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Let’s See How Easy It Is to Block Ads on iPhone

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In modern society, advertisements are everywhere. Ads are mixed: on the one hand, ads make life easier; on the other hand, most of them can be intrusive that make people crazy. But for iPhone users, that is another story.

The Detailed Steps on How to Block Ads on iPhone

Step 1 Download your desire Content Blocker on your iPhone. These Blockers can be found on App Store and most of them cost you only a couple of dollars.

Step 2 Tap “Setting” app on your iPhone.

Step 3 In “Setting” window, tap “Safari”.

Step 4 Tap “Content Blocker”and then turn on the Blocker you choose.

Such a simple and efficient way just works on iOS 9 so that means there are only two options for these other iPhone customer, upgrade to the latest operating system or turn to other feasible schemes.

How to Block Ads on iOS 8 or Older?

The following methods can be incomplete or unsatisfactory but are the only two way.

Step 1 Touch Setting app.

Step 2 Tap Wi-Fi and disenable it.

Step 3 Tap “Setting” to go back.

Step 4 Tap Cellular and turn off Cellular Data.

Or switch on the Airplane Mode.

No matter which way you choose, all apps that rely on the data network won’t work. Given all that, updating your operating system is the ideal solution to block ads.

How to Recover Lost Data from SanDisk SD Card with Easy Steps?

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SanDisk has been concentrated on changing the world through flash memory technology for more than 27 years. With exceptional performance and reliability and more than 5000 patents and recognition, SanDisk has been one of the most famous flash memory card brands. It really enriches people’s lives, at the same time, it also brings some issues and loss data, just like all types of electronic storage devices, is the most annoying one. The following is a representative example:

I am using a Sandisk Extreme 60MB/s CF card and it does work well all the time. Unfortunately, I accidentally deleted several photos from the card in m 5D2. Is it possible to recover them? These photos are very important for me and I want them back at any cost. Hope someone can recommend me some special tool / application to do this recovery.

If you are stuck in such situation, first stop using your SanDisk SD Card and then download SanDisk Memory Card Recovery (for Windows, for Mac) to recover lost data from SanDisk SD Card. The recoverable data can be photos, video, music, contacts, messages, call history, document and email and so on. Apart from SanDisk, it supports retrieving lost data from almost all kinds of memory cards like Kingston, PNY, Samsung and etc. Just need four steps, and you will get back all deleted data from SanDisk effortlessly.


Recover Lost Data from SanDisk Memory Card on Windows

Step 1 Run SanDisk Memory Card Recovery. Pop up SanDisk card from your devices, insert it into a card reader and connect the card reader via USB.

Step 2 Click “Lost File Recovery” or “Raw File Recovery” mode as a first try and all logical drives will be detected and listed.

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Step 3 Choose your memory card and then click “Start” button to search for the deleted data from this card. If you formatted SanDisk Memory Card, please check “Enable Deep Scan” but it will take you more time.

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Step 4 All found data list under “File Type” in the right of the program. Review them to find the ones that you want to recover, check the front box and click “Recover” button on the bottom to restore the lost data.

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The above method applies to recover lost data from SanDisk Memory Card for Windows users. There is another way to get back deleted data: follow the Wizard in the beginning at first.

Recover Lost Data for Mac Users

Install and run SanDisk Memory Card Recovery for Mac and follow the guide as below shown to retrieve deleted data from SanDisk Card.

Step 1 Connect SanDisk Memory Card with your Mac. First try “Lost Data Recovery” module.

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Step 2 Choose SanDisk SD Card by checking the front box of it and then click “Scan” button on the top of the application. Once the application stops scanning, you will see the detected data in a list.

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Step 3 Choose the data that you want to restore and then click “Recover” button.

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No matter for Windows users or Mac users, you all need to choose the desired folder to save the file to be restored and click “OK” to start recovering lost data from SanDisk memory card.

Let me just emphasize again – at the end of this, it’s essential to stop using the memory card once some data lose in order to protect lost data from overwriting. Only in this way, the deleted data can be recovered perfectly.

