Data Security for Mobile devices

For people on the go, those who live a mobile lifestyle, portability is the name of the game. If you live a mobile lifestyle, then you think small, you think portable, you think lightweight. Unfortunately, the smaller they are, the less data they carry (relatively).

Living the Mobile Lifestyle: you portable much?

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The MacBook Air Superdrive dilemma

So yeah, we get that you are obviously an Apple fanboi — no harm in being loyal to specific products.  And you’re a guy on-the-move — you do business online, you are a poster boy for everything portable, your office is the coffee shop, the metro, Central Park, or wherever you choose it to be.

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Burn Test Review: DIGISTOR Self-Powered External DVD Burner

So we got our new slot-loading DIGISTOR Self-Powered USB DVD Burner, and we wanted to put it through the paces. We wanted to see if the burn speeds were acceptable enough for us to bring it along, partnering it with our laptops and netbooks.

The DIGISTOR Self-Powered DVD Burner – Burn tested

TEST BED:

ASUS K50IJ Series

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Unboxing the DIGISTOR Self-Powered External DVD Burner

We have the DIGISTOR Self-Powered USB Blu-Ray burner already, and we really like it. So we decided to get ourselves the DVD burner version of the product — the DIGISTOR Self-Powered external DVD burner. We’re gonna be showing you the unboxing of the said product right now, and we’re excited.

The DIGISTOR Self-Powered USB DVD burner

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DVD-RAM: A better rewritable DVD alternative?

DVD has been, and still is the top optical media for data storage for typical users. Blu-Ray is creeping up on it, and may well be the one for the future, but DVD still holds top dog status.As consumers and media hogs download an immeasurable amount of data from the Internet – like yours truly — both in audio and video – we need a backup solution to help us store our data (files, audio, video). DVD-RAM is such a solution, although we doubt if most people have ever explored this format, much less be informed about its merits and advantages.

Mac PC Wiz attempts to introduce you to this technology inside.

Slim External DVD Burners, no need for power supply!

Remember our post about space-saving external DVD burners here at MacPCWiz?

As a follow-up, MacPCWiz reviews 2 slim and uber-sexy external DVD drives that help you save space and gives you that extra bit of portability – LiteOn’s eTAU208 and DIGISTOR’s Self-Powered External DVD burners.

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Space-saving External DVD burners

A big clunky external DVD writer, with all its accompanying cords (power cords and interface cords — USB, Firewire, etc.), is enough to give you a mild de-cluttering crisis. I believe giving up on an external DVD burner may not be entirely the solution. Enter the DIGISTOR Self-Powered external DVD burner. DIGISTOR has employed into this drive a nifty self-powering solution so that the drive itself — already slim and very sleek-looking — does not need a power cord for its use. Read more from MacPCWiz.