Computers

LaCie’s Little Big 1TB Drive has 10Gb/s Transfer Speed

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LaCie have announced their new Little Big Disk, featuring Thunderbolt technology. And, no, it has nothing to do with Little Big Planet – this is a storage drive that offers transfer speeds of 10Gb/s! Developed by Intel,Thunderbolt even trumps USB 3.0′s top-end 5Gb/s speeds.

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Windows 8 SmartScreen is a Step in the Right Direction, but Needs a “Warn” Setting

Windows 8 SmartScreen

Windows 8 will have a new feature common to the entire OS and not just IE called SmartScreen that will dynamically prevent programs that have been deemed illegal, fraudulent or malicious from running (assuming you have it turned on).

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Weekly Deals: IdeaPad Y560p, Dell XPS 17 Laptops & Apps For Cheap

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Despite the emergence of touch-based tablets for casual computing, if you want to play the latest 3D games or have real productivity requirements, the best portable solution is still using a laptop. This week, here are two solid laptop deals from Lenovo and HP, both at similar price point but they’re definitely built for different [...]

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Commodore 64 Relaunched With New PC Guts

'new' Commodore 64 PC

Commodore is a brand that refuses to die, and there are enough nostalgic supporters to make a businessman think that it’s still worth something, which is why Barry Altman — who now owns the trademark — has released a desktop computer that looks just like the original Commodore 64 did, except it’s not actually a [...]

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Motorola Xoom vs Apple iPad 2 – A Spec-by-Spec Breakdown

Motorola Xoom and Apple iPad 2

The tablet war rages on and it is still not completely clear who will be the eventual victor (perhaps no single vendor at all). Will it be Apple (and their new iPad 2) or Motorola and the Xoom, their new tablet running Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) or perhaps another up-and-comer? Of course, many have already anointed [...]

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CrashPlan Offers Multiple-Location Backup for $1.50/Month

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Stop for a minute and think about how you’d cope if you lost the contents of your hard drive. If you hadn’t thought about backing up your data because of cost, security reasons or because you didn’t true the backup companies, it’s definitely time to think again. Another good product we’ve found to back up [...]

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Hitachi-LG Pack SSD and Blu-Ray into One Bay

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Hitachi-LG has managed to come up with an improvement to one of their hybrid drives. They now offer a solution for customers where space and performance are equally key by combining an SSD with a Blu-Ray optical drive. The idea behind it is that the Blu-Ray and SSD hybrid can fit into one bay and [...]

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Touch Revolution Lets You Build Touchscreen Devices

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Ever had an idea for a great touchscreen product? Here’s your chance to make it a reality. TouchRevolution is a supplier of touchscreens of a variety of formats which can be used for almost any purpose with ease. It allows you to get your product idea off the ground without developing any touch hardware for [...]

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Firefox 4 Released, Boasts 6x Faster JavaScript Engine, Crash Protection, Much More

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Hot on the heels of Internet Explorer’s v9 release, Firefox 4 is out. The highly anticipated latest version of the Mozilla Foundation‘s flagship product, Firefox has a slew of new features, and in particular touts its huge boost in speed that puts it back on par with Google’s Chrome browser. What’s New? Firefox 4 boasts [...]

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iTwin Gives you an Affordable Cloud

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The iTwin USB Remote File Access USB sticks lets you share one computer’s data with another computer anywhere in the world, as long as both computers are connected to the Internet. Plug the primary iTwin device into your main computer, and then carry the secondary device around with you. When you need to access your [...]

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