Tamara Lapiers

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LaCie Rugged eSATA 500GB hard-drive on sale

Tamara Lapiers, Feb 12th 2010 Discuss [1]

LaCie have unveiled a new rugged external hard-drive, and it's apparently the first on the market with a Power eSATA port. The LaCie Rugged eSATA not only supports transfer speeds of up to 90MB/s, but - if used with a powered USB-eSATA combo connection - can hook up with a single cable. Read The Full Story

Thermaltake Level 10 iBUYPOWER PC gets liquid-cooling update

Tamara Lapiers, Feb 11th 2010 Discuss [0]

What could make the stonking Thermaltake Level 10 PC case any better? How about a custom liquid-cooling system; that's what iBUYPOWER and Asetek have done, modifying the latter's 120mm LCLC to fit the asymmetric Level 10 layout. Read The Full Story

Redpark serial cable for iPhone/iPod touch/iPad outed

Tamara Lapiers, Feb 11th 2010 Discuss [7]

Back when Apple made the iPhone OS more flexible with how it works with third party accessories, it brought various gaming, PND and even medical companies on stage with it to show off their wares. Now things look to be getting a bit more serious; peripheral connector firm Redpark have announced their DB9 and RJ11 serial cable reference designs, both approved by Apple, and which will work with not only the iPhone and iPod touch but - Redpark reckons - the iPad too. Read The Full Story

Thanko Heated & Cooled USB keyboard

Tamara Lapiers, Oct 29th 2008 Discuss [1]

"Cold hands, warm heart" goes the old saying, but if you're more keen on melting the ice around your digits than you are reassuring people of your genial nature then Thanko's new keyboard might appeal. As well as looking monstrously well built, the USB 'board includes both a fan-cooler and warmer function, designed to keep your hands clement despite the weather. Read The Full Story

Sony working on new version of Mylo

Tamara Lapiers, Dec 17th 2007 Discuss [1]

Will it be a Mylo 2? Or are they just going to sneak in the new features of WiFi and a Camera? There isn’t much info, but other than the camera revealed from the diagrams and the 802.11g WiFi from the wireless testing, there doesn’t appear to be much else different from the original. Read The Full Story

Belkin and Kodak work together for Bluetooth adapter/software combo

Tamara Lapiers, Dec 5th 2007 Discuss [0]

This combo will hijack your pictures from your mobile phone whenever you walk within range. It doesn’t really hijack them, but it will copy them to your PC for you, no physical connection with your phone required. Read The Full Story

Fujitsu MHZ2 BH – Yet another 320GB 2.5″ SATA drive in the market

Tamara Lapiers, Nov 28th 2007 Discuss [0]

Not to be outdone by Western Digital and Toshiba, Fujitsu announced its latest 2.5” SATA harddrives that sport up to 320GB of storage. The MHZ2 BH series spins at 5400RPM and uses SATA2 interface. It is available in capacity of 40GB, 80GB, 120GB, 160GB, 200GB, 250GB and 320GB. According to Fujitsu’s press release, the drives consume only 1.9 watts during its read and write state and 0.6 watts during its idle state. The drives will be available for retail in February of 2008. No pricing information was released by Fujitsu at this moment. [via press release]

Rumor : iPhone SDK seeded to some developers

Tamara Lapiers, Nov 27th 2007 Discuss [0]

There is a rumor floating around the blogosphere that Apple has released the “alpha” iPhone SDK to some developers. Electronista claimed a reliable source has informed them that Apple has given some companies access to the rough version of the tools. The software development kit or SDK allows application developers to create native iPhone and iPod touch software. The source said current rough version of the SDK has clear limitations, although no details information on what limitations they are. Steve Jobs announced to the world in an open letter that an iPhone and iPod touch SDK would be release in February 2008.

Reviews

Dymo mailing solution review

Tamara Lapiers, Jul 16th 2007 Discuss [0]

Dymo’s desktop mailing solution is a two piece kit with a twin turbo labelmaker and 5lb scale. Both are compact and the label maker has a nice modern design that looks good sitting next to my computer. Tres cute! But most importantly the thing works.

Dymo mailing solution