Well it’s finally happening. Products supporting the much anticipated (and blazing fast) USB 3.0 standard are slowly trickling out. And while it’s unfortunate that Intel isn’t integrating support for the standard into its chipsets until 2011, consumers can upgrade their PC motherboard or add a PCI expansion card to take advantage of a few of [...]
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2 Comments »I’m going to try and prevent this from turning into a rant, but I want to point out a dangerous trend to which nobody is paying much attention. I was reading about recent additions to Canon’s line of Vixia camcorders, and noticed that there seems to be a feature war between the various video camera [...]
Posted in Cameras, Consumer Electronics, Flash Memory, Hard Drives, PCs and Laptops, Storage, Video Tags: backup, Camcorder, flash, HD, media, memory, storage 4 Comments »One of the more interesting (and less useful) projects I undertook a few years back involved creating a bootable USB flashdrive. The concept was simple…install a version of Linux (via PenDriveLinux) to a USB flash drive and carry your entire computer and files with you in your pocket. Then, simply plugging the flash drive into [...]
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