Google’s 5-minute outage kills 40% of Internet traffic
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| Google Down For Five Min - IMAGINARY PICTURE |
The disruption started around 4.37pm Pacific Time (7.37am, Saturday, Singapore time) and lasted between one and five minutes, according the Google Apps dashboard. Online tech website The Register said all services were back online by 4.48pm.
The blackout affected Google’s services simultaneously, including Google Drive, Search, YouTube and Gmail.
Internet traffic across the globe plunged in the wake of Google’s services failure, reported India’s Hindustan Times.
According to the report by Web analytics firm GoSquared, global Internet numbers fell 40 per cent, an indication of the tech giant’s hold over global Internet services.
GoSquared developer Simon Tabor told the Sky News television channel: “That’s huge. It’s also of note that page views spiked shortly afterwards, as users managed to get to destinations.”
Digital expert Phil Dearson, Head of Strategy for integrated marketing agency Tribal Worldwide, said the disruption cost Google an estimated US$500,000 (S$637,000) in the few minutes that it was down.
“This is completely unprecedented, I’ve never heard of anything like this before,” he said.
However, tech news website Tech News Plus said it is a drop in the ocean for Google. It said Google generates US$40 billion in annual revenue and that the spike in traffic when services resumed would have adjusted for the initial loss.
Google has acknowledged and addressed the outage on its Google App Status dashboard but did not offer a reason behind the failure.
Industry experts Tech News Plus spoke to are confident it was not the result of any hacking activity. They also said the downtime was an isolated incident and the tech giant did not suffer any meaningful damage.
Quoting Sterling Market Intelligence’s researcher Greg Sterling, The Financial Times said: “This individual outage doesn’t matter. The idea that Google could go down is unsettling to people but it doesn’t create a problem for the company unless it starts to happen more frequently.”
Mr Sterling later joked that “somebody in Mountain View probably unplugged something, then plugged it back in”.
The last time Google experienced such an outage was in 2009.
The Finance Post e-magazine said the outage sparked panic on Twitter as afflicted users rushed to the microblog to get details from other users.
According to Twitter, there was a sudden and very drastic spike in the volume of tweets during those five minutes. Other online users also took to other social networks to air concern over the outage. AGENCIES
Source - http://www.informationweek.com
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Top 15 blogging and publishing platforms on the Internet today. Which one suits you best?
Reading the signs a couple of years ago it was easy to assume that the art of blogging was set to die a painful death at the hands of social networks like Facebook and Twitter and others. While social has changed how we communicate online, blogging remains a core part of things.
In fact, the truth is that there’s never been a better time to blog. Social networks help build audiences and deliver content to readers, and more established blogs and websites often link to or aggregate smaller sites, sending swarms of viewers to read articles —The Daily Mail aside(from the www.thenextweb.com).
So, whether you’re a blogger returning from a break, seeking a new home or are looking to write online for the first time, here’s our guide to what blogging platforms are out there.
WordPress: WordPress.com and WordPress.org
WordPress has two options: a freemium hosted service that provides .wordpress.com domains — e.g. jonrussell.wordpress.com (but you can still pay to use your own domain) — and includes limited customization. Or the completey free .org version which allows for you to host WordPress on your own servers with much more control, edit themes to your hearts content, hack code and add as many WordPress plugins as you wish.
It is, in simple terms, the daddy of blogging. The platform powers almost 19 percent of the Web and has been downloaded more than 45 million times.
One of the platform’s core strengths is its community of creatives, who have produced thousands of customizations and tweaks allowing WordPress users to add sophisticated and powerful plug-ins (features) to their blogs, or dress it up in a new layout or design.
Pros: Customization, customization, customization!
Cons: Vast array of options can be complicated for less-experienced users — tread carefully.
Verdict: Still the best option out there. WordPress is especially useful for companies or those looking to develop (or have someone else develop) a sophisticated website.
Blogger: Blogger.com
Google’s take on blogging is Blogger, an easy-to-use and free platform that requires only a Gmail/Google account to get started.
Blogger blogs can be customized with new backgrounds and layouts easily. Unsurprisingly, the platform is hardwired into Google’s AdSense advertising program (which might make the average blogger enough money for a cup of coffee each month) and other Google services like Google+ (for comments) and Feedburner (for RSS distribution) are easily configured.
Pros: Easy to use and get started.
Cons: Not particularly sophisticated and tied to Google — which killed off Google Reader, lest we forget.
