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I was browsing around for some electronics for my home when I happen to come across Dyson’s latest range of vacuum cleaners. My immediate thought was “Wow! I never knew vacuum cleaners look pretty darn nice nowadays.”

Then I remembered that I had just been to a renowned electrical appliances store recently and I’m very sure I’ve been at their vacuums section. Yet, I can’t recall seeing any model that captured my attention or even arouse the slightest bit of interest in me.

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I lug my notebook computer with me almost everywhere I go. It’s not like that I have to be able to manage my servers anywhere I go; but the fact is that there’s a lot of data stored on my notebook that is essential to my work and life in general.

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iPhone users woke up in the morning to discover that their expensive toy that can also make phone calls just dropped in value by a whopping 33%. Those who bought three iPhones (of the 8GB variety) could have gotten four of them instead if they were to purchase it today.

Needless to say, lots of iFanboys aren’t impressed. Not so proud to be early iPhone adopters now, eh?

If the current Apple marketing magic continues in this direction, I’ve no doubt that the iPhone will reach Malaysian shores and retail at under RM1000 (just over US$285 at current rates).

It’s things like these that make me go, “Now why didn’t anyone think of this earlier?!”.

KeySpan has introduced USB 2.0 Server, and it is a pretty wonderful device if it works as advertised. To put it simply, it’s a network enabled USB hub that can share two USB devices over wireless or wired networks.

This obsoletes the need to plug USB devices such as printers and scanners to a computer in order to be shared. Essentially, this will reduce scattered shared USB devices as well as save energy to power up redundant PCs just for the sake of sharing USB devices.

If you’d like more information, The Seattle Times has a nice write-up about the KeySpan USB 2.0 Server.