation and community across the interweb” but it looks like me like any other blog widget or gadgets that bloggers embed on the sidebar of the blogs.

You know, I have just stripped most of my blogs from a lot of fancy elements, including stuff that make money, mainly because I am trying to speed up the loading time so I will not be installing this CloudShout widget anytime soon. It’s still in closed Alpha so you can expect lots of glitches.

Moreover, I hate to have these “community” widgets like Blogger’s Follow because, I am sure I mentioned it before, I hate to have my blog visits tracked and I will not subject my blog readers to the same. If you know of my blogs, I am sure you would notice that I did not use any of these on any of my blogs.

While some people feel the need to see who has dropped by, I don’t, simply for the fact that I couldn’t care less if none of the people I know or do not know visit or not.

Did you already know of our DPM’s new website? A few months ago, just before the General Election, he commissioned someone to set up a website for Pak Lah, now he thinks that he should have one himself.

If you do not know it, here is the address. http://www.1malaysia.com.my/
Some people think that the website is unfriendly.

Just out of curiosity, I went to check what the website is all about. Oh, yes, it’s a website not a blog. Someone should tell him that blogs are all the rage now, and not a static website.

Anyway, right smack in the middle is a video of him with a welcome message. I tried to stream it but the buffering is terrible until I feel nauseous. Maybe there are too many people all trying to watch his video.

If you expect more, I have to tell you that you would be disappointed. It’s a bare bone website with just that video on the landing page, his biography in .pdf format, which I purposely mention because don’t we chronic web surfers just hate to open up web pages in .pdf format without prior warning?

And there are a few pages of photos and photos of him, as if this is a photo gallery. Hey, Flickr does this better. I would also like to mention that there are two pages of comment forms, one in Malay and one in English. Is that even necessary? I checked, there’s no comments page in some other foreign Asian language.

Check it out and let me know what you think? Like RTM, right?

Last night, I was checking my traffic statistics (I use StatCounter), when to my horror, I could not view any of my projects. Everything returned a zero. It was like a new account without any project name, traffic numbers or visitor paths.

I was shocked, obviously, because I thought that I was too sleepy and may have somehow pressed the “delete all” button. In fact, I think there is no such button, except for deleting individual projects.

Anyway, I was still a little perturbed and logged in and out of my account only to see the same blank page. I checked the blog but it was still the same old post without an update on the glitch. I HOPED that it was a glitch.

Luckily I had the sense to check the forum and someone had already posted on the issue. Thankfully, I was not alone and I felt better. Our accounts were restored about ten minutes later. Well, it could have been quicker but it felt like ten minutes I did not check the time.

While blog hopping last night, I came across Melih Abdulhayoglu’s blog which talks about Trusted Internet. As a blogger, webmaster and ecommerce owner, I am all for trusted internet.

If you have read my recent blog post about how an email was misdirected to me even though the email address was actually another legitimate address, all the more I strive for a trusted and secure environment in my own sites, particularly my ecommerce site because if something like that could happen to a large email provider, which, by the way, they did not acknowledge, I could only ensure that I have Trusted Internet in my own sites where I have direct control.

I think that right now, not many people realize how important Trusted Internet is. By the way, I believe that as responsible webmasters, we must all make our own sites secure so that web browsers and users will be accorded the safety and security, the right of every web user.

However, I think that as we move forward, advancing in technology and being more mature and responsible web users, Trusted Internet what we expect to have in every site, keeping our personal or financial information safe and secure, particularly when we shop online. Commercial website owners should take the lead. For more information, visit http://www.comodo.com/corporate/manifesto.html