Highlights of VMware Workstation 7.1.4 are:

- Windows 7 SP1 and Ubuntu 10.10 are officially supported.
- Improved support for RHEL 6.0 and Fedora 14.
- Resolved customer reported USB device issues.
- Enhanced support script to gather additional technical information.
- Addressed several security, performance and usability issues.

See the VMware Workstation release notes for more details.

WD states that with a 3TB hard drive you can store the following:

Up to 600,000 10MP digital photos
Up to 750,000 4min long 128 kbps songs (MP3)
Up to 75,000 4 min long songs (uncompressed CD quality)
Up to 230 hours of Digital Video (DV) at 13 GB/hr
Up to 1,150 hours of DVD quality video at 2.597 GB/hr
Up to 360 hours of HD video at 8.3 GB/hr

WD Caviar Green 3TB Product Specifications:

Interface: Serial ATA-2 (3Gbps)
Form Factor: 3.5″
Cache: 64MB
Average Seek Time: 15ms
Average Latency: 5.5ms
Platters: 4 at 750GB/Platter
Peak Read/Write Sequential Watts: 6.0W
Idle Watts: 5.5W
Sleep/Standby Idle Watts: 0.80W
Temperature Range: 5 to 60 Degrees Celsius 
Acoustics (idle/seek): 24 / 29 dBA

Samsung’s foray into the tablet market will definitely be a profitable one, based on the specs below and what I’ve read about it, I cannot wait to  get my paws on it. Here are the specs.

• Android 2.2 running TouchWiz 3.0
• 7-inch TFT LCD with 1024 x 600 resolution (WSVGA)
• Weighs 380 grams
• 1GHz Cortex A8 processor
• 16GB or 32GB internal storage
• microSD expansion for up to 32GB additional storage
• Front-facing 1.3 megapixel camera and rear 3 megapixel camera with flash
• 4,000mAh battery
• 3G data / voice (there’s a speakerphone and Bluetooth for phone calls, but no earpiece)
• 5GHz dual-band 802.11n WiFi
• Standard back color is white, carriers might offer different colors
• Full HD video playback
• There’s a 30-pin dock connector on the bottom that allows for HDMI, USB, and docking accessories (a car dock at least is planned)

We will have to wait and see what the Android developers come up with, if they can push out some great apps for the Android, it just might steer some people away from the iPad or PlayBook.

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“The Xporter Rage USB Flash Drives are exceptionally fast and provide an outstanding value to users,” states Meng Jay Choo, Product Manager at Patriot. “Designed around the quad-channel performance solution, these drives are some of the fastest available. When you also consider the convenience and ease of use offered by the capless rubber-coated housing, Rage drives are ideal for enthusiasts and professionals who need to transport and quickly access their important data on-the-go. Rage drives are Performance defined.”

Check out these specs!

Quad Channel technology for fast read/write performance
27MB/s Read
25MB/s Write
Durable design extends the life of your drive
Rubber coated housing protects from drops, spills, daily abuse
Retractable design protects USB connector when drive not in use

If you feel like grabbing one, the 16GB version is going for about 40$ at NewEgg.ca, and 76$ for the 32GB one!

Touch Sensitive Buttons -turn the Xbox 360 on or off and eject a disc with the swipe of a Finger
Whisper Quiet – Whether you’re playing a DVD disc or from the hard drive or navigating the dashboard, with the all-new and much quieter Xbox 360, the only noise you’ll hear is your own laughing, cheering and playing
Wi-Fi -Built-in 802.11n Wi-Fi for fast, easy connection to your friends and entertainment on Xbox LIVE.
Hard Drive - 250GB internal, swappable hard drive for even more storage. To access, remove the bottom panel by pushing the small tab toward the front of the console.
Kinect-ready -Custom Kinect port on the back of the console that directly hooks up to the Kinect sensor for controller-free fun.
USB Slots - Five USB ports, three in the back and two in the front.
Power Supply -Smaller and more efficient. Xbox 360 250GB and Xbox 360 Original power supplies are not interchangeable.
Wireless Controller -The award-winning Xbox 360 Wireless Controller matches the console in all black with color-matched thumbsticks and directional pad with a touch of gloss and chrome to complete the look.
Backward Compatible -Your favorite accessories and games will work with Xbox 360 250GB. Xbox 360 external hard drives and Memory Units are not compatible.

Although all accessories and games will work with the new Xbox, the existing HDD will not… so how will i get all my stuff over to the new Xbox after I buy it? Good question and I do not know the answer at this moment. Check out this site for some pics.

A Google tablet could be the only tablet capable of actually challenging the iPad, avoiding the iPod whitewash in which Apple thrashed everyone, even Sony. It would also have some advantages. Google’s services, for one. Apple still doesn’t get the cloud, and getting data on and off the iPad is still largely done over a USB cable. Android is also the only other real player in apps with the Android Marketplace. It is way behind the iTunes App Store in numbers, but is at least in second place.

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Also watch out for the HP Slate which had more connectors, more ports, and more options than the iPad. The Slate will run Windows 7 with a custom user interface. Click here for the spec comparison.

TeamViewer Portable 5.0.7904 has been released. TeamViewer is a remote PC support/control and screen-sharing tool. You can remote control a partner’s desktop to give online assistance, or you can show your screen to a customer without worrying about firewalls, IP addresses and NAT. This release updates TeamViewer to the latest version and adds multilingual support. It’s packaged as a portable app so you can work on the go and it’s in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. It’s released as freeware for personal, education and non-profit use (business use requires a license).

I have listed some features below.

- Support, administration and screen-sharing in one package
- Remote administration of unattended servers
- File transfer
- Key exchange and AES (256 Bit) session encoding
- Remote support without installation
- Remote presentation of products, solutions and services
- Works behind firewalls

So if you want to help your parents out with an issue, this is the application to try.

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- 32GB, 64GB, 128GB
- Full compatibility with USB 3.0 and 2.0
- Transfer speeds over 300MBps in USB 3.0
- Hot plug and play; Functions like another hard drive
- Slim and sleek casing style
- Windows® 7 compatible
- LED indicates power, busy
- More than 10 years data retention
- 2 years warranty

Toms Hardware wrote a quick review on it also, check it out here. If anyone has purchased one of these please let me know how they are, as I am very temped in buying one…

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Here is an insert from his page, “Recovers files from disks with physical damage. Allows you to copy files from disks with problems such as bad sectors, scratches or that just give errors when reading data. The program will attempt to recover every readable piece of a file and put the pieces together. Using this method most types of files can be made usable even if some parts of the file were not recoverable in the end. The program can be used as a daily backup system using its batch mode functions. A list of transfers can be saved to a file and then run from the command line to perform the same batch of transfers on a regular basis without having to use the GUI interface. The program supports command line parameters which allow the application to be run from schedulers or scripts so it can be fully integrated into daily server tasks.”

You can download installable files, or standalone which can be used from a USB key.

Downloads Unstoppable Copier here.

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