If your storage device has become damaged, corrupt or indeed infected by a virus, you may need to avail of a Data Recovery service in order to recover important files, images, etc.

In order to retrieve your files, please send your device to Clever-Stuff Ltd at the address below.  On receiving your device, we will ascertain if the files can be retrieved. 
This initial examination is completed free of charge. 
We will then update you on the estimated cost of the data retrieval.  Please see price guide below for further details.

Please send your device to the following address with a brief fault description:
Luke Noonan
Clever-Stuff Ltd – Data Recovery
24 Scrubs Lane,
London,
NW10 6RA

Note: Please also include your contact details including email, phone number and mailing address when sending the device.

Price guide according to seriousness of failure:

If you require EXPRESS or EMERGENCY recovery, please detail this in an email to our technical team.
Categories are based on the level of damage to the device and how difficult it is to retrieve lost data.
All prices are estimates only and based sight unseen on your device. All prices are based on a single chip device of average capacity of 1GB.  VAT applies to UK sales; other taxes may apply to International cases.

We accept the following methods of payment:
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Our portable camcorder range will aid education both in the classroom and during time spent outdoors.

Please note the following short-list of areas where our camcorder range may be utilised in schools:

• Assessment of performance in classrooms
• Creating a portfolio for artwork, music, poems taught and learned throughout the year.
• Demonstrates how to sing songs, the air of songs, teaching techniques.
• Recording of drama – Kids can see how to improve.
• Recording of Christmas plays
• Demonstration of games
• Assessment of skills

We are quite sure that teachers can think of many more helpful and practical applications for the camcorder in school!
For a more detailed and comprehensive list of benefits please see the following link  >  Evaluator

 disgo Video and Evaluator; simple point and shoot, one-touch recording devices.  Allows for playback on a TV or PC and can be connected to a projector or electronic whiteboard if necessary.  The video clips can also be saved from the SD card to a PC for storage and playback.

You can check out details of the new Evaluator unit via the main disgo education page, or by clicking HERE

The “Evaluator” unit for Education has been developed in a range of educational learning environments and subjects at Paignton Community Sports College and the University College of St Mark and St John. We have spent many hours working on how the product should be produced to best fit the needs of the education sector. It has been designed to:
• record sound and video images
• be simple to use
• instantly playback without the need to rewind/fast forward
• allow video images to be saved to file or played directly onto a larger screen from the unit (TV screen or PC monitor)
• be low cost so that students can be given free access to use the units
• playback in slow motion to allow analysis of activities

We have developed the “Evaluator” with the assistance of both Jason Trevarthen and Stuart Taylor who have wide ranging experience working with video imagery in the education sector. From this there came a realisation that a simple, low cost, option should be readily available. An easy to use, hand held unit would have a greater impact and also empower students rather than the teacher taking charge of equipment due to cost issues. That’s where we stepped in to help with the development on the “Evaluator”.
Most curriculum areas and learning styles can benefit from the “Evaluator”, some examples of possible use:

• Assessment for learning – students recording own work and reviewing, reflection of progress
• Physical Education- recording movement and refinement
• Student Council/ Student Voice –view points of students
• Technology – recording safety demonstrations and noting key points, reviewing coursework
• Foreign Language – use of language, expression
• Music/ Drama/ Media- performance improvement, examination recording
• History – role play
• Geography – field work recording
• English- discussion, poetry, performance, communication
• Simple moderation and presentations for coursework
• HEI Initial teacher training – modelling elements of lesson

“The “Evaluator” has the potential to impact on every child through its simplistic effectiveness. Pupils progress is greatly enhanced as students embrace the technology. Ownership of learning, increased confidence, improved motivation levels, positive behaviour and ultimately higher achievement and standards reflect the positive impact this device could have as a tool for education!” Jason Trevarthen – Paignton Community Sports College

Stuart Taylor is a Lecturer of Coach and Physical Education at UCP Marjon, Plymouth where he works with ITT Physical Education students.  Stuart is also editor of Sport IQ Publications, a company specialising in interactive teaching resources. He has recently contributed to a new book, Improving Teaching and Learning in Physical Education specifically focusing on ICT within the curriculum.

