Ez-Bus-Mini Being Tested As An External Hard Disk. usb power. One downside of some external 2.5 inch hard drives is that they sometimes require a separate power supply. Apricorn's Ez-Bus-Mini 20 GB external drive gets its juice from a USB connection. Does the...

Are You Being Served?. head to head sx1000u. USB device servers are a product concept that's a little hard to wrap your head around at first. But once you understand what they can do, you'll probably want to add them to your networking bag of tricks. Micah...

Being Netsafe With Netgear's Prosafe Switch. holiday buyers guide 2005. We bring you lots of goodies under the tree for your holiday shopping wants and needs, hand-picked by our editors from the best and most exciting and sometimes quirky products that they...

Finally Being Able To Listen!. squeezebox for in home music distribution. If you want to listen to your digital music collection in your bedroom or in your living room, you don't want to have to fire up a PC.. To get things started, I plugged in a pair of...

Why We're Being Mean. Apple iPhone cons. Finally ready to spring for the new iPhone? Wait! Consider our eight reasons NOT to buy it...yet.. We talked about and tested the original iPhone when it came out a year ago, and we continue to talk about the iPhone...

will always have a higher signal loss going through walls, etc. than 2.4 GHz signals. The bottom line here is that there is a lot of FUD being generated and conclusions being jumped to based on products that are still very early in their development and...

to color-code all cabling, with the Ethernet Category 6 being blue, the phone Category 5 cable being white, and the RG-6 coax cable being black. We carried this color-coding over to the wall plates as well, with the icons above each connector being these same...

to ask while I was being given the tour. When I later returned to inquire about when I could get the product for review, I was told that review units weren't being sent to anyone just yet. D-Link MIMO products So while Atheros says that their chipsets are...

repeatedly regarding other NAS devices is a method to cause the hard drive to shut down. For most of us, a home NAS device may be used only sporadically, and it would be nice to have it shut down when it's not being used. Some devices don't have a way to set...

TV and Microsoft solutions were both geared toward putting a hot, noisy, expensive computer into the entertainment center and were chock-full of features that my experience showed I'd probably never use. My basic television requirements were being met by a...