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What should be important to you when buying a flash drive, besides capacity? Speed and reliability. Amazon and Newegg provide useful user reviews that can alert you to drives with high failure rates. I also look for good read and write speeds. Read and Write Speeds Speed tests can be calculated manually, but I used [...] Lightning Strikes A small office near Dulles airport in Virginia had a Business T1 line from Verizon because they didn’t qualify for DSL or cable Internet. Everything was working great for about 3 months. Then there was a big lightning storm. When people showed up to work the next day, the Internet was down. Verizon [...] Prevent Lost Data Many DC area residents have been contacting me lately with hard drive failures and lost data. Data can sometimes be recovered using software such as SpinRite. But it’s easy and relatively inexpensive to be proactive and backup your data. The best backups are automated, using free software such as SyncBack for [...] We recently helped someone in Adams Morgan upgrade their laptop to a larger hard drive. It was for an old Dell laptop running Windows XP (32-bit) that had an ATA (IDE) drive instead of one of the newer SATA drives. Here are the steps to upgrade a hard drive. The EASEUS software is free for [...] The Palm Pre has just been released and most of these reviews are from review units. This means some of the issues may be resolved with OS updates. Here are some of top reviewers initial problems with the Pre. Phonescoop.com When the Pre is attached to a PC to sync media, it cannot make or [...] |
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