Company: Western Digital

Price: $120

Summary:                                                                                                                                            

The My Book is an external hard drive to protect and store valuable data, music photos, movies, and more.  The devise hooks up through a USB 2.0 to your computer and will start to work right away.  Weighing in at 2.5 pounds this hard drive will be able to go were you go, it will work with Apple and PC computers well and efficiently.

The Review:

This product impressed me from the start, the sleek design and the simplicity was outstanding! The only downside is, well there really isn’t really a downside! This hard drive is very good quality and is a excellent working one as well. The overall look of the drive is also quite impressive, its sleek black colour makes it easy to go with any desk space, also the lack of buttons or pesky outstanding logos is nice as well, the back out the drive has two ports, a mini usb for the connection to the computer, and a DCIN for the power.  This Drive is not very portable either, it requires a power source which isn’t always the easiest to find if you are on the go and need to access your files or time machine. I know that Western Digital has a portable line of hard drives for less money, but also less space.   If you are looking for a hard drive that will be used for one person, this model might be too big for you, maybe the 500 of 250 version would best suit your use, but if you know that you are going to be taking up that 640 GB of storage space, by all means go for it! This product is amazing and everyone that I talk to about it loves it as well! I give this hard drive 4 stars because there is always room for improvement which goes for any product…. (unless its apple lol)

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So a few days ago my Apple in-ear headphones started breaking. I couldn’t stand to watch them just get worn out so I put them to rest and set them back in the box and up on the shelf. But then I realized that I need a new sturdier pair of headphones. So I headed up to the nearest Best Buy to take a look at what was available. I looked and looked debating if I really wanted another pair of in-ear or did I want some nice big over-the-ear headphones. Then I seen them. A beautiful black finish with a trim of red. They had them on a preview stand. The sound was so crisp and clear that I had to get them. I picked up the box and paid for them, and I’ve barely taken them off since then.

The design itself is just amazing. They have a great metal bracing and a very nice feeling rubberized inside that feels great when you listen to them. There is also no pain after wearing them a long time. The ear pieces are very comfortable and have a great cushiony feel when they rest up on your ears. The cable that plugs the headphones into the device is actually removable, so you can carry the headset without having to wrap the cable around it all the time. There is also a remote and mic on the cable that works great on my iPhone 3GS. The remote and mic also seem to have a much better build quality then Apple’s remote and mic as well.

These are one of the nicest sounding headphones that I have ever used. I can hear things in the music that I never knew existed. The bass is amazing. I love listening to some bass during a hard rock song. With these I have no problem doing that. I can hear little things like a chime or cowbell in the song, that I had no idea was actually there. These are also great with any genre of music. I have tried them out with rock, rap, pop, country, even classical, and the list goes on. The volume is another thing that is amazing. I can hear the music from all the way across the room when they are only at half volume. Listening to them at full volume creates your own world. You can not hear a thing other than the music once they are at full volume.

Overall these headphones are just phenomenal. I cannot believe that I took this long to buy these. If you are looking for a great pair of headphones and are willing to spend a little more money for quality, I would definitely recommend the Beats by Dr. Dre Solo Edition. They will cost you $179.99 at just about anywhere. At Best Buy you can buy a 2 year warranty for $29.99 which I highly recommend you do, because if you are going to use them a lot, the warranty will cover wear and tear, and will replace the pair for free for the full two years. If you are in the need for a new pair of headphones, I highly recommend you take a look at the Beats by Dr. Dre Solo Edition.

Recently Microsoft released a small tool to be able to create a bootable Windows 7 USB drive to install Windows 7. For all of you with netbooks out there, you probably know installing software is difficult because there are no CD/DVD drives in netbooks. Microsoft has got you covered if you want to install Windows 7 on your netbook. Note: You need a USB flash drive with a minimum of 4 GB of free space.

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Bungie has announced that in honor of the Haiti earthquake victims, they will be donating all profits made from purchases in apparel and accessorie sales on their website through the end of February. You can purchase a special shirt showing the support to Haiti, with 100 percent of procedes of those sales going to the Red Cross no matter what time of purchase. You can purchase shirts and accessories from Bungie here.

If you are tight on cash or just don’t need any more shirts you can also help support Haiti just by playing Matchmaking on Halo 3, or Firfight on Halo 3: ODST. That’s right you can help out just by playing video games. All you have to do is change your emblem for your character and play an online match. It can be a Custom Game, but it has to be online in order for Bungie to keep track of how many people play a game with the Emblem.

Bungie will donate $100 for every 1000 players who play a match with this emblem during Wednesday January 20 at 00:01AM PST through Thursday January 21 at 23:59PM PST. They will donate up to $77,000 for the online play.

So what does this emblem look like you ask? Well here’s a picture.

