Belkin iPod Touch Leather Sleeve - Black

May 22, 2008 | By Doug In kitchen appliance |

Belkin iPod Touch Leather Sleeve - Black
IPOD TOUCH LEATHER SLEEVE BLACK W/ DISPLAYPROTECT

Customer Review: It’s quite good…
I have a 8gb iPod Touch and this case which I bought at Carphone Warehouse (and paid ?25 for!!!).

So, since no-one has shared their thoughts yet, I figured i’d help you out.

The case looks good - it is made from a thick black leather with cream/white stitching around the sides. The bottom dips down so the Menu button can be reached, and has a gap at the top and bottom to fit the USB wire in, and the headphones, and a space at the top for the power/ standby button.

You also get a thin plastic screen cover that protects the iPod from being scratched on the glass front, however, put this on carefully, because mine is slightly wonky, and I haven’t figured out how to, or even if I can remove it.

My only problem with the case is the fact that because it covers the back, it also covers the light sensor, which means that the Auto-brightness feature is unable to work, but this can be changed in the iPod Settings, by setting it at an unchanging level.

Overall, the case is a good, smart-looking protector for the iPod Touch.

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Western Digital My Book 2 Studio Edition 1TB Firewire 400 / 800 & eSata External Hard Drive
The My Book II Studio Edition is ideal for storing photo and video files. Thanks to its FireWire and eSATA connections, you can transfer even your largest files in the blink of an eye.
Customer Review: Quiet and easy to use.
Buying this disk was an extremely hard decision. Based on the reviews on Amazon of the various models of MyBooks it was either going to be noisy and unreliable or quiet and easy to use. I’d been bitten before with an Iomega drive that sounded like a vacuum cleaner and reset itself if you put it under any real strain. My requirements, in order, were: 1, It must be very quiet as it is for home use. 2. It needed to be large - at least 750MB 3. It had to store my data reliably and easily 4. Firewire was desirable So what are my impressions so far? It’s connected to a MacMini G4 running OS X 10.5.2 (Leopard) via Firewire 400. Well to start it is incredibly quiet - I have to put my ear up against it before I can hear it. It’s 1TB and that’s “Marketing” TB not real TB (Base 10 rather than the Base 2 that computers use). This translates to 932GBs of usable space. No surprise here, hard disks have always been sold in this misleading way, and it is way time the practice was stopped. The difference between marketing and real was trivial when disks were only a couple of MBs, but now we are up at the high GB and TB level it is a bad joke. Connecting it to Firewire, I experienced the same problem reported by others - You have to power the drive on before you connect the cable or your Mac might not recognise it. Once recognised, it is immediately available to you. It comes with some Mac OS X 10.4+ software to allow the capacity gauge to work and also some trial backup software. This is NOT on a CD, it is stored on the disk. I made the mistake of partitioning the disk before I realised this and therefore lost it. Once you register you can download the software again (which includes the Windows versions). In the box are a Firewire 400 to 800 cable, Firewire 800 to 800 cable and a USB lead, each a metre in length. The power supply is a fairly small brick, with a generous length of cable coming from each end. I downloaded and installed a firmware upgrade, which is supposed to improve functionality under OS X 10.5 (Leopard) - I’ve no idea what difference this may have made. There is also a downloadable replacement for the bundled ButtonManager , called WDDriveManager. As to reliability - only time will tell - I’ve only had the drive one day. In that time I have backed up the MacMini and a Macbook (over the network) using TimeMachine. I’ve also copied all the data off of the noisy Iomega drive. Throughout that process the drive has remained quiet, the case has remained quite cool and there are no vibrations. Overall. ——- It’s quiet, easy to install and has a good range of connections. It has met all my requirements and exceeded my expectations My only dislike is the array of white LEDs on the front - they scan back any forth anytime the drive is active and are most distracting - there is no way I can see of disabling them. A single LED would have been completely adequate.
Customer Review: Does “exactly” what it says on the box and for a great price
I had been considering purchasing this drive for a good few months before picking it up from Amazon for a great price. Having already owned an older model My Book for a good while and had no problems with that I was a little concerned to read some less than steller reviews from purchasers of this model (and the similar 500Gb Studio drive). Basically I shouldn’t have worried - if you know what you are doing this drive is fantastic value for the money. As has been said previously below make sure you plug it into the power prior to connecting the Firewire cable and it works first time. Transfer rates are excellent, it is quiet and for the fashion conscious couldn’t look more in keeping with my iMac and Macbook Pro. Forget the comments that suggest you are being robbed of disc space (drive comes with 931 Gb pre-formatted) as any drive will lose space as soon as it is formatted. Also from my own experience of these drives they are as reliable as any other external drives you can currently purchase.