December, 2008Archive for

64GB USB Flash Voyager

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Recently, I maxed out the small and old 30GB hard drive on my laptop. I needed more storage, but it also had to be portable. Corsair recently launched the perfect solution to my storage dilemma: a 64GB flash drive. The 64GB USB Flash Voyager has enough capacity for a library of full-length movies and tens of thousands of high-resolution digital images. The drive’s rubbery shell is cool, too. In fact, it makes the drive water resistant and rugged, so you can rest easy, knowing your data is...

Toshiba Blu-ray DVD XD-E500

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It’s been a blue year for Toshiba. The company threw in the towel to end the so-called format wars last March, making the HD DVD obsolete overnight. As of press time, the company hasn’t jumped on the blue bandwagon with its own Blu-ray Disc (BD) players, which play the winning high-def format from its erstwhile rival, Sony. Instead, Toshiba is still swinging at Blu-ray, just with the other fist. Its new DVD player can up convert existing movie collections to HDTV resolutions so well, the com...

Don’t Toss That Old Hard Drive

Internal hard drives, both for desktops and laptops have dropped so dramatically in price in recent years that many consumers regularly replace their drives with beefier models to accommodate their ever-expanding collections of video files, music, and other storage hungry content. But that practice can present a challenge: Do you try to sell the old drive for pennies on the dollar or simply discard it? Now, you don’t have to do either. Thermal take has devised a unique solution to using i...

SpiderOak Providing All-in-One Online Backup

SpiderOak announced an upgrade to its suite of online backup-related services for home and business users. New features in SpiderOak 2.0 include a fourfold increase in application speed, faster file retrieval from extra-large folders, and reduced memory usage during backups as well as browsing. These enhancements augment SpiderOak's other benefits, including 'multi computer - multi platform - single location' backup and advanced de-duplication that cuts backup/sync time by as much as 90% while c...
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