How to Convert PDF to iWork Pages on Mac and Windows?

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Pages can’t open a PDF file. It can just export in that format. I have a PDF document that I need to convert to a Pages document. Can anyone help me?

Pages for Mac is a powerful word processor that gives you everything you need to create documents that look beautiful. And read beautifully. Unfortunately, it doesn’t support importing PDF documents. So converting PDF to Pages compatible document is the best solution to open and edit PDF in Pages now.

How to Convert PDF to Pages on Mac?

In this part, we introduce PDF to Pages Converter for Mac that is mentioned frequently in mostly current forums related to PDF to Pages conversion to Mac users.

This PDF to Pages application lets you to convert PDF to fully editable iWork Pages documents and keep the original formatting and layout totally with easy steps and fast conversion speed. Before starting PDF to Pages transformation, you are allowed to optimize PDF document as your desire: join multiple files into one simple PDF for easy organization, insert images into PDF, batch convert PDF files to Pages, copy/edit/print, choose the page ranges of the entire PDF file, set password for PDF and so on.

Step 1 Download and follow the set-up wizard to install PDF to Pages for Mac on Mac OS X and run it.

Step 2 click the “Open File” button on the bottom right and browse your computer to open a new PDF file.

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Step 3 Click the “Convert” button on the upper right of this PDF to Pages Converter for Mac. A conversion window pops up, there choose Pages supported format from “Word”. There you can also select page(s) or page range(s) of the PDF file to convert.

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Step 4 Click the big “Convert” button on the bottom of the window.

For Windows Users:

To Windows users, it is uncommon to convert PDF to Pages since Pages is an application based on Mac OS X, but not absolutely, for example, I’m in need to send a PDF to one of my client who want to open it in Pages. How to convert this PDF to Pages format? By the way, I’m using Windows 8. In this case, you have to convert your PDF document. Note that: Pages supports importing Microsoft Word – Office Open XML (.docx) and Office 97 or later (.doc) or Plain Text files (.txt).

To complete this task, just download this PDF to Pages utility to have a try.

Step 1 Run the program on your Windows and on the main interface, click “Convert PDF” to open “Convert to Word” window.

Step 2 Click “Add File…” button to open your PDF file from your computer.

Step 3 Select Office Open XML (.docx), Office 97 or later (.doc), or Plain Text files (.txt) as output format.

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Step 4 Click the big “Convert” button on the bottom.

Tips for Pages for Mac

Pages for Mac (version 5.6 and later) and Pages for iOS (version 2.6 or later) can import the following file formats:

  • Pages ’06 or later
  • Microsoft Word – Office Open XML (.docx) and Office 97 or later (.doc)
  • Plain Text files (.txt)

How to Recover Deleted Photos from Samsung Galaxy?

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Samsung Galaxy series, range from medium budget to flagship models, is getting more and more popular today. As time passed, many problems inevitably arise and one of them is photo loss. Let’s see the following one raised by Samsung user:

I’m not sure where or how to start. I have an unrooted and pretty much brand spanking new Galaxy S4. I took over 30 photos last week at my son’s awards at school. I realized today that all of my photos had been deleted off my Galaxy S4. I’m not sure how it happened. Now, I’m wondering if I can recover the deleted photos from Samsung Galaxy.

To get back deleted photos from Samsung Galaxy, This Samsung Galaxy Photo Recovery can lend you a hand. It does not only work for Samsung Galaxy users but is compatible with almost all Android devices such as Samsung Nexus/ACE/Infuse 4G/Tab/Epic 4G, HTC One (M8)/One X/ Desire, Nokia N8/E6/5230, LG Nexus 5/G2/P500, Motorola Moto X/MB860/MB525 and so on. In addition, this powerful Samsung Galaxy Recovery is capable of restoring your most important data like contacts, message, video, audio, document, call history and etc.

How to Recover Deleted Photos from Samsung Galaxy?

Download Samsung Galaxy Photo Recovery for Windows and follow the setup wizard to install it. The installation will not last for long. After the installation is completed, launch the program.

