Prior to January’s MacWorld convention, Apple released several news bulletins. One of which is that Steve Jobs will not be attending as the keynote speaker. The other one is that the succeeding releases of Apple MacBooks and iBooks will no longer support Firewire connectors.
Both news are significant, but for ordinary users, the latter one has [...]
Sony recently recalled more than a 100,000 PC batteries. These are not just for the Sony Vaio but also for HP, Dell and Toshiba laptops. And of the 100,000 batteries, about 35,000 of them were installed in laptops sold in the United States.
This is not the first time there was a battery recall. Sony’s reason [...]
Whenever I buy a new computer the main problem has always been migrating the contents of one hard disk to the other. In most instances, this is pretty straight-forward. Even with advances in technology, there’s always some sort of backward compatibility to fall back on to do the job.
For instance, migrating to SATA from IDE [...]
A while back, there was a point in time when Iomega storage devices were the backup media of choice for desktops, small office and home office environments. Now that it’s an EMC company, it’s again becoming more aggressive in the backup media and data storage market for personal use, small office and home office.
Iomega recently [...]
A 13-layer network security appliance for the desktop or notebook, the Yoggie Gatekeeper series is a powerful accessory for personal use. The Gatekeeper comes in two flavors: the Gatekeepter ExpressCard and the Pico.
The only difference between these two devices is their size. The ExpressCard is about credit-card sized attachment, and the Pico is a USB [...]
The USB flash drive has become the de facto standard for mobile data transfer. The flash drive has effectively taken the place of the floppy disk. One floppy disk function which the flash drive has not addressed (or at least users are not aware of it) is to use it to boot a computer.
For most [...]
A USB hub is a repeater, or an octopus connection for the USB port. As such, it’s a non-managing, no maintenance piece of equipment you plug in and forget. Most cases, a USB hub is used because the user ran out of USB ports, although sometimes the USB hub is there as a repeater because [...]
Source: ElectronicHouse.com
LG Electronics recently released the LG HS-102 Ultra-Mobile Projector which is a palm-sized projector capable of throwing a 20-inch image from 50-cm away. This is LG’s second generation projector which uses LEDs instead of a bulb. Rated at 50,000+ hours, the LEDs are practically guaranteed for life-time use. The innovations [...]
I have no idea what I’ll do with 1.0TB, as I don’t store movies on my computer. I’m still a DVD disk as source and backup kind of guy. But there are terabyte hard disks out there and two of the most cost-effective are from Seagate and Samsung.
As hard disks go, the Seagate Barracuda ST31500341AS [...]