If you happen to have a Maxtor One Touch that is going or has seemingly gone bad, don’t fear.  Your data is most likely safe.  It’s just that something has gone wrong with the controller card in the unit.  For a few months my One Touch was hit or miss (probably 1 out of 5 times it would actually work).  Finally I got tired of it and cracked open the case.  I disconnected the Sata drive from the card and connected it to the Sata controller on my motherboard.  After I booted up my machine and opened explorer, I was able to drill down into the drive and see all my data!

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My good friends at Greenerist have alerted me that the Aptera 2e, a fully electric vehicle, is due out in October!  I can’t wait to see one of these roll down the street.  I’m very anxious not only to test drive one, but to see how well they are received by the consumer market and if they can make an impact in the gasoline dependent economic world. [Read more →]

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Just a quick news flash: The newest iPhone has already been shipped, so it should be hitting the shelves very soon.  It’s promised to be faster and cheaper. [Read more →]

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Most air filters only catch dust and pollen, but the furniture, paint, and carpet among other things in your home can emit organic compounds like formaldehyde and benzene in concentrations 2 to 5 times higher than outdoors.  Based on research NASA did in the 1980s, a French product designer, Mathieu LeHanneur, and a Harvard University biomedical engineer, David Edwards, have devised an ultra-efficient filtration system that eliminates toxins using plants. [Read more →]

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by Elizabeth Woyke

HTC is a high-profile partner in Android, Google’s foray into the mobile phone industry. So when the Taiwanese device maker held a global event Tuesday to introduce the “world’s most advanced phone,” industry watchers anticipated news on Google’s open-source mobile platform.
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