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With the shops putting up their decorations and December only a week and a half away I have been asked that yearly question once again, what do you want for Christmas?
Well this year I have managed to amass a Canon 450D Digital SLR Camera, a 32″ Samsung Widescreen Plasma TV and hopefully a Playstation 3 with Blu-Ray all for very little or no cost. Which has king of left me with nothing to joke around with, like you can get me this nice $1,000 camera I’ve seen – as I not have that.
I think I’d be quite happy with accessories this year. A wireless adapter for the Xbox 360 would be really nice as I can’t bare to spend my own money on something that should really come as standard in such a “next-gen” console. That or something for the camera or a USB toy usually goes down a treat.
So what’s on your tech list for Santa?
After running into a few issues with my current laptop I have been looking to replace it and ideally want a sturdy cheap laptop. It doesn’t need great specs but it needs to cope well with traveling and also be able to cope with a couple of young kids using it to access the Disney web site. I know kid proof and laptop doesn’t usually go together but some should be able to handle that better than others. I was speaking to a friend at Uni earlier this week who had managed to pick up a Sony Vaio for just £150. That is a pretty good deal if you ask me. Although I have known 2 people who have sworn never to go back to Sony laptops after using ASUS laptops.
Both have had Sony laptops that have given up on them and have then gone for the slightly cheaper ASUS models and have been very impressed with their durability and the features they come with. I guess I could start my search there. The name/brand doesn’t really matter to me. Just something that will work with what I need it to and isn’t too fragile for when the kids get hold.
Can you recommend something?
Memory seems to be all around me at the minute, I could definitely do with some more computer memory in my PC at home. I think there is only about 512MB in there at the minute so any help processing stuff would definitely help the amount of chugging it is doing. It seems that memory is the easiest thing to upgrade in a PC and I have done it in the past, the reason for the delay on the current machine is that I had bought a laptop that I spent most of the time on. This now however has started to struggle with the load that is put on it. That and it probably needs a few scans and cleaning up.
I had considered a laptop memory upgrade, but have never carried one of these out before and I know it usually consists of taking out one chip and replacing it with another, leaving the old chip spare and redundant. Plus I would need to find out if it can actually take any more memory first. While PC memory is pretty normal for me I have found that I seem to be buying memory for everything lately. My sister in law wants some memory for her new Sony phone for Christmas, I need to buy a bigger MicroSD card for the R4DS Chip I use in my Nintendo DS and I have also just filled the memory card that I got with my digital camera so a 2nd one for that would be very useful indeed.
I found a place on the net that not only supplies all of these types of memory and more but also has a great memory finder search facility where it will narrow down the memory available to that that is compatible with your device, this saves the hassle of buying the wrong memory which has happened to me before. The site is www.memorysuppliers.com
File security can be a major issue as we have found out of late. Recently in the UK the government have misplaced data relating to everything from personal & bank details of people claiming state benefits to CDs containing information on troops abroad. A simple solution to these issues would have been to encrypt the files containted on these CD Roms so that the data could not be freely accessed by anyone who found them. Data encryption may sound like something that only experts can do but that is definately not the case. Not anymore. I recently came across this product called Folder Lock, it is a Windows XP/Vista based program that allows you to password protect folders in a very simple and easy to use sort of way.
The software has many benefits including:
- On-the-fly 256-bit AES encryption (military standard) for data security.
- All Important files & folders protected in one place for easy backup.
- Folder Lock offers full portability. Save your Lockers in CD/DVD or USB Drives.
- Lockers are transferable and can be emailed or uploaded.
- Lockers are undeletable on the PC where Folder Lock is installed. Deletion requires you to login into Folder Lock.
Password protection has never been so simple, but don’t let the simplicity but you off how powerful this encryption can be, it is even used by NASA.
Visit the official site at www.newsoftwares.net/folderlock to download Folder Lock
