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Data Rescue can help you retrieve lost files, whether they were destroyed in a hard-drive crash or just accidentally deleted by some overzealous trash-emptying.

This app has an easy--and even kind of fun--interface, with 3D animations that show available drives and your options for diagnosis and recovery. Once you've chosen a drive to examine, Data Rescue prompts you for an additional drive to use as "workspace" and gives you six choices: a Quick Scan or Deep Scan to find recoverable files; a Deleted Files Scan (good for an accidental deletion on an otherwise healthy drive); Clone, which … Read more

Today, it's a networking extravaganza. Our guest rescuer is Darren Kitchen, of Hak5, and the inventor of the WiFi Pineapple. We saved up networking questions for weeks for this show.

If you have a tech question for CNET to the Rescue, CALL US with your questions to get on the next show: 877-438-6688 or email rescue@cnet.com. No question is too basic, so if you've got a tech problem that's been getting under your skin, please call us and we'll try our best to help you out.

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There are several ways to get your music and video files out of the prison of your computer of portable media player and into the wide-open expanse of your living room or elsewhere in your house. Today on Rescue, special guest Donald Bell discusses several solutions, including Apple's own AirPlay and the popular Sonos line of media streamer products.

Also on this episode: How to manage an archive of music you've made and recorded yourself, how to stream your music into a car, the best way to stream video into your living room, and more.

If you have a tech question for CNET to the Rescue, e-mail rescue@cnet.com or call us to get on the next show: 877-438-6688. No question is too basic.

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Every year, CES breaks Las Vegas' Wi-Fi. So we bring mobile hotspots. And they break. CNET reporters try to cover live events, but we run out of AC power. And we can't find a places to sit and do our reporting. If you've ever attended a big conference or convention and tried to work at it, you may sympathize. So this week, we reveal how we (try to) get around these constraints, and how the lessons we learn can help you compute at your crowded events. Plus: Your questions answered, of course.

If you have a tech question for CNET to the Rescue, e-mail rescue@cnet.com or call us to get on the next show: 877-438-6688. No question is too basic.

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Today, we're going to spend some time on a topic that doesn't get much coverage but that affects pretty much all of us: Our home phones. You can just get phone service from your local telco and buy a phone from the local Best Buy without giving it much thought, but there really are a lot of interesting and cost-saving options for consumers, and we're going to talk about them today. We have a special guest to help out, as well: CNET News senior writer Maggie Reardon, dialing in today via phone alternative Skype, from New York.

If you have a tech question for CNET to the Rescue, call us with your questions to get on the next show: 877-438-6688. No question is too basic, so if you've got a tech problem that's been getting under your skin, please call us and we'll try our best to help you out. The next Rescue after this will will air January 12, so if you have a critical problem, ask a 14-year-old geek, and then drop a line to let us know what your problem was and how it was fixed.

If you have a tech question for CNET to the Rescue, e-mail rescue@cnet.com or call us to get on the next show: 877-438-6688. No question is too basic.

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This week, as we gear up for holiday travel, we have a special show on preparing to help out your less-than-geeky parents, brothers, sisters, in-laws, and assorted relatives. You know they're going to ask you for tech support. How do you talk to them? Do you fix their computer? With what tools? We're joined today by special guest Seth Rosenblatt of CNET.com, who can fill us in.

If you have a tech question for CNET to the Rescue, e-mail rescue@cnet.com or call us to get on the next show: 877-438-6688. No question is too basic.

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It's time to cut the cord: to dump your expensive cable or satellite connection and replace it with over-the-air or Internet services, or lower-priced, possibly, or a la carte streaming. We have a special guest today, CNET's David Katzmaier from the New York office, who's been doing exactly this, and writing up his experiences in his ongoing feature, "Diary of a cord cutter."

If you have a tech question for CNET to the Rescue, e-mail rescue@cnet.com or call us to get on the next show: 877-438-6688. No question is too basic.

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This week, we're talking about storage. What with people using multiple ways to access their data, and new technologies coming along to store it, managing the storage of your digital assets is now more complicated and interesting than ever. So today we're covering those issues, and taking your questions on the topic as well, with our special guest CNET labs technology editor Dong Ngo.

If you have a tech question for CNET to the Rescue, e-mail rescue@cnet.com or call us to get on the next show: 877-438-6688. No question is too basic.

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CNET cell phone editor Kent German is with us this week to talk about mobile devices, mobile carriers, and, if you really love mobile, how to dump your landline services altogether.

Next week we'll have Dong Ngo with us to talk about storage. If you have a tech question for CNET to the Rescue on this (or any other) topic, call us to get on next week's show: 877-438-6688. Or e-mail rescue@cnet.com.

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