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WinToFlash: Install Windows XP, Vista, 7, or Windows 8 with a USB flash drive

Brad Linder — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:51:41 +0000

For the last 15 years or so, Microsoft Windows has been coming on CDs or DVDs. But it's increasingly common to find computers that don't have disc drives. So how do you install Windows on those computers? Microsoft offers a free USB/DVD tool which you can use to easily create a bootable USB flash drive with Windows 7 or Windows...

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Isostick is a USB flash drive your computer thinks is an optical drive

Lee — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:15:27 +0000

At first blush, the idea of the Isostick might not seem that amazing. In simplest terms, it's a USB flash drive that your computer detects as an optical drive. But who needs something like that? Nowadays, just about every computer on the market can boot to a USB device, be it a flash drive or an external hard drive. This...

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Motorola XOOM tablet hacked to support USB host capabilities

Brad Linder — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 22:00:03 +0000

Want to plug a flash drive, mouse, or keyboard into the USB port on your Motorola XOOM Android tablet? You can do that... but don't expect the peripheral to work... at least not without making a few tweaks. Fortunately members of the SlateDroid community have figured out just how to tweak the tablet so that you can enable USB host...

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Brando introduces solar-powered 4-port USB hub and battery

Brad Linder — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:32:20 +0000

Four port USB hubs are a dime a dozen these days. And I mean that almost literally, with plenty of places where you can find USB hubs on sale for around a buck. But Brando has found a way to make a USB hub that really stands out. First up, this hub has a built-in rechargeable 130mAh batter and comes...

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Infinitec launches USB drive with “infinite” storage space

Brad Linder — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:29:17 +0000

Remember when flash storage meant 16MB of memory for storing, I don't know, maybe 4 songs that you could play on an MP3 player? Yeah, those were the days. Today you can find USB flash drives with up to 256GB of storage space. But Infinitec doesn't think that's enough, and the company is offering a USB device that promises infinite...

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7th Century introduces a 10.1 inch, USB powered LCD display… in Japan

Brad Linder — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:04:49 +0000

Want a high definition display for your netbook, but don't feel like removing the 1024 x 600 pixel display that shipped with your computer to install one? No problem. 7th Century is selling a USB powered 1366 x 768 pixel 10.1 inch screen. Just plug it into your netbook, notebook, or desktop to add a second, high definition display. The...

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How to charge an iPad over a standard USB connection

Brad Linder — Mon, 31 May 2010 19:48:05 +0000

Plug an iPhone or iPod into pretty much any computer with a USB port, and you should get enough power to charge your phone or media player. Try the same thing with an iPad and your results are likely to be a bit less predictable. That's because an iPad needs more power to charge and most older PCs ship with...

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Samsung shows off 18.5 inch USB-powered display

Brad Linder — Mon, 31 May 2010 18:05:04 +0000

Samsung has developed an 18.5 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display that can run on just 6.3W of power -- which it can draw from two normal USB ports. That means you could plug the display into a desktop PC without bothering to run yet another cable to your wall jack or power strip, which probably already crowded enough as...

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iPad Camera Connection Kit adds USB headset, keyboard, camera support

Brad Linder — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:20:05 +0000

The Apple iPad doesn't have a webcam, so you can't use it to take photos or videos or engage in video chats. But Apple does offer a $29 adapter that lets you import photos and videos from a digital camera or SD card. And it turns out that's not all the Camera Connection Kit is good for. The kit began...

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HP: The iPad is for consuming media, Our slate lets you create it too

Brad Linder — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:38:30 +0000

HP wants you to remember that they've got a slate PC coming out soon too... and it can do some things that the Apple iPad can't. No, it can't whip people up into enough of a frenzy for HP to sell 300,000 on launch day -- at least I don't think it can. But it will let you take pictures...

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Asus netbooks to get USB 3.0 support

Brad Linder — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 23:05:15 +0000

Asus is apparently planning to go all out in support of the new USB 3.0 standard. USB 3.0 offers data transfer speeds up to 10 times faster than the 480Mb/s you get from USB 2.0. And while you might think that Asus and other PC makers would focus first on bringing the new technology to high end computers with expensive...

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Microsoft to launch tool for installing Windows 7 from a USB flash drive

Brad Linder — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:03:33 +0000

Want to install Windows 7 on your Windows XP netbook, but don't feel like buying the Windows 7 installation disc and a USB DVD drive to do it? Microsoft is now offering netbook users a way to download the operating system directly to a PC and use a USB Flash drive to install it. Here's how it works. First, you...

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Easiest way to install Windows with a USB flash drive

Brad Linder — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:37:41 +0000

This article shows you how to install Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8 on a computer using a USB flash drive. This lets you install Windows on a netbook or another computer that may not have a disc drive. You'll still need a computer with an optical disc drive and a Windows XP installation disc in order...

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Buffalo adds to its lineup of little things with tiny MicroSD card reader

Brad Linder — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 14:00:22 +0000

Like tiny computers? Then you might like other tiny things, like tiny USB peripherals. And nobody's making them smaller than Buffalo these days. The company put out a ridiculously small 16GB USB them drive in June. And now Buffalo has announced a MicrosSD card reader that's about the size of a MicroSD card, which is to say, really small. The...

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