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GameOn Is Your Video Games Storage Monster

Patrick Quek — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:48:18 +0000

It’s not a surprise that a gamer has many games, gaming consoles, controllers and accessories that are not organized in an orderly manner. GameOn has heard us and has provided the lazy video games fanboy or ger the perfect way to bring order and end chaos.

The GameOn line by Cambre is designed to be an all-in-one video games storage solution. The storage system can hold any video games console such as the Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360 vertically without sweat. The upper shelf stores games while the four side support handles up to 4 controllers and guitar accessories.

Of course, it can be mounted effortlessly to the wall. Available in black, white, green, red, yellow and blue.

Via: Slipperybrick
Image: Cambre

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GameOn Is Your Video Games Storage Monster

Storage Has Come a Long Way Baby

Jason Bean — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:10:10 +0000

I couldn’t guarantee it, but there’s one thing that seems to be getting developed much more rapidly than anything else. Sure Intel and AMD are in a huge race with each other to keep developing faster processors. Game consoles like Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii are always competing with each other to be the next best thing. I think storage space is growing exponentially and with the greatest impact to end-users at an attainable level.

Jason Bean Photo of USB Thumb Drive and Hard Drive

That picture you see (sorry it’s so small) is of an old hard drive. What you can barely see on top of it is a 32MB thumb drive. Now, at the time, which was about 3 years ago, the 32MB drive was your above average USB drive. I can’t remember what I paid for it, but I know a few months after I purchased it there was double that capacity available for less price.

Now, what can really blow your mind is that the giant hard drive it’s sitting on provided less than the 32MB I believe. Story is now even more relevant to me because of my task recently of collecting and organizing all of my family’s photos. What’s enough space to keep everything together? How long will the current method of storing .jpg’s on a standard hard drive be viable for the technology that’s coming down the road?

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Storage Has Come a Long Way Baby

How secure is too secure? Oh yeah, this is it.

Jesse — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:07:31 +0000

I came across a great post over at Vitalsecurity.org the other day (part of the awesome Security Bloggers Network) about when security goes too far. RapidShare is a great solution for sharing large amounts of data. It’s ad and premium-user supported and allows for an unlimited amount of bandwidth (free users have 100MB file limit while paid users get 2GB file limit).

There are a few limitations or annoyances if you’re not a paid user. You need to wait a certain amount of time before downloading (usually less than 2 minutes), you can’t download more than one file at a time and the zinger is that you need to fill out a CAPTCHA in order to download files.

CAPTCHAs are not usually a bad thing except when you can’t read it! RapidShare requires you to choose the graphics that contain a cat but they are both difficult to read and worse off, not everyone knows what a cat looks like. It usually takes me two or three tries to download. I understand that they want to make it so that people need to make sure they’re human before they can download but their CAPTCHA requires a user to be super-human. That’s not a good way to draw in more people.

Security is important but this type of security is ridiculous.

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How secure is too secure? Oh yeah, this is it.