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Buffalo Technology have upgraded their DriveStation Duo and DriveStation Quad external hard drives to USB 3.0 while bumping their capacities at the same time. This makes some serious storage available at high data transfer rates. The DriveStation Duo holds two drives that can be configured as a RAID 0, 1 or as a standard external drive. It's available in 2
Have you signed up for the newsletter? If not you will want to sign up for the newsletter today see link at the top of the page. For those watching the show, we discovered a rendering setting that had gotten jacked up. I have it all fixed for this show and will be going back and re-rendering some of the
I’m starting a week of using the Chrome OS to fully experience what can and can’t be done with this cloud based OS. Basically, the Chrome OS is the Chrome web browser by Google put on a very light weight linux build. Google is positioning Chrome OS to be a Netbook OS that can be deployed on inexpensive hardware. It
One of the hardest things a company has to do is to predict what consumers want. If a company get the prediction wrong it can cost them billions of dollars and in the long run the company itself. Ford is trying a new method to improve their prediction of future trends. They are using a new analytical tool which takes
A few weekends ago, I visited the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum in Northern Ireland and in the transport part, I came across some electric vehicles. One was a bread delivery van from 1948, one a milk float from 1954 through to 1986, and finally a Post Office van from 1994. Clearly, electric vehicles are not new and as you'll
It’s been a while since dumping my $100-dollar-per-month Dish Network habit. Ominously for the existing broadcast/cable/satellite structure, I haven’t missed it – not even one little bit. Sorry guys, that money now goes for other discretionary things. Save Our Buggy Whips! I saw an article about the traditional broadcasters in Canada saying they needed to somehow “get ahead” of the
Some of you may recall that early last summer, I left my long-term Linux partner OpenSuSE for Canonical's Ubuntu - the post is here. I thought it was going to be forever but I'm afraid it hasn't worked out and SuSE has taken me back. The original problem was that I couldn't get SuSE 11.2 to install on new hardware
For those of you that actually read the show notes and I know 10's of thousands do not the clue on the Apple Product announcement is in the show notes.. You want to talk about a product that the koolaid drinkers will get excited about. Action packed show, of course I had to have a mini soap box time over
If you follow the news about Google or search you know that what some people call content farms have become a big issue. First what are content farms, Wikipedia defines content farms as Web sites that employ a large number of freelance writers to generate large amounts of articles that are written to be search engine friendly. The main goal
Geek News Central is expanding, we are looking for "4" more talented and or passionate individuals to launch new shows here at GNC! Have a show idea and want to align with one of the top tech shows in the new media space? I want to hear from you and your show idea! If your thinking about Gadgets to late
Since getting the latest version of the 32 gigabyte iPod Touch a couple of months back, one of the uses that has surprised me has been late-night movie-watching after I’ve gone to bed but am not yet drowsy enough to go to sleep. The iPod Touch works extremely well for this task. I am able to pair the iPod to
If you aren't in the Eastern time zone or you recorded tonight's episode of Jeopardy! for later viewing then you may want to stop reading now. But if you have seen the show or don't plan to watch it or don't know what the heck I'm talking about then read on. Day three, the final day, has just wrapped up
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