http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsaijC5jdP8 Revealed at CES 2011, ioSafe’s Rugged Portable hard drive is the answer to clumsiness, spilled coffee, and cats like mine who enjoy pushing things off the edge of tables for fun. Hat tip to Computerworld. … [Read more...]
StarTech’s SATA Dock & Duplicator: Handy, not Revolutionary
One of the things I like about my new laptop is the eSATA port—even though I don’t have any eSATA external hard drives yet. (I’m sure there’s someone out there who could correct that little oversight.) SATA (Serial ATA) is a faster way to connect your hard drive to your motherboard; most newer computers use it instead of the older EIDE standard. An eSATA port has a speed of 3,000 megabits per … [Read more...]
Backing Up the Crazy Nikon Lady
My mother has attracted quite a following on Picasa since acquiring her D90 in 2008. She takes pictures everywhere: the grocery store, the airport, the hospital, the back alleys, the freeways, the kitchen, the dog park… She’s also started to fill up the hard drive on her much-abused Sony Vaio laptop now that she shoots in RAW (which Nikon calls NEF) format. Despite a growing facility with Adobe … [Read more...]
Changing the Photo Backup Paradigm
A couple of weeks ago (back when I should have been writing this post), the Ur-Guru and I had a conversation about archival storage. He wondered what was going to replace DVDs, particularly for photos, because he was running out of room for them. He has hundreds now, since he has never thrown any away; some contain data copied from floppy disks or magnetic tape, back in the olden days. Optical … [Read more...]
Buffalo Goes Metro in San Francisco
A few days ago I got a phone call from my BFF Jay Pechek at Buffalo Technology, apologizing profusely for not responding immediately to my initial queries about Raid Troubles in Europe and his DriveStation. It turns out Jay was on vacation in Colombia and completely without Internet access for a few weeks. But no sooner had he landed in New York than he was off on a product launch tour and … [Read more...]
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