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There are many way to secure your data inside the USB drive, but the USB dial lock has unique design for an USB data security system. The USB dial lock can also be used to lock other gadgets that have a USB interface, like a mouse, keyboard, memory card reader, etc. As long as the jack connector measures 4mm of thickness and 11.5mm in length, it is all good. The initial combination for unlocking is 0-0-0 and you can change the combination by changing the number while pushing the reset button using a pin. You can only change the combination when USB device is not connected to the lock. Insert USB male jack with the indented metal side up and change the numbers to lock the USB device.

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I found the following Linux commands are important when we need to repair the network setting on our Linux or Ubuntu system. For us who just regular user of Ubuntu, problems on network connecting through Network Manager or other GUI wireless connection tools is not easy to repair. In fact sometimes Network Manager is intermittently buggy, connecting sometimes and not others. This networking commands benefits all users in case the GUI tools are not working, and is useful for testing a wireless connection during initial installation of wireless drivers since it provides for good debugging output.

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It looks like we would work much longer with our mobile devices and only need to recharge the battery less frequently using a new power source developed by Toshiba. At least for the beginning Toshiba Corp will release mobile devices incorporating direct methanol fuel cells by March 2009. The prototype exhibited this time is based on an au-branded handset, the W55T, and it used a direct methanol fuel cell. The methanol fuel is charged with a dedicated cartridge. The cartridge can store 50ml of 99.5% methanol, which is enough to charge the mobile phone about 10 times. The company intends to incorporate fuel cells into digital cameras, laptops, etc. The company will use a single type of cartridge to charge various kinds of products equipped with the fuel cell.

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Hitachi displayed their prototype of new Woo camcorder with wireless HD video streaming capability at CEATEC. The prototyped camcorder transmits the HD video compressed in the MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 (H.264 hereafter) format through an SDIO standard IEEE802.11g module and delivers it to a TV via an access point. Video being shot live is transmitted using the camcorder’s IPTV server capability. It compresses the video into H.264 format in real time and delivers it via a wireless LAN. With an IPTV reception capability compatible with the “acTVila” specification, Hitachi’s TVs can receive the video signals.

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The latest GPS release from GARMIN are GPSMap 600 series which has improved features over other GPS series from this company. The GPSMAP 600 series has been designed in a rugged case to keep working on rough environment in land or at the sea. This GPS has multiple functions that adapted to the vehicle it mounted to. When GARMIN GPSMap 640 is mounted in the car, it will gives road maps navigation, but when mounted into your boat, navigation maps along with underwater 3D bathymetric contour perspective appear.

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Recently Sony announced a new digital reader the Sony PRS-700 that has the best performance comparing to their previous digital reader release. The Digital reader PRS-700 has the dimensions of a slim paperback book and weighs a very portable 10 ounces. It adopting a 6-inch touchscreen that allows you flip pages. This new model also adds LED reading lights on the sides of the screen to improve readability in a darkened place. The battery life is enough to power for more than eight hours, and storage should top out at around 350 books. The PRS-700 has a card slots for SD and Memory Stick Duo cards and you can transfer pdf documents and even music files to the Reader using a software bundled with this reader. There are also a plans for a wireless application to get news on the go and generally expand the 700’s functionality.

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