I would much rather have a 28 year old secretary take dictation then use the iPod MemoMic but using this we can put her to use on other tasks. The high fidelity digital audio mic recorder turns your iPod Nano into a flexible, detachable microphone suited for any situation. As you can see in the […]
PQI has a thoughtful approach to USB Readyboost. Rather then sucking up a cherished external USB port PQI is taking an internal approach. Here you see a PQI 2GB memory enhancement for Readyboost via the USB header connector on a motherboard. Although it might not enhance the performance of your Vista system, it is a […]
Xion Audio is now available for the U3 flash drives. This portable application is for the music enthusiast and is advanced enough for those wanting to fully customize their player. Xion is setting a new standard in skin players. Their approach is to read directly from a Photoshop .PSD file to be used as the […]
Last week Apple sent out an email (screenshot courtesy of TechCrunch.com) to video podcasters asking them to increase the quality of their productions and start formatting their videos for the big screen. Since the launch of the Apple TV (full review here) in March, Apple TVs have been selling like hotcakes and video podcast subscription […]
More often then not design ideas never get past the prototype stage. Case in point, Greg Schramek created this concept of a disposable digital video camera where the simple shell is intuitive enough anyone could use. Once the footage is recorded you connect the disposable video camera to a processing station via USB for conversion […]
The WiRanger from Icron is a wireless USB hub making it easier than ever to unclutter your desk and redistribute that crap to the credenza, filing cabinet or your buddies cubical. “Icron’s flexible ExtremeUSB technology is the engine that enables USB 1.1 or 2.0 connections over any media: wireless, cable, power line or fiber optics.” […]
My buddy purchased a Zune a couple days ago and learned it didn’t work with his Windows Vista. He did figure out how to run the Zune on Windows Vista. A little digging around he came up with the following article, thought to pass it along. Before you start be sure you have the Zune […]
So here’s a poor mans USB hack to secure your network from unscrupulous characters downloading company secrets via USB. In Windows XP SP2 and Vista you can disable writing to USB devices altogether by implementing a simple registry hack. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\ Control\StorageDevicePolicies] “WriteProtectâ€=dword:00000001 **Note: I inserted a break after …Set\< br>Control… to fit into post page. […]
The iPod Shuffle comes with the 2G Dock station which is a little large, relatively speaking, so replace it with this inexpensive iUSB dock connector. The Essential Tech iUSB connects directly to the iPod and directly to your USB port. The iUSB dock station supports full USB 2.0 transfer speeds, is ridiculously small and eliminates […]
By default, most use IE for their web browser and those wanting a little more switch to Firefox. You’ve also got a portion of that browser pie who love Opera. Recently Opera-USB become available for U3 flash drives. Opera is a portable browser, email system, contacts database and download client. As with Mac/PC Opera there […]
Super Talent will ship their 10 millions flash time sometime mid March. With 30 model styles (I only counted 26 on web site) to choose from, things wont be slowing down anytime soon. Super Talent began making flash drives in 2003 and focused on high performance, solid engineering and attractive packaging styles to claim their […]
So… things are a little bit slow this morning with USB so jumping over to YouTube I found this 1min 27sec video on Vista booting up using the USB Readyboost technology. Although it’s not an official test using multiple machines and configurations, I think you’ll conclude that if you’ve got an extra 512MB flash drive […]