Jason Trevarthen is Director of Specialism and Assistant Principal at Paignton Community Sports College. He is a Professional tutor and been involved in various ICT related projects aimed at Whole College/School impact on standards. Jason is also the pioneer behind the development of “Sound Assist” – an Audio assisted teacher training product, as featured in the Guardian, TES and Teachers TV.
Although similar in specifications to the disgo video, the new Evaluator unit will also have a slow-motion feature. 

Technical Specification
Display: 2.0 inch TFT
Memory: External: SD/MMC card slot (max 2GB) 1GB SD included
Dimensions: 106mm(L) × 62mm(W) × 33mm(H)
Weight: 72g (without battery)
Image Sensor: VGA 640×480 (300k pixels)
Video Resolution: QVGA 320×240 pixels
Video frame rate: Up to 30 fps
File format: AVI
Slow-Motion feature: playback at half normal speed.
Power Source: 2 × AA batteries (included)
Battery life: 60 minutes recording or 70 minutes playback
Interface: USB 1.1
OSD Language: English
Power Control: Auto Power Off, Manual Off
Exposure: Auto
White Balance: Auto
Lens: fixed
Warranty: 2 years manufactures’ warranty
Operating System: Windows: Windows ME/2000/XP/Vista

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disgo Gatekeeper wins 3rd place in Gadget of the Year 2008!

Channel 5’s – The Gadget Show, December, 2008

Please click the following link in order to view the top gadgets of 2008!

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Also, don’t forget to view the complete Gadget Show review here!

disgo Video Pro: “What more could you want?!”
Whether you’re whizzing down frosty ski slopes or snuggled up by a roaring fire make sure you capture all of your holiday memories this winter.

You can by winning one of four disgo video Pro camcorders it’s as simple as point, shoot and go and we are giving away one each to four lucky people.

If you love the idea of filming your family and friends while you have fun in the snow but don’t want to spend the earth on a new camcorder then get yourself a video Pro!

This cute camcorder is dinky enough to slip in to your bag or pocket without skimping on any features.

It can play, pause, delete, rewind and fast forward clips and also comes with a web photo button, which allows you to take still photos, while its flip-out screen, rotating to 180 degrees, allows for self-recording!

There’s no complicated software to install on this little gem as the designers have thoughtfully built-in the editing software – why can’t everything in life be so simple?  Powered by two AA batteries, the disgo video Pro comes with a 1GB Micro SD card – ample for a spot of home movie making.

This sassy little gadget also boasts a 1.5 inch flip-out colour screen and digital zoom, a built-in microphone and speaker.

What more could you want?

Device offers professional security for work and home
Yoggie Gatekeeper Card Pro is for businesses and home users.

PC security is like money; you can never have too much of it, and that holds true whether you work in a large office or in your own home. Office PCs are these days increasingly protected by dedicated hardware appliances. However, for reasons of cash and expertise – or a lack of both – home PC users generally rely on an anti-virus program and, if they are sensible, this is backed up by a software firewall.

But if you think that makes you safe, think again. Anti-virus programs and software firewalls can be disabled by malware, leaving your PC vulnerable to phishing and botnet attacks that sap your computer’s power and slow it to a crawl – quite apart from the risk of identity theft.

One defence against these horrors is the Yoggie Gatekeeper Card Pro. The Gatekeeper, about the size of a standard ExpressCard, plugs into a PC and sits between your machine and the internet, guarding your system and data against intrusions by viruses, trojans, worms and spyware.

Intended both for professional organisations and for the home user, the Yoggie Gatekeeper can be used in Corporate (managed) mode as part of an office network or as a standalone device, with the user setting up their own security policy.

A supplied CD contains driver and software, together with a 70-page user manual – and a Quick Start guide for users who lack the patience to plough their way through full user manuals. However, be sure to read one of these guides and to follow the installation instructions.

Designed primarily for laptops, the Yoggie Gatekeeper Card can be connected to a desktop PC using an adaptor (not supplied).

Once installed, the built-in software automatically takes care of updating virus signatures, so it’s a fit and forget defence.

