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Does Every Mad Scientist Need a USB Plasma Ball?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed This plasma ball may not look like much at first, but that’s because it needs to be plugged in to a USB port! Once you turn it on, you’ll be amazed by how fricken cool this thing is! The USB Plasma [...]
Am I the Only One in Love with Retractable Cables?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed When I got my laptop cooler, I quickly realized I needed a specific type of USB cable… one that had a male adapter on both ends. I had a difficult time finding the exact model I needed. It got me to [...]
What Happens When You Run out of USB Ports?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I have a USB hub hidden behind my monitors. It’s a 7-port hub, but I inevitably always need yet another port. I could add another hub, sure. But that wouldn’t be as fun as attaching a Squid, now would it? This [...]
Has a Wrist Strap Ever Saved Your Camera?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Picture this: you’re out and about and take the picture of a lifetime. Then, you need to transfer that picture to a computer. The problem is, you left your USB cord at home, so there’s no easy way to get that [...]
Which USB / Firewire Car Charger do You Use?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed How many of you out there have an iPod? How many of you leave the house? What about having a car? Even if you don’t have an iPod, you may have a device that requires a charger of some type. I’m [...]
What’s in a USB Adapter Travel Kit?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Just about the only bus I’ve ever enjoyed riding happens to be the Universal Serial Bus. You know me, I love everything USB. When I was out shopping today, I just happened to find a very cool USB adapter travel kit. [...]
Do You Want to Remove USB Flash Drive Software?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed You probably have Flash drives lying around. My Dad recently bought a new Flash drive and plugged it into his computer, to find that a window popped up. The U3 software was installed on it. He wasn’t very happy about that, [...]
What do you Need to Know about USB?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Ponzi called me while shopping with some questions about USB Hubs. I realized that many people may have the same questions, so I decided to try and answer some of those for you in this video. Her first question was “What [...]
A USB Grommet Hub for your Home Office
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Everyone knows that I’m addicted to USB devices. Because of this, I need several USB hubs, but my desk is only so big. I read about this product not long ago. So, when I saw it in a store I had [...]
What’s Your Favorite Keyboard?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed For a long time, I was using the Microsoft Internet Pro keyboard. The reason I loved it so much is that it had two USB ports in the back. Microsoft stopped producing it, so I’ve been looking for a replacement for [...]
Top Ten Portable Applications
Hey Chris, I wanted to tell people in your videos and chat my favorite use of Portable Applications. I am now dual-booting Vista and XP, just for the programs that run on XP and barely work on Vista. Instead of installing the programs on both Vista and XP, I’m running the programs off of my [...]
Windows Vista and SATA Drives
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed A recent caller to the 888-PIRILLO line had trouble with his Vista Home Premium machine just after applying Windows updates. It began showing his internal hard drive and DVD write drive as removable devices… such as a SATA drive or USB [...]
Cable Management
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Jthermane wrote: “USB, Power, FireWire… there are many types of cables out in the world that do many different things. They can bring things to life, carry data, output sound. But the more cables you get, the harder it is to [...]
VNC or Remote Desktop or What?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed My last caller for tonight was AfroThunder, another long-time member. He was wondering if I know of any KVM’s with USB support. There are several out there, but I’m unsure as to what brand may be better. You definitely want to [...]
Buy USB Flash Drives
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Bowler4Ever is a long-time regular in our live community. He has previously sent in some excellent top five lists. Here is a new one from him… which should help you when buying your next USB Flash Drive. Are you worried about [...]
