Google Earth for iPhone

Google has ported Google Earth to the iPhone or iPod touch, and it’s such an impressive app that it deserves an Apple ad of its own.

The interface for Google Earth will be familiar instantly to anyone who has used an iPhone for more than a couple of hours. Upon launching the app, you see a photo of the Earth from space. To zoom in, you can either double-tap or use the “reverse-pinch” gesture on the screen. Swiping a finger left, right, up, or down moves the display in the chosen direction, and a two-finger rotation turns the display clockwise or counter-clockwise. There are icons on the display (see screenshot at right) for search, using your current location, changing settings, and realigning the display to North.

Things get more interesting when you tilt your iPhone; the display goes from a flat, satellite-eye view to a 3D-like image. If you’re near mountainous terrain, you get a true sense of the topographical features of the land. On many screens you’ll see Wikipedia icons, which link you to related Wikipedia articles.

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Seagate Momentus XT 750GB Solid State Hybrid Drive for your Laptop

Momentus_XTSeagate Momentus XT 750GB solid state hybrid drive, the world’s fastest hard drive for laptop PCs.

Seagate is now shipping the second generation of Momentus® XT, solid state hybrid drive for consumer and commercial laptops and the company’s fastest drive ever for personal computers. With a simple drive upgrade, users can boost boot-up speed and overall performance to turbo-charge their laptop PC. Seven original equipment manufacturers are gearing up to ship laptops powered by the Momentus XT drive. The drive is now available at online retailers Amazon, Canada Computers, CDW, Memory Express, NCIX, Newegg, and TigerDirect.

Powering the Momentus XT drive are Seagate’s Adaptive Memory™ and FAST Factor™ technologies. Adaptive Memory technology works by identifying data usage patterns, and then moving the most frequently retrieved information to solid state memory for faster access. Adaptive Memory effectively tailors hard drive performance to each user and the applications they use. FAST Factor technology blends the strengths of SSDs and hard disk drives for faster access to applications, quicker bootup and higher overall system speed.

“Laptop users want faster access to all of their content, from gaming, music and video to spreadsheets and documents, creating strong demand for the highest performance, Seagate is excited to answer this need with a second-generation Momentus® XT drive that delivers solid state drive (SSD) speed, greater storage capacity and easy installation at an affordable price.” said Scott Horn, vice president of Worldwide Marketing at Seagate.

“High-speed storage devices make a difference when it comes to improving overall PC performance, Seagate’s newest Momentus® XT drive gives notebook PC users an economical option for boosting PC performance while at the same time providing spacious storage capacity all in one device.” said John Rydning, research vice president at IDC.

Momentus XT – Meeting the need for speed
The Momentus XT drive is nearly 70 percent faster than the prior Momentus drive version and up to three times faster than a traditional hard disk drive while providing 750GB of storage capacity. The Momentus XT hard drive’s Serial ATA 6Gb/second interface and 8 gigabytes of Single Level Cell NAND flash double the interface and NAND read-write speed of the previous generation. The all-in-one design of Momentus XT drive makes installation and upgrading simple and easy for any laptop or desktop computer and with any operating system.

The Momentus XT drive is now shipping in volume worldwide. Manufacturer’s Suggesting Retail Pricing (MSRP) for Momentus XT 750GB is $245.

Tips: Join a Seagate webinar for a chance to win a laptop powered by Momentus XT
Learn more about solid state hybrid drive technology and Seagate’s new Momentus XT drive by joining a live webcast on Tuesday, December 6, at 11 a.m. PST. Sign up for a chance to win a high-performance laptop powered by Momentus XT: http://www.seagate.com/MomentusXTWebinar

Tuning Momentus XT for Optimal Performance
The hard drive industry is transitioning from the current 512-byte sector standard to a newer Advanced Format 4K (4096-byte) sector size that helps maintain data integrity at higher storage densities and capacities. Momentus XT takes advantage of this newer Advanced Format 4K standard and is already tuned for optimal performance on the latest PC operating systems.

Momentus XT customers can easily optimize Momentus XT to work with Windows XP and older versions of Microsoft Windows with a few simple steps. Please visit this pageon the Seagate web site to determine if Momentus XT is already tuned for your operating system version and how to do so if needed: http://www.seagate.com/momentusXT-4K.

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Remove Hard Drive Password: HDD Unlock Wizard

Remove Hard Drive Password: HDD Unlock WizardForgot Hard Drive Password:

My friend give me one used hard drive, while I power on pc, error message came out–” this hd under password protection, please enter password”.

I called my friend, he said he haven’t touch this hd long long time, he totally forget he did setup password or not, he don’t know password.
If no password enter, pc can not recognized this hd, pc keep said no hd in this pc.

