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Keeping your USB stick data safe
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| Posted Under Memory Card Guides By Dan at 5:50pm |
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After the demise of floppy discs many were left wondering what the next portable data storage format would be. For a while it seemed that zip discs would take over where the floppy left off but zip discs limited capacity and cost of both discs and drive meant that the takeup was not swift.
Today, USB sticks are the portable data transfer method of choice. You only have to look round a university computer lab to notice that all the students use them to transport data from their home machine to the university network. This is due to the flood of cheap USB sticks onto the memory card market and their durability. A USB stick still holds onto your data after a spin cycle in washing machine (note: we do not recommend testing this). You can drop it and it will not get damaged as there are no moving parts.
But, how do you protect the data on your USB stick? Here at the MemoryCards.co.uk mansion we have noticed a number of biometic USB sticks emerging into the market allowing your data to be protected by a scan of your fingerprint. The cheapest of which is the 1Gb Jet Flash 210, a great buy from Misco at only £12.34. This USB stick was named one of Computer Shoppers top 100 products in their annual survey. A nice feature on the JetFlash 210 is the ability to use the fingerprint scanner to log into websites (aliasing your fingerprint with stored usernames and passwords). A great timesaver if you have a lot of login details to remember.
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Which Memory Card for your Nintendo Wii?
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| Posted Under Memory Card Guides By Dan at 5:00pm |
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Nintendo Wii's use Secure Digital (SD) memory cards for data storage. You can find the SD slot on the front of your Wii. Adding a memory card allows you to upload photos, save in game data and download games from Nintendos Virtual Console service.
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MMC cards - The Different Formats Explained
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| Posted Under Memory Card Guides By Kirsty at 5:00pm |
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There are five variant of MMC (MultiMediaCard) memory cards... MMC, MMC Plus, RS-MMC, MMC mobile and MMC Micro.
The postage stamped sized MMC cards are the original MMC card and are compatible in SD devices. MMC plus cards were introduced in 2005 as an upgrade to the original MMC card. MMC Plus cards offer faster data transfer and are backwards compatible with the original MMC format although a software upgrade is required.
RS-MMC (Reduced-Size Multi Media Card) introduced in 2004 are approx half the size of a regular MMC card. MMC Mobile cards are upgraded version of RS-MMC and are optimised for mobile phone usage with low voltage, high data transfer. MMC Mobile cards are fully backwards compatible with RS-MMC. Adaptors are available to use RS-MMC and MMC Mobile cards in regular MMC card slots.
Finally, MMC Micro cards are smaller and thinner than MMC mobile cards measuring only 14mm x 12mm. The are also backwards compatible with the original MMC provided an adaptor is used.
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MemoryCards.co.uk Launches
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| Posted Under News By Dan at 3:40pm |
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Today we launched MemoryCards.co.uk, the UK's first memory card comparison site. We hope you find it a useful resource. The site is still in its early stages and we have lots of improvements planned for the months ahead. If you have any feedback (good or bad!) then please contact us via the link to the left.
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