USB 3.0 Finally On Its Way
MaximumPC.com is reporting that USB 3.0specs have been sent out ot manufacturers so that they can begin working on incorporating it into new products.
USB, short for Universal Serial Bus, is how the majority of items such as scanners, printers, iPods and more connect to computers. The current plugins are 2.0 and transfer data at a [...]
TSA Approves New Laptop Bags For Faster Screening
Last month I had to fly for the first time in four years, and I had forgotten how annoying the “take out your laptop for x-raying” could be. Luckily those rules have been relaxed some as of today.
The new Transportation Security Administration rules only apply to certain styles of bags, you can see them pictured [...]
What Is An External Hard Drive
What exactly is an external hard drive, and why should you even ponder buying one?
Almost all computers come with a hard drive, this is where your program files get installed, Windows or Mac OS X run from here and so on. If you’ve ever opened Windows Explorer to go to your “C Drive”, then [...]
Networked Printers For Home
For a long time the idea of a networked printer was something people only thought was possible in their corporate offices, but advances in technology have made them available to anyone now.
In the old days, if you wanted to make a printer available to your entire home network, you had to buy a separate piece [...]
What Happens If The Cloud Goes Down
GMail, an online application we all care about deeply here at StarterTech, suffered an outage yesterday that kept some people from accessing their email for approximately 15 hours. While cloud computing may be all the rage, this does raise the spectre of what one does when they can’t access said cloud.
I have personally thought the [...]
Electronics And Storms
What should you do about your electronics when a storm is coming? Well, that’s easy and it isn’t.
We’ve talked before about how you should have power back-ups, but those aren’t always going to protect you from electrical surges that can accompany a storm. A good example was in 2002 when my house was hit [...]
Keep Your Software Updated
We’ve talked briefly before about the importance of keeping your software up to date, but this is so important, it deserved it’s own post.
Software updates can be minor fixes, but sometimes they can be extremely important secuirty updates, and those are the ones you have to be most mindful of. Once a security hole has [...]
Discover Who Is Calling
Ever gotten a phone call that you have no clue it is from? Your caller ID shows a number you don’t know, but you have “Unknown” as the name. Well, oddly this is something Google can solve for you easily.
All one needs to do is head over to the popular search engine, type in the [...]
What Is A Thumb Drive
They have many names such as thumb drives, jump drives, memory stick, USB drives and more, but they all serve the same puprose, and that is being very useful.
These drives have been around for quite awhile, and while they started off as a niche item, they have grown more and more into the mainstream for [...]
What Is A USB Hub
USB, short for Universal Serial Bus, is an easy, and universal way of plugging devices into your computer. However, if you’re like me, you never have enough ports on your computer, so what do you do?
USB 1.0 was introduced in 1995, but was badly flawed, never quite being as “plug and play” as they claimed [...]
