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HAVING SOME FUN AND LEARNING AT THE SAME TIME: A new form of edutainment software has arrived in the form of JumpStart World, an educational theme park for Windows computers that can replenish itself with new content. More space can be purchased with a subscription to Fabrik's storage services. SimpleTech was recently acquired by Fabrik, an online storage company, and each drive comes with two gigabytes of free online storage. The drives are bundled with ArcSoft's backup and recovery software.
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SimpleTech has announced that in May it will have models that have capacities of 750 gigabytes and a full terabyte. Its SimpleDrive Pininfarina line, designed by the noted Italian automotive design company, is color coded by capacity: 160 gigabytes ($160) in fire red, for example, or 500 gigabytes ($200) in onyx. The latest offerings from SimpleTech (have raised the bar in storage and lowered it for price.

With camcorders featuring hard drives of 30 gigabytes or more, and MP3 players surpassing that, the hard drives on computers may not be big enough to handle the onslaught.Įxternal USB drives are one answer, and their capacities keeps growing exponentially. THE MORE AFFORDABLE PININFARINA, IN RED OR ONYX: It's no longer an indulgence for consumers to have vast amounts of digital storage. For those who cannot wait to start streaming audio throughout the house, Creative will offer a $300 package including the dock and an X-Fi receiver. It will be available next month in stores and online. The Xdock charges iPods and has an auxiliary input for other MP3 players. X-Fi, Creative's proprietary method for transmitting media wirelessly between devices, uses its own standard and does not depend on Wi-Fi or any other in-home networking technology. The Xdock can transmit the same song to any number of receivers, or each receiver can play a different song.

The dock plays video and pictures on any TV through an S-video connection.īy connecting to dedicated $100 receivers, sold separately, the Xdock can send audio up to 100 feet from the base station. The dock uses two technologies to improve the audio: the X-Fi Crystalizer, which cleans up compressed audio, and the X-Fi CMSS-3D, which simulates surround sound. The $200 dock has standard and optical audio-out connections for playing music on powered external speakers. Creative Labs' Xdock can stream audio wirelessly from an iPod to remote speakers and improve audio quality by cleaning up messy digital noise.
