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Optical media may have lost its shine because of flash drives and other portable storage devices, but they still have a place as long-term data storage products, thought the new type created by Millenniata outdoes most in terms of endurance.Optical disk drives, whether they are CDs, DVDs or Blu-ray disks, are often ... |
16 August 2011
05:01 GMT |
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The BDXL format has been up and running for a while now, and with actual writing units for such products now selling globally, Panasonic figured it was time to step up and unleash its first rewritable disks of this sort.By last year, the Blu-ray disk format had still not actually come close to replacing DVDs on the ... |
4 April 2011
10:30 GMT |
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If you want to keep your computer clutter-free, an application that will search all the related files when you want to uninstall any type of software is necessary. But, even if you use one of those, there are some files that will not be discovered and will remain forgotten on your computer, taking up valuable space. ... |
11 March 2010
13:31 GMT |
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While the HD multimedia playback technology has been on the rise, with more and better Blu-ray players and display solutions making their way from the drawing board out into the world, one element seems to have remained constant. The element of Blu-ray technology that has not seen any significant changes lies in the ... |
6 January 2010
08:16 GMT |
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“They're pronounced the same, but, technically speaking, there is a distinct difference between a disc and a disk,” Apple reveals in a Support document, which aims to clear up confusion surrounding the two terms. “What's the difference between a ‘disc’ and a ‘disk?’... |
22 October 2009
04:20 GMT |
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It appears that dangerous neighborhoods are not only a problem down here, on Earth, but instead cosmic bodies face such difficulties as well. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, seeing in infrared, has managed to capture an interesting phenomenon going on near a group of large stars. The image depicts an apocalyptic... |
18 December 2008
09:24 GMT |
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The Spitzer Space Telescope has recently made a startling discovery as it was scouring the skies in thorough observation of five young planet-nascent disks approximately 400 light years away from the Earth. While it was largely known that crystallized dust particles constantly lump up into larger versions, ultimately... |
12 November 2008
09:33 GMT |
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BurnAgain FS mounts your data CD or DVD like a hard disk volume. This Mac app comes in very handy as it lets you add, remove, and even edit and change files which are ultimately burned to the media. The latest version of BurnAgain FS improves handling of large files and QuickLook/Preview performance and fixes a coupl... |
15 August 2008
06:21 GMT |
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Wednesday has been an update-full day as Apple has released one uber update for all Mac users addressing around 80 vulnerabilities just yesterday, with the Cupertino based company rolling out yet another one towards the end of the day, including compatibility improvements for using Time Machine with Time Capsule, and... |
20 March 2008
04:23 GMT |
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Google is rumored to be secretly working on an operating system but no one was willing to fully deny or confirm it. A "not yet" is all I could come up with as an answer after asking somebody working there and that will never be good enough.But it seems that Google is going to the hardware market before that, and the ... |
1 December 2007
02:31 GMT |
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Plextor announced that it officially transferred its optical drives manufacturing business to its parent company, the Japanese industrial group Shinano Kenshi and while the sales of Plextor branded products and devices will continue for the time being, the looming reorganization is expected to pose a series of delays... |
1 September 2007
07:10 GMT |
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The computer hardware industry's current trend is to make everything faster, better and more energy efficient. Cheaper, no, in fact yes, after a period of high and average selling prices. There are a few hardware parts inside a computer that are getting bigger and bigger, in relative terms of performance, every ... |
3 August 2007
10:28 GMT |
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USB flash drives are becoming a more popular short term storage solution by the day, mainly because they are versatile, ultra portable and shock, water and dust resistant. As their popularity grows, so does the offering from several hardware manufacturers, and the product offering is very diverse, both in terms of st... |
26 July 2007
10:32 GMT |
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There is an increasingly strong current in our world today that starts reflecting a little bit on the computer hardware manufacturers and that current is the need to make equipment more environment-friendly and more power efficient. Hoping to ride the green wave, the hard disk drive manufacturer Western Digital annou... |
24 July 2007
02:47 GMT |
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Did it ever happen to you to buy a new CD or DVD only to find out that the optical drive doesn't recognize it? There's a good way of making it readable again and it doesn't involve rocket science. It just requires a good hot bath.Not for you, for the disk. Boiling disks in water for a short time can r... |
20 July 2007
10:38 GMT |
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The computer parts and components manufacturer LaCie launched its edition of heavy-duty storage solutions. The external hard disk drives, perfect for backups and long-term data storage adds some degree of mobility as well. Named the Big Disk Extreme+, the hard disk drive from LaCie has a more than impressive storage ... |
20 July 2007
03:54 GMT |
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Astronomers have just found an unusual blue halo around a distant star that looks like a glowing cosmic needle. This enlarged debris disk could point at hidden planets, since it is a well-known fact that they are leftovers from planet formation processes.The young star is called HD 15115, observed using NASA's ... |
20 July 2007
02:47 GMT |
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Recently, a group of astronomers developed a new method of describing galaxy features, which could provide scientists with new information on how exactly galaxies formed and changed over time in different parts of the known Universe.Dr. Xiaolei Zhang, of the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C., together with... |
10 July 2007
08:16 GMT |
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Not long ago, I was downloading a Linux distribution CD image (ISO) and suddenly, the downloader gave an error saying there is no more free space available. And there I was, wondering where did all the free disk space go, considering that /home directory had only 1% used from the total hard disk space. So I started c... |
26 March 2007
07:17 GMT |
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Since the beginning of the DVD format war there has always been a struggle to conquer the biggest piece of the market pie and now, whether you believe it or not, an UK-based company called New Medium Enterprises (NME) wants to take it all away by entering a new DVD format, the Versatile Multilayer Disk (VMD).Although... |
12 March 2007
05:04 GMT |
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