I am here blogging about three very popular FireWire external hard drive that I came across on the internet. The first one is the Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Pro which has a storage space of 500 GB and is really inexpensive as compared to rivals in the competition. There is something called interchangeable ‘personality cables’ which add to the speed and versatility. This drive works with both Windows OS and Mac and the manufacturer gives it a three year warranty. My only gripe was about the warranty which is less than the five year period that other FreeAgent drives offer. There is also back up software included with the drive. Other external hard drive devices offer you a menu of preset ports but with the GoFlex Pro, the manufacturers has decided to cut down the cost by offering ‘personality cables’.  Through this, you can only purchase the connections that you really need for the system profile. I also must applaud Seagate for  [...]

When it comes to antivirus, the three things that you yearn for are better performance, user friendly interface and faster scans. AVG has released a new free antivirus removal software called AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 2011 that manages to get all three things done for you. The scans are a lot faster, the installations are quicker and they have made some tweaks to the interface to make it more user-friendly. But it is really difficult to tell how effective this software is against virus because the engine which powers the detection process has been changed. Also there have been changes made to the threat removal system. Independent labs will be giving their report soon and we will keep you updated about the results. The installation process on this free antivirus removal software is now faster but it is still relatively slower than the paid version. It takes about five minutes for the file to get downloaded, installed and ready to use.  [...]

Wireless speakers have become very popular in the market these days because they relieve you from the cable clutter. This technology seems really cool but it involves a lot of challenges and I have seen a lot of awful sounding wireless speakers. I am not kidding, there are tons of dreadful products out there and hence I didn’t expect anything spectacular from the the Rocketfish Universal Wireless Rear Speakers Kit when I first saw it in my labs. You might be unfamiliar with Rocketfish – it is one of the inhouse brands of Best Buy, the megaretailer. I was pleasantly surprised to see the performance of this product; it was better than a lot I have previously seen. Rocketfish Universal Wireless Rear Speakers Kit consists of power amplifier/wireless receiver and wireless transmitter which can be used along with any surround speakers brand provided they use a standard speaker wire (not the proprietary hardwired connectors). This wireless rear  [...]

ElcomSoft, a Russian password hacking company is using the newest ATI graphic cards for doubling up the iPhone password breaker speed. The card is also used for wireless security of auditor products. They have used ATI Radeon HD5970 card here which is very fast and it is twice as fast as the Nvidia Tesla supported recovery. ElcomSoft also says that this piece of hardware is 20 times faster on the Core i7-960 machines. The deal is quite affordable too, ATI video cards are comparitvely less expensive, they cost less than $1,000 whereas the Nvidia Tesla products, which are enterprise based, cost about $10,000. Initially, the benchmark performances first used to come from games like Quake but now Nvidia and ATI are trying out the arena of password cracking. ElcomSoft says that it is looking forward to test the software on the forthcoming Nvidia Tesla of S2070/S2050 which came out in mid 2010. They also want to try out  [...]

Internet Eraser is a program which deletes the past computer activities including internet history. This software is meant for people who yearn for Internet privacy. Through Internet Eraser software, you can delete Internet history, address bar history, browser history, browser cookies, Internet cache, and Window's temp folders, search history, history run, recent documents, save/open history, etc. You can even set the software to erase the tracks when you shutdown or start Windows. For running Internet Eraser, you need an Intel Pentium or compatible CPU and your system must have Microsoft Windows 98/NT/ME/XP/2000/2003/2008/Vista/7 32 or 64bit. You also need Internet Explorer 5.0 or better. You must have two megabytes of free hard drive space and 256 MB RAM. You can get all the updates for Internet Explorer on the Internet. The Internet Eraser is really easy to use and even people who haven’t used  [...]

Story of the Sonic Unleashed 360 begins when Dr. Eggman shoots the world with a big gun and the Earth breaks in to two pieces. Sonic, our hero, gets transformed in to a mean looking giant creature called werehog. The abomination occurs only after sunset and hence you get two personalities to play around with. This game has equal number of stages for both werehog and hedgehog but you will be spending most of the time at night because the combats are arduous and they take a lot of time. The levels for werehog in the Sonic Unleashed 360 are very tedious. These are divided evenly in to fighting and platforming but for me, these elements had lots of frustration instead of excitement. There are combos which can be unlocked as you go ahead in the game but you will be disappointed with the combat strategy which just need some mindless tapping of the 2 attack buttons. There is a shield for protection when things get out of control  [...]

Xbox Live Gamertags is your reflection in Xbox 360 community and it is really hard to come with a memorable name because there are lots of players on Live now. There are a few basics which you should remember while making a tag. Microsoft doesn’t allow racism, homophobia or profanity. Don’t try to cook up something by using letters to get escape the rules because other players will think that you are an idiot. You are recognized by the Xbox Live Gamertags and hence it doesn’t make sense to be remembered by friends by some pointless offensive names. I don’t recommend using letters in Xbox Live Gamertags as they look pretty uncool. This is ubiquitous on the Internet these days and they chatter do it a lot but you have to struggle while reading the names. Sometimes they don’t make any sense at all! Also, avoid putting ‘Noob’ anywhere near the Xbox Live Gamertags. It is just like asking other players to pwn  [...]

Batman has always fascinated fans of comic books and movie fanatics alike for ages. Electronic Arts has developed Batman Begins game and it is based on the movie. Bruce Wayne starts his life as an orphaned child, slowly grows up to an angry man and finally turns in to a crime fighter. This game captures the mood and the style of the movie very well and the graphics are complemented by a lot of fun. However, once you play the game for sometime, you will realize that it lacks gameplay difficulty and flexibility. Batman Begins game has successfully translated the presentation and the look of the movie in to the game and this is clear from the opening menu itself. The first screen that you see is the movie’s animated version with bats spookily circling around Dark Knight as he menacingly stands in foreground. Electronic Arts signed up contracts with the movie actors including Michael Caine and Christian Bale to lend their voices and likenesses to this  [...]

Aimp player is software which plays all your music on the computer. It is a great alternative to Windows Media Player or Winamp. I have used both these software before and was lurking on the Internet looking for something good. I got Aimp player, tried it and found that the application is pretty good. It is user friendly and you will get hang of it easily even if you haven’t such wares before. Also, you will be glad to know that it doesn’t tax too much of the computer resources so you don’t have to worry about system slow downs. There are some advanced features on the Aimp player which lest you edit tags, convert the audio files and record voice too. You can download this software from the Internet; it is small sized and doesn’t take too much time to install. After testing the player no the internet, I realized that the sound quality is pretty different from WMP and Winamp. It is hard to say which one was better; all three of them have their own strong points.  [...]

Have you bought a screen protector or screen guard for your phone before? I bet you have just walked in to store and took the one that the dealer offered you. I too used to do the same thing. I was in the market buying HTC Desire screen protector and realized that there are a lot of counterfeit ones out there. Stay away from the fake screen guards even though they are very cheap. These cheapos die out quickly and don’t protect the screen as well as the original ones. Your phone is precious right? So don’t hesitate if you have to spend the extra buck. I would recommend buying original ones; they are a bit costly but the glue on them is really good and they hold on to the screen really well. The fakes ones tend to peel out easily. When I went to buy my HTC Desire screen protector, I found a lot of cheap china products. The glue on them is really weak and the sheets are very thin. This makes the screen vulnerable to damages. I bought my set with  [...]