Free recovery software for mac

Undercover 3.2 is a very serviceable tool which routinely checks with the Undercover server. In case of theft, the Mac's unique Undercover ID is added to the list on the Undercover server, initiating the recovery process. During the recovery phase, Undercover transmits its current location on the internet, enabling the Undercover team to identify the computer's exact physical location. Moreover, Undercover also sends screenshots of the stolen Mac, revealing details of the thief's identity. The Undercover recovery center will then work with law enforcement to recover the Mac.

In case recovery fails, the software has an ingenious plan B: it will simulate a hardware failure, urging the thief to send the computer in for repair or sell it. As soon as the thief gets rid of the Mac, Undercover will warn the new user that the Mac has been stolen and that it should be returned as soon as possible. The computer will shout from time to time that it has been stolen and Undercover will take over the screen, displaying how the Mac can be returned while making the computer unusable.

safecopy is an open source data recovery tool which tries to extract as much data as possible from a problematic (i.e. damaged sectors) source - like floppy drives, CDs, tape devices, harddisk partitions, ..., where other tools like dd would fail doe to I/O errors.
A main problem with damaged storage hardware is, that once you get an unrecoverable IO error further reading from the file / device often fails until the file has been closed and re-opened.
The normal copy tools like cat, cp or dd do not allow creation of an image file from a disk or CD-ROM once reading of a sector failed.
Safecopy tries to get as much data from the source as possible, even resorting to device specific low level operations if applicable.

Enhancements
- Safecopy has been internally redesigned to improve reliability and predictability of behavior.
- It now comes with a textual behavior specification and a self test suite, complete... with a glibc wrapper library to simulate IO errors on virtual files.
- Blocksize autodetection now also works in combination with low level device access. Blocksizes can now be specified as a percentage of the file size or as multiples of the hardware blocksize, making these options much easier to use.
- New option presets provide shortcuts for multi-stage data rescue with minimum commandline typing effort

EZ Money is a useful financial tool. It helps simplify managing your money by allowing you to itemize and budget your spending. EZ Money is available for download free of charge.
Main features:
- Checkbook style transactions - EZ Money provides a checkbook style form for creating transactions that is as easy to use as writing a check.
- Purchase itemization - With EZ Money, you can personalize your own real life categories for your purchases. This ensures that you always know where your money is being spent.
- Spending management - Establish monthly budgets to manage how much money you are spending on specific things. EZ Money will provide you with detailed information for each of your budgets as well as alert you when you have spent more than you had planned.
- Monthly bills monitoring - Always stay on top of your monthly bills and their due dates with EZ Moneys reminders. Reminders keep track of your monthly obligations and alert you when they are overdue.
- EZ Web Reports - As of version 2.2.0, EZ Money can create web style reports of your data that you can save, print, and publish. Whether you need an account statement for reconciling or you need to post a budget report for your department, EZ Web Reports are the solution.
- Support for importing & exporting data - If you are already using a financial manager or if your bank provides downloadable statements, you can import existing data into EZ Money. Also, data created with EZ Money can be exported into most commercial financial applications.
- Privacy protection - EZ Money does not require you to provide any data concerning your real life accounts, nor does it transmit any of your data across the Internet. Every transaction you create with EZ Money is safe and secure.
- Data recovery - With EZ Moneys data rescue facility, your financial data is always protected from accidental changes by allowing you to easily recover your data.
- Runs on any platform that supports Java - Using Java technology, EZ Money can run on any platform that has it installed, allowing you to choose the system you want to use it on.

Data Rescue 3.0.1 is an outstanding utility which can work when other tools fail and is completely safe to use since it does not attempt any risky repairs to the drive it's scanning.

Do you have a corrupt hard drive or one that no longer mounts? Are other Mac file recovery utilities failing to even recognize your bad drive? Do you need to recover files that have been deleted? Data Rescue 3 is the best data recovery software on the market for recovering files from a problem hard drive or that have been previously deleted.

Data Rescue 3 is the same software used by many data recovery services! Data Rescue 3 has saved our customers from having to use a data recovery service, which can cost thousands. You will need to save your recovered files to either an internal or external hard drive (USB or FireWire), removable media device (such as a Zip or MO) or a networked drive. An optional emergency bootable DVD is available.

Requirements:

• Firewire, USB 2.0, or second internal drive to recover to.
• Supports OS X 10.6.
  

FileVaporizer 0.5b brings an advanced and complete shell and desktop tool. FileVaporizer by Geneffects freely does one main free function: takes files you don't want anyone to see, messes them up beyond recovery and then deletes the files. Anyone wanting to snoop around on your hard drive and find those files with a file recovery system will be all, "hunh?" FileVaporizer frees up space on your hard drive and frees you from worries. Is FileVaporizer better than the other programs out there which do basically the same thing? No. Is it free? Oh, mais oui.

PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost pictures or lost files from digital camera memory (CompactFlash, Memory Stick, SecureDigital, SmartMedia, Microdrive, MMC, USB Memory Drives...), even Hard Disks and CDRom.
It works at least with FAT, NTFS, EXT2/EXT3 filesystem even if they are severely damaged.
PhotoRec is safe to use, it will never attempt to write to the drive or memory support you are about to recover from. Recovered files are instead written in the directory from where you are running the PhotoRec program.
PhotoRec is free, it is distributed under GNU Public License.
Enhancements:
- Many improvements and support for new file formats.