Posts in Portable Media

Lacie offers free online backup

If you purchase a Lacie hard drive you’ll get, as bonus, a year of online backup. Lacie partnered with Carbonite to offer automatic backup. Automatic (?), yes, automatic. Kinda like Apple’s Time Machine. When your Windows computer is idle, and the Lacie drive is plugged in, Carbonite will automatically find new or modified files, encrypt [...]

Posted by jim at 9:27 am

iStik is a great iPod case solution

One of the best iPod cases that I’ve seen lately is the iStik. This case effectively addresses the problem of sticking your iPod to your person whatever you are doing. The iStik uses eight Neodymium magnets attached to a hard, clear Lexan plastic case. What this means is that you can just attach your iPod [...]

Posted by gecko at 2:26 pm

Scosche’s Passport

Wow, you’ve got that jazzy new car… you’re cruising the roads, and you remember this car has a built-in iPod dock! OK, you say, but when you flip out your new iPod from your glove compartment you realize that your car isn’t “geared” for the new iPod line. Arghghhhh… what do you do? Good thing [...]

Posted by jim at 10:20 am

Gears of War-themed Zune to be released

Microsoft is still not backing down from its challenge to the iPod’s throne. The software giant is backing its Zune media player through a new offering — a Gears of War 2 themed special edition Zune. The special Zune will be released to the market on the same day the game comes out, which is [...]

Posted by gecko at 10:40 pm

Movies Coming to a Flash Drive Near You

As manufacturers try to find more innovative ways of using their products to get more sales, news that movies may be coming to you contained in a thumb flash drive was just waiting to get out and make itself a reality. Music has been released onto the flash drive market for quite sometime which began [...]

Posted by Nick at 8:02 am