Computer Peripherals

Downloading pictures from a digital camera is fast and easy - unless you threw away the instructions that came with the camera! Follow these simple steps to download those photos and clear some...

A Memory Stick is a Sony-branded memory device that is designed to be fully compatible with Sony-branded products, such as the PlayStation Portable, and the Sony line of CyberShot cameras....

Installing more memory is one of the quickest and easiest ways to speed up your computer. This article will show you how to install memory (RAM) in your computer in 5 easy to follow steps.

The zip disk is a variant on the floppy drive, built by Iomega. These disks are typically between 250MB and 2GB, although some versions such as the portable zip disk have smaller capacities, down...

A big benefit of the PC revolution was the standardization of hardware. Before the 1980s, every computer company made its own processors, displays and disk drives. Some standards existed, but they...

You've probably heard of flash memory. This technology has become ubiquitous, be it for portable storage, camera memory cards, MP3 players, smartphones and even some laptops. What is flash memory,...

Flash memory is non-volatile memory whose contents are retained once the power is shut off. Flash memory may be read from and written to many times and is more durable than floppy disks or compact...

PCMCIA stands for Personal Computer Memory Card International Association. This association, founded in 1989, is made up of more than 500 businesses from around the globe. Their goal was to create...

A media card reader is a device that reads the media card from a camera and transfers pictures and videos onto a computer. It is an inexpensive and uncomplicated device and connects to a computer...

Today's memory sticks can fit as much as 16GB of data, making them as large as the hard drive on a computer from just a few years ago. It's a good thing, since video has become a much more common...

SD, or "Secure Digital," cards are portable flash memory devices. Since their release in 2000, SD cards have become the most popular flash memory card format. The cards come in numerous physical...

Since their release in 1998, Sony memory sticks have become a popular choice for storing and transferring files. They are small and convenient, and some are even stylish and can double as jewelry....

A USB memory stick is a storage device equipped with flash memory and can be plugged into a universal serial bus (USB) port on any desktop or laptop computer. Flash memory means that data can...

The Memory Stick Duo shrunk the older memory stick format to a much smaller size. As Sony phases out the older memory stick format, older products that only accepted the larger memory stick can...

xD-Picture Cards are portable flash memory cards used in products made by Olympus and Fujifilm. They can store and transfer photographs and other data.

Sony's Memory Stick has numerous disadvantages compared to other formats, including acceptance, price, size and form. Some of these issues, such as form, can be overcome with an adaptor.

When you have a memory card for your computer, camera, or video game system, a time may come when you decide you want to use your memory card with another device. However, if you try to use it...

A locked memory card will not allow you to write to the card; however, you will be able to read from it. Unlocking the card will allow you to delete files and write to the card. You will want to...

Secure Digital cards, commonly referred to as SD cards, used to be an expansive piece of technology, but as prices go down and the space increases inside the small memory chips, their usefulness...

USB memory sticks are convenient tools that can transport data from computer to computer. Along with a wide range of files, the drives are also able to store pictures for access. Those pictures...

You will learn how to save pictures to a flash drive in just a few steps. As soon as you do this once, you will be able to do it every time. This works whether you are saving the entire file or...

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