This may seem obvious once pointed out but sometimes old habits die hard. Sometimes you might have a USB stick full of stuff that you are transferring from one computer to another as it is the most convenient method for the job. However, once those files have been copied over you would probably want to …
Tag Archive: USB
Aug 17 2012
Test Your Media Before Upgrading
In my haste to upgrade to Windows 8 I forgot to test my USB installation drive and it wasn’t until it was too late that I had already wiped my SSD (and Windows 7) leaving the Windows 8 ISO stranded on the hard drive. It seems that my motherboard just doesn’t want to boot off …
Jul 15 2012
Ouya – The Open Source Game Console
Okay, I have a confession. I have had an itch to pledge for another project on Kickstarter and I gave in far too easily but I reckon this is quite an exciting development for the gaming industry as a whole, if not, for gamers in general. Ouya will be a game console based upon Android …
Jun 03 2012
Windows 8 Release Preview Out of the Gates
Just a quick one for today. It’s been a big tech week with the release of the Samsung Galaxy S III and now the arrival of the Windows 8 Release Preview. By now, a good number of people have had the chance to understand the look and feel of Microsoft’s next major operating system not …
May 28 2012
Making Bootable Windows Installation USB Sticks the Easy Way
Here’s a quick tip for today. Creating a bootable USB stick of a Windows 7 or Windows 8 installation disc used to be quite the black art but there is a much easier way to achieve the same outcome by using a neat little tool from none other than Microsoft. All you need to do …
Mar 25 2012
BitLocker and iPods – Will They Blend?
Leading on from yesterday’s article about BitLocker and the unfortunate situation that Mac OS X users find themselves in when BitLocker to Go is enforced at work when using USB devices we should also consider one popular USB device, the iPod. It may be a lesser known fact that iPods will use either HFS+ or …
Mar 15 2012
Incoming Gadget – Raspberry Pi
A quick heads up for tonight. I have had my eyes on an interesting credit card sized computer called the Raspberry Pi. It’s an ARM-based computer (similar to the CPUs found in phones and tablets these days) and is designed to run Linux. It’s also low cost as well with Model A costing around AU$30 …
Aug 06 2011
Choose the Best Interface for the Job
Here’s another quick tip for tonight. These days, we have all sorts of interfaces in our computers: wired Ethernet, Wi-Fi, USB, Firewire, eSATA, Bluetooth just to name a few. However, sometimes the most convenient interface won’t be the quickest. For instance, when I was transferring all the data from the old drives to the new …
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