Step 1 Connect your Samsung smart phone to the computer via USB and follow the guide to enable USB Debugging. Here you should note that there are three kinds of different situations: for Android 2.3 or earlier, for Android 3.0 to 4.1 and for Android 4.2 or newer. Please choose the one that best fits your Android OS and then follow the steps to enable USB Debugging.

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Step 2 The program will detect your Samsung devices automatically. Once the detection is done, all he type of files are shown on the screen. Check the box before “Gallery” and hit “Next” button on the bottom of the software

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Step 3 In this step, click “Start” to begin analyzing and scanning your device. This process will take a few minutes. Be patient.

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Step 4 This step is optional. If you get a Superuser Request on your device, just touch “Allow” to confirm it.

Step 5 All the recoverable photos will list on the right side of the interface when the process of scanning ends.

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Step 6 Preview the photos to make sure if they are the ones that you want to get back.

Step 7 Click “Recover” button to restore deleted photos from Samsung Galaxy.

And that’s it. In short, what you need to do to recover deleted photos from Samsung Galaxy are several keystrokes.

 

iPhone Photos Recovery – Recover Deleted Photos from iPhone (iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus)

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I borrowed an iPhone 4 from a friend to use on holiday about three months ago. I reset the phone before returning it and no one has used it since. I didn’t do any iTunes or iCloud backup so is it possible to recover photos from the phone?

It is a common issue for iPhone users to recover deleted photos from iPhone. Whether it can be easily solved depends on what OS your iPhone is and how long since the photos have been deleted. If you’re using iOS 8, and it’s been under 30 days since you removed the photos, you can easily restore deleted photos from iPhone.

However, it will be difficult to get deleted photos back from iPhone if your iPhone is not running iOS 8 or it’s been a long time since the photos were cleared, at least more than 30 days. In this case, you’d better to dig out a right way to recover deleted photos on iPhone.

iPhone Data Recovery(for Windows, for Mac) is just the right and efficient method to recover iPhone deleted photos. Not only that, it also works well in retrieving nearly all iPhone contents like contacts, call history, message, calendar, notes, reminder, Safari bookmark, camera roll, etc. In addition, it is helpful iPad and iPod touch users to restore cleared contents effortlessly. Now, let’s see how it works.

Note that you should first download and install this powerful program on your Mac or Windows by clicking “Free Download” button on the page.

Solution 1 Directly Recover Deleted Photos from iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS

This part offers a solution for iPhone 4 and the prior users to retrieve deleted photos without iTunes and iCloud.

Step 1 Launch iPhone Photo Recovery and connect iPhone with Computer via USB.

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Step 2 Scan iPhone to find the deleted photos. It will last several minutes or less.

Step 3 Once the scan ends, you will see all data available to restore on the left directory tree.

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Step 4 Check categories like Camera Roll, Photo Stream and App Photos to preview photos one by one and check the photos that you want to recover.

Step 5 When all photos are found, click “Recover” button on the bottom of the program to get all deleted photos back.

Solution 2 Get Removed Photos Back from iTunes Backup for iPhone 4S and Later

Step 1 Launch the program and connect your iPhone to the computer. The program automatically detects the iPhone and then turn to “Recover from iOS Device” window.

Step 2 Click “Recover from iTunes Backup File” on the top of the window.

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Step 3 The program starts detecting all iTunes backup files stored on your computer show them all for your option.

Step 4 Extract the backup by choosing one file for iPhone and then clicking “Start Scan” button.

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Step 5 Check all backup data clearly and tick the photos that you’d like to recover.

Step 6 Click “Recover” button.

Solution 3 Restore Deleted Photos from iCloud Backup for iPhone 4S and Later

If the above method can’t help you to recover iPhone deleted photos, maybe you need to give the following solution a try. Note that just repeat the Step 1 in Solution 2 to begin retrieving removed photos from iPhone.

Step 1 Click the option on the top of the window to switch to “Recover from iCloud Backup File”.

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Step 2 The signup window pops up. Enter your Apple ID and the Password in the appropriate location.

Step 3 Then you will see all backup files existing in your iCloud account which are found by the program automatically.

