Samsung is looking to put a new twist to the classic digital camera with multiple USB ports. The idea is simple, once a picture is taken, the folks in the picture can turn over their thumb drives for a quick download of the picture just taken.
Not a bad idea considering most of us now have USB sticks in our pocket, car or computer bag. I think the wifi SD card is a bit better of an idea, but this too will work.
The concept camera from Samsung has three female USB ports to accept mass storage devices [tech term for USB stick] and a male USB for connecting to a computer for downloading.
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How to turn off autoplay Windows 7 for USB flash drives.
Some may want to turn off the USB auto play so that when a USB device is connected the auto pop-up window doesn’t appear. I don’t mind the pop-up window as it usually defaults to the area or program I’m trying to get into anyway, but for some, I could see the frustration. So on that note, here is a quick USB tutorial on how to turn off the USB auto run function.
First, click START > RUN and type in gpedit.msc then click RUN.
Next you’ll want to navigate to the location shown below. That would be:
Computer Configuration > Admin Templates > Windows Components Once there you would double click Windows Components
That will take you to the following area where we can select the menu to edit the USB autorun functions. Double click the AutoPlay Policies
Next select the Turn Off Autoplay by double clicking it.
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If you haven’t noticed, Red Box Movie rental kiosks have popped up all over the place. Most notably are the Red Box’ at the grocery store, which makes perfect sense, you’re going to the store anyway, why not put a movie rental at check-out.
Flix-on-Stix is looking to do the same thing, only difference is the Flix On Stix is renting your beloved movie on USB. The concept is simple, yet peppered with problems. Lets cover the concept first…the idea is having a user insert their USB drive into the Flix on Stix kiosk and download a movie. Great idea…simple, convenient and assuming cheap.
Look just one step deeper and you start asking yourself about transfer times. The Flix-on-Stix is USB 3.0 enabled, but SuperSpeed flash drives have just ‘barely’ come to market, most will have USB 2.0. So to download a low quality video will take at least 10 minutes. Next, what kind of DRM does Flix on Stix use? We know our USB and their is no universal USB copy protection that will work on PCs, Macs and set-top boxes…so how & where will these movies play? The last bit is the type of movies to be offered…we know studios wont sign off on DRM that isn’t proven by CDSA [https://www.cdsaonline.org/] so after all this, I’m not sure where Flix On Stix leaves us. What do you think?Continue Reading
How many times have you registered for a service or product on the web, only to be required to enter a user name and password? How many times has that website required some 6 or 8 character password which includes numbers, capital letter and lower case letters – basically some abstract combination of characters? Or you enter a user name only to find it’s already been used or you’re required to enter your email address as your user name. With most people having mulitple email address its difficult to remember which one, the password or combination there of. You need a system.
That system could very well be the SplashID from SplashData.
Consider some of the following – would they help you?
Never forget a username or password again – ever
Secure and backup your passwords, credit card numbers, registration codes, PINs, and more
Generate truly random passwords hackers cannot guess
Protect yourself from identity theft, keyloggers, and phishing
The SplashID uses a autorun function which automatically opens up the SplashID user interface upon connection to a PC or Mac computer. Pull the key out, and not a trace of SplashID stays on the system or any of your sensitive data you just gone done using. So clearly a big value add for passwords, data base of private content and password generator.
Currently you get the SplashID for $30 with free shipping…although the free shipping is for a limited time. Here is the link for more info.
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If the benchmark claim rings true, LaCie has a new USB 3.0 flash drive which is living up to the USB 3.0 SuperSpeed promise. Things might be coming to fruition with the most recent product from LaCie, the FastKey.
The FastKey has print on the box claiming a whopping 260MB/s transfer speed. If it true, this puts a single flash drive at a faster transfer rate than your best hard drive. As EveryThingUSB points out:
“To put that in its proper perspective a typical 3.5″ hard drive has a peak read speed of about HALF of that and has an average speed about one THIRD of this little bad boy’s performance numbers”
So dumping your buddies MP3 collection of a 1,000s songs will be much easier with this USB 3.0 flash drive, then your portable USB hard drive. But don’t think this convenience, and some would say luxury, come without a price. The LaCie FastKey comes in a variety of sizes, starting at
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PQI introduced their first SuperSpeed USB 3.0 flash drive today, called the U339V. The PQI 3.0 stick is available in 8GB through 64GB sizes. As with any new technology, the performance is lagging behind the specification of performance.
For example the smaller 8GB PQI drive shows a read speed of 55MB/s and a write speed of 10MB/s. Verse the larger 16GB and larger sizes are more like 86MB/s read speed and 20MB/s write speed. If you know anything about flash drives, it just means the bigger sizes are dual channel and the 8GB is single channel.
Still far from the 5Gbps transfer rate USB 3.0 is suppose to offer, but once more advanced controllers come into the market, we’ll see the performance rise.