Verdict: Less popular in this era, but Blogger is often the place where many, including this author, began writing online. Its customization options pale in comparison compared to others, and the layout looks a little dated when held against newer platforms.
Tumblr: Tumblr.com
The cool kid on the blogging block, Tumblr was arguably the first mainstream service to combine blogging and social media…leading eventually to Yahoo stumping up $1.1 billion to buy it.
Tumblr has a strong community of users, much like Twitter or Facebook, thanks to the ease in which other users’ content can be reblogged to your Tumblr account. That makes it a different kind of platform to the likes of WordPress, and users — particularly of the younger generation — tend to turn to Tumblr blogs to curate items that they like rather than produce their own content.
More benefits: Tumblr supports custom domain names and is ludicrously easy to use from mobile, including photo uploads.
Pros: Owned by Yahoo — Tumblr was almost out of money when Yahoo swooped in to buy it.
Cons: Owned by Yahoo — Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has hinted that ads could make their way to Tumblr blogs.
Verdict: More of a social network than a blog, but a good option if you seek something quick and easy. Indeed, we’re noticing increasing numbers of companies that keep Tumblr blogs, often separately to their main blogs.
Medium: Medium.com
If blogs were bars, Medium is probably the hippest place to be seen at right now. Not only was it started by Twitter founders Ev Williams and Biz Stone, but has a ‘social layer’ — which includes a feature letting users edit and annotate other people’s work, while it obviously integrates well with Twitter.
Medium is cool but there are some key differences compared to other platforms. For one thing, its features are rigid while the way it links to other content on its network can frustrate writers enough to leave. Twitter has been called the global town square and, in that context, Medium a side room away from the 140-character shouting and chaos where people try to work over interesting topics in more detail.
The service isn’t yet open to all, but Medium has long been seeding invites and existing users can ask friends to contribute, which signs them up to the service. The company also appears to also dish out invites based on conversations it sees on Twitter.
Pros: A great place to showcase your content to a (potentially) large audience.
Cons: Lack of customization and some content discovery issues, for writers.
Verdict: Medium is well worth trying, but many of the folks that write there use it as a secondary or tertiary blog.
Svbtle: Svbtle.com
The blogging platform from designer Dustin Curtis has, in my opinion, the slickest user experience of any blogging platform out there. (Speaking as someone who has a Svbtle blog.)
The user interface feels like a doodle pad or to-do list, making it a place where I can easily jot down thoughts and come up/develop ideas, while it runs in Markdown.
Just looking at the layout that readers see shows the elegance and thought behind the site. Svbtle does allow prospective users to apply to join, you can make your case via the email address listed on the site.
Pros: Beautifully designed.
Cons: Open to a selective number of users. Interestingly, it doesn’t include a commenting system — perhaps a pro and con.
Verdict: A delightful blogging platform that is only available for a few at this point, though the Svbtle website says it will be open to all soon.
Quora: Quora.com
You might be surprised to see popular question and answer site Quora feature here, but it added user blogs back in January 2012.
As a platform for showcasing knowledge, bloggers that are seeking to tell stories or impart wisdom about particular topics may find Quora useful. Posts can be categorized using Quora tags — to make them searchable — and, with a little luck and the right content, they can become visible and widely shared.
However, there’s no personalization and Quora is very much a place to showcase writing and knowledge rather than be your ‘home’ on the Web.
Pros: Strong community that soaks up new and interesting content.
Cons: Lacks personalization and ‘homely’ feel of a personal blog.
Verdict: Quora blogs are interesting for influencers, those seeking to elevate their status or others wanting to tap into the Quora community. That makes it better suited as a secondary of tertiary blog.
Postach.io: Postach.io
Popular note-taking app Evernote lets you share content written within its platform, but it’s not really a blog. That’s where Postach.io comes into play.
The blogging service slots into Evernote, allowing you to write posts right from the service using a dedicated notebook and set keywords like ‘published’, ‘page’ or ‘avatar’. More than just writing content from Evernote, Postach.io hooks into comment engine Disqus, supports Google Analytics, allows for custom domains, social sharing and — interestingly — Markdown.
The service is currently in beta but those features, plus a decent selection of customizable themes, gives Postach.io a Posterous-like, easy-blogging feel.
Pros: Light-weight and easy to use.
Con: Limited customization.
Verdict: A relatively new arrival on the blogging scene, courtesy of Evernote’s community of third-party apps and services, this is worth considering for jotting down quick thoughts or multimedia-rich posts.
