One of the reasons Apple Corps. did’t want Apple Inc. (the makers of the Apple Mac, the iPod and the iPhone) to get into music was because of the confusion over the names. So when you read Apple in the title you may have wondered why Apple Inc. are releasing a USB stick with music on it. The answer is simple, it is the other Apple. Apple Corps. (pronounced “apple core” as a pun) is the corporation founded by The Beatles to handle all of their business matters. Now Apple Corps. and EMI Music are releasing an apple shaped USB stick with 14 of the Beatles’s albums in digital format.

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The cost of storage per gigabyte (or should we now say per terabyte) is always falling and is at an all time low. But at the same time the amount of data we generate is growing and this data needs to be backed up. In years gone by we could save our few documents to a floppy disk but now we have photos, music and films occupying gigabytes of space on our hard disks.

Fortunately for us all, getting and connecting an external hard drive has never been easier or cheaper. Windows, Apple and Linux all support external USB drives and I have compiled a list of 10 huge external hard drives to help you backup your data.

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You can try to deny it, but deep down you know it’s true; Hello Kitty is a world-wide phenomenon. The cute cartoon kitty cat has come a long way over the years and the market for HK products has grown enormously. So here I bring to you the best of Hello Kitty! (Gadgets of course… [...]

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