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Sanho crams 640GB of memories into your pocket with HyperDrive Album photo viewer

Photo viewers have been around for centuries (give or take a few score), but few have offered the capacity and speed found on the HyperDrive Album. Produced by none other than Sanho — the same dudes and dudettes responsible for those spectacular HyperMac batteries — this here device is essentially a 640GB pocket hard drive meant to suck down photos from your SD or CF card (it plays nice with both formats) as you shoot; it can either lighten the load on your memory card or act as on-site backup, and it’s reportedly capable of downloading 2GB per minute with full data verification. Better still, it’s capable of decoding and displaying RAW images on the 4.8-inch display (800 x 480 resolution), and the internal battery will last through 200GB worth of transfers. It’s available now for $599.99 (or less if you opt for a smaller / empty model), but don’t even bother if you’re looking for SDXC compatibility.

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Sanho crams 640GB of memories into your pocket with HyperDrive Album photo viewer originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Android photo backup app reveals burglars’ identities, stupidity

Burglaries are an unfortunately commonplace event in daily urban life, but on some very rare occasions their outcomes give cause for celebration and maybe even a smile. Two young men from the Portland area, keen to get on the smartphone bandwagon without paying, broke in and stole a pair of Motorola Android handsets (along with other electronics) from a nearby household. What they didn’t foresee, however, was that one of the phones would have the free Lookout app, which automatically backs up all photos taken with the handset to a user-accessible server every night. So, in the midst of testing out their ill-gotten loot, the criminals provided the phone’s legitimate owner with enough visual clues for the police to swoop in and apprehend one of them. The search for his partner in crime continues, but the “gadget versus man” fight has already concluded with a clear win for what we presume was a Droid.

[Thanks, John]

Android photo backup app reveals burglars’ identities, stupidity originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Rebit announces SaveMe backup system for simplistic PC users

The backup-crazy kids at Rebit would like you to know that the next generation of their backup and recovery system, the whimsically named SaveMe, is available now. That’s right: now. Powered by a software package called SmartSave, the user can automate backup and recovery from their PC or server, using their own hard drive or one of Rebit’s portable backup drives (up to 500GB) or desktop drives (up to 2TB). For the value-consumer requiring only single-PC backup and recovery, Rebit now offers SaveMe Express backup software, which does not include SmartSave. Interested? We know you are! Hit the source link to inquire. PR after the break.

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Rebit announces SaveMe backup system for simplistic PC users originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Clickfree busts out automatic backup solutions: C2N HDD, Transformer and Traveler SD

Last year was a relatively quiet one for Clickfree after it showed its cards at CES 2009, but it’s clear the company is looking to start 2010 off with a bang here in the desert. The recently updated C2 backup drive is seeing a significant overhaul at CES, with the C2N acting as a portable backup drive for any computer on your home network. The C2N drive is the company’s first to boast its BackupLink technology, which enables all of your networked machines (Macs and PCs) to be backed up automatically; of course, you’ll only be backing up between 250GB and 640GB of information, but we’re told that larger models are expected later in the year. Next up is the Network Edition of the Transformer, which is apt to be entirely more useful for those of you with capacious USB hard drives already looking for work. Essentially, this touts the same functionality as the aforementioned C2N, but it connects to any USB hard drive rather than providing a drive of its own. Finally, the Traveler SD is a 32GB Secure Digital card with the Clickfree backup software baked in; as you might imagine, this enables computer backups to take place on a card reader, which just might be the perfect solution for travelers who haven’t any room for a spare HDD. You can expect to find all three on store shelves between March and April, with pricing set for $159.99 (250GB) $179.99 (320GB), $199.99 (500GB and $219.99 (640GB) for the C2N, $99.99 for the Transformer Networ Edition and $89.99 (16GB) / $149.99 (32GB) for the Traveler SD card.

