Microsoft is looking to make their OS more portable. With Windows 8, one of the features the Redmond, Washington company is introducing is a bootable OS off USB. True, we’ve seen both Windows and Linux distributions bootable off a flash drive before, but what makes this different is 1) it’s legal and 2) officially supported. […]
Just looking at the picture, wouldn’t it be a shame if the Porsche-inspired USB hard drive from LaCie got a scratch on it? Not many tech products are designed after household names like Porsche, but it seems LaCie is making a good business out of it. The exclusive design is available in 500GB and 1TB […]
Corsair has always gotten good reviews about the speed and performance of their USB 2.0 flash drives, so it is no surprise to see Corsair enter the market of USB 3.0 sticks. As we said years ago, USB 3.0 will start to catch on, and the price points Corsair is publishing for the 8, 16, […]
Why Doesn’t Microsoft Allow USB Flash Drives to Autorun Programs? Can USB Flash Drives Autorun From Windows? The short answer is NO. Microsoft disabled USB autorun functionality on standard USB flash drives primarily for security reasons, following several high-profile malware outbreaks that exploited this feature. Here’s why this change was necessary: Autorun Was a Major […]
If you haven’t noticed, Redbox movie rental kiosks used to be everywhere, especially at grocery stores and convenience locations. The idea made sense at the time: you were already there, so grabbing a movie on the way out was easy. Today, many of those kiosks have disappeared, replaced by on-demand streaming and app-based rentals that […]
A New York artist named Aram Bartholl is trying a very daring, if not crazy, art exhibit by placing USB sticks throughout New York City. The idea is for others to share their digital life, secrets, and information with strangers to bridge the world of digital information with that of the physical world. So what […]
These days there isn’t much to flash drives, other than look and some advanced functions, so for this post I thought the video Mimobot put together to introduce their next four models would be the best way to entertain readers. So enjoy: Watch: Mimoco presents Core Series 2.5 on Vimeo Mimoco presents Core Series 2.5 […]
Sugar Labs Nonprofit Announces v2 of Sugar on a Stick with Improved E-Book Readers, Recycles Any USB Stick Into Learning Environment for Children; Partners with Nexcopy, Inc. PARIS, December 8, 2009 — Netbook World Summit — Sugar Labs(R), volunteer-driven nonprofit provider of the Sugar Learning Platform for over one-million children around the world, announces the […]
Actor Morgan Freeman and his production company Digiboo are trying to break ground with sales and distribution of movies via USB. We love the idea! USB Movie sticks might become a thing of the future as Digiboo plans to launch over 100 kiosks in Hollywood Video stores next year; the first will roll out in […]
UPDATE: USB Scrub by Nexcopy now supports Win7, Win10 (32/64bit) and Windows 11 USB Registry Cleaner Tool which is FREE! Did you know Windows can make over 260 registry entries with a single enumeration of a USB stick? This means for those with multiple flash drives, your registry will get extremely cluttered and bogged down. […]
If Nexcopy were to make a movie about USB duplicators and data loading USB flash drives, this would be the movie trailer to draw in attention. Clearly, it would be “the most boring” movie in the world, but I’ll have to admit the movie trailer is quite impressive given the mundane product. Nexcopy did a […]
USB Tutorial: How to Create a Bootable USB Stick with the Specific NT60 Boot Sector Required for Microsoft Vista Before we begin the USB tutorial on NT60 boot sector, review the checklist of items needed before you start. Chances are, if you find yourself searching for this tutorial, you already have everything needed to make […]
