I was recently contacted by a person who had bought one of these easy to use portable backup drives.I think its important to share with everyone the problems you can run into with these types of drives and why you should not purchase one.Below is a copy of his email for you.

Sony's Playstation 3 has been hacked.A process which has never been done until now.In the four or more years since Sony's Play Station 3 has been around, it's never been hacked to play pirated games, until now that is.

PS Jailbreak has released a USB dongle that lets you play pirated as well as homemade games on a retail PS3 by converting it into a "debug" unit, a special version of the PS3 used by developers and others to access non-retail versions of games.

Now that the Apple iPad has been released in the U.S, I thought I would have a look at the specifications between the iPad and the ADAM.The results are pretty clear cut and it is pretty safe to say I know which one I will be buying.It really annoys me to think about the amount of people that still buy a product based on it's name rather than it's specifications and quality!!!

Recently Stephen Conroy had an on-camera interview with Fairfax Media's national Canberra bureau chief, Tim Lester.During the interview Senator Conroy made some outrageous and accusations and provided false and mis-leading comments.Senator conroy claims that the criticism over his policy his due to "misleading information" spread by "an organised group in the online world".If these organisations are providing false or mis-leading information, please set us straight and give us the answers we are looking for with direct responses, not government babble.

Senator Conroy's Internet Filtering Scheme has been made a fool of time and time again, yet the minister still refuses to see common sense.At what stage did the australian politicians become so arrogant that they forgot who they work for.Senator Conroy I ask you to listen to the people, and remove this buracratic crap or the australian people will sack you.......

GPU PerfStudio 2.1 is the next generation GPU Performance Analysis & Debugging Tool from AMD. It offers clear advantages to developers by cutting software development time and improving graphics quality.

Pirate Bay is heading back to court on the 28th of September for their appeals trial.The Svea Court of Appeals said on Wednesday. It has been almost a year since Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström were found guilty of being accessories to crimes against copyright law, and each sentenced to one year in prison. The court also ordered them to pay around 30 million Swedish kronor (US$4.2 million) in damages. All four subsequently appealed the verdict.

Zeus or sometimes known as Zbot is a malware package that was originally sold and traded through underground forums.Basically it is a executable file with a web based front-end that helps you to control it.Zbot is a generic back door that allows full control by a remote user, the primary function of Zbot is financial gain, and stealing credentials such as FTP, email, online banking, and other online passwords.Zeus has existed at least since 2007, but has been further enhanced and honed over time. It has been rumoured that Zeus originated in Russia or Russian speaking countries as initial help files and other files in the package were written in Russian.

Intel Corporation have launched its first Intel® Atom™ processor-based platform optimized for networked home and small office/home office (SOHO) storage devices.

Google have announced that they will offer ultrahigh-speed Internet access in some communities in a test that could showcase the kinds of things that would be possible if the United States had faster broadband networks.