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Pogoplug updated: Twitter & Facebook integration, more USB ports

By Chris Davies on Friday, Nov 20th 2009 No Comments

Pogoplug have announced their second-generation device, and it aims to build on the usability of the original multimedia sharing brick.  As well as a new hardware design, with four USB 2.0 ports versus the first-gen model’s single port, there’s also new software with better integration with social media and online galleries such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace.  The core concept, however, remains the same: a sixty-second setup, basically amounting to plugging in at least one hard-drive, an ethernet connection and power, and registering the Pogoplug serial number to a free account online.

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Seagate FreeAgent DockStar review

By Chris Davies on Friday, Oct 16th 2009 1 Comment

Most digital libraries flourishing and ubiquitous connectivity spreading, having access to our personal data and media wherever we are is looking all the more appealing. NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices have had the ability to share via broadband for years, but most owners don’t take advantage of it; into the mixture steps Seagate, whose new FreeAgent DockStar takes the company’s FreeAgent Go USB hard-drive and makes remotely sharing its content incredibly easy. Obvious addition to every home network, or is there a sting in the tail? Check out the full SlashGear review after the cut.

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Buffalo, D-Link, LaCie & Seagate sign up to offer Marvell Plug Computers

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Jun 24th 2009 No Comments

Marvell’s SheevaPlug wall-wart Linux PC has finally come of age, with the company announcing mainstream retail partners including Buffalo, D-Link, LaCie and Seagate, together with beginning distribution of the Plug Computer development kit in Europe.  The original SheevaPlug has a Marvell Kirkwood processor with a 1.2GHz Sheeva processor, 512MB of RAM and 512MB of flash storage; resembling a wall-wart, it plugs directly into a power socket and offers a single USB 2.0 port and a gigabit ethernet port.  Suggested uses included a home server, NAS or other form of network-connected device.

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Pogoplug iPhone app makes external HD’s accessible from anywhere

By Steven Grady on Friday, Apr 17th 2009 No Comments

A new application application for the iPhone called Pogoplug allows users to access their computer’s external hard drives from anywhere through the Pogoplug, a $99 personal cloud storage device. Accessing the hard drives isn’t the only trick this app can do: it can stream music, video and view office files. If users don’t have space on their iPhone for a movie, they can simply elect to stream it from their external storage over the air.

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Marvell SheevaPlug: $99 Linux PC hidden in a wall-wart

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Feb 24th 2009 5 Comments

Marvell have been talking up their SheevaPlug reference design, a wall-wart power plug that actually hides an entire Linux PC.  Priced at $99, inside the SheevaPlug there’s an ARM-based 1.2GHz Sheeva embedded processor, 512MB of DDR2 memory, 512MB of flash storage, gigabit ethernet and USB 2.0; in fact the development kit is available now.

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Pogoplug allows users to remotely access their external hard drives

By Staff Editor on Friday, Jan 9th 2009 1 Comment

The Pogoplug by Could Engines provides users remote access anywhere in the world to their external hard drive through the Internet. This small plug also allows you to access your external drive even from your home computer as a local drive.

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