Wasted time

After 2 weeks of waiting for delivery from"YouWantOne" my order was just cancelled. Apparently is was out of stock and it took them this long to figure it out. But I note that"YouWantOne" is still selling the item and still stating they have it in stock. Otder from someone else if you actually want to get one of these.

Bringing life into the old

I bought this card to expand the capacity of an old, but reliable, Olympus camera.

It is used in both the camera and my PC, without error. When in the PC it appears as a normal disk drive, and has been reformatted without problems.

It is difficult to elaborate on the performance of a memory card; it either works or is does not. This one does.

Does what it says!

Bought a Canon printer and found it did not take my XD card from my fuji camera. Searched the internet found this adaptor (only on Amazon!). Arrived within 2 days of ordering, no problem fitting XD card into adaptor. The adaptor fitted fine in the card reader on the printer and up came my photographs! Lovely little piece of kit at the right price.

This truly is the gnats K***** just what we have been waiting for

This is the simplest and most secure way of file saving I have seen. Load up U3 create your documents using the free open office package (which even loads up windows files using the wizard) or photo files on any machine operating directly from your U3, save the file and undock the U3 and nothing is on the machine its all on your stick. I even have my own wall paper and work directly from my U3.There are more free programs to download at the Sandisk U3 portable site. No more saving it on the computer, its mine and with me all the time anywhere I go, and its password protected!! MAGIC

A great product .... but Vista users beware.

I have had my Cruzer Titanium drive for over a year and its still going strong. I love everything about it and have recommended it, on many occasion, to friends and colleagues. It's fast, reliable and seemingly indestructible.

The U3 software is a real innovation and allows me to password protect my data. I mostly use the drive to store MSc research data on using the U3 version of Firefox and Zotero which allows me accesses to all the data wherever I am; home, library, work or uni. It has never let me down despite been stuffed in my jeans pocket almost every day since purchase.

You might think that this has been a real love affair and, until recently, it has been. That is until I upgraded OSs from XP to Vista. It seems that version 1.4 of the U3 launchpad needs to be installed on the Cruzer to get the drive to work in Vista. This is not a problem in and of itself as the software is easily updated from the launchpad. The real problem comes upon the discovery that only certain versions of the Cruzers firmware are compatible with Vista. I am one of the unlucky ones, my firmware is v2.18 and so it will never work with Vista. The U3 site states that for 'SanDisk smart drives: firmware (or device) versions 2.15, 2.16 and 2.21 support Vista while firmware releases 2.17, 2.18, and 2.20 do NOT support Vista'. Buyer beware.

It's what you expect, and you need it.

I recently purchased the Sonos BU130 ZP100 & ZP80 bundle and was a little disappointed to find that it didn't come with the charging cradle. The charging cradle is surprisingly well made and sturdy. It comes with a wall mounting bracket. It should be noted that the cradle doesn't come with the power supply.

As with all Sonos gear, it's well made and works as expected. It is quite rare that a company gets it all right, Sonos have got it right here.

Perfect

I recently got my self a low-end digital camera with a 4mb card. For an upgrade I decided to buy this card. Had no problems setting it up, received it with 2 days! And the number of photos I can now take is unbelievable!!! I did consider the 128mb but to be honest I don't think I need that kind of capacity. Final Verdict 10/10!

Superb scanner. No problems

Thankfully I chose to ignore the other reviewer of this product as they are clearly reviewing the software that comes with the scanner and not the hardware itself. I have installed Silverfast on my Windows XP machines without any issues. If you want to use Windows Vista then as far as I know, it works, but Vista is a possibly the worst operating system I've ever had the misfortune to use and if there are issues, they're probably Vista issues, not Plustek's. You've been warned!
Anyway, back to the scanner. I scanned a few films using the Silverfast software with great results. However, it's not exactly intuitive and it can sometimes be a struggle to get consistent results as there is far too much twiddling to be done. I read the review of this scanner's sister product, the 7200 and followed the reviewer's advice and installed Vuescan and I've never looked back. Vuescan is just as powerful as Silverfast but it just works. Install it, run it and scan into it and you get perfect results everytime. The interface is so simple and it's kind of been dumbed down but that's what makes it so good. For example, accessing the infrared clean up settings in Silverfast gives you about 200 options and settings. In Vuescan you get a choice between none, light, medium and heavy clean up.
I have scanned 20 films from the 1970's with the scanner and it's like seeing the photographs for the first time. I recommend the scanner to you all, you won't regret it.
Tip. Buy an additional film holder. The scans aren't particularly quick so while you're waiting you'll be wanting to load the next negative strip ready for the swap over.
Update. 1500 scans later and it's still going strong. Have a look at the scans for yourselves on www.watsonbowles.co.uk