Google+: Plus.google.com
Is Google+ a social network? Well, Google says it isn’t — the company believes it’s somewhat broader than that — and a range of the service’s top users write blog like content there, often generating seeing impressive engagement. TNW contributor Robert Scoble has, for example, cut back on his blog in favor of“betting my future” on Google+.
Ultimately Google+ is not a blog, but it is a place where you can blog if you want to tap into a community to drive engagement. These days most content is shared to social media, so why not start it on social media? That’s up to you.
Pros: Google+ has a strong community, despite the reports.
Cons: Not a blog platform so no customization or other features.
Verdict: Good enough for some people, so not to be dismissed as an option.
Facebook Notes: Facebook.com/notes
At the risk of treating all social networks as blogs, something we’ve no intention of doing here, Facebook has been added because its Notes feature is, essentially, a blog platform.
Connected to the world’s largest social network, Facebook Notes allows you to pen posts with all the basic features, such as images, URLs, block quotes, etc. While it won’t win awards for design and sophistication, it’s a simple way to get the message out — especially if you’re a person with an established following on Facebook.
Pros: 1.1 billion people user Facebook each month.
Cons: There’s a lot more to the Web than just Facebook.
Verdict: We’ve got enough of Facebook already, particularly when there are a plethora of services dedicated to providing a dedicated blogging experience, rather than adding it as a mere feature.
SETT: Sett.com
SETT is a new, community-focused blogging platform that promises engagement. Similar in style to Medium and Svbtle, it claims it can help writers get 98 percent more comments — on average — and a lot more attention, just based on its community of users.
The platform allows readers to follow blogs, find similar posts and bloggers, communicate with each other — there’s even a ‘room’ where readers can discuss topics from a blog. The site is clearly focused on engagement, promising to help cultivate an audience and community for its bloggers.
Pros: Boasts impressive engagement and opportunities to find audiences.
Cons: Still in its early days, and without the features of other platforms.
Verdict: This promising platform may be worth investigating as a means to help establish an audience, but we can’t help but feel that there’s only so many guarantees you can make for engagement. Ultimately, good content drives readers and audiences.
Ghost: Tryghost.org
Ghost is an open-sourced blogging platform that successfully graduated from Kickstarter in May 2013 having raising near $200,000 — well above its modest $25,000 goal.
For now, the service is only open to those who backed it on Kickstarter, but the company says it will be available to the public “around the end of summer 2013,” which is not too long to wait.
The platform has garnered much praise across the Web for its elegance and its team promises to “inspire” bloggers with a fully customizable system, including “the full Ghost software with all bells, whistles, themes, plugins, and some extras that are only available with us,” responsive design, “revolutionary” dashboard, and more.
Pros: Brings a fresh style and new approach.
Cons: Not available right now, while finer details — including price — are still be to communicated.
Verdict: Ghost has rightly got a lot of people excited and it promises to bring new impetus to blogging. We’ll have to wait for more details, however.
SquareSpace: SquareSpace.com
SquareSpace is a blogging platform that is popular with business users. Developing and hosting blogs is just one part, and it can be used to create and manage a range of websites, such as e-commerce sites.
Unlike most of the others, there is no free option, bar a 14-day trial, with sites priced upwards of $8 per month via an annual plan. That plan encompasses all elements of your blog or website, however, including cloud-based hosting and maintenance.
Pros: Wholly comprehensive set of features and services, gorgeously designed.
Cons: Pricey and perhaps better suited to creating a business website, than anything specifically blog focused
Verdict: A must-consider if you’re a business, but other options will be better if you’re setting up a blog or site on a smaller scale.
Typepad: Typepad.com
Another blogging old-timer, TypePad has been about since the word ‘blog’ began. Today, a blog on Typepad costs upwards upwards of $8.95 per month, which includes a set of designs, unlimited storage and customer service.
Typepad emphasizes its reliability, and certainly the platform has always been a more ‘out-of-the-box’ service that is easier to use, but less customizable and powerful than WordPress.
Pros: Easy to set up and use.
Cons: Not free and contains limitations.
Verdict: Typepad still has its users, including cult blogger Seth Godin, but other options have greater freedom, including your own custom domain name.
Posthaven: Posthaven.com
Posthaven arose from the shutdown of Posterous, which finally disappeared off the Web this year under the ownership of Twitter.
