Cooler Master A Cool Data Companion

External casings are widely used with Laptop hard drives as portable data transfer solutions. The X Craft 250 is an eSATA/USB casing from Cooler Master, it promises to keep high-capacity laptop hard drives cool.

Crafted in aluminum, the core design is objective. The meshed screen running along two sides takes care of Ventilation. Power hungry laptop drives are addressed by the use of split USB cables. Cooler Master provides rubber grommets for attaching the hard drive to the PCB. It also provides shock resistance. Mounting the hard drive is quite easy, Cooler Master has been generous enough to provide a little screw driver, screws, and the grommets. The package bundle consists of the drive, a nice pouch, and the necessary backup software.

Specifications :

HDD Support 2.5

Interface USB 2.0/1.1

Transfer Rate 480 Mbps high speed, 12 Mbps full speed USB operation

LED Indicator Power-Blue LED, HDD Activity-Red LED

Case Material Aluminum/Plastic/Metal

Dimensions 5.35in (L) x 3.19in (W) x 0.75in (H)

Weight 0.31 lbs/140g

OS Windows 98/ME/2000/XP, Mac 9.1 & 10.2 higher

P& G backup system Windows XP/ 2000/ 98/ ME

UPC Code RX-250-U2BN-GP-870423004202

RX-250-U2WN-GP-870423004165

Features :

• Supports 2.5" HDD up to 160G/7200RPM
• Compatible with both PC and Mac Platforms.
• Mirror finished aluminum casing
• Superior Cooling Solution: Aluminum casing with high quality mesh design provides excellent heat dissipation and ensures your HDD stability
• One-touch backup system: P&G (Press & Go) built-in
• Plug & Play and Hot-swap capability
• Smart indicator: Attractive blue LED indicates power/HDD activity
• Best Protection: HDD shockproof mounting mechanism protects your HDD and important data
• High Transfer Rates: up to 480Mbps
• User Friendly : Easy installation and portable
• USB Bus-power support

Integral Courier 2 GB for External Storage

This 2 GB USB 2.0 flash drive from integral is an impressive product. The dual tone translucent navy blue and silver edges gives it a rich and stellar feel, though the plastic USB connector covering cap is not that firm, it could mistakenly open during rough handling.

This USB device is light, weighing in just 28 grams and it is easy to carry around. Just strap it to your keychain or hand it around your neck and you won't even know it is there. This drive is ideal for storing songs and movies or for transferring files between home and office. You can store 400 high quality MP3s or upto 3 DivX movies.

Verdict : Regular 2 GB UBS flash drives are available at a lower price point and the performance is not anything to boast about. There is no Driver CD so you will have to download from Internet. There is no additional backup software, the speed of transfering data is average.

Thecus Y.E.S Box : Network Attached Storage Device

With this Thecus N2100 Y.E.S. Box, you can use it as File Server, FTP Server, iTunes server or a Photo Web server. The N2100 has a plastic Chassis. It is equipped with a 600 MHz Intel XScale 80219 general purpose processor partnered with 128 MB of PC3200 memory. The N2100 also has 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports and three USB 2.0 ports.

Installing the device to the network is so simple, with the supplied software detects the device on the network on its own and does it quite fast too. Once the device is online, the browser starts, and you can access the quick installation guide, using the installation guide you can configure the RAID, network, FTP and iTunes server capabilities for your use. The web interface of the device is very useful as it displays important information on storage space, processor, disk temperatures, speed of the internal fan and the connected USB devices. This device supports Apple and Linux clients on the network.

Verdict : The N2100 is a really smart network storage device for home and small offices. Easily configurable, the device can be used on your office network for storing files, songs, movies etc., it can also be used as a network print server.

Wep Pendrive Fingerprint Lock - 512 MB

The Wep 512 MB Fingerprint Lock is an excellent storage device that uses biometrics to secure data. This pocket-sized device, which is slightly bigger than you thumb, weighs only 15 grams and is housed perfectly in its own plastic shell.

This device can store up to 470 MB of data and rest of the space for the FP Manager Software. This FP Manager will analyze the fingerprint and allow access to the data stored in the device. Fingerprint Lock is an ideal way to secure your documents. The FP Manager also has an option to synchronize your Outlook Express E-mails from your computer to the flash drive.