The PQI drive will be available through
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If you are one of the few who rushed out to purchase the MacBook Air, you might have found yourself in a bit of a pinch. How to get the USB Ethernet Adapter working? If this is you, or a friend you know, here is a quick fix until a new Apple update is published.
First, it appears that some have luck plugging the adapter into different ports on the MacBook Air, but it’s not a universal solution.
After a bit of investigative work sifting through the Apple forums, you can do the following for a sure thing fix:
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Bradley Manning was able to download over a quarter million documents from the US government via USB slurping…where by, he downloaded the sensitive data directly to his flash drive, then sent the docs to Wikileaks.
Not a cool move Private Manning.
So as a result, the US Military is banning all USB flash drives with systems connected to, or have access to, the SIPRNET network. The Secret Internet Protocol Router Network, in simple terms, the internet used bye the DOD. Of course it’s much more sophisticated then your office network with internet access.
The US Government has taken this breach of information so seriously that any military who do not comply with the data transfer ban “may be punished under Article 92 of the Uniformed Code of Military Justice.†The article covers failure to obey orders and dereliction of duty and makes clear that any persons in violation of such rules “shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.â€
In a day when typing “cougar” into Google yields more pornography then the animal you would expect, it’s almost a shock to hear about Playboy content being available on USB hard drive. Wouldn’t you think it had already been done?
It hasn’t, and that is why I’m here to tell you about the 250GB USB hard drive full of all Playboy magazine content. All of it – back from 1953 when the first issue was published.
The USB Hard drive from Playboy holds 650 magazines and over 100,000 pages of fascinating articles, photographs and interviews.
The hard drive works on any computer, just like you’d expect a USB hard drive to work, but you do need to install
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It’s standard for mobile phones to sync and connect with your computer with limited or no access to the memory for storage. As with our Zune hack for making a Mass Storage Device, here is a tip for the Windows Phone 7 as well…
The caviet to this tutorial, is that you can only perform the tweak to your computer which you sync the Windows Phone 7 device with.
To get started, do the follwoing:
Open the registry editor on your PC by typing regedit in your Start menu
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USB; search for ZuneDriver
Now you will modify three entries (note, if you have multiple WP7 phones, you have to do it for each one)
Change ShowInShell from 0 to 1
Change PortableDeviceNameSpaceExcludeFromShell from 1 to 0
Change EnableLegacySupport from 0 to 1
Note: Perform registry entries at your own risk. It’s best if you back up the Reg before starting.
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The iPhone has become an invaluable gadget for everyone I’ve meet with an iPhone. It gives the user instance access to email, the internet and a variety of applications and games. Clearly the heavy users who depend on the iPhone will run into issues with battery life. Since the product is portable, not everyone sits with the iPhone at their desk tethered to their USB port for charging and synchronization, must just leave it out for the quick grab-n-go while on the move.
Proporta has a product which will help those gassed phones, the iPhone TurboCharger Back Pack. The back pack is a iPhone case with a built in battery charger.
The TruboCharger has 1700mAh of power which will quickly and easily charge your iPhone and double it’s battery life. The TurboCharger can piggy back the iPhone during charging and use. The TurboCharger can be connected to the iPhone while connected to the PC…or you can connect the back pack seperatly for charging.
When together, the back pack will not effect performance or sync ability of the iPhone with iTunes. In addition, the TruboCharger will charge itself and the iPhone when connected to the computer.
To connect the TurboCharger, simply
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The new iPhone keyboard from Iomnio is a great example on the convergence of technology. The keyboard, named WOWKey, has a dock station for your iPhone where-by giving you full keyboard connectivity and functionality to your iPhone.
With the WOWKey you can respond to emails quickly and easily. You can draft letters, run excel spreadsheets and much more like a traditional laptop computer. The WOWKey gives you the functionality you need to more effectively use your iPhone. In my opinion, this is the direction which computers need to go. From some studies, the majority of computer use is for email response and web browsing.
Iomnio has two additional features which any iPhone lover will appreciate; first, they have 15 hotkeys designed for the iPhone for quick navigation and utility access. Second, WOWKeys offers is the use of the multi-touch function on a PC display and the Air Mouse Pro, an app that can be used as a laptop touchpad or number pad.
The WOWKey from Iomnio is priced at an equivalent $105 US dollars. The WOWKey is currently only available in Korea, but is clearly designed for the largest market, the United States, as you can see the English version settings in the screenshot from the original article at AVING.net.
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In a day when typing “cougar” into Google yields more pornography then the animal you would expect, it’s almost a shock to hear about Playboy content being available on USB hard drive. Wouldn’t you think it had already been done?
It hasn’t, and that is why I’m here to tell you about the 250GB USB hard drive full of all Playboy magazine content. All of it – back from 1953 when the first issue was published.
The USB Hard drive from Playboy holds 650 magazines and over 100,000 pages of fascinating articles, photographs and interviews.
The hard drive works on any computer, just like you’d expect a USB hard drive to work, but you do need to install
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