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- Digital downloads linked to HD disc format war?
- Digital downloads linked to HD disc format war?RegardlessRegardless of what Walmart wants or doesnt want to happen, digital downloads is available and the ability to watch movies and tv shows via the internet will change the way we all view our favorite movies and shows.I already watch all my movies...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-29
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- Mac DVDRipper Pro 1.4.6 (Mac)
- The best way to get movies on your Mac! Protect your DVDs from scratches, save your batteries by reading your movies from your hard disk, manage your collection with just a few clicks, time-shift your rental, backup your DVD collection, and much more! Mac DVDRipper Pro allows you to copy...
- Software downloads 2009-11-29
- Intego Personal Backup X5 10.5.7 (Mac)
- Personal Backup X5 is the versatile backup program for Mac, offering backups, bootable backups and synchronizations. Personal Backup X5 protects Mac users from disasters by backing up files regularly. Users can create custom scripts to meet their precise needs, and Personal Backup X5 ensures that backup copies of their files...
- Software downloads 2009-11-25
- Advanced Windows Unattended Installation 2.6 (Windows)
- If you work as a system administrator in an organization and maintain a lot of computers, you are sure to have come across the situation when you had to buy a consignment of computers and install all kinds of software on each of them. The direct consequence of such a...
- Software downloads 2009-11-17
- InstantBurn 5.0 (Windows)
- InstantBurn is a packet-writing solution that lets you operate your optical disc burner as if it was another hard drive or a huge floppy disk. Once launched, the program operates in the background, thus eliminating the need to worry about using optical disc burning software. You drag and drop files...
- Software downloads 2009-11-16
- New DVDs store digital photos for centuries
- Obsolete solution surely?1. Surely the cost of cloud disk storage, being two orders of magnitude lower, renders this obsolete?2. Important to consider the file format too: no good having jpg if Photoshop 3010 can't read it! Indeed could one be sure that tiff will still be around in 1000 years?...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-12
- Active@ Disk Image 3.3.4 (Windows)
- Active@ Disk Image is a PC backup solution for an entire computer or any sets of PC disks(including removable & optical), including operating system, applications and user files. A backup image may be stored on a USB drive, network storage, burned directly to CD/DVD/BR discs, or kept on any other...
- Software downloads 2009-10-27
- Apple's bumper crop of fall hardware, reviewed
- Where is the love for Nvidia?A number of questions come up:Why not Nvidia chipsets anymore? Why did they go back to Intel for core logic when they slammed them in a previous tech show for power management concerns?What happened to added graphics options on the Mac Pro? Where...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- Optical storage: RIP
- Vintage Zip DriveI've actually got a Zip 100 SCSI drive sitting around with a ton of disks. Cost a ton when it was new, but now it's just an antique paperweight...Optical storage is not a dead endSSD drives are never going to catch on for some big things, like PC...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-11
- Optical storage: RIP
- TDK's 10 layer, 320 GB Blu-ray disk is a remarkable technical feat. Too bad it will never be a commercial success. Optical is a dead end - and soon it will just be dead. Here's why. by Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-10-11
- Light Peak fiber optic connector to replace Firewire, USB, monitor cables
- A new interconnect technology called Light Peak is being developed by Apple as a potential replacement for FireWire, USB and traditional monitor cables. Engadget reports that Apple brought the technology to Intel and asked them to create it. According to documents we've seen and conversations we've had, Apple had...
- Blog posts 2009-09-28
- Time to ditch the optical drive, once and for all
- Once heralded as the second coming of data storage, the sun has finally set on the optical drive as an effective vehicle for data storage and delivery. Optical drives are simply too small and too slow to be practical. Single layer discs hold 4.7GB while double layer discs can hold...
- Blog posts 2009-09-16
- Quad-core CPU for $99 ... from AMD
- The Athlon II X2 comes with 1MB...L2 per core. It's too bad they didn't use 1MB per core for the X4.2M divided by 4 is 512KNope, it comes with 2MB of L2, divided by 4 cores gives us 512K per core.Adrian has it right.BradDid you read his Post?He said "Too...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-16
- Canon Vixia HG21
- The Canon Vixia HG21 is an excellent HD camcorder that's reasonably easy to operate out of the box and looks good, too. It's almost identical to the company's Vixia HF11, but rather than recording mainly to internal flash memory, it records to a hard drive. As for performance, it's as...
- Product reviews 2009-09-01
- Apple SuperDrive 3.0 (Mac)
- This update will eliminate the noise made by the optical disk drive during system startup and wake from sleep on your Mac. This update works with the following EFI updates: iMac EFI Firmware Update 1.4 Mac mini EFI Firmware Update 1.2 iMac (20-inch, Mid 2009), iMac (24-inch, Early 2009), Mac...
- Software downloads 2009-08-31
- DOJ gives blessing to Oracle-Sun, awaiting EC approval
- Yeah but...Sure wish they'd fire McNealy & Schwartz, then it would make it all worthwhile.Michael Murdock, CEOWell I never liked Oracle anyway......good way for Oracle to shoot itself in the foot. :)Did you know that large snakes can misjudge prey and try to eat something too big? Then they literally...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-20
- Laptop CD/DVD Guard 3.3 (Windows)
- CD/DVD drive's tray is a rather fragile thing. It's easy to break it by occasional pressure. Laptop computers are often taken from different sides, and it's easy to press the button on front of the optical button, eject its door and crash it accidentally. Thus laptop computers require special protection...
- Software downloads 2009-08-04
- CD/DVD Door Guard Pro 3.3 (Windows)
- Your small child plays with a door of DVD drive on your computer? It's a real headache. DVD device is not designed for children to play with it, and its door may break. It's rather hard and expensive to repair a DVD drive with the broken door properly. The simplest...
- Software downloads 2009-08-04
- HD DVD returns and kicks Blu-ray to the gutter
- Just when Blu-ray thought it had clear sailing, a tempest has risen in the East: China Blue Hi-definition Disk CBHD. Toshiba has licensed its HD DVD to them and it will be the unit world leader in HD optical technology in just 12 months. Why? The Times...
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- How safe are your CD-Rs?
- How safe are your CD-Rs?Perhapsits his reader and not the diskRE: How safe are your CD-Rs?Have had branded CD-Rs fail in three years of time-frame.There have also been times when CD is unreadable right after burning even though the burner software good brand just verified that the data got written...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-20
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