Posts Tagged ‘minutes’
March 24th, 2010 | 
BD write speeds reach the double digits
Once Blu-ray burners reached 8x writes, enabling them to fill a 25GB disc with data in less than 15 minutes, speed stopped being a major argument against the technology—now it’s just price and consumer need that stand in the way of widespread adoption. Still, for what it’s worth, Blu-ray write speeds continue to improve at a steady pace, and now, a mere six months after reviewing our first 8x drive, we’ve been presented with Plextor’s 12x B940SA.
But, you’ll probably wonder, what good is a 12x drive when today’s BD-R media has a … [Read More...]
Why Wipe Data Securely?
Whether you are preparing to reuse a hard disk for another operating system, clear off your junk shelves by passing along outdated drives to a friend or relative, donate an old PC to a charity or school, discard a too-small USB drive or flash memory card, or repurpose an SSD, you don’t want to leave any information on the storage device. With stories abounding of identity theft aided by information lifted from discarded storage devices, you want devices you no longer plan to use to have no usable information when they head out the door. … [Read More...]
Why
Posted in Tips & Tricks | 
Tags: active, administrator, amd, cache, call, card, computer, cover, design, desk, desktop, device, digital, display, drive, edition, express, flash, google, hard, hard drive, hour, hours, image, Intel, internet, life, light, media, memory, micro, mini, minutes, model, News, opera, operating system, ram, samsung, sata, screen, security, system, technology, Tips & Tricks, tool, ultimate, usb, vista, western, windows 7, with There are a gazillion apps to turn your iPhone into a remote control, and let you operate your computer, your Sonos home music system or even your DirecTV DVR. The problem is, they work over Wi-Fi, whereas your TV, stereo and DVD-players all swallow up infra-red light in order to follow your distant commands.
That changes with the little $50 L5 iPhone Remote, a dongle that plugs into the dock connector and allows you iPhone to become a proper universal remote, spitting invisible light at all manner of home electronics. It comes with a free companion application that lets you … [Read More...]
