This Seagate tool determines the model of the installed hard drive.
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After releasing a bug-fixing firmware that actually caused havoc by potentially rendering some drives seemingly dead, Seagate on Thursday offered this statement:
Seagate has isolated a potential firmware issue in limited number of Barracuda 7200.11 hard …
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(Credit: TX WEA)The gist of backing up is as simple as copying files from one place to another. However, the actual work of getting this done is still a lot more complicated than some people can handle. I’ve met people who make copies of desktop shortcuts, thinking they have backed up their documents, or those who think the computer’s optical (DVD/CD) drive can be used as a retractable cup-holder.
(This might sounds like an old joke, but take a look at the drive; you’ll see that they kind of have a point.)
But now, there’s a new, easier way to back up your files, using a new type of optical media–AutoSave discs–recently introduced by a French company called TX WEA.
In a nutshell, the product is a blank optical media disc that isn’t blank at all. It has backup software embedded that runs as you insert the media into the computer’s optical drive.
AutoRun is not new and can be even annoying sometimes. The difference of AutoSave is the fact that the software automatically saves photos, e-mails, and Office documents on the particular disc you just insert; you even have the option to encrypt the backed-up files.
The product comes in four styles:
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If small in size but big in capacity aren’t good enough for you, Transcend on Wednesday will offer a little extra with a new member in its StoreJet external hard drive family.
The StoreJet 25F external hard drive.
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The new StoreJet 25F comes in a designer gloss …
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The Platinum i-Series from iHarmonix produces better sounds than the headset Apple includes with the iPhone.
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Once in a while you get something and like it so much you wonder why you hadn’t gotten it a long time ago. Or, as in my case, why you didn’t use it.
This happened back during CES. I was given a headset from iHarmonix, the Platinum i-Series, as a freebie. I didn’t have a chance to really use it until just now and asked myself why I waited so long.
The headset’s sound is much better than that of Apple’s OEM included with the iPhone. For the first time, I can enjoy the bass and really control the multifunction button (that ends calls as well as controls music playback), thanks to its round shape and larger size. The iPhone’s included headset has a very tiny button that’s hard to press on. It was almost impossible for me to make a successful jump to a previous track.
What I like best, however, is the fact that the Platinum i-Series is black instead of having the same white color as Apple’s headset. Now I can blend in without people looking at me and thinking, “Oh I know, you got an iPhone, all right.”
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I don’t know about you but for me, losing that gut has always been one of my New Year’s resolutions. I don’t mind being called fat, it’s just that after Thanksgiving, Christmas, the New Year, and especially CES (tons of junk food), now when I sit …
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An Android-based smartphone, the G1 from T-Mobile.
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After preloading an iPhone app on Sansumg camera phones and expanding to Mexico, Scanbuy announced Tuesday that its ScanLife multi-bar code reader is now compatible for mobile phones running on Google Android.
As in any other mobile devices, the ScanLife application, …
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After some time focusing on 2.5-inch hard drives and sort of neglecting the 3.5-inch segment, Seagate announced on Tuesday its new Cheetah 15K.7 and Cheetah NS.2 hard drives.
These high-speed drives are geared toward enterprise storage environments by offering speed, capacity, and reliability, along with low …
Netgear shows off its Internet TV Player at CES 2009.
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The main networking themes at CES 2009: faster, greener, and more diverse.
The nicest surprise, however, was not a product but the return of Buffalo. After two years of court sanctions, Buffalo now has regained the right to sell networking products in North America. It’s interesting that in the Chinese calendar, 2009 is also the year of the Ox.
The company offers a few sleek-looking routers, both Wireless-N and Wireless-G. In my experience, Buffalo offers great budget routers, which are affordable and yet reliable at the same time. This is good news for consumers.
While Buffalo’s portfolio doesn’t contain anything revolutionary, Trendnet D-Link showed off new Wireless-N routers that offer speeds up to 450Mbps, a 50 percent boost from its cap of 300Mbps. This is achieved by adding more single streams to an antenna, much like adding more garden hoses to better the watering. The new technology uses three signal streams per antenna.
The new speed is based on a common standard, and therefore, once certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance, routers and adapters from different vendors will inter-operate at the new high speed.
Speaking of the Wi-Fi Alliance, the organization, together with In-Stat, released at CES a report saying that the consumption of Wi-Fi chips increased by 26 percent in 2008. The group expects this momentum to continue into 2009.
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Originally posted at CES 2009
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The G-Fi GPS router is about the size of an iPhone.
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It’s the last day of CES, and I ran into a sort of unusual networking device called G-Fi from PosiMotion. It’s the first router I’ve known that doesn’t have the ability to share …
Originally posted at CES 2009
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The RangeMax Dual Band Wireless-N Router + DSL Modem DGND3300 from Netgear.
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If you sign up for a DSL Internet service, chances are you will be offered a router and modem combo device.
I would normally recommend against this kind of combo deal, as it doesn’…
Originally posted at CES 2009
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