Step 4 Download the one file that you are desire to restore by selecting it. This process will take you some time.

Step 5 Once the process stops, you are taken to another window where all items list. Then, preview them carefully and check the ones that you need to get back.

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Step 6 In the last step, just click “Recover” button to store them on your computer.

How to Recover Deleted Photos from SD Card?

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I thought I had downloaded the pictures from my camera’s SD card to my computer, and then I deleted them from the SD card. But I was in a rush, and so I can only assume I never did copy them to my computer, because they’re nowhere to be found (I search my hard drive). It was 3 weeks of personal family photos and work related photos lost from dates in the first week of July to the last week of July. I only noticed a few days ago. Is there any way to get them back?

What a familiar scene for the SD card owner! Sometimes, the SD users deleted photos that have been backed up or are superfluous they thought. But only in hindsight do they understand how much they regret removing those pictures. Is it too late? Of course no. The following is a step by step guide that teaches you how to recover deleted photos from SD card for both Mac and Windows users.

Firstly, you’d better to download this SD Card Photo Recovery (for Windows, for Mac) and then follow the steps to retrieve deleted photos from SD card. The SD Card Photo Recovery has two versions: Mac and Windows, so please download the right version. This utility allows you to not only restore deleted photos but also videos, music, documents and more. Moreover, it supports all popular SD card brands on the market, like Sandisk SD card, Lexar SD card, PNY SD card, Kingston SD card, ATP SD card, Transend SD card, etc.

How to Restore Deleted Photo from SD Card for Windows Users?

Step 1 Connect your SD card to your computer via a card reader and then run the powerful SD Card Picture Recovery on your computer.

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Step 2 Click “Next” on the bottom of the utility to go to “What type of files do you want to recover” window. There check “Photo/Graphic” and then go to “Next” window.

Step 3 In “Where did you lose your files” window, check “External removable devices” and click “Next” button.

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Step 4 The program will scan pictures on your SD card automatically. It will take a few minutes. Be patient.

Step 5 When done, all found photos are listed on the main interface of the program. Preview them and check the ones that you want to get back.

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Step 6 Click “Recover” to get back your deleted photos from SD card.

How to Get Back Deleted Pictures from SD Card for Mac users?

Step 1 After you connect the card and launch the SD Card Photos Recovery, select “Lost File Recovery” mode. There are also other three modes for choose.

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Step 2 Next, highlight the SD card drive and click “Scan” button on the top. The program will scan your SD card immediately.

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Step 3 Once the scan process completes, check the box in the front of the image files and then click “Recover” button on the top to retrieve deleted photos from SD card.

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Matters Need Attention:

  • SD card is used extensively in portable devices, such as mobile phones, digital cameras, GPS navigation devices, handheld consoles, and tablet computers;
  • Do not overwrite your SD card. In other words, stop using your SD card immediately once you deleted photos, etc if you want to get them back;
  • Adopt a more standard format method than a low-lever one to format your SD card, just in case;
  • The SD Card Photo Recovery also lets you restore photos, videos, music, documents, messages, email, etc from computer and storage devices such as SD card, flash drive, usb drive, memory stick and so on.

How to Batch Delete Contacts from iPhone (Including iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus)?

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Delete iPhone Contacts One by One

It is as easy as ABC to delete one or two contacts from iPhone: touch Contacts app or Phone app on your iPhone > touch the contact that you want to delete > touch Edit on the top right corner > scroll down the window and you will see Delete Contact. Just click it and then pop up “Delete Contact” and “Cancel”. Directly tap “Delete Contact” and the contact disappears in Contact app.

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Clearly, this way doesn’t apply to delete a large number of contacts from iPhone in a short time. Even given enough time, the numerous repeated operations will make you desperate. Let’s see an example first:

I just got a new iPhone 6 with lastest update.  There are all kinds of contacts on there that I am not familiar with.  How do I delete them?  I looked under the individual contacts using edit.  There used to be a great big red Delete Contact button. But I want to delete like a tons of contacts. If I remove them with the above method, I could not imagine how much time I would waste.

