Speaking of cute, have you seen this USB thumb drive from Mimobot? Dubbed the Pink Meletta, it is sure to catch anyone’s eye – geek or not! I have to admit that when I first set my eyes on it (albeit via the Internet), my attention was caught. Not because it’s pink. Not because it’s a thumb drive. I don’t really know why, but I found myself wondering if I should get it or not.

Valentine’s Day is over now but it never is too late to get someone a gift and I thought that the Pink Meletta would be perfect for someone I know. More than being a simple flash drive – how anyone could think that something designed like this would be simple, I don’t know – it also has preloaded content. Let me name a few: graphics, sounds, and video. I don’t have to say that the content is all about love and cuteness, do I?

Still, if you are into those things or you know someone who is, $24.95 for the 1G version is what you need. If you want more storage, you just need to add more to that price.

To get the most out of any video sharing website, you’ll need a good program to download videos from it. YouTube usually has the most popular videos, so you’ll probably spend most of your time downloading your videos from there. Make sure you examine the options of the program carefully though, in order to ensure that you’re converting the video properly and getting the best quality out of it.

Afterwards, you may wish to extract the sound or music from that video – this can be a complicated process if you don’t know what you’re doing, but the right tool for the job can make it very easy – a good program to convert videos to MP3 files can save you a whole lot of effort and time, and make the whole deal easier for you in general. Just make sure that, again, you familiarize yourself with the program’s options so that you know what to expect from the file you’ve converted!

Another type of printing technology is the toner-based printer, which is commonly known as the laser printer. Laser printers produce high quality text and images in a very speedy way. These kinds of printers are different from liquid ink-jet printers because it uses the same technology as photocopiers – which use heat to transfer toner to paper. It is different from the normal photocopier, as it uses a laser beam that scans an image directly in the printer’s photoreceptor. A laser printer can produce 12,000 pages per hour! Lastly, another type of printing technology is the thermal printer. Thermal printers work by heating parts of special heat-sensitive paper, which is called thermochromic or thermal paper. Normally, thermal printers can only produce black and white documents, but colored documents can also be printed with this type of printer with special kinds of papers and different temperatures and heating rates for specific colors. Like laser printers, thermal printers are faster than the dot-matrix and ink jet printers.

But what if you had portability with a full sized keyboard?  That’s what the guys at ThinkGeek have come up with – a full sized keyboard that can be rolled up so you can take it with you anywhere you go!  Netbook users who miss the ease of a full size keyboard can simply roll this baby up, put it in their bags, and then unroll it anytime!  Gamers who are on the road a lot will also welcome this roll up keyboard as it will make their packs lighter.

This is nothing new, truth be told.  We’ve seen and heard of keyboards like this one before, but according to user reviews, this roll up keyboard has amazing performance.  While it may take some getting used to, the keys are quite responsive – thanks to the number of sensors built in.  Even better, this keyboard is moisture proof and dust proof as well!  The keyboard connects through the USB or PS2  port.

Get out $23.99 and order from ThinkGeek.

An external hard drive was a godsend, I tell you. Okay, I admit that I was too cheap to buy a good one. I skimped on my money and bought an old model that could hold only 60 gigabytes. For a few months it served me well, and I was able to store a few albums, movies and TV shows on it. The game plan was that I save up for an actual, decent laptop with a few hundred gigabytes of storage.

However, my cheapness got the better of me – the external hard drive died on me one day. All my files, my music, everything – gone. I was stuck with a netbook with 4 gigabytes of storage and a handful of 2 gigabyte USB flash drives. It was an awful time. I did manage to buy a new laptop and was able to reacquire the things I lost, but I could have saved me some time and money if I only did not decide to take the cheap, easy route.

This is why for my future back up and travel storage needs, I am going to buy the Western Digital 1TB external hard drive – you get what you pay for, and I learned a really harsh lesson.

The most obvious advantage is, of course, more versatility in sizes. From the name, an A3 printer can print up to a maximum size of 17″ x 11″ which is the standard dimension of an A3 paper. If you think that your desktop printer can do that, I advise you to double check, as not all desktop printers can do that. With an A3 printer you can print a whole lot of stuff other than Word documents! Think of the possibilities. You can use an A3 printer to make newsletters, posters, banners, and whatever else you need – as long as you don’t exceed 17″ x 11″, of course. However, I think you’d have a problem finding anything to print that is larger than A3. It’s huge, and I do mean huge.

Now if you’ve given it thought and have come to the conclusion that an A3 printer is suitable for your needs, I advise you to go ahead and get one. however, I guess you’ll have a problem making a choice on what brand to buy – there are a lot out there. I don’t think it matters though – whatever brand you choose, be it HP, Canon, Lexmark, Epson, or a Brother A3 printer, you are bound to have more flexibility in the end.

Everyone is aware that the fast evolution of technology has led many people to simply buy computers at the cheapest possible price available today. There are some technically conscious people who are quite particular about the technical specifications of most parts of their personal computer such as the processor, video card and memory modules.

But realistically, at the rate that such parts are being introduced in the market and then seen to be obsolete after some days is driving most people crazy with regards to the proper computer to purchase.

Actually, some computers, like the Pentium IV series are still good to go to this day. There is no need to go for such high-end and expensive specifications such as the Pentium Dual Core series if they are not needed. For the people who would buy their own sets today, then it would be feasible, but for people who have barely had a year to fully use and depreciate their own computer sets, it would be best to settle down and consider upgrading only after some years.

At the height that people are becoming cost conscious, the rate at which technology is changing should not be a basis for hooking up with change as well, especially if it is not really needed.

The DVD to iPad converter rips the audio and video files from the CD to the iPad. It can convert MP4, MPEG-4, H.264 videos and MP3, AAC and M4A audios. When extracting the files from DVD to iPad, the file are ripped at the best resolution so that the you, the viewer, enjoys the same listening and watching pleasure you would get from watching the film on a DVD player.

This program has amazing editing features. If you want to watch the first half of the movie, you can split the DVD movie and convert the video segment into the iPad. In addition, you can capture movie stills, preview other DVD movies, and even customize conversion parameters so that that movie being converted doesn’t take up too much memory space. The actual converting of files from DVD to iPad can cover up multiple files in the movie at one time. In other words, you don’t have to worry about transferring each file from the DVD one at a time. The program allows you to do the transfers per batch.