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Can You Stop BadUSB? BitTorrent Sync 1.4 Demo! Gaming Motherboards vs. Motherboards. The Nostalgia Machine, IO BookBar, UPS Recco, MacBook Air Guts! (1x519)

: 26, 2014

Change your USB habits, because restricting account access isn't going to help. We demo BitTorrent Sync 1.4--a huge update for our favorite distributed file sharing program. Earthquake!!! Back Your Stuff Up Offsite, NOW. You can't back up wine, but you can back up your data before a natural disaster strikes. We're a tad giddy after a 6.0 quake hit Napa and did some serious damage to buildings, water mains, and about billion dollars worth of wine. Can You Stop BadUSB??? Tom writes in, "Would running as a Standard User in Windows be a way to be safe from the new USB hack?" Shannon talks about all the things what won't stop BadUSB, a new exploit that's OS independent and uses USB hardware to exploit your computer. (If you haven't seen the BlackHat 2014 presentation, you should really check it out.) BT Sync 1.4 Hands On! We're big fans of this free peer to peer file back up and sharing tool, -it's like a personal DropBox where only you have access- so we were thrilled to see the new interface and features in BitTorrent Sync 1.4. Find out what's new, and where Sync will be showing up soon in the video! Gaming Motherboards vs. Motherboards, SSHD For Storage Drive? C.H. is upgrading his gaming and video editing PC soon, and asks, "What is the difference between gaming motherboards and regular motherboards?" He's also curious if using a "Solid State Hybrid Drive, or SSHD, as a secondary game or program drive" add any speed to his build. He needs terabytes of storage, and a giant SSD would be too much. We can relate, and we've got answers in the video! the Nostalgia Machine Finds Popular Songs From Any Year! This week's Website We Just Can't Get Enough Of is The Nostalgia Machine. Choose a year, click 'hit me!' and it'll pull up a long series of popular songs from the Billboard top 100 Year End lists for that year. You can choose a song to play, or you can open the whole playlist in disco.io - which transfers the list to disco.io with a music video...