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Iomega has just unveiled its brand new external hard drive with 1 Terabyte of capacity to stuff movies, pics and million of songs with one click! The model sports an USB 2.0 port, one-year warranty and comes in ruby red, midnight blue or jet black. Its price is set at $269.95.

Here is the full news:

SAN DIEGO, May 29, 2008 – Iomega Corporation (NYSE: IOM), a global leader in data protection and security, today announced that stylish data security has reached the 1TB* plateau with the worldwide introduction of the Iomega® eGo™ 1TB Desktop Hard Drive.

This new single-drive HDD “Super eGo” is now available worldwide in ruby red, midnight blue, and jet black. Its design is based on the popular Iomega® eGo™ Portable Hard Drive, one of Iomega’s best-selling line of hard drives. The eGo Portable is currently available in 160GB, 250GB and 320GB capacities, and in several different colors, including new camouflage and leather-wrapped models. The new eGo Desktop model houses a 1TB, 3.5-inch hard drive with USB 2.0 connectivity that holds up to 4,000,000 photos, over 18,500 hours of music or 1,500 hours of video.**

“By applying the award-winning style of the eGo design to a desktop hard drive, Iomega is giving users a one-terabyte Super eGo that’s all about form and function, a beautiful and pleasing design for even the most data-intensive applications,” said Peter Wharton, vice president marketing, Iomega Corporation. “Today’s computer users want more style, capacity, and data security out of their computer hardware; the colorful, dependable and colossal one terabyte eGo Desktop Hard Drive delivers on all counts.”

The new 1TB eGo Desktop Hard Drive is a complete storage solution out of the box, including a license for EMC® Retrospect HD software (PC-only download) for automatic backups, scheduled backups, or on-demand backups.

Compatibility
The Iomega® eGo™ Desktop Hard Drive is compatible with Mac OS X 10.1 or higher and with Microsoft® Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP, and Windows Vista™. EMC® Retrospect HD backup software is available for free download (PC only).

Price and Availability
The Iomega® eGo™ Desktop Hard Drive, USB 2.0, 1TB is now available worldwide for $269.95 (pricing is U.S. suggested retail) from online retailers, VARs, resellers and select retailers, as well as at www.iomega.com.

Sony has recently unveiled its new USB flash drive rich of features and highly performing. First of all let me clarify what “click” means. Basically this word is referred to its innovative, retractable design which lets users uncover and retract the USB connector for quick and easy use. I like this idea, mainly because people won’t loose their USB dongle’s cap anymore. I can’t think of how many of them I have lost during my “computer-life”! But let’s see into detail the most appealing features of this new USB dongle:

• Nice design.
• Blinky light when connected to the computer.
• Windows® ReadyBoost™ compatibility.
• 32MBps read and 11MBps write speed.
• Storage capacity from 2GB up to 8GB (what about 16GB? I am really disappointed)

If you want to know more about this USB flash drive, click here.

Ok, the title is pretty self-explanatory but that’s the deal! In fact somewhere in June, Mozilla will announce the Download Day where all you will have to do is to download Firefox 3 to help set the record for most downloaded software in 24 hours. If you can not wait, you can visit the Download Day Headquarters and pledge to download Firefox 3 when the date will be set up. So what are you waiting for? Become part of the Firefox community now!

I am fully aware that there are a lot of guides in the Internet speaking about this topic and how to make and increase money with Google Adsense, so I am more than sure that I will not add anything new in this article. Anyway one thing I can do is to order all the tricks I found while surfing and list them tidily, making attention to write just those ones which really worked for me and this blog. This post doesn’t promise to enrich you overnight, but assures you not to make any of those common mistakes people usually do when they decide to put Google Adsense in their websites. Just follow these tricks strictly, and you will start making some money for sure. At least this is what happened to me! Ready? Here is the list. Continue reading »

The whole story started about five days ago when, all of a sudden, Web Talk started experiencing a great drop in its visits. Basically, from almost one thousand visitors a day, at the present time Web Talk just manages to gather a little more than two hundreds people. I have lost around 80% of visitors, and considering that all of Web Talk’s readers come from Google search, well, this has obviously to do with Google itself. This tendency is still on because, while I am writing, my visits are still dropping dramatically by the hour. If it continues, I fear there will be just a dozen of people here at Web Talk. I have to tell you that this thing worries me a lot. That’s why, a few days ago I started Googling to find out if I could get a solution or a reply to this big issue. To my big surprise I learnt that this is not a lone case but a spread tendency, courtesy of Google and its Sandbox. But what is Google’s Sandbox? First of all let me tell you that Google denies any Sandbox algorithm in its policy and, as a consequence, there are lots of theories about it, all of them getting to the conclusion that, despite what Google says, there is a kind of Sandbox behaviour on Google’s side. But let’s start from the beginning. Let’s start from what means being in a sandbox and why it was created. Google’s Sandbox was put in place in March 2004 to prevent fake and spam sites from being placed and ranked highly in the Google Search. Basically, if a website manages to get a lot of visitors, or a high rank or perform well in the Google Search in a short laps of time, Google gets “funny” about the website and, because of this reason, tends to think that something weird, bogus and not-legal was made in order to trick its algorithms. That’s why it puts the website in a sandbox to play…just with itself. As a result the website will stop performing well in Google Search, and while the whole website is still indexed, its keywords will perform badly and its pages will be shown very low in the search result. Solutions? No solution are available at the present time. The only thing to do is waiting. Usually Google puts a website in the Sandbox for a period of time which varies from one month to one year at most. I don’t want to discuss about Google’s policy because a lot has already being said in the Internet. That’s Web Talk situation right now. I can not do anything but continuing writing my posts as usual. For the few of you guys who were able to find this blog, stay tuned because more news and guides are coming up. If you wish to know more about Google’s Sandbox here is a list of the most interesting articles I manged to find while surfing. Continue reading »

Despite the fact Palm is doing its best to protect its new baby phone, a nice guy managed to post some leaked pictures of it, making Palm’s efforts totally pointless. The picture you can see below shows you the new Treo 850 which , if you ask me, looks like the Palm Centro a little too much. It sports a 400 MHz processor and 100 MB of RAM and the awful Windows Mobile. I don’t understand why Palm is prone to stuff into its devices Windows Mobile more and more. I mean, Palm has its own operating system which is fast, reliable, simple, easy to use and rich of applications. Why the hack does it have to use Billy’s software? Does it really need it so badly?

