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  • Prosoft releases Data Rescue 3.1 update

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    Amidst yesterday’s hubbub, Data Rescue II, Prosoft Engineering’s data rescue and recovery program, was updated to version 3.1 on Wednesday. The new version, a 13 megabyte download, features the following fixes and changes:
    – Runs natively as 64-bit on supported machines in Snow Leopard.

    – New Welcome window for easier access to suspended and completed scans.

    – Improvements to the Workspace and Home Folder workflows: now simpler to understand and use.

    – New Expert feature for erasing any drive or volume to HFS+.

    – Added contextual menu to Details View for quick access to common features.

    – Improved recovery of InDesign, PEF raw image, TIFF and AVI files, for certain cases.

    – Added support for recovering certain ORF raw images.

    – A number of additional file types with no, or non-standard, extensions can now be previewed.

    – DMG files with no partition table can now be found and recovered.

    – Some improvements were made to improve Deep Scan results, in some cases.

    – Some optional additional file browser columns may be shown by right-clicking on the table columns header.

    Fixes:
    – Catalog files with more than 8 fragments would sometimes be recovered incorrectly.

    – Activation while launched from a read-only volume wouldn’t be applied correctly.

    – Erase wasn’t working on 10.4.

    – Erased drives wouldn’t show up in the source selection screen, sometimes causing unnecessary warnings to be displayed.

    – Erase wouldn’t work on a volume that was mounted while the open dialog was active.

    – Crash when attempting to erase a drive that just disconnected.

    – Rare crash when a device is disconnected.

    – Minor incompatibilities with the software update feature on 10.4.

    – Several usability enhancements to Set Drive/Volume Params.

    – Arenas weren’t rendering properly on Snow Leopard.

    – User interface preferences are now properly stored in the Home Folder for when booted off the DVD.

    – Fixed some bugs related to running the application on a secondary monitor.

    – Improved performance and stability while browsing scan results.

    – Analyze sometimes crashed just when finishing.

    – When unmarking many nodes when quitting, the UI would seem to hang and show the beach ball.

    – Some miscellaneous sources of memory leaks and potential crashes were fixed.

  • Prosoft Releases Data Rescue 3.0

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    Data Rescue II, Prosoft Engineering’s data rescue and recovery program, was updated to version 3.0 on Tuesday. The new version, a 14.8 megabyte download, features the following fixes and changes:

    – Data Rescue 3 runs on OS X 10.4.11 (Tiger) and later, including OS X 10.5.x (Leopard) and OS X 10.6.x (Snow Leopard)
    – Data Rescue 3 sports a brand new Graphical User Interface, with animated visual effects.
    – Many (over 100) new Reconstructed file types have been added for Deleted and Deep scans. See the last section of this file for a current list of supported types.
    – A powerful new feature called FileIQ allows Data Rescue 3 to learn about new file types from user-supplied samples. This greatly extends the number of potential Reconstructed file types supported.
    – A new File Previewer feature, which can preview many file types prior to recovery.
    – The ability to suspend and resume scans, and to manage the results from multiple scans.
    – Improved support for scanning Apple software RAID drives.
    – Improved support for scanning large > 1TB drives.
    – Improved support for recovering large sparse disk image files.
    – Improved support for recovering pkzip files.
    – Improved recovery of hard linked files.
    – Added ability to unmount or eject a volume (useful when booted from DVD-ROM).
    – Automatic check for updated Data Rescue 3 version.
    – Improved features to assist if a call to Prosoft technical support becomes necessary.
    – New Home Folder feature when booted from DVD; avoids the need to re-enter activation key each time it’s booted.
    – Numerous bug fixes.

    Data Rescue 3 requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later to install and run and retails for US$99.

  • Drive Genius 2.2 Out the Door

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    Prosoft Engineering has released Drive Genius 2.1.1, an updated version of its drive repair and recovery program for Mac OS X.

    The new version, a 33.3 megabyte download, offers the following fixes and features:
    * Now supports Snow Leopard.
    * Improved defragmentation functionality.
    * Improved repartition performance and other improvements.

    Drive Genius retails for US$99 and requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later installed to work. The application is a Universal Binary and functions natively under both PowerPC and Intel-based hardware.

  • OWC Releases Faster Internal Superdrives for 13″ MacBook, 15″ MacBook Pro Notebooks

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    Accessory provider Other World Computing announced the release of its new Mercury SuperDrive Internal Upgrade Kits for Apple’s 13″ MacBook and 15″ MacBook Pro notebooks. The new OWC Mercury SuperDrives offer faster burn speeds than factory – up to 8X DVD, 6X DVD-DL (Dual-Layer 8.5GB), 5X DVD-RAM, and 24X CD burn speeds with support for DVD+/-R/RW, DVD+/-R DL (Dual-Layer), DVD-RAM, and CD-R/RW media.
    The new SuperDrive Internal Upgrade Kits for MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks available immediately:
    OWC Mercury SuperDrive Dual-Layer Internal Drive Kit for the 13″ MacBook and 15″ MacBook Pro(Non-“Unibody”) features up to 8X DVD+/-R burn, 6X DVD-R DL burn, 5X DVD-RAM, 24X CD-R burn, and 1 year OWC warranty and is priced at US$147.99.
    The “Value Bundle” of this same SuperDrive Kit, priced at US$159.99, also includes 10 pieces of 8X DVD-R media in jewel cases, Prosoft Data Backup 3 software, and NTI DragonBurn CD/DVD authoring software.

  • Drive Genius 2.1.1 Released

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    Prosoft Engineering has released Drive Genius 2.1.1, an updated version of its drive repair and recovery program for Mac OS X.
    The new version, a 23.3 megabyte download, offers the following fixes and features:

  • Enhanced Duplicate tool has an option to verify the destination of whole-drive copies. In addition, source bad blocks can be skipped if found during a whole-drive copy.
  • Increased performance and reliability of Defrag.
  • Bug Fix: spurious “test aborted by disk” S.M.A.R.T. warnings in 10.5.x
  • Bug Fix: after shredding a volume, a new volume would always be created as “Untitled” instead of using the previous volume name.
  • Bug Fix: the tooltip displayed for duplicate files in DriveSlim contained an invalid path to the original file when displaying results from the boot volume.
  • Bug Fix: crash during launch if information about installed languages could not be obtained (10.4.x/PPC only).
  • Bug Fix: Adobe and Microsoft application updates would fail if language bundles were removed or their binaries trimmed; these are now excluded from the DriveSlimsearch results.
  • Other bug fixes.

    • Drive Genius retails for US$99 and requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later installed to work. The application is a Universal Binary and functions natively under both PowerPC and Intel-based hardware.

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