So, if there is an easy and simply method to remove all or mass of contacts from iPhone? The answer is absolutely YES.

Delete iPhone Contacts in Batch

Simply click “Free Download” button on this page to download the helpful tool and then follow the set-up wizard to install it. Next, connect your iPhone with computer via USB cable. Once the iPhone and computer are connected, this tool will detect your iPhone automatically, and then your iPhone will appear in the primary window (shown as below).

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You should note that this iPhone tool will work properly only with iTunes installed.

In the next paragraph, we will introduce how to use this tool to clear contacts from iPhone in detail.

Delete Multiple Contacts at Once

Click “Contacts” on the left directory tree of this iPhone Manager. In “Contacts” catalogue, you can see “On My iDevices”, “Yahoo!”, “Exchange”, “iCloud” and other accounts. Then, click one where the contacts you want to delete are and a window will pop up on the right primary window. Just select the contacts that are needless and then click “Delete”. All the contacts you want to remove will be deleted in a flash.

Not only that, this powerful iPhone tool allows you to manage all iPhone contents such as photo, media, playlist and SMS, etc. Only a few clicks, you can control your mobile life, at will, with such a wonderful iPhone Manager.

How to Recover Deleted Files from Emptied Trash on Mac OS X?

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I accidentally deleted all my music, thinking they were duplicates, and then emptied my trash. I know it says it can’t be undone, but is there ANY WAY I can get my music back?

What You Should Know Firstly

Before starting recovering trash on Mac OS X, you need to take a few minutes to read the following paragraph carefully since it is quite useful and important.

As we all known, Trash, equivalent to the Windows recycle bin, is used to temporarily store deleted files on Mac OS X. Emptying Trash is one of the common methods that many Mac users adopt to speed up their computer. To empty Trash, just click and hold on the trash icon in the Dock and choose “Empty Trash” from the menu that appears. But what you should keep in mind is that the items that are deleted from Trash are unrecoverable unless you get a tool to recover them, so please use Empty Trash with great caution. Not only that, you’d better to stop using the Mac immediately if you still need to recover the deleted data from Trash. This way will prevent the file from being overwritten.

To recover emptied Trash on Mac OS X, you can hardly do without the help of Trash Recovery for Mac. With this professional yet easy-to-use utility, it becomes true to recover all “physically existing” files in many formats like MP4, MKV, MOV, M4A, MP3, JPG, PNG, PDF, DOC, DOCX, ZIP, PAGES, EMAIL, EML, and so on. Get Trash Recovery for Mac by clicking “Try for Mac” button and run it to start recover deleted files from Trash on Mac OS X.

How to Recover Trash Mac?

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Step 1 Select the deleted Trash files recovering mode. There are four modes to choose and they are: Lost File Recovery, Raw Data Recovery, Partition Recovery and Resume Recovery. Among them the first election is Lost File Recovery which can restore the deleted files from Mac trash within a few minutes. If it fails to retrieve data for you, just turn to “Raw Recovery”, with which, you can recover all your deleted files, but the shortcoming is the whole process needs more time.

Step 2 Find the emptied Trash files. Click “Lost File Recovery” and a window will pop up. In this window, you first need to choose the drive where your files are deleted and then hit “Scan” button to find out lost date.

When the program stops scanning, you will see all recoverable files with the original path list on the right of the main interface of the Trash Recovery for Mac. Clearly, the removed files from Trash load in Trash folder on the left.

Step 3 Preview Files before recovery. In this step, you can certainly tell if the file is the one that you want to recover.

Step 4 Recover Trash Mac. When you find the deleted file from Trash on Mac OS X, check it and click “Recover” button on the top to restore it. If you want to recover more than one file, just check the boxes before the files that you are desire to retrieve.

Remember: save the restore files to a different place rather that the same on where you deleted them, otherwise the files will be overwritten.

Conclusion

Your emptied Trash files are rescued by such a powerful tool and this detailed guide. If it doesn’t work for you, that’s because your deleted files are overwritten for your new files’ storage. In order to prevent this data loss thing from happening again, please check the Trash carefully before you empty it.