If you're in the New York City metropolitan area and are in need of hard drive recovery, I'd recommend WeRecoverData.com - Data Recovery Labs.
For the curious, I paid $1200 after a free analysis of two drives (I'm dumb, I didn't know which one was broken). I don't remember if I got the busted hard drive back, but I did get the functioning one back plus a set of CDs or DVDs with the recovered data on it. One caveat is that the recovered data needs to be retrieved with a Windows program because the data spans multiple discs.
Other than that, I was very happy with the service. The girl at the desk is Filipino and the guy who answers the phone talks with a funny accent (English? Aussie?).
Oh AOL... When will you ever learn...
The problem with AOL is that it isn't the Internet. And it tries to be. Releasing this software is a step in the right direction (away from their dial-up software), but it's still wrong. Who wants a crappy, bloated media-center everything-whatsamajig? I know I don't.
It's called OpenRide, and you can take a tour! Complete with talking Flash movie.
One of the worst "features" they're pitching has to be the "Dynasizer". They've even trademarked the name. I mean, really? Dynasizer? Something that dynamically resizes four window panes? Whoa cowboy, step back! Make some room! This is the Dynasizer, know what I'm sayin'?
The frame rate in the movie for demonstrating the Dynasizer was really shitty. I bet you it was filmed on a PC. Frame rates for video will always be shitty on the PC. Like this Flash site for the new Blackberry Pearl. Shitty frame rate! Maybe it's the computer I'm using. But this isn't a sucky computer. What kind of multimedia specs are they requiring of their viewers for a not so sucky experience? I'm at a loss. I wanted to learn more about this new Blackberry, but the site is too slow.
[via towleroad]