The service costs $5 per month and essentially replicates the Posterous ‘light-blogging’ experience, allowing posts and multimedia to be easily and quickly published. The Posthaven team promises it will never be acquired or go offline, two things that hit users of Posterous hard.
Pros: Not in danger of going offline.
Cons: Still in its infancy and adding some features other services already offer.
Verdict: A good option for those who loved Posterous and are prepared to invest in their blogging, in the knowledge that paying for a service provides security for the future.
UPDATE — We’ve added LinkedIn
LinkedIn Influencers: Linkedin.com/today/influencers
The Web’s top business social networking service launched blogs for ‘Influencers’ back in October 2012, signing up 150 prominent business leaders, including the likes of Richard Branson and President Obama.
Unfortunately, the chances are that those reading this almost certainly don’t qualify for a LinkedIn blog — this is for the real Internet 1 percenters. Given the way that LinkedIn is increasingly turning its social network into a communication platform for users and businesses, it remains entirely possible that blogs could become available to rest of us in time. But don’t count on it.
Pro: Platform for a few privileged few.
Cons: Platform for a few privileged few.
Verdict: Not an option for the regular Internet Joe just yet.
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Finally, let’s pour one out for the fallen heroes of the blogging revolution.
Posterous: Posterous’ days always seemed numbered when it was acquired by Twitter in March 2012 in a deal that appeared to have been done to get hold of the developer talent behind the site. That fateful day confirming its closurecame in February, and Posterous left the Internet on April 30 2013.
Xanga: One-time blogging pioneer Xanga remains on life-support after a campaign to raise $60,000 just passed the target. The company is collecting contributions until the end of August, after which it will relaunch. Perhaps our obituary is a little premature?
LiveJournal: Not dead just yet, but this former blockbuster is now a community-based social network owned by a Russian media company.
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Over to you: Did we miss one from our list? Which blogging platform is your favorite and why?
Source - www.thenextweb.com
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How to put Vertical Line(not horizontal, and images) in HTML or HTML5 by HR/ TAG
As we all draw horizontal Line easily by using <hr/> tag in HTML.Today we will Learn how to draw vertical LINE in html by using <hr/> tag.
As we can also use image but the drawback is that, it take time to download.
So lets see.
<hr width="1" size="500" />what does above code did.
by hr/ tag it draw a horizontal line but the trick behind it is we set it width to 1 px and size to 500 that means it will give a height of 500px and it will set its shape as a vertical straight Line.
Result: By using this code you can easily draw a verical line of 500 px.
Try This.
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Free Css3, Css Menu For Website
You can download free Css and Css3 menu for website from this blog.
Effect used : CSS3 Transition, HTML
You can use this menu in your website.
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Forza Motorsport 5
Forza Motorsport 5, from Turn 10 Studios, is the latest edition of the highest-rated racing franchise of the past 10 years. Forza Motorsport 5 is one of the first games in the works for Microsoft's newly unveiled Xbox One console.
Forza Motorsport 5 sets a new bar for racing games. With the power of Xbox and the cloud, no game better delivers the sensation of being behind the wheel. Forza Motorsport 5 was the first game shown by Microsoft during its Xbox One reveal stream.
Forza Motorsport 5 will be available at the launch of the Xbox One, and Microsoft plans to show off more at E3.
source:-polygon.com, youtube.com
You can watch everything on SlowMotion a new feature to YouTube
Google on Tuesday announced
a minor feature addition that will likely take the online video world
by storm: YouTube slow motion videos. The company claims its tool can
create a smooth, slomo video that looks as if it was filmed with a
high-speed camera.To create a slomo video, visit the Enhancements tool or the YouTube Editor and apply it to one of your existing videos. You’ll get a smooth, slomo video that makes it look like it was filmed with a high-speed camera. Here’s a video reduced to 1/8th speed to give you an idea how it looks:
Below is a before and after example. Here’s the original video:
Before:
This is the same video reduced to one-eighth the speed:
After:
Turn your next video into an epic slomo moment, and check out the rest of the free Enhancement tools available to help you build a whole channel filled with awesome videos of any speed.
Eron Steger, Software Engineer, recently watched ”The Beards - Got Me a Beard”
Google seems to think this is a good thing: “What’s the best way to make slomo better? Let everyone make their own slomo video on YouTube.”
If you’re wondering, YouTube currently also offers the following enhancements:
- Auto-fix: Performs a one click-fix to enhance the video’s lighting and color.
- Lighting and color: To manually adjust lighting and color, click the icon next to Auto-fix to open a panel of controls.
