Friday Shortbread
The Tech Report: News — ... SLI motherboard Hardware Canucks review Asus Rampage II Extreme Overclock3D reviews DFI LANParty DK P45-T2RS Plus HardwareZone reviews DFI LANParty JR P45-T2RS CPU3D reviews 3GB Kingston HyperX DDR3-2000 triple channel kit ThinkComputers reviews 1TB Seagate FreeAgent XTreme external hard drive InsideHW reviews 500GB Verbatim 3.5" external HDD eSATA & USB combo drive Everything USB reviews 32GB Kingston Data Traveler 150 flash drive Motherboards.org reviews Thecus N3200 NAS server Multimedia ...

Friday Evening Roundup
TweakTown's News RSS Feed — ... RWlabs - NorthQ Black Magic 850W @ Hardware Bistro - Zalman ZM460B-APS 460 W Power Supply @ Hardware Secrets Cooling - CoolIT Domino A.L.C. @ Overclockers Club - Thermalright Ultra Copper @ Technic3D - CoolIT Domino A.L.C. CPU Cooler @ Futurelooks Storage - Thecus N3200 NAS Server @ Motherboards.org - Seagate FreeAgent XTreme 1TB External Hard Drive @ ThinkComputers - Kingston Data Traveler 150 32GB Flash Drive @ EverythingUSB - ASUS BC-1205PT Blu-Ray SATA DVD Writer @ PCStats Other - Java ...

Articles Roundup December 20. 2008
APH Networks — ... Notebook adapter @ TestFreaks.com Ikonik Zaria A20 Case Review @ Techwarelabs CoolIt Domino ALC Liquid Cooling @ DragonSteelMods.com Thermaltake Spedo @ Technic3D NZXT Avatar Review @ XSReviews Guide to Third-Party Nintendo Wii Accessories @ Futurelooks Verbatim 3.5" External 500GB @ InsideHW Samsung YP-S3JCB @ Futurelooks Benchmark Reviews Editors Choice Awards 2008 @ Benchmark Reviews Kingston Data Traveler 150 32GB @ EverythingUSB Callpod ...

WEB Reviews [22-12-2008]
InsideHW — ... CPU3D Graphics Cards Budget & Mid-Range Graphics Card round-up @ TechSpot Sapphire HD4870 X2 Atomic Watercooled @ techPowerUp @ Tweaknews @ TweakTown Sapphire HD4850 X2 @ High Tech Reviews ASUS EAH4870 DK TOP 512MB @ Benchmark Reviews Memory Crucial 6GB DDR3 Triple Channel Memory Kit @ Club Overclocker OCZ Special Ops PC3-10666 2x2GB @ APH Networks Storage Kingston Data Traveler 150 32GB Flash Drive @ Everything USB G.SKILL FM-25S2S-64GB SSD @ Rbmods Cases & Power Supply Units Lian Li ...

OpenOffice 3.0 - Now in PortableApps Format
Everything USB - Gadgets, Wireless USB, USB 3.0 — ... 8-year old OpenOffice (OOo) has reached version 3.0 in October, but for USB apps fan, the portable version has only gone gold in mid December. Ported by none other than John Haller from PortableApps.com, OpenOffice 3.0 is designed to run directly on a USB flash drive - supposedly without concern that temporary files will be left behind on the host machine. The package weighs at a hefty 240MB after installed, but its size shouldn't be much of a problem given today's thumbdrives' capacities. The latest version of OOo now boasts a fresh look, including a new start ...

Monday Sampler
PureOverclock.com — ... ALC Liquid Cooling CPU Cooler @ DragonSteelMods -Tagan A+ Black Pearl II Computer Case @ ModReactor -CoolIT Domino A.L.C. @ OCC -NorthQ Black Magic 850W @ HardwareBistro Peripherals: -NZXT Avatar @ XSReviews Systems, Storage, and Networking: -Verbatim 3.5" External HDD eSATA & USB Combo Drive 500GB @ InsideHW -Seagate FreeAgent XTreme 1TB External Hard Drive @ ThinkComputers -Kingston Data Traveler 150 32GB Flash Drive @ Everything USB -Thecus N3200 NAS Server @ motherboards Miscellaneous: -Sony alpha DSLR-A900 ...

