YouTube is full of How to open Western Digital… but things have changed. In an external USB drive enclosure there used to be a plain old drive with a small circuit board plugged in the back. I found a closeout 1.5TB at Target for cheap and picked it up to put in my Media PC. oops – the circuit board is now completely integrated with the drive enclosure...

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I picked up a Microsoft Explorer Mouse with BlueTrack Technology for my wife for Christmas (really, it's for her). It lists at $80 but I got it for $50. The big selling feature is the ability to track over any surface. It works great! You've had it happen. Your on the road, the hotel desk is too plastic and your mouse pointer is jumping all over the place. You put a piece of paper under the mouse but it slides too. Arrrrr. Two other things I like is the NiMH battery charger (the mouse sits on top...

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I wanted to upgrade to a 160 GB SATA drive for my laptop. In the past I've just gone the reload-from-scratch path, on a weekend, usually in front of the TV. I've even been a fan of this method, as it refreshes your system and gets rid of all that junk that you've acquired and may not even know you have. Not this time, however, as I wanted to get it done quicker, and since I'm cheap, I didn't want to buy anything. Enter Seagate's DiscWizard. It's made by Acronis (makers of True Image) and can do two...

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