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If you’re looking for fast, reliable and very much affordable SSD, the Transcend SSD 320 128GB is unbeatable in this category. Transcend recently released its new drive following their high performance SSD720 series . At a very short time they become a top seller. As you already know, Transcend is one of the top memory maker in the world and now embraced the SSD world. It offers an impressive speed of 560MB/s read and 530MB/s write with maximum of 87,000 IOPS, considering these numbers, it’s got a full potential to match the fastest SSD out there. This makes it possible with SATA 6GB/s interface. The drive is equipped with the famous second generation SandForce SF-2281 controller boosting up to its top speed. The drive comes in a slim package with 7mm in a standard 2.5-inch body; this gives you an advantage that will perfectly fit any compact notebooks in contrast with the traditional 9mm enclosure. The SSD320 is design to become one of the most reliable drive in its class...

Speed is the key to making sure you can be as efficient and productive as possible. It’s also important if you need to run the newest software and applications. But sometimes a variety of factors can affect your computer’s performance and make it harder and more time-consuming to complete even the simplest tasks. Luckily, there are many ways to either increase your computer’s speed or remove the barriers that are preventing it from performing up to its potential. Here are a few tips and tricks that may help you get back up to speed. CLEAN UP YOUR HARD DRIVES In some cases, a slow computer could be the result of a full hard drive. Computers not only use onboard memory (RAM) to run software and applications, they can also use portions of the hard drive. If you’re running out of storage space, then your computer won’t have access to these additional resources and you might notice a decrease in speed as a result. It’s easy to find some unneeded documents ...

COMPLETE YOUR HACKINTOSH No Hackintosh would be complete without pairing an Apple wireless keyboard, wireless Magic Mouse and or a Magic Trackpad. I currently have my hackintosh setup with an official Apple wireless keyboard and wireless mouse. Works great, out of the box with no issue. I have also included a video as ‘proof’ along with a shopping list of Bluetooth dongles. I found out that with the use of a bluetooth dongle, you too can enjoy the use of Apple’s wireless peripherals hardware like I do! If you watch the 5 min video I’ve posted, you’ll see my personal hackintosh setup with all 3 Apple peripherals working..at the same time none the less! THE SHOPPING LIST If you’re running a hackintosh and are interested or even curious about purchasing Apple wireless peripherals, please check out the links below to help you get started! IOGEAR USB 2.1 Bluetooth Micro Adapter (GBU421) Dongle:  http://goo.gl/GTWNE Jabra A320s Bluetooth Adaptor:  http://go...

COMPLETE YOUR HACKINTOSH No Hackintosh would be complete without pairing an Apple wireless keyboard, wireless Magic Mouse and or a Magic Trackpad. I currently have my hackintosh setup with an official Apple wireless keyboard and wireless mouse. Works great, out of the box with no issue. I have also included a video as ‘proof’ along with a shopping list of Bluetooth dongles. I found out that with the use of a bluetooth dongle, you too can enjoy the use of Apple’s wireless peripherals hardware like I do! If you watch the 5 min video I’ve posted, you’ll see my personal hackintosh setup with all 3 Apple peripherals working..at the same time none the less! httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0LcOb-93cg THE SHOPPING LIST If you’re running a hackintosh and are interested or even curious about purchasing Apple wireless peripherals, please check out the links below to help you get started! IOGEAR USB 2.1 Bluetooth Micro Adapter (GBU421) Dongle:  http://goo.gl/GTW...

An App to Increase Battery Life of Smart Phones Author: Gayatri Radhakrishnan Smartphone users always face low battery problems because they have lots of applications on their phone. Applications basically need lot of power to run because of which phone batteries decrease at a faster rate. Smartphone users thus face problem when their phone gets switched off due to low battery. To avoid such problems, a team from the University of California Berkley has come up with a program that will help Smartphone users save their phone’s battery power. Apart from phone the program will also save battery of tablets and portable music players. The app named “Caret” since its release has been downloaded by more than 36,000 Android and Apple users. This app works silently without disturbing any other application. It works by collecting data from a community of mobile devices. The application when installed on a device takes the measurement of the device i.e. how it is being used from ...

If you’re like me and you’re going for the iOS 5.0 update on your apple tv2 take note of the follow while trying to update. When trying to update my Apple TV2 with jailbroken firmware, I encountered the following error: “ ERROR 6004 “. Of course, this advice is beneficial to those getting ERROR code 9, 6000, 6001, 6002, 6003, 6004, etc . If you are receiving any error code stated above, it’s probably the connection between your Apple TV and computer. From what I have observed, make sure you use the USB ports directly connected to your motherboard. If I tried to use USB ports connected on the front of my computer case, I would get an error. So what does all this mean? Well, the USB connectors on the front of my case are crap. When I tried a different port on the back of my computer, I was able to successfully update the firmware to my Apple TV2 device. You should also confirm that the USB cable you’re using is also in good form. Another issue you may r...

I ran into this problem I personally haven’t seen before. I downloaded an installation file from LogMeIn. The file downloaded as a .ZIP which I was able to open and out came a .pkg file. When I clicked on the .pkg file, my Terminal window would open. I had no idea what to do. Perhaps a file association was broken? I’ve seen this in Windows plenty of times and familiar with repairing the association. So how to you do this in Mac OS X? So to fix this problem, you need to assicate the .pkg with the Installer application. Where did you look for it? It’s located in /System/Library/CoreServices/. Select a .pkg file. Press COMMAND-I to open the Get Info window. In the Open With panel select the Installer if it’s listed or find it in the /System/Library/CoreServices/ folder. Select it then click on the Change All button. This fixed my issue, hopefully it get you out of this bind!