How would you support a greener world? As a geek, we have the ability to do the most. We come up with the technology. We come up with the ideas. And we know how to efficiently recycle our used hardware and electronics. So when you upgrade the hard drive on your laptop, the best thing [...]
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RealNetworks… More DRM
Guess you just can’t have too much DRM. At least not if you believe RealNetwork’s CEO Rob Glaser. He’s going to help you rip your DVDs to your HD so you can play them on the go. Of course he doesn’t touch Hollywood’s DRM and in fact goes them one better…he adds his own unique, [...]
Pinnacle MovieBox Review
In the world of independent film makers, there are several different paintbrushes to be used before your masterpiece is complete. The hard drive or film that goes in your camera has to be of the highest quality, the camera needs to have optimal performance with a quality lens, and when you are editing your video [...]
Verbatim PhotoSave DVD Review
How many pictures does the average Joe or Jane have on their computer? With the ease of use and availability of today’s digital cameras, people are snapping and storing like there’s no tomorrow. You can easily fill up a hard drive in no time with pictures of your family, friends, vacation, wedding, the honeymoon. Well, [...]
Protect Digital Memories from Disasters
Hurricane Gustav chased an estimated two million people from their homes. Fires in Southern California and Yosemite Park areas destroyed thousands of acres and burnt hundreds of homes. Floods in the Midwest swept into homes despite residents’ best efforts. Every day natural disasters take their financial and emotional toll. In Katrina’s Path Donna Wilsker, a [...]
Dazzle DVD Recorder Review
It seems that today’s market is all about data transfer or data conversion. Portable storage and the ability to free yourself of those old bulky analog contraptions that are still sitting in your closet behind all the cobwebs… right next to that old skull you found in the ground when they were digging the foundation [...]
Eagle Technology INEO 2.5” External Hard Drive Enclosure
Too much partying last night. Way too much. You wake up the next morning with the taste of whatever still in your mouth and your head swimming like those hot chicks in a giant martini at the Cirque du Soleil. So roll out of bed, or off the kitchen table, and step directly on your [...]
Using Cyberlink PowerDirector 7
When you buy a computer, a hundred thousand “what is the best” questions will pop up. What is the best firewall, antivirus, system cleaner, porn site… er… anyway, you get the picture. And when you buy your first digital video camera, that same question pops up once you shoot your first few hours of film. How do I [...]
GMC R2 Toast Case Review
When you hop into a brand new GMC, you know you are getting all the power of a gas guzzling, four wheel drive behemoth that has sustained rednecks in their quest to get to their sister’s trailer for the last few decades. Oh… this isn’t that kind of GMC. Okay, I’ll start over. Sorry rednecks. If there’s one [...]
NTI Media Maker 8 Review
Over the past few years we’ve bought a lot of specialized software for photo manipulation, video editing, music capture and CD/DVD burning. The boxes sit in our home office library. The software ends up sitting on our hard drive until we upgrade to a new computer. They are probably real good at doing the job [...]
Vantec NexStar MX Dual Hard Drive Enclosure
If you’re looking for a slim compact SATA drive enclosure, the Vantec NexStar MX is one to consider! Vantec has hit a homerun with this simple, easy to use 2 drive enclosure. The enclosure is barely thicker than 2 drives stacked on top of each other, and only slightly longer. The enclosure is designed to operate as 2 [...]
INEO I-NA305J JBOD external enclosure
iNEO has introduced their I-NA305J Dual Bay JBOD Storage System for SATA Hard Disk Drives. This hard drive enclosure has these useful features: Aluminum Alloy Casing with a powerful adjustable fan. Front Blue LCD Panel that indicates power and hard disk drive access activity. USB 2.0 Transfer Rates. Supports SATA I and SATA II Drives [...]
Boost USB Drive Performance in Vista
Another one of our articles shows you how to speed up SATA hard drive performance in Windows Vista by enabling advanced write caching. A similar performance tweak can increase USB drive performance, by using more system memory as a write cache, which significantly increases performance when writing to the disk. Flash-based USB devices can benefit [...]
Cyberlink DVD Suite 6 Ultra Review
With Toshiba finally leaving the next generation DVD battlefield and moving on to more profitable ventures such as solid state and hard drive storage, we can safely purchase a new computer with a blu-ray disc (BD) burner/player. The challenge though comes in finding software that will provide superior BD high definition playback as well as [...]
Speed up SATA Drives in Vista
We showed you in a previous tip how to increase performance with USB drives in Vista by enabling write caching. By default this option isn’t turned on because of the “removable” nature of these devices, so you could lose data if you pull out too quickly (the drive that is… ). Internal SATA hard drives are alot more [...]
Raiders of the Blu Ark
Some called it a battle. Others a war. But the blue laser thing was more like a tussle…a two year tussle. HD DVD had Toshiba, the DVD Forum (that sure helped DVD-RAM?) and a few studios that were kinda, maybe, sorta on their side. Oh yeah…and Microsoft.BD had Sony and its string of content owners, Panasonic, [...]
QNAP Q35s Backup
I’m not the biggest fan of external HD enclosures. It seems that the speed of transfer is always too slow and the heat build-up causes you to lose data right up until the hard drive finally just dies. So when I received the Qnap QBack-35S, I was naturally wary of sticking one of my precious HD’s in [...]
2008 Means Storage
2007 was a rocking year…sure it was your content, your stuff anytime, everytime, everywhere. 2008 is going to be the year you buy things to store all that stuff…See what we are pretty darned sure the year holds for the consumer…Use it as you want, use it as you will The fun of analyzing the [...]
Pinnacle’s Home Video Stuff at CES 2008
Personal and personalized video content is not only more precious to people, it is quickly becoming the entertainment of choice as consumers buy and use lower-cost, high-performance camcorders; video-enabled cameras; web downloads and video-to-go personal media players (PMPs). To put the fun back into video production and content distribution/sharing, Pinnacle Systems continues to expand the [...]
Sony VAIO VGP-XL1B3 Media Changer
I have been looking for a cheap expandable storage method for Media Center for some time. After one of my recent rants about Media Center storage, one of the [OC]ModShop staff members turned me onto the Sony VAIO VGP-XL1B3 CD/DVD changer. This device attaches to any Media Center PC (including Vista) and adds additional storage [...]
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