How do I can clear hd password and let pc recognize this hd?

What is Hard Drive Password?

All hard drives have the possibility to set a hardware password, thus making the drive completely inaccessible unless a correct password is provided during the BIOS POST test. When you set a password on your notebook, the drive becomes locked as well. XBox gaming consoles and some desktop computers can also lock hard disk drives. This is usually called “HDD password” or “ATA password“.

If you forget the original HDD password, there is no way of restoring it by generic system tools. HDD Unlock Wizard incorporates proprietary unlocking algorithms which allow to remove an unknown HDD password and make hard drive usable again.

About HDD Unlock Wizard:

HDD Unlock Wizard is a user-friendly application which allows you to easily remove HDD password. IDE and SATA hard disk drives are supported. Both User and Master password can be removed.

Note: While unlocking, HDD Unlock Wizard will erase and re-certify the drive!!!

HDD Unlock Wizard supports:

  • Unlocking of desktop hard drives
  • Unlocking of X-BOX hard drives
  • Unlocking of 2.5-inch laptop hard drives

Technically, removal of an unknown password is done differently for each HDD model.

Unlocking of a 80GB HDD takes approximately 25 minutes. 2.5 inch notebook drives need slightly more time.

Price for unlocking your hard drive:

  • Unlocking one hard drive up to 40 GB. Price: $4.97
  • Unlocking one hard drive up to 80 GB. Price: $9.95
  • Unlocking one hard drive up to 160 GB. Price: $14.95
  • Unlocking one hard drive up to 250 GB. Price: $19.95
  • Unlocking one hard drive up to 320 GB. Price: $24.95
  • Unlocking one hard drive up to 500 GB. Price: $29.95
  • Unlocking one hard drive up to 1000 GB. Price: $39.95

HDD Unlock Wizard Useful Links:

  • List of supported Hard Drives
  • HDD Unloack Wizard Homepage
  • Download HDD Unlock Wizard Now (Windows 2000/XP)
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Fujitsu HDD Firmware Download

Here you can download Fujitsu firmware collections, you can make use of them as donor for your damaged Fujitsu hard drives or Fujitsu firmware update!

Fujitsu V60+/Z60/Z60+ Family FW Update (MHV models)
mpg3204at-a80-80c4,mpg3204at-882-80c2
mpg3204at-880-9117,mpg3204at-682-80c2
mpg3204at-680-80c4,mpg3204at-582-80c2
mpg3204at-482-80c2,mpg3204at-280-80c4
mpg3204at-1a9-80b5,MPG3204AT 82-80C2
MPG3204AT -FB ID: YFIP PART NO. CA05761-B72300FB SER. NO. VH44P1804YLE DATE 2001-08 882-80C2 PCB: CA21273-B12X 009CF
mpg3204ah-a00-c3c7,mpg3204ah-900-c3c7
mpg3204ah-900-c3c5, mpg3204ah-800-c3c5
mpg3204ah-700-d290,mpg3204ah-700-c3c5
mpg3204ah-636-42b5,mpg3204ah-600-d290
mpg3204ah-600-c3c5,mpg3204ah-536-42b5
mpg3204ah-436-42b5,mpg3204ah-236-42b5
mpg3102at-ca9-9206,mpg3102at-b89-9206
mpg3102at-b89-9111,MPG3102AT-80c2
mpg3102at-382-80c2,mpg3102at-282-80c2
mpg3102at-1a9-80b5,MPF3102AT
MPD3130AT_DD-04-44,FUJITSU MHT2040AT-0022-NQ08T4726H3F
MHS2040 – B88-8004,MHS2040 – 48F-8004
MHS2040 – 28F-8004,MHS2040 – 020D-8004
MHS2040 – 020D-3005,PC3000PCI FUJITSU MHS2030AT-8307-NL13T3114AWV DCM: NIDEC T23025E4
MHS2020 – C8D-8004,MHR2020 – 802-40BA
MHR2020 – 502-55BA,MHN2300 – C10-7255
MHN2200 – 110-7255,MHN2100 – B13-7256
MHN2100 – 910-7255,MHM2200 – B0E-3B27
MHM2200 – 90E-3822,MHM2200 – 40E-5823
MHM2200 – 0B0E-3B27,MHK2060 – 418-D834
MHK2060 – 417-D834,MHH2048 – A0E-B815
MHG2102 – C0E-B015,MHF2043 – 702-A518
FUJITSU MHT2060AT 0022,FUJITSU MHT2040AT 009B
FUJITSU MHT2020AT 009A,FUJITSU MHS2020AT E 8406

Fujitsu Firmware Download

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