Fingerprint Lock is an ideal way to secure your documents. You can also use a password to secure the important data on your system. It was very secure storage and firm enclosure.

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Switching made easy with ATEN CS-62B KVM

If you're an enthusiast with multiple PCs, a device called the KVM switch ( Keyboard, Video and Mouse ) helps avoid the duplication of Keyboard, Monitor and Mouse. That's what the Aten CS-62B brings you. The idea is to plug the existing devices into the respective ports on the CS-62B and attach the two PCs to the box via the ten 6-foot-long tentacles. The CS-62B has two pairs of connectors, consisting of one D-sub connector, two PS/2 connectors, and audio jacks. These connect to the respective PCs. The audio jack connects and mic-in ports on each PC. With the CS62B KVM Switch, you can easily access two computers in a cost effective manner.

Specifications :

Two - PC connectivity, Two PS/2 connectors, Two D-SUB connectors, four mini stereo audio jacks, Two LED indicators, Hotkey Switching.

HP Photosmart D7368

The HP Photo smart series is targeted at Photographers. The printer build in a good quality and the tray are neatly laid out. A transparent shutter gracefully covers the memory card slots and it will allow for an easy access and prevent from dust.

The colour contrast ratio is notably good, allowing for more vivid colour reproduction. It will take hardly 4 - 6 Minutes to Print A4 size Photo at a good Quality.

The low-resolution touch screen is easy use, but still requires the use of some discrete keys to navigate certain menus. The the printer's functionality can be accessed through touch screen.

Verdict :

Photographers who required a high quality printer, should consider this printer as a good choice and it will suit to their needs.

007 USB Flash Drive

Here’s a product for the truly paranoid-the 007 USB Flash Drive is a small dust-and waterproof USB stick with multiple data security functions. Its housing is made of stainless steel, equipped with a combination lock protecting the lid from unwanted removal, and the entire stick from loss by using an anti-theft cable made of steel. Only those users who know the right combination to lock can connect the stick up to a computer. Additional protection is provides by a data encryption function, allowing access only after having entered the correct password. Wow. Paranoia makes for cool design.

Logitech diNovo Edge

The diNovo Edge marries a sexy razor-sharp form with a feature long overdue for wireless keyboards-rechargeable units. The diNovo is a Bluetooth wireless keyboard and is Li-Ion powered. Stylishly sleek with its elegant charging base and backlit controls, the diNovo Edge has a multi function touchpad that unifies scrolling. Selection and cursor control. Its laser-cut Plexiglas and aluminum frame hide hot keys that light up on command and then fade into the background. With a touch-sensitive volume control, the Edge makes a bold statement and is optimized to work and play with Windows Vista.

Canon Selphy CP730

Canon Selphy CP-730 :

It is a stylish compact printer that delivers high quality prints on post card sized stationary. It has an impressive number of connectivity options to choose from. It can be used with a computer, but the best part is it does not necessarily need a computer to function.

Technical Features :

The CP730 leaves no room for doubt when deciding on a portable, reliable and affordable printer. You can use in traveling also with a battery pack. Besides the USB connectivity, it has Blue tooth, IrDA and Wi-Fi connectivity.

The color LCD screen along with the different buttons lets you choose different sizes of images as well. Create different modes and create multiple images and different sizes of images as well. Create different print sizes ( Upto 4x8 inch ) to suit your needs.

Performance :

At a modest 955 grams, it is convenient to carry. The print quality, color accuracy and picture details are good. The CP-730 uses dye-sublimation technology which means that every picture undergoes four cycles of printing. This water resistant layer also protects it from deteriorating in sunlight. Cropping and printing photos for Id cards and printing movie frames make this an exciting too.

Design :

It has a smart and compact design with a well placed LCD display and buttons. With regard to ease, even your five year old could use it. The paper feed tray is quite nifty little attachment which is very useful. This tray need to be attached while printing. A post card size print can turn out to be a little costlier.

Verdict :

For : Good quality prints, convenient and portable, easy-to-use, fast and reliable. Impressive connectivity options.

Against : It is specifically use for photos and not printing documents.

