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Is Internet TV Mainstream?

How long now has speculation about the Internet killing off DVDs and video stores been out there? It seems like it’s been just around the corner for at least five or six years. Lately though we are starting to see some evidence that Internet video delivery is hitting main stream. Consider these data points: NetFlix: [...]

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The Apple iPad – My Personal Questions

March is just around the corner. And we are at about the halfway point between product announcement and availability. The iPad is coming. From the very day of the product announcement, we have all been filled with questions, enthusiasm and doubt about this next product from Apple – the veritable king of all things marketing. [...]

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A Quick Tutorial on Drive Formats

I get a lot of questions from people about drive formats, and compatibility across the most prevalent operating system platforms – Windows and Mac. So I thought I’d write a short primer on the formats for use with and between these two primary operating systems. NTFS, HFS+, FAT – These are the primary formats that [...]

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Did You Get a Flip Cam As a Gift? Want to know how to enjoy it more?

Are you one of the millions who received a Flip video camera as a gift over the holidays? If you are, what are you doing with it now? Have you taken a bunch of really great, short video clips with it? I bet you’re looking at them either on the small screen of the camera [...]

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Seagate FreeAgent DockStar – What is it?

Seagate started shipping its FreeAgent DockStar product this past fall, and there are still lots and lots of questions about what it is, what it does, how to use it, and why someone might want it. So I thought I’d give some blog space to trying to expand on the capabilities of DockStar. Let’s start [...]

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No USB Storage Support for iPad

I must admit to being an early skeptic on the potential success ofApple’s much anticipated tablet gadget, now known as the iPad. But I have to say after watching all the video on the Apple web site… it looks really, really cool! The notion that I could use this device as an e-book reader, a [...]

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How to Format a Windows Disk Drive for a Mac

I get this question a lot – I have an external hard drive that is NTFS formatted (Windows format), and I want to reformat it for my Mac (HFS). How do I do that? And you know what? It’s not nearly as easy as it should be! There is one trick to it that is [...]

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USB 3.0 is here now!

Seagate Technology today announced it’s first USB 3.0 external storage product – the BlackArmor PS-110 USB 3.0 Performance Kit. With the advent of larger data files and larger data collections, the need and desire for higher performance drive interfaces has been growing rapidly over the past couple of years. The time it takes to copy [...]

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Seagate SSD & Options for desktop performance

Wow, SSD is a hot topic! It’s fast, it’s sleek and it definitely gets a lot of attention. With Seagate’s recent release our first SSD for enterprise storage applications (Pulsar), the chatter in the blogosphere was almost palpable. Well, at least it was for us geeky-dweebs in the storage industry. But seriously, let’s face the [...]

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It’s That Time of Year – Give the useful gift of storage!

The holidays are here! So what are you going to do for that special someone this year? Believe it or not, practically everyone can benefit from a new Seagate FreeAgent Go portable hard drive. I mean, we live in a completely digital world today. Everything we do is digital – the pictures we take, the [...]

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