Seagate has a sleek new portable hard drive, the Free Agent/Go. Slender and slight and dressed in deep blue, red or silver, the drive has a capacity of 320 gigabytes and lists for $150 for the PC, $190 for the Mac. For another $25 you can get a docking station that let’s the drive sit upright. The docking station is nice but not necessary…
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When you share video clips on the web, you often get grainy images. Motionbox.com has a new service that handles high definition and makes even ordinary clips look like high-def…
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USB flash drives are so cheap now that companies give them out as promotional gifts, they way they used to hand out pens and cigarette lighters. Plug them into the computer’s USB port
and they show off the company’s products and/or special offers, etc. But if you want to hand out lots of them, you need a duplicator. We found a unit at DiscMakers.com that sells an $1100 unit called ReflexFlash 11…
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Some individuals and businesses transfer their files to a remote storage location as a precaution against fire or flood destroying their computer and its contents. But some would also like to have their files and programs available right away if they only had a hard drive that could survive the fire or flood.
We found one. It’s the “Sentry Safe” 250 gigabyte drive…
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Shwup.com is a free web site that hopes its name will make you think of ”showing up…”
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This is so cool we’re not sure where to begin. That’s because it’s actually two cool backup things, so we can start with either one.
We’ll start with “ClickFree,” a 120-gigabyte pocket-sized hard drive that plugs into any Windows computer and backs up all your files…
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We never had a flash-drive fail, but a reader dropped us a note recently to say his flash drive had failed and we should alert people to the problem. Okay…
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We started up a two terabyte external hard drive from Western Digital last week. Yes, we know that hard disk drives are going to become extinct and be replaced by flash memory chips, but until then – what a deal this is…
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It’s not the kind of raid where the police come in to break up some illegal activity. In computer use, it’s written in capital letters, and RAID refers to “Redundant Array of Independent Disks” (originally “Inexpensive Disks”). You see the acronym often in ads for new drives and computers. It’s a way of linking hard disk drives together that is important for businesses and anyone else concerned about saving their data…
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You can post a video to YouTube for private or wide audience viewing, but there’s a ten-minute limit. There are free programs, such as SecureZip from securezip.com that let you compress and encrypt a file with just a couple of mouse clicks. That’s nice for sending it through email, but not convenient for a large group.
There’s a free and easy solution available from a new service called Drop.io…
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