- Stabilize: Adjusts the video to correct any shakiness.
- Trim: Clip parts off the beginning and/or end of your video.
- Filters: The left side of the page shows pre-set color filters that you can apply to your video to give them a stylish and unique look.
- Face blurring: Protect the anonymity of people in your video.
Source - www.youtubecreator.blogspot.in, www.thenextweb.com
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Google is moving all Buzz post to its Drive on july 17 after a year of its shutdown
Google’s former try on a social network, Buzz, has gone through a slow,
painful death behind closed doors, and it seems as if Google has finally decided to officially pull the plug on the service. After being unavailable to the general public for a year, Google announced on Saturday that all Google Buzz posts will be moved to Google Drive.Back in February 2010, Google launched Buzz, perhaps a precursor to Google+, and was a service that the company hoped would bring you the news and keep the chatter to a minimum.
More than a year later, Google Buzz was shuttered and company Vice President of Product Bradley Horowitz said at the time that the lessons that Google learned from the products short existence would be used in other services like Google+.
Google says that it will transition all user data from Buzz over to Google Drive till July 17th — none of which will count against a user’s storage limit. The first set of files are private and contain a snapshot of the public and private Buzz posts that a user authored.
The second set of files will be a user’s public posts on Buzz and be viewable to anyone with access to the link. Google says that these posts could appear in search results and in their Google Profile, if it’s linked to the Buzz posts.
Comments made on Buzz posts in the past will be saved to the author’s files and not yours. Authors are the only ones that can change the sharing settings of those files — Google emphasizes that should the author make their posts public and you have a comment on there, you have no control over its appearance. The company’s response to any reaction: delete your Buzz content now if you don’t want that to happen.
Google says all Buzz files will be treated “the same as any other Drive file”, meaning that they can be downloaded, updated, or deleted.
If you’re interested in finding out what you’ve shared or commented on, you can do so by going to your Google profile page.
Source :- www.thenextweb.com, www.makeuseof.com, Google News, Google Drive Blog.
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Google adds ‘Reset profile settings’ feature to Chromium which will to fix issues and clean up changes made by malware
This means that by using the “Reset profile
settings” users can revert any changes that were made to their browser
either by themselves or by malware, The Next Web reports. All settings are reset to their original state, without wasting time to do everything manually.
The feature lets you reset the default search engine, homepage, content settings, cookies and site data, as well as the extensions that were added to the browser.
We can assume that the list will change, with a possible future version allowing users to choose in more detail what they want to reset and what to keep the same.
Google has been ramping up its efforts to fight malware targeting Chrome, apps and extensions.
Chromium is the open source Web browser project that shares much of the same code as Google Chrome. Google often adds new features there first.
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Keep History For Things You’ve Copied Or Moved
How many Control/Command + C (copy) you do on daily basis
with your computer? I did at least 250 times a day, just to transfer
small little data from one place to another for Eg. When we do chat and we want to send the URL of the site to a friend we copy the URL. Here’s the limitation – the
normal Control/Command + C only allows you to hold the latest
copy of information in clipboard, the rest are all replaced whenever you
re-use the function. Have you ever copied an URL or little piece of content but couldn’t remember because you’ve re-used the Control/Command + C?ControlC will solve your problem. Anytime you copy a text content with the Control/Command + C shortcut, ControlC will upload that particular content to their server and stored it under your account. That means you can see a list of things you copied with Control/Command + C like a history or similar.
How To Use it ??
Customization Option??- 9 themes come default letting you stylize controlc as you like.
- Star favorite items. Delete sensitive ones. Blacklist programs.
- Advanced search lets you narrow down the program, date & title.
Is It Secured??
We’ve copied could be something pretty confidential, and it sound
risky to have it transfer over the internet but ControlC says this:
all your history is saved to a database on your computer in a encrypted, secured database.
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THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE: DESTINY
THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE: DESTINY
We’re expecting to see gameplay 10 June during Sony’s PlayStation E3 press conference. But from the creators who brought us Halo and the publishers of Call of Duty, this title is expected to be a good one of the gaming universe.
The clip was directed by Swingers actor and Iron Man director Jon Favreau.
Destiny will release on PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.
Source:- www.YouTube.com
Interesting Google Interface You May Have Not Seen Before
You may have been familiar with Google-doodle. If not here is the Doodle definition from Google.
