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Interested in test driving the latest version of Google’s Android OS without buying a new mobile device?  Here’s how to run Android on your PC for free with the Android SDK Emulator. Android is the latest mobile OS to take the world by storm, but everyone doesn’t have access to the latest mobile devices.  Thankfully, there’s an easy way to run Android on your Windows, Mac, or Linux computer.  Google provides an Android emulator with their SDK, which is designed to let developers test their apps on Android before running them on handsets.  We can use this to [...]

What can you do with a few gigabytes and a USB port? Quite a lot, with the right software. Learn how to encrypt your work, run whole systems, rescue Windows, and customize your thumb drive with these USB-geared tricks. Photo by Debs (ò‿ó)♪. Note: Gina previously rounded up 10 thumb drive tricks in April 2007, and we’ve borrowed a few of those ideas here. But many of the apps have updated, some have been replaced with better offerings, and a few totally new cool things (Chrome OS! XBMC!) have made their way into this mix. 10. Give Your Drive a Custom Icon An “oldie” [...]

Best Gaming Laptops Take your mobile gaming experience to the next level with the latest in high-performance hardware.  With blindingly fast graphics cards, stunning high resolution displays and cutting edge processors, these gaming laptops will keep you in the game at home and on the go. Here are the Top 10 Best Gaming Laptops of 2010: 1. Alienware M17x Graphics Card: GeForce GTX 260M Memory: 4 GB Video Memory: 1GB Hard Drive: 250 GB Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 Resolution: 1440 x 900 Screen Size: 17 in Optical Drive: DVD+/-RW Battery Life: 3 hour(s) Built-In Camera: 2.0 Megapixel Depth: [...]

It’s smaller, has more ports, runs quieter and costs the same: $300. It has a 250GB hard drive and built-in 802.11n Wi-Fi. They’re shipping the new Xbox 360 to retailers today. (They’re sending out one for free to everyone here, supposedly). Update: Here are some detailed specs. • Touch sensitive on/off and eject buttons (like the PS3) • “Much quieter” • 250GB internal hard drive, which is still swappable. • A custom Kinect port (not the standard USB port) • There are five USB ports now, with three in the back and two in the front • AV cable included, [...]

Over the years, we’ve written about loads of different ways to hide and encrypt your private data from others, but if you’re really serious about protecting your data, you can actually hide your entire operating system. Here’s exactly how to do it. To accomplish this task, we’ll be using TrueCrypt, our favorite free and open-source disk encryption software that runs on all platforms, supports hidden volumes, and can even encrypt your entire hard drive. Once we’ve completed the setup, you’ll have two Windows installations and two passwords. One password [...]

Introduction: When it comes to storage solutions for your computer, you  have to choose between fast speeds with a solid state drive, or a slower, yet, high capacity mechanical drive. Sure you could buy an SSD for your boot drive and an HDD for storage, but that involves spending quite a pretty penny. On the other hand, what if you want something fast and high capacity for your netbook which only one has drive bay? Now you can have the best of both worlds. Seagate has had this drive in the works for a while now, and has finally taken the covers off of it. This new drive introduces radically [...]

Tandem bicycles are usually so dorky, but not this one by designer Robert Zuchowski. It’s as aerodynamic as it gets. Check out that shaft drive extending from the front petals to the back wheel. Magnificent. The prototype’s built, and now it’s time to mass-produce this superbike, Robert. I can’t wait to try it, as long as you let me sit up front.

After successfully mounting external hard drive on iPad via Camera connection kit, here comes another hack to connect a USB flash drive to iPad. Yes, you can connect a USB flash drive to your iPad via camera connection kit and browse its contents using iFile. Your iPad must be jailbroken. You can jailbreak iPad with Spirit jailbreak and iPad camera connection kit accessory is also required. Install the iFile, a file browser, from Cydia. When you connect a USB drive to your iPad via camera connection kit, iPad gives an error that the device is not supported. Avoid it. Open the iFile on your [...]

iPad has the ability to connect external hard drive with it via Camera Connection Kit for extra storage. Maxwell C. Shay demonstrates this in a video and mount an external hard drive on iPad using the Camera Connection Kit. Shay uses a split USB cord to provide the sufficient power to turn the hard drive ON while connecting one end to the Camera Connection kit and the other to a power source, in this case it’s a Macbook. NOTE: In order to connect an external hard drive, your iPad must be jailbroken. You can jailbreak iPad with Spirit. Know-How of  Terminal, SSH is a plus. You can fine [...]

According to rumors, Toshiba is prepping the world’s lightest 13-inch notebook, weighing in at under 2 pounds with an SSD drive on board. It’s also rumored to have a fast-charging battery that can get juiced up to almost full in a mere 10 minutes. Other specs should include Core i3, i5 or i7 configurations, 4GB of memory and a 500GB hard drive that can be replaced with an optional 512GB SSD. All signs point to it being announced in the near future, so stay tuned.