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Seagate Brings Thinner, Lighter Laptop Hard Drives This Summer
Tuesday, 4 June 2013 | Jason SlaterHard Drives Really Are Getting Wafer Thin
We don’t have to think hard to imagine a thin, light, high capacity hard drive anymore as technology company Seagate have recently started shipping the Laptop Ultrathin HDD (source: International Business Times).
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Dealing With Windows 8, ATI and OpenGL Issues
Tuesday, 5 February 2013 | Jason SlaterOne of the drawbacks to regularly updating an operating system on a computer is locating drivers that actually work. The latest issue encountered here is with Windows 8 and OpenGL.
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Some time ago Google Docs got renamed to Google Drive, with a handy new feature to automatically sync files to local folders, and a few additional changes were made. For example Collections of files are now called Folders which sounds a little more familiar. Also Home is now My Drive (what is it with these tech companies wanting to use My in front of things?).
Visualise Your Drive Space Usage
Thursday, 4 March 2010 | Jason SlaterDisk space is a funny thing, no matter how big hard drives get we always managed to fill them up!
If you are not quite sure where all your hard drive space has disappeared to there is a useful disk usage visualisation tool by the name of OverDisk, which was in beta at version 0.11a (and is no longer under development), which lets you view your hard disk in a radial manner with drill down. It’s a shame the application is no longer under development as it offers a refreshingly different way of visualising your disk usage – and I am a big fan of data visualisation tools.
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Tip: Get Back In Control Of Your USB Drive Lettering
Tuesday, 2 February 2010 | Jason SlaterWhen using a number of external USB storages devices you may have found the drive letters are dynamically assigned when you connect them. Most of the time this is fine, however if you use multiple USB storage devices or mix and match frequently – the inconsistent state of drive lettering can be problematic. Fortunately, this can be resolved by assigning fixed drive letters to your devices.
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