Data backup, is one of those things that we know we should do, but it’s awfully easy to ignore. Like the annual visit to the doctor, or a radiator service, we often put it off far longer than we should. It’s not that there aren’t enough choices, but too often, none are particularly easy to [...]
Flip has been a best selling video camera for the last few years. Resonating with consumers that wanted an affordable solution to post video online to video sharing sites, and didn’t want the complexity of high end video devices, these lil’ camcorders sold well. Really well. Apparently they have sold over 2 million of them [...]
Friday, December 14, 2007
I’ll say it again: “You can never be too rich, too thin, or have too many USB ports.” While the first two parts of the statement require some serious New Year’s resolutions, thankfully, for the USB part you won’t even have to break a sweat.
Thursday, August 23, 2007
If we decided to breed a mini USB hub with a USB flash drive, the Ridata Yego EZ Drive is pretty much what we would get. When I first heard about this product, I wondered if this combo would really work, but after playing with one over the last few days, I can say [...]
Thursday, August 16, 2007
More and more desktops connect to the internet via the wireless route. Both Bill and I have our main computers in a different part of the house than where our broadband modem is located in. Unfortunately, this means that we must deal with the hassle of a WiFi network.
While I had previously connected [...]
A little more than five years ago, Intel tried their hand in the peripherals business. They had an entire line of webcams, and their top model was one that could run on battery power, and capture images without the computer for downloading later. Since then, webcams and digital cameras have gone their separate [...]
Imagine for a minute that we’re an electronics company executive telling our engineers to design a really great entry level music player. Here’s what we would come up with. Firstly, the player needs to have one to two gigs of storage capacity. Add in a slot for removable memory cards so we never max out [...]
With large hard drives commonplace these days, the only thing that can realistically back up hundreds of gigs of data is another hard drive. The easiest and most cost effective option is a removable hard drive. This way the data backup is accomplished, and then the removable hard drive can be stowed away [...]
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
When you’ve got more drives than computers running, it becomes a challenge to be able to read them all. A mainstream solution is a USB drive enclosure (with less popular variants of Firewire, and external SATA). However, it gets real old, real fast, when every time I want to swap to a different drive, I [...]
With their convenience, just about everyone uses a USB flash drive to store their portable data nowadays. Even drives with one gig or more of capacity are affordable to everyone. Unfortunately, only a few drives come with the software to back up their data. And while it was easy to back up [...]
Sunday, December 10, 2006
The world of printers can be roughly divided into two categories: inkjets and lasers. Up until recently, inkjets were for home users and lasers for business applications. Along the way, the lines started to blur as “personal laser printers” became an emerging category. The Samsung ML-2010 is an example of this new [...]
Logitech is well known for some sleek computer peripherals, most notably their mice. They’ve been making speakers for quite some time now. It seems that every year, the speaker manufacturers put their best effort into their top end speaker systems that involve complete surround sound and monstrous subwoofers. On the other hand, [...]
Sunday, November 26, 2006
Can Logitech Reinvent the Mouse, Again?
Those crafty European designers of Logitech have been working their usual tricks to improve upon that most essential element of our computing experience- the mouse. A few months ago, they introduced the MX Revolution mouse. This is a desktop mouse that is quite notable for its refinement of [...]
Thursday, August 31, 2006
After some thought and research, I purchased the Garmin StreetPilot c320 for my GPS needs. (Or maybe those were more “wants” in my case…) While a map will get you there, a GPS unit is able to get you to your destination in electronic style. For the record, I bought it at [...]
Thursday, August 24, 2006
For carrying less than a gig of data, a USB flash drive can’t be beat. For hundreds of gigabytes, a full size external hard drive is the way to go. Somewhere in between these two extremes is the 40 to 160 GB capacity of the Aegis Portable External Hard Drive. It’s size is still convenient [...]
While it is quite common knowledge that Apple’s insanely popular iPod line is the number one music player, it is a lesser known fact that SanDisk is the solid number two provider of music players. The SanDisk Corporation is better known for their flash memory, and originally, they looked upon these players simply as [...]
One of the essential “must have” notebook accessories to have is a mouse. It’s quite amazing how even an ultraportable notebook can have a much larger feel of spaciousness with a comfortable mouse. Today, we’re looking at the Logitech V450 Laser Cordless Mouse for Notebooks. As the number one maker of mice [...]
“You can never be too rich, too thin, or have too many USB ports.”
I’ve commented before here on the importance of having enough USB ports available on your computer. Unfortunately, the reality is that most of our systems fall short by a few ports. Ok, many systems, especially notebooks fall short by a [...]
Following In Its Father’s Footsteps
Logitech, a European manufacturer, has consistently been at the forefront of keyboard and mouse development. While the company manufactures many different computer peripherals, such as speakers, webcams, and audio accessories, they are probably best known for their input devices. The current flagship mouse and keyboard is the diNovo Bluetooth Desktop Keyboard [...]
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Can I Learn To Love The Handheld That Was My Second Choice?
Well, after a month long escapade with the folks at Amazon I finally had my new handheld. It was no secret that I really wanted to switch to the competing Pocket PC from HP, but I could only purchase what they had in stock [...]
