Software and utilities for data recovery from virtually any storage media. Simple and intuitive tools allow for recovery of damaged, inaccessible, or deleted files, documents, videos, and images from hard drives, solid-state drives, and memory cards.
Sysadmins and forensic specialists benefit from getting access to damaged or working virtual machines, corrupted or malfunction RAID 0-6 arrays, and other complex software and hardware configurations.
Among other tools:
Linux Recovery: Free recovery of Linux files and partitions from Windows
Partition Recovery: An expert tool for recovering lost partitions
Linux Reader: File and folder access on Ext, UFS, HFS, ReiserFS, or APFS file systems from Windows
Uneraser: Restore any deleted or corrupted file from NTFS, FAT32/exFAT/FAT, APFS, etc.
What it is: Plane Finder is a flight tracking tool that’s easy for beginners to use but still offers detailed information on flights in real-time. It shows aircraft positions, flight numbers, departure and arrival airports, and more, either in your browser or via its free app. 🔗 https://planefinder.net/
✈️ Airplanes.Live — Data-Rich Flight Map
What it is: Airplanes.Live provides a more data-intensive view of aircraft movements. It includes many details that aren’t available on Flightradar24, such as military and government flights. The interface is more utilitarian, but the depth of data is its key strength. 🔗 https://globe.airplanes.live/
What it is: Airloom emphasizes design and visual experience over raw data. It uses flight data (sourced from Airplanes.Live) to show beautiful animations of flights in real-time — ideal for screens or as an engaging way to watch air traffic. It’s not as informative as other trackers, but stands out for its artistic presentation. 🔗 https://objectiveunclear.com/
📻 LiveATC — Air Traffic Radio (Bonus mention)
What it is: LiveATC isn’t a flight tracker in the map sense — instead, it lets you listen to live air traffic control communications from airports and heliports around the world. It’s great if you want the sound of flight operations and pilot-controller chatter. 🔗 https://www.liveatc.net/
What it is: FlightAware is one of the most widely used global flight tracking platforms. It offers real-time flight positions, detailed flight status data (such as departures, arrivals, delays), and predictive features. It aggregates data from its own extensive network of ADS-B receivers and multiple aviation sources to provide broad global coverage. FlightAware also supports historical flight data and is used by both aviation professionals and enthusiasts. 🔗 https://flightaware.com/
What it is: RadarBox (recently rebranded from RadarBox24) is a real-time aircraft tracking service that displays flights on an interactive map with details like aircraft type, flight number, altitude, speed, origins/destinations, and airport information. It pulls data from a blend of terrestrial and satellite ADS-B networks and offers additional tools like historical flight playback, notifications, and aviation analytics — useful for spotters, journalists, and professionals. 🔗 https://www.radarbox.com/
🧠 OpenSky Network — Open Data Flight Tracking for Research
What it is: The OpenSky Network is a non-profit, research-oriented flight tracking platform that collects and shares raw ADS-B and other surveillance data. Unlike commercial trackers, its focus is on open access to high-quality aviation data for academic and scientific use, though it also provides a live flight map and APIs for developers and hobbyists. 🔗 https://opensky-network.org/
What it is: ADS‑B Exchange (often abbreviated ADSBx) is a flight tracking platform built from a global crowd of volunteer ADS‑B, Mode S, and MLAT feeders, meaning its map shows aircraft based on real, unfiltered data collected by participants around the world. Unlike many commercial trackers, ADS‑B Exchange does not block or censor aircraft data, including military and private flights if a feeder receives them — making it popular among aviation enthusiasts and researchers. 🔗 https://www.adsbexchange.com/
🌍 adsb.fi — Community‑Driven Open Flight Tracker
What it is:adsb.fi is a community‑built global flight tracking site with thousands of feeders contributing real‑time ADS‑B data. Its focus is on open, unfiltered air traffic data, presented on an interactive map and updated live. As with other community projects, users can host their own ADS‑B receivers to help improve coverage. 🔗 https://adsb.fi/
😂 ADSB.lol — Unfiltered Flight Tracking with Open Data Focus
What it is:ADSB.lol is a flight tracker that emphasizes free, unfiltered data and accessibility, providing an open‑data API and public historical archives under open permissive terms. It is run by enthusiasts and is often used by hobbyists or developers who want access to raw flight data without the restrictions seen on some commercial sites. 🔗 https://adsb.lol/
📡 TheAirTraffic — Global Flight Data Aggregator
What it is:TheAirTraffic is a newer global flight tracking site created by aviation data community Ground Control. It aims to provide unrestricted access to both real‑time and historical flight data, combining features from more traditional trackers with an open approach to aircraft tracking. 🔗 https://theairtraffic.com/
What it is:PlaneSpotters.net is primarily known as a civil aviation database with extensive aircraft photos, fleet info, and spotting resources, but it also hosts its own flight tracker based on community ADS‑B feeds. While still growing, it represents another enthusiast‑driven alternative in the ecosystem. 🔗 https://www.planespotters.net/
What it is:ADSB Hub isn’t a traditional viewer like the others above; it’s an open‑source software package that lets you set up your own ADS‑B receiver and aggregate local data feeds. Users can display aircraft positions and tracks on their own map, and share that data publicly if they choose — effectively enabling them to build their own community flight tracker. 🔗 https://github.com/ (search for “ADSB Hub” on GitHub)
Bonus
adsb.one – A community aggregator for ADS‑B data.