The instructions on how to make this emblem are as followed:

• Press START
• Select “SETTINGS” / “APPEARANCE”
• Select “EMBLEM”
• Select “Hearts” ICON, “Circle” BACKGROUND
• Back out to the APPEARANCES menu and select “COLORS”
• Set “EMBLEM PRIMARY” to RED (or MAROON / BRICK / ROSE depending on which game you’re playing!)
• Set “EMBLEM SECONDARY” to WHITE

One feature that Apple “bragged” about in their newest operating system, Snow Leopard, is its ability to run 64-bit apps, kernel and extensions. Well, by default, if the app can, it runs in 64-bit mode. On the other hand, Snow Leopard boots into 32-bit kernel and extensions by default on every Mac OS X computer, except for Xserve, Apple’s Mac OS X based server. Here are three ways to boot Mac OS X Snow Leopard into 64-bit kernel and extensions. Please note that not all Mac computers support 64-bit. Here is a list of Macs that currently can boot into 64-bit mode:

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According to Gameinformer.com, Microsoft has stated that there will not be a new Xbox going out their doors anytime soon. As stated by David Hufford, senior director of Xbox product management, ”the Xbox was designed for a long life, and I don’t even know if we’re at the midpoint yet.” He continues on stating,”I think it’s important to say that the Xbox 360 is the console of the long future for us. There is no need to launch a new console, because we’re able to give this console new life either with software upgrades or hardware upgrades like Project Natal.”

With Project Natal coming out this holiday season, and many more great games being released in the 2010 year, it helps to know that there is no planned system coming out soon. Gamers can shop for games without worrying of them quickly being outdated.

Hufford also stated that as far as the price for the Xbox 360 goes, they are happy where it is at.

With no new system being released, it is safe to say that you can shop for a 360 without any worries of not having the latest and greatest thing.

Spotlight is a great way to search your Mac’s entire hard drive for files and applications that you want to open. But, in Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard, Spotlight has been notoriously slow. Try this quick tip (if you have a Boot Camp partition) to speed up Spotlight.

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So if you haven’t heard, AT&T and Verizon are going against each other is some pretty harsh commercials. Verizon has the “There’s a Map for That,”  campaign and AT&T has the “Fastest 3G,” campaign.

I will be comparing the two based on personal experiences and I am going to split it into 5 categories; Customer Service, Cell Phone Service (Reception), Products, and Exclusive Features, and Overall Quality of the Reception. I will be posting a the categories one at a time. So stay tuned to see who is the winner.

First let me give you a little background of my history with the companies.

I have been an AT&T user before it was even AT&T. It used to be Cingular. But then AT&T got a hold of the company and things were running smooth. I had the hottest phone of the time, the good old Motorola RAZR V3. I could in no way complain about the service. I didn’t get much at my house, but I figured it was because I lived out in the country, so it really didn’t bother me.

Verizon on the other hand, I haven’t dealt with that much. I did use one of the internet cards for a while, and overall I could not complain. The service was responsive, and I got pretty good signal wherever I went with it. I just recently got the Motorola Droid from Verizon and it is a 3G phone.

For the longest time I thought these commercials were a joke. I loved AT&T because it had the iPhone. So when Verizon started attacking the iPhone, I was kinda upset, I did not enjoy the fact that companies were fighting with commercials. And when you cut down one of the things that I love (iPhone) then  you better be ready for a comeback statement from the opposing company. Sure enough AT&T started up their campaign and then Apple followed with their campaign.

Customer Service:

I always had AT&T’s back in these campaigns, but that all changed a few days ago. I remember a while back when I got my iPhone 3GS, it would not activate. So I went to AT&T, and sat there for over 6 hours. The customer service was horrible. They finally sent me over to Apple and made Apple take care of it. I also had many problems with AT&T on the phone. Their phone service was disrespectful and unknowing of what I needed help with. So that lowers my respect even more.

Verizon on the other hand I have not had a problem with their service. The people at the store were very informative and knew just what I was asking. Their phone service was the same way. They took good care of me as their customer. I really enjoyed the fact that they took a little extra time to make sure everything was understood on my part.

So for this round I am giving it to Verizon.

Verizon: 1               AT&T: 0

I recently came across an application called Growl and it caught my eye. Basically, it is a system wide notification system for your Mac or PC. In simpler terms, when something happens on your system, Growl is notified and then it notifies you. For example, you receive a new email. Growl will notify you in a small pop-up that fades in and then out automatically. Growl is very customizable, even the design of the pop-up can be changed to your liking. Be sure to check out Growl for your computer, and you will wonder how you lived without it.

Download (Windows):  http://www.growlforwindows.com/gfw/

Download (Mac OS X): http://growl.info/