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Best Wi-Fi Routers: Top Ten Wireless Wi-Fi Routers Reviewed

By: Digital Trends Staff •
Published: November 17, 2009 •
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Finding a suitable wireless Wi-Fi router can be challenging. Prices can be outlandish, short range connections atrocious, and we know there is nothing more irritating than getting thrown off the Web due to a bad connection. Well put all of those worries aside because we rounded up a grand selection of top-rated wireless routers. Here are our top picks for the best wireless Wi-Fi routers of 2009.

Netgear WNDR3700

Netgear’s speedy WNDR3700 is a dual -band (2.4- and 5GHz) router with 8MB flash memory and 64 MB of RAM.

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Expert Picks: Best PC Game Accessories

By: Nick Mokey •
Published: November 16, 2009 •
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That crusty old Compaq keyboard and mouse with a ball stolen from computer lab aren’t going to cut it for serious online fragging, or any sort of gaming, for that matter. Here are 10 of the hottest PC gaming accessories on the market today.

Logitech G19 Gaming Keyboard $200

Logitech’s top-of-the-line gaming keyboard allows players to customize everything from the macros on the programmable “G-keys” to the color of the backlighting, and a mini video display will anything from YouTube videos to the ammo left in a clip.

Expert Picks: The Top 10 Best Netbook Accessories

By: Digital Trends Staff •
Published: November 16, 2009 •
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Tiny netbooks like the Asus Eee, Acer Aspire One and HP Mini are all the rage, but with so many features stripped out, many users find themselves wanting more. From hard drive space to optical drives, accessories can help compensate for many netbook shortcomings, not to mention help protect them. We’ve rounded up some pint-sized accessories to help trick out your brand new netbook.

Timbuk2 Slingshot Netbook Case $35

Timbuk2 takes a sportier approach to hauling netbooks with its Slingshot case, which won’t add much weight to your little ultraportable, but still has enough padding to keep it safe from harm. Read more...

Best Laptop Accessories: Mice, Stands, Hard Drives, Chargers and More

By: Digital Trends Staff •
Published: November 13, 2009 •
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Now that you have a laptop bag to protect your precious portable computer from damage, it’s time to grab a few laptop accessories. From wireless mice and external hard drivers to speakers and keyboard lights, these goodies will turn your feeble laptop into a fully customized portable workstation in no time.

Logitech V550 Nano $60

Never have your portable mouse around when you need it? Logitech’s V550 clips right to the top of your notebook with a sturdy button, ensuring it’s always an arm’s reach away.

Best Laptop Bags

By: Digital Trends Staff •
Published: November 12, 2009 •
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The first purchase for absolutely any laptop owner should be protection. Whether it’s a stylish messenger bag or backpack for around town, a briefcase for travel, or just a simple sleeve or case for home, keeping your computer safe is essential. We’ve rounded up some the most stylish, fashionable, and practical laptop bags on the market.

Skooba Designs Checkpoint Messenger $130

Skooba’s “checkpoint-friendly” messenger bags unzips down the middle to reveal your notebook in a clear-sided pocket, eliminating the need to remove it when going through airport security.

Hot Wheels: Belkin Recalls TuneBase In-Car iPod Adapters

By: Geoff Duncan •
Published: October 23, 2009 •
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Peripheral and accessory maker Belkin has issued a voluntary recall for its TuneBase Direct with Hands-Free, TuneBaseFM with Hands-Free, and TuneBaseFM with ClearScan in-car iPod docks sold since April 1, 2009. The company says a washer in the products’ cigarette lighter adapter can create a risk of fire in certain conditions during prolonged power-on periods—like, say, leaving the adapter plugged in overnight.

Belkin says it believes the issue is isolated to a limited number of units with the waster, but is recalling all Tunebase products purchased since April 1, 2009, out of consideration to its customers. The company has no reports of injury caused by the defect. Read more...

Belkin Plugs Into Windows 7 Transfer Anxiety

By: Geoff Duncan •
Published: October 8, 2009 •
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When Windows 7 launches, some portion of consumers—particularly those who skipped Windows Vista—are going to be looking at buying new computer with Windows 7 pre-installed. The question then becomes: how do users most easily get their music, photo, email, and data from the old clunker to the new PC? Windows 7 includes an Easy Transfer utility, but…well, how does that work exactly? Belkin is hoping to take the mystery out of the equation with its Easy Transfer Cable for Windows 7—just connect it between USB ports on a new Windows 7 machine and an old PC, and it uses Windows Easy Transfer to handle the rest. Read more...

Belkin Wireless N+ 802.11n Review

By: Digital Trends Staff •
Published: February 18, 2009 •
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Summary

Belkin’s N+ Wireless Router features a USB storage port on the back of the router for connecting USB storage devices such as an external hard drive or thumb drive to the network. Now you can centrally store and share media content and files from the USB hard drive to every computer on the network. This router also features Gigabit Ethernet ports for a wired connection that can handle applications that take up a large amount of bandwidth. The N+ router is based on the draft 802.11n 2.0 technology which provides the wireless range to easily cover any-size home or office. The N+ Router has the bandwidth and speed for handling media intensive applications that take up large amounts of your bandwidth.

Belkin Flythru

By: Nick Mokey •
Published: November 5, 2008 •
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After arriving hours early to the airport, getting herded into line, and crushed onto a plane with dozens of other coughing, wheezing passengers, most frequent fliers are eager for any way possible to ease agony of flying. While Belkin’s new FlyThru notebook bags won’t let you skip the line, keep your shoes on, or bring back the full can of shaving cream you had to throw away from your carryon, it will make passing through airport security just a bit easier.

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Belkin FlyWire Wireless HD Streamer

By: Nick Mokey •
Published: July 15, 2008 •
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Let’s face it: even though every flat-screen TV advertisement you’ve ever seen has featured a TV gracefully floating on a wall like a museum piece, it never looks anywhere near that elegant in real life. After you pile a Blu-ray player, cable-box, PS3 and HTPC below it on an awkward piece of IKEA, the aura of mystique floats right out the window. And unless you care to invest hundreds of dollars in 30-foot HDMI cables and deal with the aggravation of snaking a new one through the walls every time you add an input, you’re never going to create that same clean effect. Read more...

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