There are several different Firewire connections. Some of the more common are 4 pin and 6 pin firewire. The difference between these two connections is that the 6 pin connection has two pins for power, while the 4 pin doesnt. So, you may think to your self “since my firewire device requires power, and I [...]
The other day I had a friend ask me if we carried a VGA to S-Video Converter. This converter offers you the ability to plug a VGA cable into it and offers you the ability to do S-video or composite video out.
This is really helpful if you plan on using a TV screen as your [...]
“Although there were initial rumors of the power supply overheating, we can find no evidence to support this claim other than the repeated story of “holding the power supply up by a string.” It’s either the CPU or the GPU’s fault.” -firingsquad.com
One of customers recently purchased the PCI to PCMCIA converter we sell. This converter has the Ricoh chipset. Our customer was wondering if it worked with Netgear’s WG511T 108Mbps Wireless PCMICA card. We had never tested the adapter with that card. Well, he decided to try it out.
I just got an email back from [...]
USB to Parallel adapters are interesting adapters. They don’t work with any parallel devices that do anything other than print, and even some printers struggle connecting with these adapters. When customers have compatibility issues with parallel to USB adapters, there’s not too much to do.
In fact, there are only a few solutions we [...]
A lot of people wonder what the difference is between a splitter and a switch. Basically, a splitter will take one source (such as a satellite receiver, a cable box, a computer, etc.) and splits the signal between two outputs. So if you have a HDMI splitter, you can connect one HDMI source, such as [...]
People often ask us if they can use FastLynx to transfer programs from one computer to another. FastLynx cannot do this operation. FastLynx was made primarily for transferring all sorts of files between computers, whether for backup, restoration, or just plain fun. Transferring software bewteen computers is called Software Migration. While this may have been [...]
We had a customer call in today who had purchased a Macally PCMCIA 4 in 1 card reader from another company. The customer had purchased the Macally card reader to use with a 1 GB SD flash. When they received the card reader, they plugged it in to their laptop. To thier utter amazment and [...]
We recently added several products that allow for the conversion of VGA signals from a computer to TV. Many people have been asking about the quality of the picture. VGA sources sends their signal as pixels. On the other hand, most TV connections receive signals as Horizontal and Vertical lines. The signal is converted. This [...]
We now have an IDE to Serial ATA converter. The naming convention can be confusing, but now we have both solutions. Connecting a Serial ATA drive to an IDE motherboard, or connecting an IDE drive to a SATA motherboard. (which we have had for some time)
Our SATA to IDE has been a [...]