Belkin: Ahead of the Curve
To quote Beavis (or was it Butthead?): "Belkin is, uhh, cool." With a quick eye on the ever-mutating tech-landscape, this Compton-based company is right on time when it comes to cyber-accessorizing. Best known perhaps for its line of iPod add-ons -- cases, cables and the like -- it also makes reliably-constructed hubs and cables, surge protectors and laptop cases, anything you can imagine. And at prices that beat the competition to a pulp. Nice formula...
Latest to hit the streets is Belkin's Easy Transfer Cable for Windows™7, a painless and ergonomic way to migrate all those pre-7 files and user accounts, program settings and email contacts, all in a sanitary 3-step process: Install software; connect cable; follow onscreen prompts. Sounds like something an old Luddite like myself could even handle.
And much faster than burning data to disks or setting up a network. It reportedly can transfer 7,500 songs in an hour via its USB 2.0 connection. Zoom!
Also on the ultrahep hardware beat, Belkin's Home Base is one of those miracle boxes that enables anyone on your network to wirelessly share printers, hard drives or other devices. Music, photos, videos -- even poached eggs on English muffins -- can be moved from parlor to office to entertainment center, all with a click of the mouse. Media files can be accessed directly from Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and other DLNA client devices. Share the Digi-Wealth!!
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A Detroit native, David Weiss fled Motown for Los Angeles in 1978 and began to write for Daily Variety and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, primarily as a music critic with a focus on jazz. His own music career started soon thereafter, with the surrealistic funk band Was (Not Was), then various gigs as a composer and producer, working with Bob Dylan and Rickie Lee Jones among others. In a parallel universe, Weiss has been filing golf and travel stories for T&L Golf, Golfweek and The New York Times and is a regular contributor to NPR's "Day to Day" program, doing stories on music and all things cultural.
I have to look into that Home Base. I've seen a few routers that enable hard-drive and printer sharing. bit this looks like an interesting take on that same concept.
The Easy-Transfer cable sounds like a great idea. Better than trusting Windows to keep your user files intact. I still think it's better to have a backup (or three) of those user files before you attempt anything like this (or anything at all; no backup = trouble).