J5Create may be familiar to Apple Macintosh users as they're designers of aesthetic Mac accessories, but their latest gadget will be of interest to those of us with a foot in the PC camp. Here Todd talks to John about their new Wormhole Station. The Wormhole Station combined with the Wormhole cable creates a keyboard and mouse switch which not
Regular readers will recall that I was quite taken with the integration of Pogoplug into the Buffalo CloudStation Duo, so I was very interested to hear that Pogoplug have released a new device, the Series 4. If you aren't familiar with the Pogoplug device, it's a network gadget that makes attached USB devices available across the Internet. In short, you
Thank you for your amazing support of the show. At 695 Episodes they are as exciting for me to do as the day I recorded the first one. Do you have a prize you would like to donate for show #700. Several companies have already stepped up and we are going to have a huge giveaway pool of gadgets and
The Freecom Mobile Drive Mg is no ordinary 2.5" external drive. It's a thing of beauty. Intended to complement Apple's MacBooks, the slimline Mobile Drive has a magnesium body that looks and feels great. The icing on the cake is that it's USB 3. I've seen lots of external drives but this is the one you want. Even the packaging
Buffalo's MiniStation portable USB 3.0 hard drive is a 500 GB SATA 2.5" HDD in a small and not unattractive package. Coming in crystal white (and piano black), it will certainly appeal to those who want to match their white Apple products without wanting to pay for the Apple logo. Size-wise, it's very pocketable, measuring just 114 x 77 x
If your laptop is like mine and pre-dates USB 3 but you want to use USB 3 devices at their full speed, then you might be interested in the Buffalo USB 3.0 Interface ExpressCard (IFC-EC2U3/UC). It's an ExpressCard/34 size device, with two USB 3.0 ports on the side. The card will also plug into in ExpressCard/54 slot. If needed for
I have been using a Seagate GoFlex Slim Performance Drive for the past few days. While external hard drives are a dime a dozen, this is one of the first USB 3.0 with 2.o fallback that I have been able to play with. This drive can be used with a PC or a Mac, and has a high performance 7200