Tag archive: optical drives

When Microsoft sent out an alert yesterday that there was a security hole in the Bluetooth stack, my reaction was simple: “Not worried, don’t use it.” Twitter follower Paula Thornton (who I now also follow) responded with a different insight: “I’m always amazed and dismayed by all the perfectly great but useless technology we pay for.” Thinking back, there is a ton of stuff we pay for in a PC that we don’t actually use or care for. Let’s go… Read More

Ad-aware Standard Edition is THE award winning, free*, multicomponent detection and removal utility that consistently leads the industry in safety, user satisfaction, support and reliability. With its ability to comprehensively scan your memory, registry, hard, removable and optical drives for known datamining, aggressive advertising, and tracking components, Ad-aware will provide the user with the confidence to surf the Internet… Read More

Quote from the review at Digit-Life: “Although  Fall  is  a  pretty  dull season, the optical drives market looks  brisk.  You  can  see  not  only  clones of NEC's and Pioneer's drives,  but also unique solutions from companies which earlier made a good  showing.  Some  time  ago we tested Toshiba's drive and today we have … Read More