Paper Thin USB Key Turns Magazines Into USB Distribution Method
- Step 1 – Open magazine and see the ad
- Step 2 – Pop out the webkey
- Step 3 – Connect it to a USB port on your PC
Posts Tagged ‘usb’
Keep Piggies Warm With XMas USB Heating Gloves
Now that Halloween is over, it’s time to turn our energy to Thanksgiving and Christmas. Since Thanksgiving isn’t a Brando thang, they’ve got their eye on the biggest holiday – Christmas. So putting aside that I’m in Southern California, for those in Michigan, Wisconsin, New York…hell anyone East of California could appreciate these USB heating Christmas gloves. Right?
Impressive Porsche USB Drive
Porsche is shipping a limited number of Panamera USB flash drives and we’ve got the pictures. It’s clearly a drive with a great amount of detail and pristine looking Porches logo on the USB cap.
USB Gadget Crap: USB Comb
Get your fashion on with some flash storage. There couldn’t be much more to this tag line for the USB comb. Keep you data tighty and keep your person tighty. Carry your files with flair. I care about my hair and the data I wear. Should I keep going? Not.
LaCie Partners with Designer Philippe Starck For New USB Hard Drive
Press Release
PARIS, FRANCE (OCTOBER 6, 2009) Today LaCie, in collaboration with world-famous designer Philippe Starck, announced the LaCie Starck Desktop Hard Drive and the LaCie Starck Mobile Hard Drive. The new products showcase more than just Starck’s iconic signature; there is an intellect revealed throughout each component of the design. From Philippe Starck: “Technological genius explodes exponentially, each time with incredible power whose limits are yet to be known. The power remains, never abating, symbolically characterized by the sculptural magma that one attempts to cleave, to master within this geometrically perfect strongbox. A symbol of strength mastered, of freedom guided, of incandescent magma heeding to the form of its cast. The interpretation is free. But the mystery remains.”
USB Soldering Iron Is One Hot Rod
Thanko is getting us one step closer to computers fixing themselves with the USB soldering iron. The USB soldering iron can heat up to 390F on a single USB connection or 570F with a dual connection so it’ll handle just about any quick fix job you need while out on site.
SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Hard Drive
Buffalo is the 2nd company to announce a SuperSpeed USB 3.0 external hard drive. Although anyone can make the claim, we know the players who mean what they say. Buffalo always delivers so we are anxious to get the green light on purchasing…the DriveStation by Buffalo is the fastest USB hard drive on the market [or will be] with transfer speeds over 125MBs/second. WOW.
USB KVM Kit Turns Your Laptop Into Portable KVM Station
Have you ever thrown your hands up in frustration because you simply want to use the Monitor, Keyboard and Mouse of a laptop to access a server or other standalone device? I have, but never know what product could help…now I do. The Portable Laptop KVM Adapter from StarTech is specifically designed to turn your notebook into a portable KVM station. Simply connect the adapter between your standalone [or GUIless device] and notebook and you’re off and running.
“Aside from a rack mount LCD console, which can be expensive, server administrators and technicians would typically have to use a server room ‘crash cart’, which is a cart comprised of a keyboard, mouse, and monitor. Although a typical ‘crash cart’ is somewhat mobile, it lacks the portability of our Laptop KVM Adapter, which provides identical but more convenient controlâ€.The NOTECONS01 USB 2.0 Laptop KVM Adapter offers immediate BIOS-level access to the connected computer from the laptop control point, as well as the ability to handle full configuration of the attached PC, server, or other headless machines such as ATMs, kiosks and VLTs.
USB Ferris Wheel
I had doubts putting this post up today. Honestly it’s just for the pure novelty of it all. Brando has a USB Ferris Wheel for your office. Yes, that’s right, a ferris wheel to make your work day just that much more fun. The problem is how annoying the USB toy really is. You’ll either throw it out the window or you’re co-workers will. I’m not even sure if kids would enjoy this after 3 or 4 seconds.
Standalone 35mm Slide Scanner
I have mentioned other 35mm Slide Scanners, but today I found one which is 100% standalone, no PC required! This standalone 35mm Slide Scanner allows even the most technologically challenged person easily scan old 35mm slides into digital archives.
We Say Thank You to Thanko For Their USB Record Player
GetUSB has seen the Record to USB players from Ion Audio before and we’ve seen these filter into Costco, Wal-Mart and even Urban Outfitters, and now Thanko has joined the ranks with their new USB Record Player.
How To Create USB Stick with nt60 Boot Sector
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 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 an 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 that you want to make bootable with NT60.
- Open Command Prompt with Administrator 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]‘ (example: ‘select disk 2‘).
- Next, type ‘clean‘ and press Enter.
- Once this is done, type ‘create partition primary‘ and press Enter.
- Type ‘select partition 1‘ and press Enter.
- Type ‘active‘ and press Enter. This step is key to making the stick bootable.
- Format the device by typing ‘format fs=fat32‘ and press Enter. This will take 6–9 minutes for a 4GB drive.
- Now type ‘exit‘ to close diskpart.
- To finish the process, load up the boot sector from your Vista DVD to the USB stick. Type: ‘D:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt60 L:‘
- Exit out of the Command Prompt.
- As the last step, go to your Vista DVD and copy ALL the content to your NT60 bootable flash drive.
Once you get 100% complete, type ‘assign‘ and press Enter. This will assign a drive letter (e.g., Drive L).
Note: ‘D’ is the drive letter of the optical drive with the Vista disk. Adjust if yours differs.
Congratulations, you have just created a bootable USB flash drive with the NT60 boot sector.
Note: If you are a Microsoft publisher, OEM or OED, please contact Nexcopy for more information about NT60 boot straps and related Microsoft specifications.
2025 Relevance Note
As of 2025, creating an NT60 bootable USB stick is rarely required. NT60 was designed for Windows Vista and early Windows 7 installations. Modern systems primarily use UEFI boot loaders and GPT partition tables, making this manual NT60 process mostly obsolete. The only common scenarios for creating an NT60 bootable USB today are for legacy system maintenance, forensic recovery, or historical testing environments.
Modern Alternative
For modern bootable USB creation on Windows 10, Windows 11, or newer operating systems, you can use dedicated tools that automatically handle boot sectors, partitions, and formatting. One of the most popular options is Rufus, which simplifies the process and supports both BIOS and UEFI systems without manual diskpart commands.