creepy ads

I love the marketing tactic where the spokesmodel unleashes some not-so-subtle subliminal message on you that you MUST have what they are harking. Example: Britney's fragrance, Fantasy, has the logo "everybody has one"

The latest one: Sarah Jessica Parker's "Covet"... the whole reason for this post was because I was watching Beauty and the Geek (great show btw ahah) and every time this commercial came on (which was quite often), I had to switch to the next channel because the ending freaked me out. She looks CRAZY! Which I assume is what she's going for but it just stepped over that line from "funny creepy" to "creepy creepy" for me.

It looks scarier on TV, I must admit.

Recover Lost Temporary Files

I almost had a heart attack this morning because a memo I had spent hours working on was suddenly goooone. Turned out it was because I was saving it as I had opened it from a Gmail account, making it a temp file, making it disappear when I decided to be responsible and actually shut down my computer. So it wasn't in the recycle bin, wasn't in the temp folder, was unsearchable.

3 failed recovery programs and 1 hour of Google research later, I found a cure:

First, download this program: Restoration

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html


Then, go to the application you need (word, excel, etc), click on the restored copy, and do one of two things (it should become evident which you need):

1) on the "Open" button, click the little down arrow on the right of the button and select "open and repair"

2) on the drop down menu "File Type" select "Recover Text"


It won't be formatted but it will be a hell of a lot better than starting from scratch.


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