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How To Quick Tip: Give Your Home Network Some Free, Permanent Real Estate on the ‘Net With DynDNS

Bigup to everyone who recommended the venerable DynDNS free service last weekend for making it even easier to connect to your home computer from anywhere. Here’s how to do it.


April 1, 2009

Dock your USB Sticks In Corsair Voyager Port’s Gentle Curves

Corsair’s Voyager Port a semi-automated backup system, just waiting for your USB 2.0 flash drives to dock into.


March 24, 2009

The Flood of Mini DisplayPort-to-HDMI Adapters for Macs Begins With Apogee

Apple’s free licensing of the Mini DisplayPort spec is finally bearing fruit: Besides Monoprice’s MDP-to-HDMI adaptor, Apogee informs that their own is now finished, will be coming soon to a “major reseller.”


March 13, 2009
Gadgets

The Worst Proprietary Gadget Offenses

Like a predatory loan officer or an unstable partner, technology companies have an obsession with locking you down. Here are some of the worst examples of proprietary products that leave you trapped, broke and angry.


November 7, 2008

Datamore Porté Adds Lambo Doors to Your Hard Drive

Most hard drive enclosures aren’t winning any beauty contests, but at least the Datamore Porté is putting on some lipstick, tightening the girdle and giving it her all. This USB or eSATA enclosure for SATA drives features that moving while standing still look along with a hot rear gull-wing door. Bonus shot:


February 20, 2008

Dell UltraSharp 2408WFP 24-Inch Widescreen Display Crammed With DisplayPort, 12 More

Dell’s newest UltraSharp is a 13-port behemoth that just so happens to have a display. The 1920×1200 resolution monitor with 6ms response time and 3000:1 dynamic contrast ratio includes the DisplayPort you love, along with HDMI and DVI. And the picture below shows we’re just getting started.