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Clickfree busts out automatic backup solutions: C2N HDD, Transformer and Traveler SD originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Clickfree aims at the suits with Traveler for BlackBerry auto backup card

Clickfree already showcased a trio of new automatic backup devices, but it managed to save just one for dexterous crowd: the Traveler for BlackBerry. Similar in design to the Traveler SD, this 16GB microSD card is tailor made to slip inside of your BlackBerry and then backup critical information from your PC or Mac. This one’s aimed primarily at business travelers, who are entirely more likely to have their BlackBerry on them than some random hard drive. If 16GB just won’t cut it, the company is expected to reveal larger versions a little later in the year. The process works as such: slap the card within your phone, connect it to your PC via USB and watch as the software syncs new files and creates a backup of anything that has changed. It’ll start shipping by April for a lofty $89.99 (16GB) / $149.99 (32GB), so make sure you can plop this thing on that corporate card before mashing “go.”

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Clickfree aims at the suits with Traveler for BlackBerry auto backup card originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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PS3 hack plays Blu-ray backups, should send Motorstorm values soaring (video)

PS3 hack plays Blu-ray backups, should send Motorstorm values soaring (video)
The PS3 has thus far proven to be something a tough nut to crack for those wanting to play backups on non-modified consoles, but word on the web is that a technique has been found that will make it possible — if the stars happen to align properly for your hardware configuration. What you need is a PS3 model capable of running Linux, Ubuntu, Windows XP on top of that, a suite of utilities, a copy of the original Motorstorm, and a Blu-ray burner. Get all that configured properly and you should be able to use the technique at the read link to play those copies of games that have thus far been expensive coasters. Given the complexity of this approach we can’t be 100 percent sure it’s legit, but for what it’s worth there is video “proof” after the break, and should you attempt this feat of hackery yourself please do let us know how you get on.

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PS3 hack plays Blu-ray backups, should send Motorstorm values soaring (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Iomega v.Clone turns your whole computer into a portable, bootable VMWare image

We’re not used to thinking of Iomega as a software company, but with EMC — the maker of VMWare — in the background now, some sort of synergy was bound to happen. Iomega’s new v.Clone software is the result, and it sounds pretty great. Basically it backs up your C: drive into a bootable, standalone app-wrapped VMWare image, which can run off of a compatible Iomega drive (new eGo and Prestige lines, for starters) on any other Windows computer. Any changes you make to your system in VM mode will then be synced back to your main machine when you return. We’re guessing there will be some performance implications to the setup, and it’ll take some using to know just how practical this might be, but it presents an intriguing opportunity for people to untether from their increasingly bulky, store everything desklaptops if it works — and their friends don’t mind them jacking in.

Iomega v.Clone turns your whole computer into a portable, bootable VMWare image originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Border security guards kill — literally kill — a MacBook (update: video!)

digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/apple/Israeli_security_guards_blow_up_woman_s_MacBook’; Young American woman travels over to Jerusalem to meet some friends, see the sights, live the life. Overzealous border security officers ask her a bunch of questions, take issue with her answers, and a few well-placed bullets later she is allowed entry into the country with a somewhat altered MacBook in tow. So what can we all learn from this incident? Firstly, back up all the data you consider important; B, Israeli policemen don’t mess about; and 3, distressed laptops look gorgeous no matter how they got there — just look at the way the glass trackpad has wrinkled up from the force of the bullet penetrating near it, it’s a borderline work of art. The young lady in question has been promised compensation, but lest you think this is a one one-off you can see pictures of an equally dead Dell at the Flickr link below. We’ve got a couple more close-ups of the ravaged MacBook after the break.

[Thanks, Itai N.]

Update - We’ve tracked down a video interview with Lily herself, which shows off a few more angles of the former MacBook and current article of modern art — check it after the break.

P.S. - As always, we encourage a discussion. A sensitive, intellectual, worldly discussion. If you can’t infer what it is we’re asking of our dear readers tempted to intone on this matter, then please skip commenting on this thread, mkay?

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Border security guards kill — literally kill — a MacBook (update: video!) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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