Tech Roundup - December 22, 2008
Techgage News — ... Crucial 6GB DDR3 Triple Channel Memory Kit - ClubOC Kingston Data Traveler 150 32GB Flash Drive - EverythingUSB Seagate FreeAgent XTreme 1TB External Hard Drive - Think Computers Thecus N3200 NAS Server - Motherboards.org ...

Best of December 2008 - Everything USB
Everything USB - Gadgets, Wireless USB, USB 3.0 — Featured Reviews Samsung SPF-105P 10" Digital Photo Frame with USB Display Kingston Data Traveler 150 32GB Flash Drive Cables Unlimited Certified Wireless USB Adapter Set Antec USB Notebook Cooler 200Headlines Everything USB Listed as a PCMag's Favorite Blog Energizer Solar Charger Hits Mainstream, Likes USB Only Jewelry Box Opens with a USB Key Sprint's 4G WiMax USB Modem Chinese-themed MS Arc Mouse OpenOffice 3.0 - Now in PortableApps ...

Laundromats - Mega USB Black Hole (No Surprise There)
Everything USB - Gadgets, Wireless USB, USB 3.0 — ... . This is ignoring the fact that some of them are big enough to smuggle out your entire email system on a single drive. So hang onto those drives the job you save may be your own. ...

Dmailer Backup V.2 - Backup that PC and Mac Users can Agree Upon
Everything USB - Gadgets, Wireless USB, USB 3.0 — ... now supports PC and Mac systems natively. No longer do you have to worry about adding Mac support or PC support problems to your existing infrastructure, at least not for backups. Dmailer's package can write backup sets onto any portable storage ranging from large capacity thumbdrive to ...

Aleratec Copy Tower SA Gonk Look-alike is Ready to Flash your Pants Off
Everything USB - Gadgets, Wireless USB, USB 3.0 — ... . A niche product for sure but sometimes you just have to make 118 copies of a flash drive at once. As flash drives continue to percolate through the market and start to replace CDs and DVDs in some instances marketing mavens have been adapting and using them as advertisement vehicle. ...

Taking Things too Literally Hits a New High, Thumbdrive
Everything USB - Gadgets, Wireless USB, USB 3.0 — ... chip and more storage. While a USB watch would probably be easier body-mods are going to be just around the corner anyway. Johnny's mnemonic implants may be next but I'll be waiting for Molly's built-in enhanced eyeglasses. What body part can you do without for the convenience of implanted technology? Still we have to commend him for going first. High four! ...

IOGear 4-port Net Station Not Waiting for Wireless USB
Everything USB - Gadgets, Wireless USB, USB 3.0 — ... improves on the former model and adds 3 more ports and a few more features to the mix. Both Share Stations allow for USB sharing over Ethernet. Plug in up to USB devices into the Share Station and plug in an RJ-45 Ethernet cable from your network into its auto-sensing 10/100Base-T port and you are ready to go. Most printers are detected and identified automatically with its built in print server functionality. Not just for printers, the USB hub will connect hard drives, flash drives, web cameras and USB speaker systems. On top of all the peripheral ...

USB Keypad/Calculator Gives Notebooks Adding Machine Function
Everything USB - Gadgets, Wireless USB, USB 3.0 — ... , keyboards and flash drives should be just fine. The keypad should be plug-and-play on both Windows and Apple computers and can be had $30 and is available now. ...

Windows 7 Says No to Autorun for USB Flash Drives
Everything USB - Gadgets, Wireless USB, USB 3.0 — ... Windows Vista and XP's Autorun have become a hotbed for virus & malware activity, notably the Conficker worm spreading primarily via USB flash drives. To put a halt to the spread, Microsoft said it's making a ...

