Hardware site throws USB drive in with the skivvies

THE TECH LOUNGE reckons, quite rightly, there's a good chance of a USB flash drive ending up in the washing machine along with your whites and other colours. Which is why it stress tested the Corsair Flash Voyager drive by giving it thousands of revs per minute, here. It came through with flying colours, it appears.

If you're worried about people penetrating your living room and your wireless LAN, this paint may be just the thing. At $34 a pot, it will shield your home from unwanted wireless waves and the like.

Tech Connect, here, reports that the Longhorn Transformation Pack will make Windows XP a different sort of creature. Of course, it is the pantomime season here in Blightyland, and transformation scenes are always part of the show. Oh no they're not. Oh yes they are.

Still on the memory track, it appears that Insane Tek isn't kissing under the mistletoe yet, because it has filed a review of a Mushkin bit of memory, here.

Now it's time to completely veer off the subject, because here's a fun piece about Christmas ring tones written by someone unrelated to Ebenezer Scrooge.

Staying on the subject of phones, it seems that there's a malicious trojan beating up Symbian "smart phones". Here.

Back to the Nforcers. According to a reader, distributor Digitec has Nforce 4 SLI Deluxe boards and they might well make it to customers by the end of the year.

Workaholic web site Tweaknews has reviewed an ATI building but actually once you get past the concrete, it's all about All in Wonder Radeon X700 Pro PCI Express 256Meg videocard - and there's a long product title to conjure with.

Another set of workaholics over at Ross.Net have started writing news, they claim.

Which brings us to the apparently re-designed News of the Screws, close friends of Hexus.net as every fule no. We're promised a Screw Report from Bit-Tech. Here.

Ye ken that Jock is nae too fashed about the Yulish festivities because he's waiting for Hogmanay, the party to end all parties. For Jock McFrock, Christmas is just training for the festivities. And if ye have any reviews fit ye've filed, drop me a wee line at my local hostelry. Yours aye! µ

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