Floppy disks are pretty useless these days unless of course you’re looking for a relic of a paper weight or holding on to them for future value. There is a third, much more useful option however. Replace the guts with a USB drive like this guy Charles did. It’s a tad thicker than a single floppy because he had to use two disks stacked together so it everything would fit. Though he managed to get the flash drive’s activity light to light up with the...
LTE phones may be the only thing we phone junkies think of, but there’s plenty of other good uses for those wireless waves floating through our heads. Take for instance, these two new LTE modems coming to Verizon. The LG VL600 and Pantech UML290 should be available for sale relatively soon to meet Verizon’s deadline of having useable LTE in 38 cities by the end of the year. As far as the hardware goes, the LG VL600 is a dual-mode CDMA/LTE unit while the...
Have a few minutes to spare and a Samsung-made Windows Phone 7 device? What about a knack for tinkering and the need for some mobile tethering action? Perfect. Hacking USB tethering onto your Windows Phone 7 device will bring you instant gratification and a useful service for free (as it should be). Dial ##634# on either a Samsung Focus or Omnia 7 and you’ll be greeted with a diagnostics menu. Next, dial *#7284# which brings another prompt, allowing you to choose...
As consumers tote around ever growing digital libraries, finding places to stuff said libraries is starting to wear thin. Ok, maybe it’s not that big of a crisis. But tech junkies and business professionals may have encountered at one time or another, a flash drive that had run out of room or was god-awfully slow. Thus far, there’s been a few USB 3 options that have come onto the market. Well folks, add another contender to your lists. Kingston has...
I don’t care who you are. This mad concoction of “adapters through the decades” is awesome. Whether or not it’s real of a Photoshop job remains to be seen. For the sake of all things holy however, I surely hope it’s real. Parallel DB25 > serial DE9 > serial Mini DIN-8 > USB converter > Flash drive Think you can top...
