The iPad Camera Connection Kit is not only a collection of two dock connector dongles designed to help you get photos onto an iPad from nearly any digital camera. It turns out the kit can also help you connect other USB devices...
Dear Aunt TUAW: Can I use a USB keyboard or headset with my iPad?
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Dear Aunt TUAW, I love my new iPad and I plan to use it for some heavy duty writing. But I'd rather not fork out all the money that Apple is asking for a Bluetooth external keyboard...
Elite-AL Pro RAID prices drop like April showers!
It’s that time again: flowers are blooming, birds are returning, and OWC Larry is dropping the prices on Elite-AL Pro RAID solutions. While the first two may happen every spring, the last one (while...
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When TUAW reader Gregory P. wrote to us yesterday, claiming his "Not charging" iPad was, in fact, charging, I admit I was pretty skeptical. After all, the new iPads have been widely reported to be incompatible with USB hubs and...
Consumer Reports has discovered that thus far, iPads can not be recharged using the USB ports on any non-Apple computer.
The places where the iPad did charge, in their tests, included an iMac and a MacBook Pro. The iPad would...
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Confirmed: “Not charging” iPad does recharge
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Consumer Reports discovers iPad charging issues
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Consumer Reports has discovered that thus far, iPads can not be recharged using the USB ports on any non-Apple computer.The places where the iPad did charge, in their tests, included an iMac and a MacBook Pro. The iPad would...
Guardian MAXimus joins the “Price Drop Club”
It seems that with all the price drops on the Triple- and “Quad”-Interface OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro RAID storage solutions, the NewerTech Guardian MAXimus was feeling left-out and wanted...
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Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we have questions about replacing a MacBook hard drive, refreshing a NFS mount, getting a simple clock on screen, improving iCal's note handling, and...
I didn't go to Macworld in San Francisco -- something about having the world's largest ocean between me and there made the trip's cost prohibitive -- but I've been keeping tabs on the product announcements anyway. There's...
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OWC gives you a double-dip on Elite-AL Pro RAID price drops.
Usually, if you see one price reduction on an OWC or NewerTech storage solution, you can safely bet that more price drops on other solutions are right around the corner. That theory stands up once...
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Report: Xbox 360 to gain support for USB storage
The Xbox 360 all but requires a hard drive to download games, patches, movies. Indeed, all the features of a modern console can become very dependent on having large amounts of memory. Microsoft has long required users to buy expensive and proprietary memory devices and hard drives, but documentation obtained...
An interesting change from Apple today
As long as I’ve know, other than a couple of very odd “non standards”, Apple’s USB ports have provided 5V 500mA of power, regardless of it being USB 1.0 or USB 2.0. Now today, a tech document was...
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Ask TUAW: Clocks, screen guards, MacBook hard drive replacement, NFS automount, and more
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Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we have questions about replacing a MacBook hard drive, refreshing a NFS mount, getting a simple clock on screen, improving iCal's note handling, and...Macworld 2010: Fastmac’s USB-enabled wall outlet
Filed under: Macworld, Accessories, Peripherals
I didn't go to Macworld in San Francisco -- something about having the world's largest ocean between me and there made the trip's cost prohibitive -- but I've been keeping tabs on the product announcements anyway. There's...
