Posts Tagged ‘hardware’
Under My Thumb (Drive)
Gina Trapani recently posted a nice feature on LifeHacker regarding the use of a USB key for more than just storing oodles of Word files, random JPEGs and MP3s. Yes, you certainly can do all that but there is more! USB keys (and iPods too) can be used to store and run portable versions of our favorite applications such as browers, e-mail clients and chat software, anti-virus software, and even Office-like applications.
Read more at: Geek to live: Carry your life on a thumb drive or iPod
Personally I am a little leary to put my entire life on one USB key. More than once I have come * this close * to washing my 1 GB drive with the darks in the laundry. Still there are some very useful ideas to be had in this article for those who take better care of their thumb drives than do I.
Care & Feeding of Flash Drives
From the much ballyhooed Department of Common-Sense Ideas That Aren't So Common, we forward the following entreaty:
Do: use flash drives. Don't: use the ones you find on the street posted on EnGadget.
Makes sense if you think about it. Would you let your child stick a piece of gum in her mouth she found stuck under a table at a random McDonald's? I didn't think so.
Tags: computers, caffeinatedGonzo, wiredgonzo
Touchy ~ Feely Monitor Thing
NAVIsis NAVIsis has developed technology they call "NAVIsis EZ-Canvas" that allows your run of the mill regular old LCD monitor into a touch screen monitor.
Something New for My Bookshelf
Asus has reveiled it's new concept for a PC built from modular components that would look really sexy on my bookshelf.
Sure beats the black box disguising the same old boring biege box design under my desk now!
You Do Voo Doo?
PC Hardware modders are pretty familiar with the VooDoo PC name. Here you can read the blog of their company president.
