If you've been following tech news this week, you probably came across the term "Honeycomb," Google's unofficial name for its new Google Android operating system.

Honeycomb -- technically Android version 3.0 -- is significant because it's designed for tablet computers, not just smartphones.

But on a lighter note, what's up with that name?

As it turns out, all Android operating systems are named after desserts. And, just in case that wasn't nerdy enough for you, Google put these sugary names in alphabetical order.

Here's the edible Android timeline: Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread and finally -- at least for now -- Honeycomb.

On this week's Tech Check podcast, a team of writers places bets on the next Android OS name. My guess: Icee. (Ice cream is too obvious. Sorry, Doug Gross). And guess what google has announced ICE CREAM SANDWHICH :p

The next logical question about this is simple: Why?

Google doesn't want to explain.

"It's kind of like an internal team thing, and we prefer to be a little bit -- how should I say -- a bit inscrutable in the matter, I'll say," said Randall Sarafa, a Google spokesman. "The obvious thing is that, yeah, the Android platform releases, they go by dessert names and by alphabetical order for the most part."

"For the most part" because two versions of Android, 2.0 and 2.1, were both called Eclair. And because Google won't say what it called the first two versions of Android, which you can assume started with "A" and "B."

"As far as the public knows, it started with Cupcake," Sarafa said.

"I have some ideas, but I don't actually know for sure," he said of the first two Android names. "That was, jeez, like four years ago."

A bit more geekery before you get on with your day: Google actually has built statues of these various Android desserts. They sit on the lawn at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, California.

There is a pretty surreal YouTube video of some guys wearing T-shirts and jeans (one has purple hair) and carting in the eclair statue.

"It's kind of a ridiculous thing to look at, right? They're huge," Sarafa said. "The gingerbread man is like 15 feet tall or something."

Of course, Google isn't the only hip-seeming tech company to employ quirky naming conventions. Apple's operating systems are named after cats, although there's some concern that they're running out of fearsome-sounding cat names

Have you ever accidentally deleted a file on your computer, removed a file from your jump drive or even formatted a camera memory card? Or maybe you can’t find your music collection after a system crash or a malware infection compromised your hard drive? Fortunately, the lost files and folders can often be recovered by using the best data recovery software. But how does data recovery software work?

When you delete a file on your computer the first place it goes is to the recycle bin. Emptying the recycle bin makes the file far less accessible, but doesn’t actually remove it. What really happens behind the scenes when you “delete” a file is that the computer’s file system removes the path to access that file, and designates the space that the file is using as being available for future use when needed. The ones and zeros that make up the file are still there on your computer, hidden until they are overwritten with another file. Parts of the file may stay on your hard drive for years, while other traces may be replaced within hours.

One way to visualize this situation is with a book representing the file. Let’s say you decide you don’t want the book anymore, so you put it in a bin to donate it to a paper recycling company. When you first “delete” the book it is still very much intact and easy to get back simply by pulling it out of the recycle bin. When the recycling company picks up your pile of books and takes them to their facility (emptying the recycle bin), they rip off the cover and put the pages of the book in a pile of other paper to be recycled. The text and pages of the book (the contents of your file) are still there, but without the cover they’re much harder to locate, and in the shuffle you might lose a page or two. As the recycling facility gets more paper in they have to shred the book to make more room for others. Once the pages are shredded it is beyond repair, but up to that point there’s still the possibility of getting the book back; it just takes more work than you’re probably willing to sacrifice for the book.

In our analogy, data recovery software essentially saves you from going to the recycling facility and sifting through the piles of paper to find the pages of your book. The software can do all of that for you, and even rebind the book for you. The process requires special tools and costs time and money, but ultimately it’s worth it if you have to have that book back for some reason – like if the book is a novel you spent years on, a hand-written journal or even a family photo album.

So while deleted files are inaccessible and are in danger of being overwritten, you can often recover them completely with professional data recovery tools. Data recovery software is designed to scour the drive and locate any recoverable data, piecing it back together and providing it in a salvageable format. The best data recovery applications provide a preview of recovered files, filtered and searchable results, easy file restoration and additional tools.

