Belkin’s Switch-to-Mac USB Cable
Filed under: Accessories, Hardware, Switchers, Odds and ends
Peripheral maker Belkin has taken note of the fact that a lot of people are switching to Macs. Their new Switch-to-Mac USB Cable, available in the US now for US$49.99, is designed to streamline the process of moving files from your PC running Windows XP or Vista to your Mac running Tiger or Leopard.
The cable comes with a Migration Assistant that performs a similar function to Apple’s Migration Assistant — it copies music, movies, photos, files, and Internet preferences from the PC to the Mac at USB 2.0 speeds. At the completion of the migration, the software provides a summary of all of the content that has been copied and the location of the files.
Belkin says the Switch-to-Mac USB Cable is on sale in the US now, and it will be available in Canada, Asia, Europe and Australia beginning in February, 2009.
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Belkin JoyPod plans sneak out
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Hardware, Apple, iPhone, App Store, SDK
I guessed that we’d see a more official iPhone controller sooner or later, but I didn’t think it’d be this much sooner — Touch Arcade has unearthed this photo of a Belkin-branded game controller/case for the iPhone and iPod touch called the JoyPod. Looks pretty slick, though as Engadget points out, the ratios don’t really work out — odds are that the final product will have to be a little longer to fit the iPhone in there.
Very interesting, though — now I’m curious to see if Apple really will support stuff like this. Supporting a third-party controller would seem to go against His Jobsness’ suggestion that a multitouch screen could be used for anything (even typing on an awkward non-tactile keyboard), but clearly there’s a demand, from consumers if not from devs themselves, to move game controls off the screen and onto buttons you can feel while pressing. How else will you be able to “exprimir al maximo tu iPhone o iPod touch”?
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