Well… that was really fast from Kingston side. A few weeks back we covered the latest announcement for the 128 GB Flash Drive but now Kingston introduced its 256 GB USB flash drive.
This latest 256 GB flash drive is not yet available all over the world and is limited to Far East, Middle East, Europe and Africa.
Earlier we reviewed the latest 128GB kingston USB drive which is expected to be the maximum capacity USB drive ever to come to the market. Although the initial price is quite high ranging to about $546.
And you own a USB drive which you want to backup and avoid any problems caused if the next time your USB drive crashes then consider a really simple application called USB Image Tool.
As the name suggests, this application creates an image of your USB drive and saves it as a back up on your computer. This software comes really handy especially for the mp3 music players like iPod which at times crashes suddenly and you are left wondering where to get all your songs back. You can create a backup of your mp3 players and easily restore them if any thing goes wrong.
VLC media player has to be my favorite video player. I used Windows Media Player earlier but whenever i tried playing a video i received from a friend with a different codec it would display the annoying message of playback failure.
With VLC media player you dont need to install any external codec to play video. VLC supports almost any sort of media formats that you can even imagine.
And now the new version of VLC media player comes equipped with the equalizer settings which makes the movie experience even better. VLC even supports HD video formats. Check out their features list here.
Earlier i wrote about the Kingston 128 GB USB which i thought was the most expensive USB that could ever come to the market but a Japanese company, Toshi Sotaji Design came up with an aluminium USB which costs 1,000,000 Yen which makes US$10,000 and it comes in a storage space of only 16 GB.
This USB drive is a giant puzzle of five aluminum cubes and to use the USB drive you need to disassemble the blocks to find the flash drive, so if you are in a hurry, you will at least need 10 minutes time to sort the pieces out so you can transfer the data.
Here is how the disassembled puzzle pieces look like:
I found this really cool trick when i was checking on my PC settings and came to know that i can add virtual RAM to my PC by using extra disk space. So, my 4 GB USB drive which i hardly use, came to work at last and now i use it as a virtual RAM in Windows XP. And yeah… That is not a donut but a working USB drive! 
To begin with, insert the USB drive you want to use as the virtual RAM to the USB port. Make sure you don’t have any important data on your USB drive. Rename it, RAM. Right click on the drive and select format. Select quick format option and select NTFS from file system. This will remove all the data from the USB and make the USB good as new to be used as RAM.
As the Windows 7 release on 22 October, Microsoft is considering different ideas on providing the operating system to the customer and one the ideas floating the internet is, Microsoft may offer windows 7 on USB flash drives, tells a source on Cnet.
This move is not yet confirmed by any Microsoft official as the idea is still under consideration.
Microsoft is currently aiming this consideration for the users without CD/DVD drives on their computers, so the upgrade to Windows 7 can be made easier.
With the USB flash drives, users can easily run the setup and upgrade their operating system but all this upgrade might not come so easy. USB data transfers is abit slow compared to the optical drives and if a installation of around 6 GB is to be made for Windows 7, it would take alot of time compared to the installation from DVD/CD.
As much as I love USB devices to carry around my data, I equally find them irritating as each time I connect my USB to other computers, I usually find them full of virus and at times those virus become quite a pain when anti virus fails to clean them.
NetWrix has come up with an ingenious tool with which you can block USB which are full of spyware or viruses and steals your personal data. They would usually transfer your personal data like your static IP, which can later be used to access your PC anywhere from the world and steal your personal data like your passwords, bank statements or any other details you might have on your PC.
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Today, I found out this amazing freeware with which you can easily create passsword protected encrypted partitions on your USB drive. It came really handy, when I had to share my USB with a friend of fine and I had some family photos and videos on it. To avoid copying all the stuff to my PC and later copy back to USB drive, I found this freeware called Rohos Mini Drive.
The feature it offers is its awesome security. It does not show the used partition volume if somebody checks the space left on the USB drive when the partition is hidden. Also, you won’t need any special program to edit or open your password protected partition. It will prompt you a password and you can easily access your partition, you won’t even need the Administrative Privileges for it.
Yes, Gravity Blue just got a new theme. Thanks to releaseLive for sharing this theme in his post. The theme is really simple, an awesome blend of white, grey and orange, I totally loved it. I will also be adding the multi language availability feature, so that people who have problem reading English will now be able to select their respective countries to find the posts translated to their language.
Well, let’s get on with the post. Earlier I shared with you guys on making a custom installation CD for Windows XP to easily get your computer on the previous working conditions with all your applications installed after you install the fresh copy of windows and today, ill be telling you guys on installting a fresh copy on Windows Vista using your USB drive.
To begin with, you will need a minimum of 3GB USB flash drive to get yourself ready for copying installation files onto.
Once you have the USB drive, first thing is to format it, use NTFS to format. It is highly recommended so that all the previous data or any viruses are removed. Continue reading »
Hello reader, I know its been a long time since I have posted anything. I am really sorry about it. I was having some issues with my host, they are pretty much fixed now and my blog is back on. I am really sorry about the last week.
Well, earlier I shared with you guys on changing removable drive icon for Windows XP and now I have found an awesome freeware with which you can easily change your removable drive icon. This also works amazing with your Hard drive icons and best of all, you just have to make couple of clicks to change the icon rather making codes and stuff.
To change the icon, you just need to select your removable drive and select the desired icon from your computer and you are done. Click the save button and the icon will be changed in a few seconds. Check out the screenshot below: Continue reading »
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