File recovery programs can be used to resurrect files of any type or size, from pictures, music and videos to documents and spreadsheets. Data recovery software can locate and restore emails, executables and compressed files. The best file recovery software can even maintain the folder organization of your files, and it may be able to recover a complete partition or drive.

The best file recovery software is also broad in scope, equipped to recover files from all sorts of storage media, regardless of how they connect to your computer or what file structures they use. Most data recovery needs are for files on the hard drive or a USB jump drive, but you can also recover files from CDs, DVDs, camera cards, MP3 players, external hard drives and more.

Of course no data recovery software is perfect; if a file has been partially overwritten or otherwise compromised, the chances of any usable recovery are low, even with the best recovery software. But if it hasn’t been too long since you accidentally deleted the file, the chances of complete recovery are pretty good.........

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The best way to recover from unexpected data loss is to be properly prepared. With one of the following tools on hand, you'll always be ready to save your data from the Reaper.

While the best defense against data loss is redundant and real-time backup, we understand that sometimes data loss sneaks right up on you. Whether your vacation pictures didn't make it safely from your camera to your computer or a bumbling roommate deleted the paper you've been working all week on, having emergency data recovery tools handy is crucial to getting your data back before it's gone forever. Earlier this week we asked you to share your favorite data recovery tools with us. We tallied up your favorites and now we're back with the nominees for best free data recovery tool.

TestDisk is a powerful open-source tool for recovering your data. Not only can TestDisk perform basic file recovery like undeleting accidentally deleted files from FAT, NTFS, and ext2 file systems, but it comes with a host of additional functionality. With TestDisk you can recover your boot sector from a backup, rebuild your boot sector, fix FAT tables, fix your MFT, locate the ext2/ext3 backup SuperBlock, copy deleted files from partitions to recovery media, and find lost partitions in dozens of formats to help you locate your lost data. It's a command line tool, so there's no GUI, but the menus and the documentation in the wiki should get you started without much trouble.

Recuva is a user-friendly Windows-based tool. When you run Recuva, you can resurrect missing files using either the file-recovery wizard or the application's manual mode. The file-recovery wizard is handy when you're sure your data is gone but you're not quite sure where it went or how to get it back. The wizard lets you narrow your search type to pictures, music, documents, video, or all files, and you can set the search location to everywhere on your computer, removable media only, in My Documents, the Recycle Bin, or a specified location. If you don't need the wizard you can jump right into manual mode and get to work searching where you know the file should be. Recuva uses a green/yellow/red light system to indicate how probable the recovery of your files will be, and when available, it can provide previews image files available for recovery. Recuva also includes a tool to securely wipe files you find, handy if you're attempting a file recovery just to ensure the files are actually dead and gone.

PhotoRec is a companion program to TestDisk, also included in this Hive Five. Like TestDisk, this app is also devoid of a GUI, but likewise is quite powerful at file recovery. We're including PhotoRec independently of TestDisk because many users distinctly prefer PhotoRec as a safer alternative when deep disk recovery isn't necessary. This recovery tool won't mess with your partitions or help you rebuild your master boot record; it will, however, dive into your disks in a safe, read-only mode and ignore partitions and file systems in an effort to seek out your missing files. PhotoRec focuses on file types, is operating-system agnostic, and despite its name, isn't relegated to just photos. Overall, PhotoRec is a powerful tool for quickly and safely copying your deleted files to another disk.

Restoration is a tiny, no-frills, portable recovery tool. You can use it in all versions of Windows and Windows file systems. It lacks some of the advanced functionality of other nominees but does have basic file-name search and the ability to sort by file parameters such as size and filename. Despite its tiny size, it performed just as well as the other nominees when tasked with restoring files from our test disks. Restoration weighs in at a mere 406k and would make a great addition to any Windows-based USB toolkit.

Undelete Plus used to be commercial software but has gone on a lengthy "limited time offer" freeware run. This file recovery app works on all versions of Windows and incarnations of the FAT and NTFS file systems. Like Recuva, Undelete Plus assigns a recovery probability to files it finds based on how damaged the file is. You can sort files by type, set filters based on time and size to avoid sifting through every deleted file on your disk, and keep folder structures intact when you perform your recovery.