The Portable Consultant

Steve Jobs’ already famous Thoughts on Music probably marks the end of DRM.
Certainly it will take time, but when a major force like Apple iTunes’ boss suggests that the world would be better off without DRM you can be sure they are also working behind the scenes to promote this vision.
The statistics on the percent of [...]

My PowerToGo Update (Cont’d.)
By this morning The Portable Consultant had received a response to his complaint to Lexar with regards to the failed update crashing his Lexar Lightning PowerToGo apps on a stick (see previous post).
The tech support response was amusing.
It suggested that I backup my data and re-install. In technical circles this is known [...]

One of my annoyances with the Lexar Lightning with PowerToGo was the lack of a free backup utility. With Lexar, it is a $10 USD download.
As a result, I hesitated to make the purchase… and now I’m sorry that I didn’t just consider that cost as part of the cost of the device!
Last week Lexar [...]