ClickFree Traveler - Credit Card-sized Flash Backup for the Lazy
Everything USB - Gadgets, Wireless USB, USB 3.0 — ... drives have reached the capacity that most people will find enough for a full data backup. A problem is that those of us who lack the will to organize files will find it extremely difficult to backup everything to an external drive in a timely manner since they don't keep things together. Well, ClickFree Traveler is the answer to this. It doesn't require any kind of software installation. ...

NEC Announces World's First USB 3.0 Host Controller!
DriverHeaven.net — ... Manufacturers are already gearing up for SuperSpeed USB with NEC being the first to announce the first USB 3.0 host controller, which is about one of the few silicon products that will guarantee instant success in this economy. NEC Electronics expects external hard drives, SSDs, flash drives and of course the computers themselves will be the first to receive the SuperSpeed USB upgrade. ____________ Source: Everything USB ...

LaCie Core7 - Recession-proof USB Hub
Everything USB - Gadgets, Wireless USB, USB 3.0 — ... sports the same compact design as Little Disk; it can be laid flat on a desktop can be hung on a wall. Five ports are located on the recessed area beneath the Core7; one port on top is for flash drives and ...

LaCie LaCinema Classic Bridge - Sub-$100 USB Media Extender
Everything USB - Gadgets, Wireless USB, USB 3.0 — ... case, but even that may not be enough for you to drop $160. How about if it's $99? LaCie has taken out the 500GB from the LaCinema Classic and adds Bridge to the existing name. The LaCinema Classic Bridge essentially promotes as an affordable way by LaCie to add media playback capability to your existing storage devices. If you decide not to install your own internal SATA drive, the unit's front USB port can already start streaming content from a USB hard drive or flash drive. Being a DivX 6-certified device, LaCinema's video and audio compatibility aren't ...

Kingston BTO 128GB Flash Drive (Oh My... Where's USB 3.0?)
Everything USB - Gadgets, Wireless USB, USB 3.0 — ... Let's face it - you can't get enough of storage. When you think your brand new 32GB flash drive has you covered, you will soon find new ways to fill it up, such as backing up the whole system for data recovery on the go. Before you know it, you will be googling your next thumbdrive again. Kingston will be shipping a 128GB flash drive - the ...

Windows 7 to Ship on Flash Drives?
Everything USB - Gadgets, Wireless USB, USB 3.0 — ... Having said that, thumbdrives logically become the easiest, not to mention fastest route to get Windows 7 running on a netbook. In fact, they have already become the unofficial install method for XP, Vista and now 7 if you are comfortable with command prompt. If tweakers can ...

USB Flash Drives Become The Next VCR Tapes?
Everything USB - Gadgets, Wireless USB, USB 3.0 — ... or a regular thumbdrive. This should come in handy since you can eject flash drive and take away the Freeview content without interrupting what other people are watching. At the same time, this can save you precious time of copying the show from the internal DVR's hard drive, which in this case is ditched by the company to reduce cost. Digital Vision is likely targeting at the less-tech savvy who would rather go back to putting sticky labels on their flash drives than managing long list of files in a terabyte hard drive. ...

Kingston 256GB Flash Drive Sold Anywhere but USA
Everything USB - Gadgets, Wireless USB, USB 3.0 — ... announced last month and eight times the size of the DT150 32GB thumbdrive reviewed last year. In term of cost per gigabyte, however, the DT300 is about $3.1 which is par with a solid state drive of the same capacity. The Kingston 256GB drive definitely has a market, until ...

RecycleUSB.com - Donate your Flash Drives for a Good Cause
Everything USB - Gadgets, Wireless USB, USB 3.0 — ... running in no time. The program and source code are both available on their site. The minimum flash drive size you need to run Strawberry (codename for their latest release) is 1GB. Sugar and RecycleUSB.com are welcome site after all OLPC's internal strife. This may not be One Laptop Per Child but it makes donated hardware go a LOT farther in schools. If you are thinking about trying it for yourself you might want to look into one of the larger and faster flash drives for a better experience. This is an easy cause to help out with. Give 'til it Giga-Hertz. Here's the ...

