Google Glass isn’t yet quite available for direct purchase, but the Google Explorer program is already in progress. Meaning that for selected elite users, those futuristic Glasses are now part of their everyday reality. And with it, comes a wave of funny stories and incidents – everything from people getting tickets for driving wearing Glass, to humorous nods by the competition.

Here’s a compilation of funny stories and incidents pertaining to the release and proliferation of Google Glass out in the urban wild. read more

The speed of your external hard drive mostly depends on the cables and the drive itself. It is very difficult, in fact impossible, to increase the hardware speed of your external hard drive. However, a person can improve the cables so as to boost the external hard drive speed.

Use Shorter Cables, Boost External Hard Drive Speed

A long cable allows you to place your external hard drive in a convenient place, far away from the computer. Such long cables affect the external hard drive speed. There are different types of cables and their lengths also vary depending on the kind of cord you use on your hard drive. Cords can be USB 2.0, USB 3.0, eSATA or Firewire. In most cases, the cables have a maximum length of between 2-3 yards or meters. Data transmitted through copper cables travels approximately 60 percent of the speed of light. As you use a short cord, your speed will increase. Typically, this means a short 3-foot cable is twice as fast as a long 6-foot cable. On the other hand, a 2-foot cable will be faster than both cables. read more

There’s always a certain degree of risk involved when you decide to print confidential information on a shared printer or in a public place. Usually, large offices have shared printers and we all know how insecure it is to use these printers, especially when it comes to printing very important and private documents.

Nevertheless, not a lot of people try to do anything about it, thinking that there’s no solution to it other than getting a private printer. Of course, buying a new printer in an office is not something that sounds feasible and thus, the whole idea comes to rest. So, is there anything that you can actually do in order to make sure that you are printing your confidential documents in a secure and safe environment? Let’s find out in this post. read more

As businesses struggle to manage the amount of data coming into their servers, traditional storage devices like hard disk drives are being pushed to their maximum potential. Solid state storage devices (SSD) are coming slowly to replace HDDs because their storage performance is much better. Data management is very important to all companies and this has made most IT managers to move to SSDs so they can stay competitive. It’s not easy to completely move all data to SSD because it’s very costly, so most companies are moving the critical parts like customer facing e-commerce stores. So the question many IT managers are asking is, should I use the SSD hard drive for a server? To make that decision one has to know the upsides and downsides of this new storage devices compared to the old hard drives. read more