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Apr 12
StarTech USB Duplicator & Eraser Doesn’t Need a PC to Lobotomize Flash Drives
Posted in: Today's ChiliDo you frequently need to transfer or back up data from USB drives? Are you a spy? Well if you’re not one, what kind of job requires you to do that? Whatever it is you do, StarTech has a gadget that could serve you well. It can copy data from a USB drive and transfer it to up to two other USB drives simultaneously. And it can do that on its own, there’s no need to hook it up to a computer.
The Flash Drive Duplicator and Eraser can copy just the data stored in a USB drive or it can make a clone of the entire drive. The second feature is useful if you’re copying up a bootable back-up drive or a disk image. As its name implies, the device can also erase data from up to two USB drives at the same time using either a quick erase method or a slower, but more secure way that supposedly follows a standard set by the US Department of Defense. I feel ashamed that I don’t have any data that merits that kind of sophisticated death.
Aside from transferring data to a flash drive, you can also use the device to transfer data to a hard drive, a solid state drive and other storage devices like memory cards as long as you have the proper USB enclosure or reader for your storage device. What I don’t know is if you can use those storage media as a source drive. You can order one from Amazon for about $171 (USD). Head to StarTech’s website for more information.
[via Electronista via Xataka]
Mar 30
Drobo has long had an apps platform to extend the usefulness of its smart drive enclosures, but there’s been limits to what it can do in the cloud and mobile spaces. The company is widening that support this week, and it’s inaugurating the effort with a pair of apps for the Drobo 5N. For us, the real highlight is Plex support, which turns the 5N into a high-capacity, redundant media server that can boost its storage as the content library gets bigger. The more pragmatic among us will like Barracuda Networks’ Copy, which offers unlimited file syncing and sharing that will seem familiar to Dropbox aficionados. Copy is already available for free, while Plex should also be gratis when it’s ready in April — the only real hurdle will be justifying $600-plus for a living room video hub.
[Thanks, Jack]
Filed under: Storage, Internet
Source: Drobo
Nov 12
I’ve always liked using the clock applications on my smartphone. You never really think about the design of the clock faces, but apparently they can be copyrighted works. Recently, Apple was sued for copying the Swiss Federal Railway’s clock design in iOS.
Apple will pay the Swiss Federal Railway $21 million for using their clock design in iOS without their permission. It’s fairly obvious to even the untrained eye that the clocks are almost identical. The initial iconic design was created in 1944 by Hans Hilfiker, an employee of the Swiss company. It has been in place in Swiss train stations ever since and has been honored by the Museum of Modern Art (New York) and London Design Museum (London).
Mondaine, a Swiss watch manufacturer, currently owns the rights to the analog clock and watch design. Now, since Apple paid the railway, they also have the rights, albeit digital ones.
Nov 01
Apple told to rewrite ‘Samsung did not copy’ statement, post it on front page until Dec 14th
Posted in: Today's Chili 
Apple might not have liked having to publish a notice stating that Samsung did not copy its design, as the result of a court ruling, but it complied all the same. Or did they? A UK court of appeal has criticized the firm over its choice of wording, considering it slippery enough to warrant a rewrite. The Guardian reports that the acknowledgement posted by Apple was deemed non-compliant with the court’s order. Apple has today been told to correct its statement, and re-post it on the front page of its website, with at least an 11-point font (and not as a hidden footer link) within 48 hours. The Cupertino team rebuffed, claiming that it would take at least two weeks to get a fresh rework together, a statement that reportedly caused disbelief from some court officials. So, the clock is ticking, and somewhere a legal team is no doubt engaging in some serious thinking. The new statement must remain on Apple’s site until December 14th, plenty of time to catch the attention of eager Christmas shoppers.
Filed under: Tablets, Apple, Samsung
Apple told to rewrite ‘Samsung did not copy’ statement, post it on front page until Dec 14th originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 01 Nov 2012 08:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Aug 30
Here’s something you still don’t see every day: a KIRF that’s unveiled before the device it’s supposed to copy. Although the 2012 iPhone may not show for weeks, the Android-based Goophone I5 is already doing a remarkable job of aping Apple’s rumored style, including that two-tone look that we’ve all seen before. Just don’t get notions that it’s the bargain of the century. Where most rumors point to a bigger screen for the real thing, the I5 is making do with a 3.5-inch screen similar to that for Goophone’s iPhone 4S imitator, the Y5. Performance isn’t likely to jolt the engineers in Cupertino out of their seats, either. Mum’s the word on whether or not the I5 will beat its inspiration to the store shelf, but we’d wager that it will cost a lot less.
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile
Goophone I5 manages to KIRF the 2012 iPhone weeks in advance originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Aug 2012 08:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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