GeForce 8800GTX

The NVIDIA G80 (8800GTX), with 128 Shader units, is the first DirectX 10 compatible graphics card ever. The card sports an attractive-looking cooling solution well in keeping with such a large card (it’s 11 inches long). Testing saw the card running a bit hotter than the G70 and G71 series. It ran at 80 degrees under load; the G71 had rarely crossed the 60 degree mark!

The G80 has 768 MB of GDDR3 memory (1.8 GHz). F.E.A.R. saw a staggering 150 fps at 1024 x 768 with 4x Antialiasing (AA) and Anisotropic Filtering (AF) enabled. Similarly, Prey saw just over 202 fps at 1280 x 1024, at the highest settings.

For now, this is the fastest DirectX 9 card ever! Did we mention it supports SLI as well as Quad SLI? ATI’s response—the R600 is highly anticipated, and if it’s anywhere in the performance region of the G80, we should be getting a lot more realism in our games a whole lot sooner than we could’ve imagined!

Specifications
681 million transistors; 128 shader units (Unified Shader Architecture); 575 MHz core speed; 1350 MHz Shader speed; 1800 MHz memory speed (GDDR3); 384-bit memory architecture

A-DATA Oriental Elite 512 MB

A-DATA is a well-known name in computer memory and Flash drives. The Oriental Elite is a family of fast Flash drives with an artistic touch and customisable design. As the name suggests, the design of the drive is very “oriental,” and you can slide the plastic casing out and change the faceplate to your liking—it comes with two different faceplates you can use. This drive comes bundled with a USB extension cable and a mini-CD with utilities that let you format the drive, allocate partitions, and set a password for security. This is the fastest Flash drive we have tested thus far! It took just 8 seconds to copy a 100 MB file using the USB 2.0 interface. At a price of $21 (Rs 990), this is a perfect gift for tech-savvy art fans. Specifications 512 MB capacity; USB 2.0 interface

Blu Ray Drives

Blu Ray is the next generation DVD format that was developed to enable recording, rewriting and playback of high definition video (HD), as well as storing large amounts of data. The format has 5 times the storage capacity of traditional DVDs and can hold up to 25GB on a single-layer disc and 50GB on a dual-layer disc.

Blue Ray uses a blue-violet laser instead of the traditional red laser and is backwards compatible with DVDs and CDs. You will need to have a Blu Ray drive in order to take advantage of the new media. These devices will be expensive during the initial release until more manufactures start making the drives and the new format becomes more widely used. It is thought that Blu Ray will eventually replace DVDs.

One of the biggest advantages of Blu Ray is ability to offer movies in High Definition (HD). High Definition can provide up to 5 times the definition of traditional DVDs thanks to its extra storage capabilities.

Blu Ray is competing with HD-DVD, which uses a similar blue-violet laser and high storage capacity. Blu Ray is able to fit more data on the same size disc since the laser spot can be focused with greater precision.

There are plans to offer Blu Ray drives for computers as well and it will eventually replace the DVD drives currently in use.

What is a Tablet PC?

Many find typewriting in Computers very tedious. If only the computer can listen to someone speaking and then automatically convert speech to text. Yes, it is possible. Speech Recognition software are plenty in the market.

What if the computer can convert natural writing to text instead of typing? This too is possible using the 'Character Recognition' and 'Transcriber' technologies used in PDAs and Tablet PCs.

What is a Tablet PC?

Tablet is a computer. It is smaller in size than a notebook and bigger than a PDA. Therefore you can carry Tablet PCs easily.

A special feature in Tablet PC is the 'Slate'. Students can use this feature just like a slate. It comes with a special pen, using which you can write on the slate and the computer will read and convert it into text.

The slate in Tablet PC is nothing but a special monitor and 'Stylus' is the special pen used to write on the slate.

The Operating System in a Tablet is either Windows XP Tablet PC Edition or Windows CE.

Many Tablet PCs comes with a keyboard. Therefore those who want to type can use this keyboard. And those who do not like to type can use the stylus and the slate.

Just like desktop PCs, Tablets also can be equipped with MS Word, Exel, PowerPoint, Email, Browser etc.

Notebook Vs Tablet

Most of the Tablet manufacturers make their Tablet PCs to be able to be used as a notebook too. For example, Acer and Toshiba Tablets can also be used as a notebook. If the monitor of the Tablet is turned 180 degrees and faced other side it becomes a notebook.

