Another month or so has gone by and we’ve got another Garage Sale chock-full of great deals for you. However, there are times to wax poetic about it, and there are times to just proceed on to business. This is the latter, so let’s just get right to it and see what’s available this month.
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Great Deals Pop Up Like May Flowers In This Month’s Garage Sale
Saturday, May 7th, 2011 | Author: OWC NewsFeed
Category: Special OWC Deals
2011 iMac Unboxing & Teardown
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011 | Author: OWC Michael and OWC Mike H.
Today, Other World Computing received our first 2011 iMacs. For your viewing pleasure, here is a gallery including unboxing photos of two of the machines as well as some teardown photos of the 27″ iMac 3.4GHz model:
Category: Fresh from Apple, New @ OWC
One Week with the iPhone 4
Thursday, July 1st, 2010 | Author: OWC Jamie
I was the first OWC employee to receive their iPhone 4. I was lucky enough to have it arrive the day before the official release (Yay!), at about 9:15 in the morning, thanks to our exceptional FedEx service. And let me tell you, it was a steady stream of people coming to look, see, touch and feel it that day since it was the only one in the office. Everyone had the same reaction—utter disbelief at just how thin and solid it is. You cannot honestly appreciate the beauty it is until you have held it in your hands. The iPhone 4 is easily the finest piece of electronics I’ve ever owned.
How did I get my iPhone 4? I was able to order my iPhone 4 straight from the Apple website at about 9:30 CST the day orders started being accepted. I would have to guess I loaded the order page probably 50 to 60 times before it went through. Three of us were successful in ordering that first day, and all three of us did get our phones the Wednesday before release; I was the only one smart enough to have the phone delivered to the office, though :>) The other 2 employees didn’t get them until they went home that night.
My initial impressions, coming from a iPhone 3G, was that it’s as fast as an iPad, which I use every day, so I was not as blown away by the raw speed of the iPhone 4 as some have been. I’ve done side by side tests and while the iPad is faster, the iPhone 4 is certainly no slouch, it’s right on the heels of the iPad. I really wish that we had iOS 4 for the iPad to make that test an honest “Apples to Apples” shootout, because I have a feeling the iPhone 4 is going to end up winning—more RAM, and actually a smaller screen are definitely in it’s favor. I can honestly say that it’s such a marked improvement over my old iPhone 3G, that I could not go back to using it on a daily basis, that’s for sure. :>)
Creating a Hard Drive Archive with the NewerTech Voyager
Monday, June 14th, 2010 | Author: OWC Angela
Many of us like to keep our pictures on our camera and our hard drive. But, what happens when your hard drive starts to get so full that you have no more room and you HAVE to start deleting something?
Often, the first place we start to look is in our ‘Pictures’ file. “Hmmm,” we think, “I definitely want to get rid of the picture of me with a double chin, and I don’t need this one of Uncle Dan or Aunt Louise!” By the time you are finished, you’ve deleted maybe 20 out of 500 pictures. Bummer! Still not enough room on that hard drive! What to do?
The best, most cost-effective way to archive your pictures is to save them to a hard drive. That’s where the NewerTech Voyager comes in! This handy little docking station, or ‘toaster’ as I like to call it, can take any laptop or desktop hard drive and turn it into a useful archive! The Voyager comes with three choices of interfaces:
- Voyager S2 with USB 2.0and eSATA connections.
- Voyager Q with firewire 800/400, USB and eSATA connections.
- Voyager S3 featuring USB 3.0.
This flexibility makes it ideal for professionals and high-end amateurs who are getting overwhelmed with images on their internal drives.
Is it safe?
One of the questions I get a lot is, “But I’m not supposed to handle a bare hard drive! What about static? Won’t dust be a problem? Won’t it overheat without a fan? What about grape jelly and spilled cokes!?” Article Continues…
Category: Product Spotlight
Suggested New Years Resolution: Backup your photos and videos!
Friday, January 1st, 2010 | Author: OWC Michael
Well, with the holidays finally here and gone, many of us are left with fond memories of the past year and, depending on how avid a photo-taker or videographer you are, you’ve accumulated a ton of pictures and video of family, friends, vacations, pets, parties and the like. Now is a perfect time to check your data backup plan and to make sure that if your hard drive fails, you don’t lose all those memories.
