Archive for March, 2008

Mac Driver For USB DVI External Video Card Out, and Tested In-House

Monday, March 31st, 2008

At long last, Display Link has officially come out with their Mac driver for the Usb External Video Card.

One of the very few drawbacks of owning certain Macs is that it is nearly impossible to add extra monitors. For machines that you can’t open or install new cards in, like the Mac Mini or [...]

RIP Phoebus, Welcome KR2

Friday, March 21st, 2008

We’ve posted several times here on the Sewell Tech Blog about the Top Global Phoebus. This mobile router has been with us for years, allowing hundreds of our customers to access the internet from anywhere and create a mobile internet hotspot. The mobile router allowed you to plug in a PCMCIA card from [...]

USB Extension Cable

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

I am a strong advocate of cheap, affordable USB extension cables for a number of reasons, all of which I like to believe are well-grounded. Reason number one: the device cables that accompany my purchase of any given piece of technology are rarely, if ever, long enough. Given that USB is my data interface of choice for all my [...]

Touch Screen Monitor

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Featuring 17 full inches of raw, unadulterated, interactive display surface, the Synaps Touch Screen Monitor kicks the world of touch screen displays to a whole new level. Kiss convention goodbye as you deploy this bad boy into environments typically restricted from consumer electronics. Increase your company’s mindshare by implementing this “gee-whiz!” innovation into retail locations, kiosks, convention booths, and beyond.
So why wait? [...]

Changes Included in the New HDMI 1.3 Specification

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Perhaps you’ve heard of the new HDMI 1.3 specification. If not, don’t feel too down on yourself. Even though the standard was released June 22, 2006 there haven’t been a whole lot of devices released that uses the new signal until the last 6 months.
Some of the changes include an increase of single-link [...]

USB to DVI External Video Card, High Resolution, 1600 x 1200

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

This USB to DVI external video card is amazing! This lets you use two monitors at once (at least!) which is very convenient. On one monitor you can have internet explorer to help you find all the information you’ll need to know to write your paper in a Word document which would be up on the other monitor. This makes it [...]

Cat5e Bulk cable

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Why would you want to use more than one color of the Cat5e bulk cable?
We don’t have them yet, but shortly we will have multiple colors of the bulk cable to offer. Different colors can especially come in handy when wanting to provide internet to multiple computers in different locations at the office at once. It [...]

GPIB (General Purpose Interface Bus)

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Before there was today’s IEEE 1284 or RS-232 and all of those super fancy high-tech data transfer protocols, there was GPIB, or IEEE 488. GPIB has been used for almost 40 years and it is a marvel that for certain applications, GPIB is still alive and well.
Remember those old Commodore computers you grew up with, [...]