Some brands in addition to slates also provide keyboards. So if you insert the keyboard it will become a notebook and if you take out it becomes a Tablet. HP makes this type of Tablets.

Some brands just come with the slate. ViewSonic makes this type of Tablet PCs.

Who Needs a Tablet PC?

Those who don't know typing, or those who know but do not like to type or those who type very slow are some of the people who can buy a Tablet PC.

Doctors who would like to store the details of the patients faster, Lawyers who want to record the details of a case also can use Tablet PC.

Students, Teachers, Press reporters, Stenos also can use Tablet PCs.

Do you need training to use Tablet PCs?

Yes. You need to train the Tablet PCs. Because the Slate has to recognize your handwriting style. If your hand writing is very legible and clear then you don't have to worry. Tablet will easily recognize your hand writing.

Configuration of Tablet PCs.

Generally Pentium III M or Crusoe chips are used at a speed ranging from 800 MHz to 1.5 GHz.

The screen ranges from 10.4" to 12.1" with a resolution of 1024x768.

The weight of the Tablet usually ranges from 1.4Kg to 1.8 Kg, so it can be easily carried around.

The price ranges from $3500 to $6000

Dual Core Processor

By the invention of new chip Intel organization makes a milestone in the usage of personal computer. The chip contains two new functional processors. The personal computer containing this kind of chip would able act as double-brained system. Past 12years empire of the Pentium chips comes to an end. This new invention had brought on the silver jubilee of the invention of personal computer.


This chip had been brought 40years after the invention of moor’s law. Moor’s law says that the capacity and speed of the processor will be doubling every 2 years while the cost remains same.


By using this dual pc we get high clarity of video, picture and audio’s. even though we get digitalize pictures in 3D effect.


Uses of dual core processor:

It can handle to entirely different type of processes as fast and easily at same time. For example a dual core chip can do the work of making imagination about the four car’s traveling path and also it can observe the path for it. We don’t want improve the speed of cars. by this dual core chip we do the music file downloading and games downloading on same time. At the same time we can also handle high capacity of data’s also. Before the dual core technology we use Hyper-threading technology, which can manage two different processes at single time. But dual core technology handles four different processing at single time.


What is the meaning of chipset?

We know about the word chipset in production of pc. What is mean by chipset? And what is the work of it? Shall we discuss about it?
Chipset is the most important part of our desktop computer’s motherboard. All works are done around it. Chipset manage the work of how to execute commands which would be executed first how the output is get. Work done by using the memory. This the main work of chipset.

A chipset contain two bridges namely south bridge and North Bridge. North Bridge contains the working parts like CPU, system memory and work between graphical memories. This is called as Intel memory controller hub. Intel organization calls the graphical and video processes as graphical memory controller. South Bridge is called as integrated controller hub. It contains 3GB serial ATA, raid level matrix, high definition audio, USB ports. CPU is the central part of computer. It is called as central processing unit up to now we use the CPU, which contain only one CPU, but dual core chip.

While computer is processing CPU should acting very fast for this huge amount of heat will be produced it won’t cool by the fan, which is fixed on the CPU. Instead of this we use dual core chip means it will reduce the heat. New edition software designed as the facility using dual core. So the execution time must be reduced for example in Internet we can view and copy was ten sites at a single time at the same we can also make work on word processor also.
Lets consider that you are hearing MP3 songs in mp3 player, suddenly u want to edit a picture from the Photoshop and mail it to your friends. Computer speed will be decreases when tasks are increases. In future more number of Technologies important take over in dual core chip.

DvD+R vs DVD-R - A comparison

In 1980s there was a tussle between VHS and Betamax technologies. VHS (Victor Home System) and Sony's Betmax were two different standards in Video tapes. People were confused as to which video tape to choose. Twenty five years later now there is a similar comparison in DVD technologies. They are DVD+R and DVD-R.

The use of DVD writers is increasing tremendously. Though the DVD disks are same, the DVD burning methods differ. Among these two technologies DVD+R is a more advanced technology. That is why these DVD+R disks are expensive compared to DVD-R. DVD-R is a comparitively older technology.

Now the next issue is your DVD burning software. Some buy DVD burning software without checking whether that DVD burning software supports both DVD+R and DVD-R disks. So though it is a bit more expensive get a software that supports both DVD+R and DVD-R technologies.