- Type in the keywords
- Hit I’m feeling lucky
- Observe the result
Doodles are the fun, surprising, and sometimes spontaneous changes that are made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and the lives of famous artists, pioneers, and scientists.But Interface is different the replace the whole site when you search certain type of words and instead you clicking on search button. You clicked on the button next to it "I'm Feeling Lucky" and you get redirected into some exciting page :)
So let’s get started.
Here is some of my favorite Interface of Google:-
Here are the keywords and their result pages.
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keyword: google gothic
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keyword: google cheese
After hitting on "I’m Feeling Lucky", you will be brought to moon.google.com. Zoom the map to maximum.
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keyword: google l33t
keyword: elgoog
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keyword: linux
keyword: bsd
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keyword: google ewmew
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keyword: google klingon
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keyword: google piglatin
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keyword: google easter egg
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keyword: google bork
Source :- www.hongkiat.com, www.google.com/doodles/about
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How to repair scratched CD/DVD or Blue Ray Disk
As simple as applying toothpaste on scratched surface,
rinse disc with water and dry it are able to recover your shiny-ness and
data? It’s really quite unbelievable.Here’s a video that demonstrate how it can be done.
And If It Doesn't Work Than You Can Try Some Tips
Tips
- If the disc is an Xbox 360 game, attempt to return it for an exchange. Your mileage may vary, but Microsoft saved about 25¢ on the build cost of the Xbox 360 by not including safety measures which would prevent a lot of scratches. Most stores have deals worked out with the distributors to where they can get credit for damaged discs, but only discs that were damaged inside the 360. Such discs will have deep radial scratches, sometimes not around the entire circumference of the disc. It could not hurt to try. (Try a few stores actually; the worst they can do is say no.)
- The polycarbonate bottom layer of the disk acts as a lens, which focuses a larger patch of laser light down to a smaller size needed to see the track on the data layer. This lets the laser look through some small imperfections on the plastic surface which are much larger than the track on the data layer. Removing a lot of plastic can affect the refractive property of the lens making the data unreadable. This means that even a visibly scuffed or spider-web of scratches may play well because, though the defects are visible to your eye, the laser sees around/through them. This is why waxing can help. A repair does not have to look perfectly polished to work.
- Deep gouges are not repairable. However, because of the way redundancy is used in the data on the disc and the way the data are distributed along the spiral track, cleaning a disc area away from a scratch can improve data recovery; a number of smaller defects distributed along the track can be as bad or worse than one larger defect.
- It is a good idea to create a backup of any data disc before damage occurs.
- If it still does not work after you tried everything, use it as a coaster for your beverages.
- A number of CD cleaning and repair kits are available for sale, but many users report that these do not work any better than Brasso, and they’re far more expensive.
- With Xbox 360 discs, if you use one of the temporary methods, you can install the game to the hard drive by going to the game library, clicking on the game, then install game. This doesn't always work, as the Xbox has to access the disc to verify it as legitimate.
- Practice repairing scratched CD's that you do not care much about before you set out to repair your favorites.
- You can buy a disc scratch remover from most game stores. It works for all types of CD's with a light level of scratches.
- To remove deep or stubborn scratches quickly, try using a dry "Mr. Clean Magic Eraser". This is a sponge impregnated with a micro abrasive. Use light pressure, wiping from the center of the disk to the outside edge just as described with other polishing methods. The repaired area can be buffed until shiny using the other polishing or waxing techniques described.
- If a CD is scratched but continues to play correctly, make a backup, but do not bother trying to repair it yet.
- Tracks on a musical CD go from the inside to the outside of the disc. Thus, scratches in the shape of a concentric circle causes the most damage due to the interruption of many consecutive data bits. This means that the Reed-Solomon error correction algorithm could fail to apply guesses and generate the missing data.
- Use a quality CD drive from a desktop computer. If you are trying to read a dual layer disc or scratched disc with a front loaded (slip in) CD drive, you can pretty much forget about getting a good read. These drives are notorious for having poorly calibrated/calibrating lasers and are practical useless for anything but brand new CD's. This has been documented by many a repair technician.
- Severely damaged CDs may not be repairable. Very deep scratches and cracks that reach the CD's foil may render a CD forever useless. It does not take much to damage a CD. As a matter of fact, the Disc Eraser utilizes this principle to render CD's and DVD's unreadable, which is useful to have if you want to get rid of sensitive discs.
- If all else fails, you could always take it to your nearest video/gaming store to repair it.
Source :- www.wikihow.com, www.hongkiat.com
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