If you have been looking for a nice e-dictionary to use abroad with some spicy in it, namely a lot of features stuffed among its circuits, well, you quest is over. In fact, Iriver has just unleashed its D5 multimedia e-dictionary to the world. But what is it exactly? First of all, let me tell you that if you think this little device has to do with ultraportable devices then you are dead wrong. As its name suggests, it is mainly an electronic dictionary with a lot of features which turn it into something really close to a PMP than anything else (portable media player). Here is a list of its features:

• Available in black and white.
• It comes in two versions: GB ($299.99) and 4GB ($349.99).
• Included in the box: pouch, earphones, USB 2.0 cable, installation CD, and guide.
• 3-inch 480 x 272 TFT display.
• QWERTY keyboard (52 keys).
• Dictionary available: Dictionaries: Korean-English, English-English, Korean-Japanese, Korean-Chinese.
• It can read the following audio-formats: WMA, ASF, OGG, MP3.
• It can read the following video-formats: AVI (MPEG-4 SP).
• It can read the following picture-formats: JPG (3600 x 2400), GIFT (1024 x 768), BMP (1024 x 768)
• Text viewer.
• FM radio.

If you want to buy one of this lovely e-dictionary, click here.

There are a lot of ways to become vulnerable while you are surfing in the Internet. You can get a virus, a spyware, a trojan, you can be so silly to be deceived by some phishing email convincing you to send your bank account to somebody you don’t know etc. There is anyway another stupid, really stupid way to put your security in jeopardy: using well-known passwords. Wondering if yours is one of them? Here is the list:

1. password
2. 123456
3. qwerty
4. abc123
5. letmein
6. monkey
7. myspace1
8. password1
9. blink182

As usual, in order not to use any silly password for your most important accounts, keep in your mind these simple rules:

• Use long passwords (at least 7-8 characters)
• Don’t use regular, easy-to-guess, simple passwords such as: colorado, newyork, dogandcat, mycomputer, johndoe, ondacivic etc. That’s because there are special software that in order to find out what passwords you are using, scan the whole english vocabulary, also mixing and combine its words.
• Don’t use any of your sensitive data in your passwords such as: Jenny09/10/1978 or marknewyork1454a, bettymegan212-267-1033
• Use special characters, numbers and capital letters in your passwords. A password like this: MyC@mP&t#r89 is more difficult to guess than 123456john…of course.

Bonus

• Don’t give you passwords to anybody.
• Change your passwords often.
• Don’t write your passwords in your cellphone, don’t put your passwords in your wallet, don’t write your passwords in a file on your computer.
• Don’t write your passwords on a piece of paper and stick it under the keyboard.
• Don’t write your passwords on a piece of paper and stick it on your computer’s display. (I saw this dumb thing on some computers of a military base…incredible, isn’t it?)

If you thought that after installing Windows Vista SP1 all of your Vista related problems would disappear, well you’d better think twice! As a matter of fact a lot of users are reporting an incredible quantity of issues and you could be the next one. ( I know that you are touching wood right now). Anyway, here is another Vista SP1 issue. After installing Vista SP1 you could experience one of these issues:

• A device driver won’t install and and and exclamation point appears next to the device driver in Device Manager.
• A device driver stops working normally despite it is installed correctly.

To fix these issues follow these tricks:

First Method

1. Click Start
2. Type Device Manager in the Searh Box and press Enter.
3. If you see a exclamation point next to a device driver, continue reading, otherwise go to the Second Method.
4. Assuming that you saw an exclamation point, click Start, All Programs, Windows Update.
5. Check for Updates.
6. Click View Available Updates.
7. Check for the device you are looking for and install the update
8. Done.

Second Method

If the device driver seems to work, but it does not work, follow these steps:

1. Click Start, type Device Manager in the Start Search box, and then press enter.
2. In the Device Manager look for the device that is not working properly.
3. Right click on it and click on Properties.
4. Uninstall its driver.
5. Make sure that the Delete the Driver Software for this device check box is cleared, and then click OK.
6. In the Device Manager dialog box, click the Action, and click Scan for hardware changes.
7. You should get back that a device is being installed and that a new device is now ready in the Device manager.
8. If the hardware device driver is not installed, scan for new updates by following the first method.

There are a lot, really a lot of reasons not to be happy about the just released Windows Vista SP1, if you want a comprehensive list of issues and their solutions, visit this link here. What you can find here instead is a small list of issues (and the relative tricks to fix them) which are well known to Microsoft itself.

• Software which have issues with Windows Vista SP1. As you should know Vista SP1 doesn’t solve many incompatibility issues but, wherever possible, it does its best to create new ones. Microsoft acknowledge this and released a list of what you can not install in your computer. Read this article (KB935796).
• Because of an update (KB937287), you computer can go into endless reboots. If you want to fix this issue, read this article (KB949358).
• After installing Windows Vista SP1 your computer may experience random crashes when you try to wake it up from sleep mode. The solution to this is to upgrade your BIOS.
• Some people report sound system issues. Again, this problem is not totally unknown to Microsoft which dedicates a full article to it. Article (KB948481)