What happens to your old dead hard drive after you’re done with it? Some destroy it to protect sensitive data. Some people just throw theirs away. Then there’s Ben Bedell, an artist with a techie flair who repurposes hard drives as clocks.
These are hand-crafted timepieces created from recycled hard drives out of personal computers. Each hard drive is disassembled, painted, and fitted with a timepiece and custom stand. Each unique stand is cut out of recycled motherboards, modems, video cards, and other various electronic components. No two clocks are the same!
Clock hands and hard drive components can be painted in a variety of colors:
- Black, White, Gray, Dark Blue, Blue, Dark Red, Copper
- Red, Orange, Neon Orange, Yellow, Neon Yellow
- Purple, Pink, Dark Green, Green, Neon Green, Teal
- Custom Color Combinations are available
Each clock comes with a “AA” battery so your clock will be ready to keep time.
The clocks run $30 to $40 and cost $10 to ship. That’s not bad for these geeky conversation pieces, but I emailed Ben and he was cool enough to provide a 10% discount to all my readers! Mention JoeTech.com at the time of purchase and he’ll knock 10% off the clock price. Throw one on your desk at the office and let me know what you think.
We often face situations where we forget Windows password or somebody had changed the password of our system. In such a situation either we have to install windows again or find a solution to reset the password so that we can use the system easily. In this post, I will show you how you can reset the password of Windows Vista easily with the help of your Flash Drive. The password reset file is of only 2Kb size so you can use flash drive with small storage capacity too. In this post I will use a Flash Drive of 1 GB.
How to Create Password Reset USB Flash Drive
First of all you have to create a password Reset disk, to create a password reset disk you must have an administrator account on Vista. Log in to your account and Follow these steps: –
Insert your USB Flash Drive in to the System
Once the Drive is ready to use, Click User Accounts and Family Safety link and then go to user Accounts.
On the left hand side you will see an option to create a Password Reset Disk as shown in Following Figure. Click on that link.
On Clicking that, you will see a Forgotten Password Wizard window appears, click Next . After that You need to select a portable media which in our case is our USB Flash drive as shown in Figure.
After that Click Next, and then it will ask for your current account password as shown in following figure.
After that Click Next, And Vista will start creating Password reset Disk, Once the status bar show 100% progress click Next and then Finish. Now you have your own Password Reset USB Drive which you can use to reset Password.
How to Use Password Reset USB Flash Drive
Now, you have your Password rest Flash Drive, You can use it in case when you forget your password.
On the Login screen, Insert Your USB Flash Drive and Click on password reset Link as shown in Following Figure.
The Password Reset Wizard Will open and then You have to select your Password Reset USB Flash Drive as shown in following figure and then click Next.
After that Vista, will ask you for a new Password as Shown in following Figure.
Type in Your New Password and Then Click Next and then Finish. Now the Password to Windows Vista has Been Changed and you can log in to the System With the help of your new Password.
This is a guest post by Gagandeep Singh. Gagandeep Singh, is Working as Internet Marketing Executive for Fortepromo, which Supplies Custom Flash Drives. These Imprinted Flash Drives which contains your logo are the best giveaway for your clients and to promote your brand in the market.
I don’t talk a ton about marketing, but I know a lot of my readers are also bloggers or affiliate marketers and this Flash Drive sponsored post happens to be technology related, too, so I think most of you will like it. Flashdealer.com is a site that deals in all kinds of custom flash drives and I mean really custom like the fire extinguisher shown on the right. Every time I go to an event, I don’t mind taking home some of the freebies like the t-shirts and caps, but I love the free flash drives. No matter what size a free flash drive is, it’s always useful and it’s free. You can’t beat that. That said, it makes sense that a company would want to give the things away at trade shows. When you get someone to take (and often use) an item with your logo on it, you are essentially purchasing persistent individual advertising. The person takes that item home, uses it over and over, maybe passes it on or lends it to a colleague, and if it’s cool enough, they might even show it off to others.
Here’s where the affordable part comes in. I headed over to the site expecting to find high costs associated with having custom promo stuff made, especially when it’s custom flash drives. Instead, what I found surprised me. In one example, I found custom flash drives for as little as $3.95 per unit. The configuration options show them ranging from 64MB to 8GB which is not a lot of space, really, but for a promo item, it’s OK. You can also get them preloaded with ads or your company materials, etc. I’m not sure what the ordering minimum is, but you’ll usually want upwards of 100 when ordering promo items, anyway. I’m also not sure about the quality of the drives, but I’m guessing it’s not too bad with clients like Mercedes, Hyatt, Sears, etc.
Finally, I’d feel like I was leaving something out if I didn’t mention that they also offer custom MP3 player flash drives (around $19/each) and on a sister site, there’s a whole bunch of promo item choices, although I like the flash drive idea better than all the other promo stuff. All in all, it looks like they make some pretty cool drives for not a lot of money, so if you’re in the market, take a look.
Today, I was digging through BenSpark’s Big Box of Awesome and I found something you might like. I know you all love winning stuff, so check it out.
What I found while rifling through Ben’s stuff was an MP3 player, but it does other stuff too. It’s a USB flash drive and a voice recorder, too. The best part about it is that you can win it for free. Ben’s giving all the stuff in his box away and all you have to do to enter is post a comment at http://www.benspark.com/bensparks-big-box-of-awesome.html guessing what could be in the box. You don’t have to be right to win. There’s a bunch of other ways to get more entries, too, so go check it out.
