- Callpod Chargepod gets discount
The Chargepod is great to use and makes for the perfect travelling companion if you have plenty of gizmos to charge on your travels and Callpod has decided to make it even more affordable by introducing a price cut. The Chargepod will now retail for a mere $39.95 while the bundle pack is going for $79.95 - a pretty good bargain considering how low the dollar stacks up against other currencies these days with no signs of stopping its downward spiral.
The Chargepod is a 6-in-1 device that allows users to charge most mobile electronic devices with a single power cord from virtually anywhere including at home, in the car or at the office. There are hundreds of manufacturer-specific adapters for a wide range of portable devices which you can purchase from Callpod - sometimes it makes me wonder whether these different charging tips were created on purpose so that the manufacturer can make more money out of us consumers instead of relying on a universal tip like good old USB 2.0 and FireWire standards. Anyway's, I digress. The Chargepod features voltage regulator technology as well as interchangeable power adapters that ensures your charging sessions go through smoothly and without any hiccup, regardless of manufacturer or model. Each Chargepod is accompanied by an AC adapter, but for those who spend more time in the car than in a physical building, then the optional car adapter will definitely come in handy.
For $39.95, you get the Chargepod base unit, a carrying case and wall plug (100-240V AC, 50-60 Hz). As for the $79.95 bundle pack, that will come with the Chargepod base unit, AC wall plug, car charger, carrying case and half a dozen adapters for Apple/iPod/phone, Motorola, Blackberry, Nokia, Palm Treo and Sony PSP devices. Additional adapters will retail for $9.95 each. [via Coolest Gadgets]
- Process and Port Analyzer is a real time process, port and network connections analyzer which will allow you to find which processes are using which ports. A good little utility that does what it says it will do. Features include:
- View currently running processes along with the and file which started it
- View the active TCP Listeners and the processes using them
- View the active TCP and UDP connections along with Process ID
- Double click on a process to view the list of DLL's
- Iomega eGo hits 1TB mark
Iomega's eGo desktop hard drive has come in stylish variations in the past, but somehow storage space has always been limited until today. The leader in data protection and security has finally rolled out a 1TB version of its eGo desktop hard drive, dubbing it the "Super eGo". Just how much more bloated do you think it will get in the future, and will other names feature even more astounding superlatives such as "Extreme eGo" or "Ultra eGo"? I'll leave that to your imagination, but for now we'll have to be content with the Super eGo being available in ruby red, midnight blue and jet black colours. It too, will take after a similar design as found on the hugely popular eGo portable hard drive, one of Iomega's best sellers to date.
The current eGo Portable line will be available in 160GB, 250GB and 320GB flavours, featuring a bunch of different colours to suit your fancy, including new camouflage and leather-wrapped models. As for the eGo Desktop model, you will find 1TB of storage space in there courtesy of a 3.5? hard drive complete with USB 2.0 connectivity, which is capable of holding up to approximately 4,000,000 photos, over 18,500 hours of music or 1,500 hours of video. Of course, those numbers depend on the image quality, audio and video encoding used - the higher the quality, the less of those you'll be able to store.
Each purchase of the Super eGo will be accompanied by a license for EMC Retrospect HD software (PC-only download) that works great for automatic backups, scheduled backups, or on-demand backups. It also functions with both Mac OS X 10.1 or higher and Windows 2000 Professional and higher. I wonder why Iomega did not opt for a FireWire connection instead of relying on just USB 2.0 connectivity. Still, if you're interested in this backup solution, it will retail for $269.95. [via Coolest Gadgets]
- Instant Removable Drive Shortcuts with Desk Drive - The problem with having so many removable devices - back-up drives, USB sticks, CD disks, DVD disks and so on is that when you put them into your computer, you then have to go searching in Windows Explorer to see where what drive it is running on so you start it and access it. Lots of clicking around which is not very productive.
I was looking at Lifehacker the other day and they mentioned a tool called Desk Drive which is supposed to solve that problem so I decided to see what it was all about.
Desk Drive is a lightweight Windows application that sits in your system tray and monitors your computer activity. As soon as you plug in a removable device such as a USB stick or a disk, Desk Drive knows (because you set it up in the configuration) and it immediately puts a shortcut to the device on your PC desktop for you to click on.
Then when you have finished using your device, just unplug it and the shortcut immediately disappears from your desktop!
Very nice! That one is going in my "keeper" folder! [via MakeUseOf]
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