Portableapps Platform v2 - So Suite Your Teeth Will Ache
Everything USB - Gadgets, Wireless USB, USB 3.0 — ... has done a lot of work on the menu launching system that has limited adoption by hardcore portable users. The dozens of great apps that he has culled into his site's offering have free, open-source, full featured versions of just about every type of software you can imagine. MS Office, digital post-its, Photoshop, Internet browsers, all can run from a flash drive and keep all your settings the same on ANY computer that you use. One of the main groups of people that can benefit from giving this a try is office workers. If you have a computer at home and a computer at the office ...

Kingston Data Traveler 200 32GB Flash Drive Review
Everything USB - Gadgets, Wireless USB, USB 3.0 — ... to find out how Kingston could have possibly improved their highly acclaimed Data Traveler 150 USB flash drive and how well their password protection really works. ...

WinToFlash Moves Windows CD/DVD Installers to USB Drives
Everything USB - Gadgets, Wireless USB, USB 3.0 — ... , while still a little rough around the edges, exists to make installing Windows much easier. WinToFlash starts a wizard that will help pull over the contents of a windows installation CD or DVD and prep the USB drive to become a bootable replacement for the CD. The final result is a more robust, easier to track installer tool. You don't have to worry about scratches on the disc or misplacing your original media discs once you transfer their contents to the flash drive. The optical drive is quickly becoming a thing of the past, especially in office environments, as media is ...

WinToFlash Moves Windows CD/DVD Installers to USB Drives
DriverHeaven.net — ... , while still a little rough around the edges, exists to make installing Windows much easier. WinToFlash starts a wizard that will help pull over the contents of a windows installation CD or DVD and prep the USB drive to become a bootable replacement for the CD. The final result is a more robust, easier to track installer tool. You don't have to worry about scratches on the disc or misplacing your original media discs once you transfer their contents to the flash drive. The optical drive is quickly becoming a thing of the past, especially in office environments, ...

OperaUSB Browser Turns 10.0 Still Flash Drive Friendly
Everything USB - Gadgets, Wireless USB, USB 3.0 — ... features are available as user generated plugins for FireFox, the most popular Firefox plug-ins are polished and included natively in Opera. Ad-Blocking, Windows 7-like tab preview thumbnails, fast Javascript engine, email, password management, mouse gestures, torrent downloads, skins, and customized searching are all built in and easily customizable. On top of all that, the Opera Link function let's you synchronize your favorites, searches, notes and other settings from your PC or flash drive or smartphone version of Opera. It's available for free download ...

USB WriteBlocker Forensic Tool Makes USB Drives Read Only
Everything USB - Gadgets, Wireless USB, USB 3.0 — ... is a flash drive based USB pass-through connector which allows Mass Storage USB devices to be read and prevents them from being written to. Simply plug any USB ...

Official Tool from MS Enables USB Install for Windows 7
Everything USB - Gadgets, Wireless USB, USB 3.0 — ... to the exciting new tool it's releasing with Windows 7, a bootable USB Installer creator. Aimed squarely at netbook owners, which have eschewed the venerable optical drive for weight and battery life. Microsoft's tool will let you take your downloaded install files and turn a sufficiently sized USB drive into a ...

Software Boosts USB Flash Drive Speeds. Myth or Reality?
Everything USB - Gadgets, Wireless USB, USB 3.0 — ... flash drives can actually turn out pretty good read speed and decent write speed for large files, small files are a major problem. Try and copy a folder with a few MB's of icon files, clip-art or fonts and you'll find yourself stuck in molasses. Without getting too technical, the USB SuperCharger changes the way data is written to the drive, and should be able to add some serious snap to small files and portable applications. Most applications are designed to read and write freely from the drive, moving an application from a normal HDD to flash makes many applications ...