The card is managed via a web-based management dashboard which provides status reports and security logs, and a way to configure device and network settings, as well as setting security policy. The console relies heavily on graphics, presenting information that’s easily understood.

Any home user feeling intimidated by the prospect of installing what is in effect a professional gateway can rest easy: the manual walks you through all the processes, including monitoring security activity, configuring VPN and firewall settings, spam protection setup, and web filtering.

The manual also explains how to uninstall the device. But why would you want to do that when it provides excellent all-round security and peace of mind!

The 500GB hard disk drive that moonlights as a PVR
The Disgo Media Bank describes itself as a “digital video, picture and music player”.

It’s essentially a 500GB external hard disk drive with a simplistic menu, built-in audio/video codecs and a remote control.

Disgo has, however, slapped on an extra layer of functionality to set the Media Bank apart from other multimedia-themed drives. In addition to its digital audio/video playback and JPEG slide shows, the Disgo Media Bank can also record video.

This is an external HDD that claims to be a PVR.

Store 500GB of entertainment

So you can hook the Disgo Media Bank up to a Freeview or Sky+ box (via composite AV cables and a Scart adapter) and directly grab video. It also works with DVD players. Ripped footage is converted into an AVI file on the fly.

You’ve got to look harder for the Media Bank’s so-called PVR talents. Delve into the Record options and you’ll find a rudimentary start/stop timer function.

This mimics an old VHS player by recording whatever channel you’ve selected. There are six slots for one-off scheduled recordings – no clever ’series link’ or repeat options though. On the ‘high’ setting (640×480 pixels), an hour of recorded video will take up about 600MB of storage space.

The Disgo Media Bank also features an ‘Auto Stop’ recording option. You can find something similar on the Archos range of PMPs. It enables you to record a selected channel or capture a video source for a certain period of time (say two hours) before stopping.

This mode is ideal for dumping content you’ve already recorded to the hard disk overnight. You can then convert the AVI files again to play on a portable device.

In our tests the quality of the recorded video on the Disgo Media Bank was hit-and-miss – playback was decent enough when a show was recorded as a one-off. In comparison, video was often juddery and jumpy when a scheduled recording was tried.

DivX file playback

Beyond its primitive PVR functionality, the Disgo Media Bank is still a versatile playback device. For starters, it supports a wide range of video formats, including: VOB, DivX 3.11, 4x, 5x, XVID, MP4 and AVI files. Photos are limited to JPEGs, but MP3, WMA, AC3, AAC and WAV codecs are built-in for audio.

As hard disk drives go, the Disgo Media Bank is reasonably attractive, thanks to its clean lines and electric blue LEDs. Its squat, yet curvy shape is eerily reminiscent of Sega’s failed Saturn games console.

On the right-hand side of the box, there are SD/MMC/CF memory card slots; while around the back you’ll find the two AV-in jacks, AC-in and a USB port.

The Media Bank easily connects to a PC or Mac via USB and can be browsed just like any other standalone hard disk.

If there’s a criticism it’s that this media player/HDD combo can’t be networked in any way – there’s no Ethernet port or Wi-Fi module to enable remote access. The barely graphical menu system is also poor – navigating between the various menu options is often sluggish, a delay caused by the 3.5-inch SATA hard drive spinning up.

The Media Bank doesn’t break any new ground – it’s a roomy external hard disk with a remote-controlled menu. The TVIX HD M4000P, for example, matches the Media Bank’s 500GB capacity and media playback options. The Archos TV+ has similar recording capabilities and a prettier menu system, but only half the storage capacity.

While many manufacturers are attempting to use UPnP streaming technologies to bridge the gap between the computer and the TV, the Disgo Media Bank has no such ambitions.

It’s more expensive than a comparable 500GB HDD, so you’re paying the extra for some fairly basic PVR functionality.

disgo Media Bank: Scart? Are you having a laugh?
Are you looking for a way of recording television or watching video you’ve downloaded from the Internet? disgo thinks it’s got the ideal product for you, the Media Bank. There’s only one problem: it’s standard definition, and that upsets us.

