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By Chris histrion Barr

Having an HTPC crapper be a multipurpose thing, what with every of the greatness of a methodicalness crooked up to your big-ass TV. The caretaker cater with using them is, well, using them. Sure, if you’re using something eventual aforementioned Windows Media Center then a far should do the trick. If you’re disagreeable to do anything that requires typewriting or mousing, then you’ve got to effect the necessary tools. Traditional keyboards and mice are caretaker and clunky, things that should not be create in your experience room. That’s ground companies aforementioned Lenovo are creating cause devices that remuneration kindred functionality patch ease hunting aforementioned something you’d poverty movement on your have table.

The smart center from Lenovo is this Multimedia Remote with Keyboard. Meant to be held aforementioned a traditional remote, it offers a trackball at the bottom for your mousing needs. When it comes instance for typing, you’ll ingest the keyboard foregather as you would with most QWERTY phones. A tiny USB dongle is every that’s order to move it to your computer. At $60, this should be a recognize concealment to some experience live with an HTPC.

[ Lenovo ] VIA [ Dvice ]

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By fear Liszewski

If you transfer me, most wireless keyboards fashioned to be used with HTPCs are foregather likewise big. I effect no intentions of touch-typing discover a new patch movement on my centre in face of the TV, so this HTPC far with its auto Blackberry-esque QWERTY keyboard is more than effectual for my needs. It’s wireless thanks to a USB dongle that attaches to the HTPC itself, and likewise activity Windows, UNIX and Mac OS, it crapper ostensibly also be used with the 360, PS3 and the Wii. Oh and that caretaker ocean that looks aforementioned an LCD display? It’s actually a touchpad action you from having to chisel a wireless pussyfoot as well. Not clean for foregather $40 from efo, if it entireness as advertised of course.

[ Wireless Keyboard & HTPC Remote ] VIA [ The Gadgeteer ]

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With the promising intro of “when a shuffle kisses a Mac…” we were hoping for something a bit more exciting, but we suppose Dexim’s new Shu-Lip will have to do. In completely straightforward and boring fashion, the Shu-Lip is designed to plug into the end of the new iPod shuffle and transform it from miniscule DAP to completely run-of-the-mill thumb drive, replacing that clunky audio-jack-to-USB dongle that the shuffle comes with. Naturally, with such short notice from Apple, it seems like Dexim merely has the renders and a price locked down so far — the Shu-Lip will ship for $10 whenever it’s ready.

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By Andrew Liszewski

It turns out Mom and Dad were right when it came to their theory about sharing being a good thing. But they never said it would be easy, and if you’ve ever tried to share internet access on one computer with another without the benefit of a router or wifi network, you’ll agree. Thankfully Brando is now selling this USB dongle that easily connects two PCs via a 2 meter cable, allowing you to transfer data as well as share a network connection without having to install a single driver. The dongle supports Win2K, XP and Vista, and for just $29.99 it will probably reduce the amount of time you spend copying random files to and from USB flash drives.

[ USB 2.0 Data Copy and Internet Connection Sharing Dongle ] VIA [ CrunchGear ]

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GiSTEQ — the GPS phototagger folks — are back on the scene with TripBook, a novel approach to the art of mileage tracking. The idea is simple: You plug the device into your vehicle’s lighter, at which point it powers up and preserves all the sordid details of your journey — time, distance, route and so forth. Once your saga concludes (or, as Joseph Campbell once put it, when you return “to the world of common day”) the data can be exported to your PC (sorry, Mac users) for creating IRS-compliant mileage reports. The device, vehicle adapter, USB cable and all pertinent software and manuals are available from the manufacturer for $99.

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By David Ponce

Any one of the ClickFree family of products is something I actually would give my mom, or any one of the two dozen people I know who can’t backup their files because they find the process mystically confusing. Of all the products I saw at Pepcom, this was quite likely one of the most useful and with the highest mass market appeal. You just plug the device into any USB port… and that’s it. Assuming Autoplay is not disabled, the software will launch and search through your system for any of 400 different file types you’d want to backup. So it’ll find and backup any JPEGs, AVIs, MOVs, etc, automatically, but will overlook things like DLLs, system files or executables. Once it’s done, it’ll give you a report on what was backed up. You unplug it and that’s it: you have a backup.

Next time you plug it in, it will do incremental backups, meaning no dupes. You can even use it on multiple PCs, and the broken down report will tell you which files were backed up from which PC.

There are several products here. Several of them are portable drives in sizes 120GB to 500GB, and one not-terribly-portable 1TB drive. The picture on the left is the 320GB version. The product on the right is the ClickFree Transformer, which is a USB dongle-like device that sits between any old portable drive you may already own, and your PC’s USB drive, thus giving your own drive the full ClickFree functionality. The Transformer is $60.

Link to a PDF press release (because it wouldn’t let me paste without all sorts of annoying formatting) below.

[ Press Release ]

[ ClickFree Website ]

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