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Many years ago, I marvelled at the usefulness of MagSafe connectors. The break-away magnetic connection was very practical, but equally important was how it was standard across all of Apple’s Mac notebooks at that time ...
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It seems like USB is getting more bad rap than ever. It used to be just viruses carried on USB media, then viruses embedded in USB firmware, but now it’s also about how USB can permanently fry your hardware. That’s if ...
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I have too few power outlets at home, not enough for all the appliances, gadgets and other devices that need electricity to operate. As a result, I’ve got a power bar, or some may call it a power strip, at almost every ...
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USB Type-C debuted earlier this year, with Apple’s new MacBook and Google’s Chromebook Pixel amongst the first devices to sport the new connector. The most notable enhancement with Type-C is that the connector is ...
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I’ve used Mac for many years, and Android smartphones too, and I never had trouble figuring out how to move files between my Mac and my phone. But now comes along the Nexus 5X, or perhaps it’s because of Android 6.0 ...
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The ubiquitous USB ports on our computers have continued to prevail despite challenges from competing interface technologies. We don’t think much about them, except to know that all our gadgets have them, even though the ...
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Just to follow up my earlier post on the sad state of USB charging standards, here’s the USB charger that I bought. Despite its cheapness and lack of any indication of its compatibility or compliance with any sort of ...
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I recently bought this USB hub. I was quite excited about it, because I’ve been searching for some time for a powered USB hub that had a generous power supply. This amazing hub comes with a 4A (@5VDC) power supply adapter. ...
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Many of us will have used external hard disks. External hard disks basically comprise an enclosure, with a standard notebook or desktop hard disk inside, and a host interface (typically USB) to the computer. You usually expect to ...
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Apple is well-reputed to be forward-looking in the technologies it uses. Examples include the popularizing of USB ports and the abandoning of floppy disk drives. More recently, Apple has set out to replace Mini DisplayPorts with ...
