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 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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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 users:
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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 C64.
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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 Apple as the winner, but it has been just over a year since the first iPad appeared, and hardly anything is ever decided in a year.
Although it may seem that cost would be the main factor in determining the champ here, these tablets are more complex than merely price tags. There are more than a few other interesting specs that might determine the winners and losers. We’ll start off with the size and go from there. Scroll down to the end to see a summary table.
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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 your data is CrashPlan, but we really love BackBlaze which we mentioned in our daily must-use products.
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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 share just one SATA connector. Their initial model needed 2 SATAs but Hitachi-LG has now integrated them into one. This allows premium laptop makers to boost their storage memory and still include a Blu-Ray drive.
The drive is available in sizes from 8GB up to 256GB, but no word on price currently. The typical setup is to have the operating system and other key files to be held on the SSD with a different HDD in another bay being used for any user files. The drive will be hitting the shelves in May this year.
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 it.
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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 a slew of new features and you can read the full list in the release notes, while we point out the highlights:
That is just a taste, and developers in particular will be chomping at the bit to test out some of the new HTML5 and CSS3 support, so look forward to even more websites moving into the new era as older browser fall by the wayside.
You can download Firefox 4 right now and add to the more than 11 million as of the time of this writing!
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 files, just plug the secondary iTwin device into your computer like a memory stick and it will access your files on your main computer. The only requirement is that the computers both need to be connected to the internet.
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