PhotoRescue Now Klix
JoeSoft’s Klix is the new, renamed version of Prosoft’s PhotoRescue. If your camera’s memory card becomes corrupted, or even if you reformat or delete photos from your camera’s memory card, Klix can get them back for you.
Amazingly, it uses up to different 12 data recovery algorithms to find the recovery strategy that’s best for each image. It then displays previews of your images, so you can choose the ones you want to recover. It works extremely well, as long as you haven’t written over the data on the card.
You can use the demo version of Klix to see if it will work on your specific problem, and then if it does, pay JoeSoft $30 to buy Klix. If you rely on your photos being intact, I recommend keeping a copy of Klix on your hard drive as insurance.
(Note: the product hasn’t changed companies — JoeSoft is a new, consumer-friendly subsidiary of Prosoft, with several other products worth exploring.)
Jeff Gamet is a contributing editor for Design Tools Monthly, the executive summary of graphic design news. He is also the morning editor and reviews editor for The Mac Observer and iPodObserver.com, and contributing writer for Layers Magazine and Photoshop User. He writes the InBrief column for InDesign Magazine, and is the author of “The Designer’s Guide to Mac OS X,” from Peachpit Press
When Jeff isn’t writing about the graphic design world, he’s talking about it on the Design Tools Weekly podcast with co-host Jay Nelson. He also talks about Apple and the Mac world every week on The Mac Observer’s Apple Weekly Report.
Jeff studies, tests and reviews new software and technologies for the Macintosh community as well as the design and print industries. He is a former Pre-press specialist, and has nearly 25 years experience with computer technology. Jeff trains, lectures and consults on techniques for more efficiently using Mac OS X in creative environments throughout the country.
In the rare moments when he can get away from his MacBook Pro, Jeff spends his time climbing and biking in the Colorado mountains.