Its hard not to fall in love with the Western Digital Live HD on first sight. Its wonderfully tiny, affordable, efficient, and capable. Despite common klunky navigation and limited features, if you need its features its a great solution.

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I am not a coffee snob.
Seriously.
I will drink anything that delivers caffeine into my system.

I will drink the poker-cup vending machine coffee – black if need be, with a smile on my face.
When I am out of drip, I will suck down microwaved Folger’s instant.
I let the pot warm all day and will absolutely [...]

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Installing Snow Leopard turned out to be kind of a fiasco for me, but having this USB-Sata Hard Drive Dock made life a little easier. It takes up to 2 Sata drives at a time, either laptop or desktop.
So, how did I use it to help with my Snow Leopard problems?
Well, first is backup. I [...]

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About 5 years ago I played guitar in a garage band in Northern California, and we were always trying out new ways to record our practices. It’s a difficult problem and we went through a lot of different solutions.
I think we started off with an old-school Tascam 4-Track Cassette Recorder with a lameass mic plugged [...]

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The new OCZ Z-Drive , the PCI-Express-connected, high performance solid state drive, with 450 MB/s read speed and 300MB/s write speed, is Now listed on Amazon.com with a 1 to 3 month lead time.

I am a huge fan of high-performance solid state drives. My first was an MTRON, which had about 100 [...]

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Video Glasses
Historically, they have been very expensive, bulky, offered a negligible viewing experience, and make you look like a freak in public. However, they are evolving, and the MyVu Crystal Amber Video Glasses for iPod are a milestone in this evolution, solving 4 of these 5 major complaints handily.
I think this review will be of [...]

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When I saw the Gizmodo announcement of the Brando iPower iPhone battery extension with Speaker, I knew I had to check it out. I use some small, inexpensive Cyber Acoustics Speakers frequently with my iPhone, as I love the radio apps like Pandora, Tuner, and AOL Radio. Also, like most iPhone users, battery life is [...]

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