While having a working hard drive backup is great, there is an even better way when it comes to digital media. Make yourself a hard copy of your photo and video libraries from time to time. I’m talking about burning those files to Blu-Ray, DVD, or CD depending on the size of your collection, the physical size of your photos and videos, and how long it’s been since your last hard-copy backup.
With all your memories backed up this way, you’ll be sure to have them in the future. Not every backup plan is foolproof – so the more ways you back up, the better. A few years ago my backup plan included cloning the hard drive in my laptop and keeping a copy on an external drive. That way I’d have a perfect copy of everything on my computer. I was performing the cloning function and writing over the backup drive when the hard drive in my laptop physically failed. I lost everything on both drives – the main drive failing corrupted the data on the drive I was backing up to.
My only saving grace was that I had just about everything that was most important to me burned to CDs. It took a while to install a new drive, reinstall the operating system and move everything back over from CD – mainly because there were so many of them. Had I had copies on DVD, or better yet, Blu-Ray it would have gone much quicker.
Last month, OWC introduced the 12x “Quad Interface” Mercury Pro Blu-ray External Drives, which is ideal for backing up large amounts of video, photos, music, or any other data files Blu-ray is capable of burning up to 50GB of data onto a single Blu-ray disc in 15 to 20 minutes. That’s equal to 50,000 JPEG images, 17,500 MP3 songs, 25 DVD quality movies, or just under four hours of High Definition video! The Mercury Pro Blu-ray drives also read and/or write virtually all types of optical media, including DVD R/RW & Dual-Layer, DVD-RAM, and CD-R/RW.
Its the perfect device for making that New Year’s Resolution to make sure your data is kept safe and secure.
Category: Product Spotlight, Tech Tips
Free iMac inner view desktop background from OWC
Friday, November 20th, 2009 | Author: OWC Michael
For those of you who want to let your inner geek show, have we got the desktop background for you!
While we’ve been exploring potential ways to upgrade the hard drive in the new iMacs, our own OWC Jamie took these photos of the new machines with their screens removed to expose the electronic goodness found inside. They make quite unique desktop pictures.
Or, you could use this as a static screensaver to discourage others from using your precious computer making them think your machine is down for maintenance.
The desktops are custom sized to the resolutions of the respective monitors:
21.5″ iMac : 1920 x 1080
27″ iMac : 2560 x 1440
To download, right-click on the links above and Choose “Save Linked File”
To install your desktop background, go to System Preferences (on the Apple menu) and choose Desktop & Screen Saver (in Personal): Desktop (control-clicking the desktop and choosing Change Desktop Background… from the pop-up menu will also get you there), then click Folder… (in the left panel) and select the folder in which you saved the picture. If the folder is not in the list, click the “+” in the lower left and navigate to the correct folder to add it. Click the picture in the right panel to display it as your desktop background.
More Flash for Portable Photo Gallery
Friday, March 13th, 2009 | Author: OWC NewsFeed
A previous blog post by M. Chris Stevens gave you a tip to create your own portable HTML-based photo gallery using a keychain USB flash to tote around your photos. I also do that, but use already available solutions. I actually keep a tiny USB stick attached to my iPod case, which is a well-padded fabric case made by Booq. (My purse can be a dangerous place to store anything breakable!)
I love the Crucial Gizmo! Flash Drives that OWC sells and for carrying photos, a 2GB flash drive for $11.95 or 4GB for $17.49 are great deals. They easily can be put on a key chain also.
Funny thing though, LaCie just started selling keys with flash drives built-in. They’re supposedly scratch resistant, very sturdy, and comes in 3 different styles. One even uses micro-SD cards, so that you can interchange them. I got the imakey, which looks just like my car key without the computer rubber housing. The fob is very heavy though. It came with a small plastic cover over the USB connector, which I’m sure I’ll lose. Only time will tell whether it can survive my purse. In the meantime, the lighter-weight Crucial Gizmo wins out.
Oh, and by the way, if you prefer to show your photos in a slide show, complete with 
music, check out FotoMagico by Boinx Software, which is included in the new Roxio Toast 10 Titanium Pro and that is very cool. Of course, it’s Mac only, but a very easy to use tool to show off your photos in an entertaining way! I’ve tossed together long family slide shows in under an hour complete with my son’s original music. It came in very handy for a retrospective on my Dad’s life which I showed at his memorial service. Simple tools, fast solutions, things that work — don’t ya love it?