Plane.watch – A community‑hosted flight tracker showing real‑time traffic.
live‑military‑mode‑s.eu – Focuses on military aircraft tracking.
adsb.chaos‑consulting.de – A non‑commercial tracker run by aviation enthusiasts.
Comparison
Tool
Real‑Time Tracking
Open/Unfiltered Data
Historical Data / Playback
Military / Private Visible
API / Developer Access
Flightradar24
✔️ Yes — global real‑time aircraft positions on a map (ADS‑B + other sources) (Wikipedia)
❌ Commercial; some data filtered
✔️ Replay & historical data (tier varies by subscription) (Wikipedia)
⚠️ Limited — some military/private flights suppressed by design (Reddit)
✔️ Yes (commercial API & data products)
FlightAware
✔️ Yes — broad real‑time tracking via own ADS‑B + other sources (FlightAware)
Suunto Routeplanner (at routeplanner.suunto.com) is a web-based outdoor route planning tool from Suunto that lets you create, edit and manage routes on a large desktop map before syncing them with your Suunto account and compatible devices. It offers interactive drawing and routing (freehand or snapped to trails/roads), integrates heatmap data for many sport types to help you choose popular paths, and shows distance, elevation gain/loss and profile information. You can import/export standard files like GPX/FIT, add custom waypoints, adjust routing modes (e.g., running vs cycling), share route links and save routes to your Suunto account for automatic sync with the mobile app and watch navigation.
Suunto Routeplanner is an alternative or complement to Komoot and other map services for planning outdoor trips.
There’s a command-line utility called shred, which overwrites data in a file or a whole device with random bits, making it nearly impossible to recover.
First of all, you need to identify the name of the device.
This might be something like /dev/sdb or /dev/hdb (but not like /dev/sdb1, that’s a partition). You can use sudo fdisk -l to list all connected storage devices, and find your external hard drive there.
N.B. Make sure it is the correct device, picking the wrong device will wipe it.
Unmount all currently mounted partitions on that device, if any. Then run the following, replacing /dev/sdX with the name of your device:
sudo shred -v /dev/sdX
This will overwrite all the blocks on the device with random data three times, the -v flag is for verbose and will print the current progress.
You can add the option -nN to only do this N times, to save time on large capacity devices. This might take a while, depending on the size of your external hard drive (I think it takes twenty minutes or so for my 4 GB flash drive).
You can also set all bits to zero after the last iteration by adding the option -z, I prefer to do this.
sudo shred -v -n1 -z /dev/sdX
After this, you would have to repartition the device. The easiest way is to install GParted and use it:
sudo apt-get install gparted
gksu gparted
Choose your device in the upper-right corner list. Then select Device -> Create partition table to create a partition table on the device.
Then add a single partition that uses all of the unallocated space on the device, choosing fat32 as the file system. Apply the changes by click the Apply button (the green checkmark) in the toolbar.
noScribe is an AI-based software designed for transcribing audio, particularly useful for qualitative social research and journalistic interviews. The software is free, open-source (licensed under GPL-3.0), and operates entirely offline, meaning no data is sent to the cloud, ensuring privacy. It can recognize up to 99 languages and distinguish between different speakers, which is particularly helpful for interviews with multiple participants.
The software includes an editor that allows users to review, verify, and correct the transcriptions manually. It utilizes advanced AI models, such as OpenAI’s Whisper, faster-whisper by Guillaume Klein, and pyannote by Hervé Bredin, for the transcription process.
It requires a relatively up-to-date computer to function efficiently, slower systems may result in long transcription times. The software is around 3.7 GB, poor audio quality may lead to transcription errors.
noScribe aims to reduce the difficulty of transcription for researchers and journalists, offering a reliable, private, and easy-to-use tool for processing interviews.