Cables Archive

  • Don’t you dare sync, Mr. USB cable

    Don’t you dare sync, Mr. USB cable

    Posted on February 18, 2010 | No Comments
    Initially I was like, “Why am I writing about a USB cable?” Then I read the little description and was like, “Oh, neat.” Yes, I used the word “neat” like a schoolgirl in 1954. Anyhow, the cable blocks data synchronization. Why would you ever want that?

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  • USB powered VGA to HDMI converter

    USB powered VGA to HDMI converter

    Posted on February 9, 2010 | No Comments
    Here’s what appears to be an easy way to hook your VGA-only notebook or netbook up to your fancy HDTV’s HDMI port. The Atlona VGA to HDMI Scaler/Converter is powered via USB and features a built-in image scaler to ensure that the picture on your TV looks the way it should regardless of what resolution your computer monitor’s set at.

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  • USB to SATA 2.5-inch hard drive cable

    USB to SATA 2.5-inch hard drive cable

    Posted on December 10, 2009 | No Comments
    There's usually a lot of unnecessary foreplay that goes along with accessing an old hard drive just to pull a few files off of it. You have to find your external drive enclosure, you might have to make sure you have a screwdriver to open it up, and… well that's pretty much it but that can take the better part of a morning if you're not organized.

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  • Citizen CrunchDeals: 10-foot HDMI cable for 74 cents plus $2.95 shipping

    Citizen CrunchDeals: 10-foot HDMI cable for 74 cents plus $2.95 shipping

    Posted on October 22, 2009 | No Comments
    CrunchGear reader Steve Jabs seems like a reasonable and trustworthy guy. Patient, too, as he’s been reading the site for quite some time now and clearly hasn’t removed our feed from his RSS reader in a fit of rage over one of the many half-assedly researched and grammatically baffling posts that have graced these virtual pages for so many years. Steve alerts us to a ten-foot HDMI cable deal on Amazon: 74 cents, plus $2.95 for shipping. That’s a grand total of $3.69 – much cheaper than, say, the nine-foot cable that Best Buy sells for $19.

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  • Cable skips iTunes synchronization foreplay and gets straight to the charging

    Cable skips iTunes synchronization foreplay and gets straight to the charging

    Posted on October 15, 2009 | No Comments
    Believe it or not, sometimes people just want to plug an Apple i-Device into a USB port to charge the thing without waking the sleeping giant that is iTunes. As much as I love hearing my desktop fan start up like a jet engine while iTunes slowly stumbles its way to life only to tell me that the version I downloaded yesterday now needs to be updated again via an 80+ megabyte download, it’d be nice to just charge my i-Whatsit in peace.

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  • Belkin’s Windows 7 Easy Transfer Cable is your way out of family tech support

    Belkin’s Windows 7 Easy Transfer Cable is your way out of family tech support

    Posted on October 7, 2009 | No Comments
    Ah, late October – a time when a young man’s fancy turns to love, the autumn gingerly steps aside to make way for winter, and, this year, the beginning of at least a year’s worth of non-stop free tech support you’ll have to provide to any of your friends and family that decide to buy a new computer with Windows 7 on it. The biggest question: How do I get all my dumb photos, tax returns, and Miley Cyrus MP3s onto my new computer? Your new answer: Buy this $40 cable and leave me alone.

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  • All hail the ten-armed USB charging cable

    All hail the ten-armed USB charging cable

    Posted on August 26, 2009 | No Comments
    chargerAaaand here we have the only charging cable you'll ever need. Is it a tangled mess waiting to happen? Perhaps. But you could safely misplace most, if not all, of your other USB charging cables. Plus, it looks like a sea monster!

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  • iStubz iPod Cables: Short is the new long

    iStubz iPod Cables: Short is the new long

    Posted on August 7, 2009 | No Comments
    iStubzTangled cords are absolutely the bane of my existence and yet I'm not quite anal enough to wrap twist ties and rubber bands around excess slack, so I enthusiastically applaud the shortest version possible of any proprietary cable (or any cable, for that matter). Applause, then, to the unfortunately-named iStubz iPod cable.

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  • Atlona has some nifty swivel HDMI and DVI cables

    Atlona has some nifty swivel HDMI and DVI cables

    Posted on July 28, 2009 | No Comments
    I'm a sucker for products that make installing A/V equipment easier and these cables from Atlona do just that. The ends swivel to allow for tighter mounting against the wall. You see, some cables feature large, cool looking ends that don't like to bend against a wall, which then pushes the flat screen out a bit or forcing the installer to cut into the wall. But these cables bend in half which should make for a cleaner install. Wall brackets are getting thin and thin, and these cables will allow installers to practically flush mount a flat screen.

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