USB effects your everyday life. It really does. We’ll show you how.
USB technology is the leading connectivity standard for consumer electronics. GetUSB.info takes a look at these products and other fun USB Gadgets to show how USB affects your everyday life, it really does. We talk about USB 1.1, USB 2.0, Wireless USB and soon to be USB 3.0. We have USB hacks, tutorials and general USB information. Welcome and enjoy.
USB Tutorial: How to create a bootable USB stick with the specific nt60 book sector required for Microsoft Vista.
Before we begin the USB tutorial on nt60 boot sector you’ll need to review the check list of items needed before you start. Chances are, if you find yourself searching for this tutorial, you already have everything needed to make a USB bootable with nt60 boot sector.
4GB flash drive will do the trick
Your Vista installation disk
Set BIOS to boot from a USB device
When selecting your flash drive be sure there is nothing you need on the device as this process to create a nt60 boot sector will clean the drive of all data.
Put your Vista disk into the optical drive, if the autorun starts, close it all down and exit without performing any tasks.
Plug in your USB stick which you want to make bootable with nt60.
Open into the Command prompt. [you will need Admin rights]
Type ‘diskpart‘ and press Enter
Now type ‘list disk‘ and press Enter All the storage devices connected to your computer will be displayed, make sure the size of the Disk you plan to select is the USB flash drive you intend to use!
Now type ‘select disk [number here]‘ In this example I typed
The USBIF [Implementers Forum] has announced the certification program to get your gear certified for a Highspeed logo. Granted, it’s not a simple process, but at least they’re putting together the documentation needed to make it happen.
As Gizmodo says, ” what shall I do with all that extra time I will have that will no longer be spent waiting for file transfers” [they write about as well as I do] The new 3.0 speed will be 10x times faster at 10Gpbs! To learn a bit more about how our technology life will improve, here is the USBIFs sales pitch:
As technology innovation marches forward, new kinds of devices, media formats, and large inexpensive storage are converging. They require significantly more bus bandwidth to maintain the interactive experience users have come to expect. In addition, user applications demand a higher performance connection between the PC and these increasingly sophisticated peripherals. USB 3.0 addresses this need by adding an even higher transfer rate to match these new usage and devices.
USB continues to be the answer to conncectivity for PC, Consumer Electronics, and Mobile architectures, It is a fast, bidirectional, low-cost, dynamically attachable interface that is consistent with the requirements of the PC platforms of today and tomorrow.
SuperSpeed USB brings significant performance enhancements to the ubiquitous USB standard, while remaining compatible with the billions of USB enabled devices currently deployed in the market. SuperSpeed USB will deliver 10x the data transfer rate of Hi-Speed USB, as well as improved power efficiency.
SuperSpeed USB has a 5 Gbps signaling rate offering 10x performance increase over Hi-Speed USB.
SuperSpeed USB is a Sync-N-Go technology that minimizes user wait-time.
SuperSpeed USB will provide Optimized Power Efficiency.No device polling and lower active and idle power requirements.
SuperSpeed USB is backwards compatible with USB 2.0. Devices interoperate with USB 2.0 platforms. Hosts support USB 2.0 legacy devices.
Converging technologies collide. At first, I thought this to be just another MP3 player, but it does more than just play music.
The USB MP3 cassette player also works as a car stereo adapter to connect your iPod or iPhone, CD player or a different MP3 player. Or simply insert a loaded SD card with MP3 files and your car will play that too.
If that isn’t enough, connect the USB cassette player to your PC via USB cable and turn it into a SD, micro or miniSD card reader.
It may seem over simplistic or gimmicky to you, but to me it’s a nice mix of converging technologies. Believe it or not, I’m buying one right now.
NEC uses the term of “unmatched viewing experience” for their new 43 inch curved wide screen monitor. Lets forget about the $7,000 price tage for a moment.
It’s a seamless curved design which is the most impressive feature, and includes connectivity as a single DVI-D input, HDMI 1.3, or USB 2.0. NEC doesn’t clearly spec if the USB connection is for the monitor or an internal hub that just gives you access points for promotional flash drives, cameras and camcorders.
Some notable features which I didn’t think about, but NEC did the convenience of reminding me are the lack of bezels of multiple monitors side-by-side, and auto extended taskbar that spreads natively across the screen.
Do you wonder if a USB stick will drop below $2? I don’t think it ever will, and for several reasons. First, the bare cost of the Flash, Controller and case will keep the price much higher than it’s predecessor [CD/DVD] but also consider the millions of dollars needed in equipment just to make these things in bulk.
So let’s find out how a USB stick is made…here is a behind-the-scenes video of the Kingston USB flash memory plant. With step-by-step video it’s an amazing process.
Note: The narration is nothing close to an award winning voice over.
iBUYPOWER is best known for their gaming rigs and powerful laptops, who knew they also dabled in USB board components. Well maybe you did, but I didn’t.
iBUYPOWER released this sweet little internal expansion board for USB devices. The point of the expansion board is to provide additional power to those growing number of gadgets you’ve seemed to accumulate.
The board includes two internal USB pin-out connectors and one USB-A standard connector. The board is $14 for what you see, or $24 which includes a bluetooth module…this will allow connectivity to those wireless keyboards, mice and printers. (more…)
