[Updated Sept 25, 2008: Firmware 1.2.4 was released and has improved performance over what's mentioned here. I write about Firmware 1.2.4 here.] Back in July I mentioned I was getting a Drobo to try and clean up my hard drive mess. I’ve had the Drobo for about a month now but haven’t posted about it because I’m still fighting with it. Overall it works fine but performance has been poor. After tweaking, there’s still a lot of variation in performance which bugs me. Drobo has said that write speeds of [...] Read the rest »
GoToAssist Express
I had a call from my father earlier today, he was having email problems on his PC. Rather than drive out there, or fight with instructions over the phone, I decided to look into remote control solutions. I can across GoToAssist Express which is currently free since it’s in beta. It’s from Citrix and I’ve been a fan of a couple of there other products (GoToMeeting and GoToMyPC) so I decided to check it out. Registration was simple, they only ask for a name and email address. The email includes [...] Read the rest »
Corsair Flash Voyager USB Drive
A couple of months ago I bought the 32GB version of the Corsair Flash Voyager drive and I love it. While I can only compare it to low cost competitors it’s faster than any other drive I’ve used. My cheap-o PNY flash drive copies at about 4.8 MB/s while the Corsair copies the same files over twice as fast, anywhere from 9 to 13 MB/s. (That’s not a true benchmark, just a comparison copying files while my system is in use.) I primarily use the drive to move video files [...] Read the rest »
Another MobileMe Extension From Apple
Apple has extended MobileMe subscriptions for an additional 60 days. My paid subscription expired recently and I’m currently running under the previous 30 day extension, with 20 days left. Things may change after the latest 60 day extension, but I still plan to leave MobileMe when my subscription expires. Shortly before I received the latest extension notice I had cut the cord completely with MobilMe and stopped using iDisk, the last MobileMe feature I was still using. As I previously mentioned, I’d been trying out SugarSync as a potential iDisk [...] Read the rest »
