Just one week after Windows 7 was released to PC manufacturers, pirates have already cracked the product’s activation. The product key has been posted on the internet from one of
Convergent technology sounded like a great idea when it first hit the scenes. No longer would you need a separate device to take holiday snaps, call your bro to gloat about being at the beach and pump out your tunes to the annoyance of sunbathers around you; you could theoretically do all of this on just one piece of kit. The trouble with this concept though, was that instead of a great camera, great phone and great MP3 player, you got mediocre versions of all three in your one device. Now Samsung have stepped up to the plate with its new Pixon 12, a mobile phone with a 12 megapixel camera included. So does it do everything as well as individual gadgets can? Let’s find out.
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.
