Your Digital Life

It may be hard to believe, but it’s true: your digital photos captured with the latest and greatest technology may not last as long as the old film photos you snapped a generation ago. The reason is simple – in the old days, the only way you’d lose your photos is if some massive catastrophe [...]

While everyone is busy clicking away and capturing life’s memories in record numbers how many of us are really taking the necessary steps to preserve these images from digital disaster? With digital photography comes a whole new set of potential problems. While forgetting to backup your files could be financially disastrous for a pro, the [...]

The USB flash drive market gets more interesting by the month and the latest product we eyed at the International CES Show from Victorinox continued this trend. The company unveiled their latest in terms of USB flash drive storage – and did so in a massive way – a 1TB drive with build-in LCD display. [...]

We like to say that you can’t put a price on your photos and videos – but you can price your storage media. And now, you can store precious memories on a precious metal – gold.  The Gold Ingot USB Drive offers 4GB of storage in a body that’s composed of gold leaf. The drive [...]

Making copies of your photos and videos is the only way to protect them from the long haul. While we typically recommend external hard drives for this purpose, you can also use USB flash drives as well. They’re lighter and more durable than an external drive, but they tend to cost more per gigabyte of [...]

As the popularity of using USB flash drives to store and transport images and video increases it’s nice to see manufacturers begin to offer more secure versions of the product. Aleratec is one such manufacturer  and they have recently launched the PortaStor Secure family of 256-bit AES encrypted USB flash drives. The USB flash drive [...]

Storing your photos and videos safely is heroic (at least in our book) and it seems Dane-Elec thinks so too as their upcoming line of USB drives will now feature some of the more famous heroes from the Marvel comic book library. While the two companies have not yet released the line-up expected to don the [...]

There are always a few photos and videos you don’t exactly want everyone to see (just ask Pamela Anderson). File encryption can help secure images, videos or other digital files against unwanted snonoping. Memory card maker SanDisk has added a very cool encryption software as well as online backup features across their entire line of [...]

Fortunately, digital cameras have finally settled on two (well, maybe three) main memory card formats, but if you’re sitting on a lot of older cards with images on them and need a way to transfer them to your computer, meet the Lexar Multi-Card 24-in-1 USB Reader. That’s five slots and supporting 24 (count ‘em) popular [...]

You’ll hear us harp incessantly about how important protecting your digital memories is and how external hard drives are a must-have for storing your files outside of your computer’s hard drive. So we were happy to find the Consumer Electronics Show offering up plenty of external drives for our brimming digital libraries. From Verbatim comes [...]