How to Speed Up Windows Vista

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

SP1 may not give your system much more oomph, but there are other ways to speed Vista up. Spending a few minutes (or a few dollars) optimizing your Vista PC can help it get its groove on. Get flashy: If you have an extra USB flash drive that you don't use ...

Secure USB sticks cracked

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Manufacturers of USB sticks and cards with fingerprint readers promise us that their data safes can only be opened with the right fingerprint. It turns out that an easy-to-find tool allows nosy parties to get around the protection in some products. Many secure USB sticks consist of three components: flash memory ...

Faster USB 3.0 Is Coming

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Intel and other companies have formed a group to promote the USB 3.0, which should deliver more than ten times the speed of the existing USB 2.0 standard. The third-generation Universal Serial Bus interconnect will transfer data at speeds up to 4.8Gbit/s, ten times faster than USB 2.0's 480MBit/s. It will ...

SanDisk USB Flash Drives Come with Built-in Security

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

SanDisk on Monday announced a pair of USB flash drives designed to offer both security and access speed to business users. Unveiled at the Gartner IT Security Summit in Washington, D.C., Cruzer Professional is designed for individuals and small businesses looking to share files, while Cruzer Enterprise includes such features as ...

Ready to Drop Kick Your PC?

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

There's a famous scene in the classic movie Caddyshack in which Bill Murray (playing demented greenskeeper Carl Spackler) says that in order to defeat the gopher that's ruining his golf course, he must think like a gopher. Troubleshooting computers can be a bit like that: To recognize and fix what's ...