So, what does the disgo Media Bank do? Well, first off, you can connect it to your computer over USB2 and copy files to its built-in 500GB hard drive. That’s a handy feature if you download stuff off the Web and want to watch it on your TV, but there’s no network socket, so you’ll need to move the disgo to your computer every time you want to transfer something. Happily there are compact flash and SD/MMC readers too, which offer another route to get video, photos and music on to your TV.

You can also set the disgo to record from your digital set-top box, enabling you to record your favourite TV shows to the hard drive. To be honest, we’d far rather the company had put a digital tuner in the machine itself, because recording over Scart — oh, did we not mention? You have to use Scart — really doesn’t cut the mustard these days.

We plugged the disgo Media Bank into our Panasonic plasma TV to see what the interface looked like, and what files it would play. The good news is that while it’s happy with XviD and MPEG-2 video, regrettably it wouldn’t play QuickTime or WMV. The interface was simple but not especially beautiful, and to begin with the picture quality was terrible, with jagged lines around everything and nasty patterning everywhere. This was improved slightly by setting the box to output progressive video, but the picture was still far from brilliant.

And that’s the main problem with the disgo. It’s an analogue product in a digital world. Sure, it’ll play your digital media, to a point, but it only features analogue outputs, which is just crazy. We can understand this is necessary for recording from Freeview, but for outputting it’s a missed opportunity and seriously degrades the picture quality.

At least Archos had the decency to include an HDMI socket on its TV+ and the ability to record TV via component inputs. If we’re honest, in the days of flat panels, that really is the least we’d expect a company to include.

Given the choice between buying this and the Archos TV+, which is more expensive and scored 5.3 in our review, we’d suggest the TV+ is a better buy. And we think that probably speaks volumes. The Media Bank costs £170 and is available from the disgo Web site.

Yoggie Pico: Security on a stick
Come back, come back, this is NOT a USB key! It’s a tiny PC — seriously — that can keep your main computer free from viruses, worms, spyware identity and data theft, phishing, spam, IP spoofing and DoS attacks.

The Pico is essentially a USB firewall that intercepts all Web traffic before it’s processed by your PC. Its onboard antivirus software scans this traffic, cleans it if necessary, then returns the data to your PC for use as normal. All this is done in the background, so you don’t have to put up with intrusive pop-ups asking you to make security decisions.

Inside the Pico is an Intel PXA270 processor, which runs at 520MHz. It also has 128MB of SD RAM and 128MB of flash memory for storage purposes. It runs a stripped-down version of the Linux operating system, has anti-virus and anti-spyware from Kasperski Labs, and Web filtering and parental controls by SurfControl.

To stop the Pico itself becoming infected, the operating system is contained on two Flash memory units. Flash A contains the operating system. When the device is booted, a clean copy of the operating system is transferred to Flash B, and access to Flash A is disabled. The security apps then run on Flash B, which is wiped when the device is turned off.

All this enables the Pico to provide a very similar level of security as the corporate network you use at the work. The tech folks here at Crave aren’t stupid enough to rely on software alone to protect us from malware, and now you don’t have to either.

Yoggie reckons the Pico won’t slow down your PC, despite it running over a USB 2.0 connection. It actually says it will make your PC faster than if you used traditional anti-virus software — which can hog CPU resources and become fat and bloated after several months of downloading virus updates.

We’ve only been using it for a short while now, and despite our best efforts, we’re yet to be infected.

The system inspires a lot of confidence to surf the Web with reckless abandon — there aren’t any Web sites we consider out of bounds now we have the Pico. Even Pocket-lint.

Gadget of the day – disgo Media Bank
We’re forever telling ourselves that storage is the least sexy thing on planet gadget.  And to be fair, we’re not far wrong.  But, like laying cable, having a place to stash your media is unavoidable.

disgo’s Media Bank has really caught our eye.  Cramming in more than ample 500GB of storage, you’ll find space for music videos and snaps.

So far, so average.  But add to that it’s PVR powers, letting you record shows straight from your set-top box, either manually or scheduled, and your looking at a winner.

Our favourite part though? The £169 price tag.  No more burning resentment for paying over the odds for a place to store last weeks Richard and Judy, your questionable Carry on… collection and good ‘ol Phil Collins.  Glory days.

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