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Things You Can Do if you Have a USB Port and Cable


Leaving the office for the day? Need to take that file with you? Now you can. Simply hook up your portable device to the computer through the USB cable and download the files you need to work from home or on your commute.

USB (Universal Serial Bus) drives are small, fast and efficient. If you need to pull data off your computer or put data onto your computer this is the connection you want to utilize. Perhaps you want to transfer your recent vacation digital photos to your computer or download the latest music onto your mp3 player. With a USB cable you can do this with speed. The USB drivers are small and can fit in your pocket and store from 16 MB to several GB’s of information at one time.

The versatility of USB drivers and ports makes this a perfect format for connecting many items into one system. Currently you can network 127 devices into a USB hub at one time. Once you have attached all the USB devices to the network drive you can scan images from your computer straight to the network drive and share the images with other people within the company.

If a DVD, CD burner, scanner or photo printer is hooked up through the USB cable to the network you can easily access and share these items quickly and easily with all your coworkers.

Now you can connect not only your keyboard, mouse, webcam and microphone, you can use the USB port to connect your iPod or MP3 player and upload or download information directly to and from the computer.

While you are downloading all your favorite songs to your iPod through the USB cable you will also be charging your gadget. No longer do you have to have an adapter plugged into the wall to charge your cell phone, MP3 player, iPod, or PDA because the USB cable, when connected to your computer, acts as a charger.

All the photos you took while on your latest trip can be quickly and easily transferred to the computer through the USB 2.0 cable freeing up storage space on your digital camera to allow you to take more photos. Because the USB 2.0 cable connection allows you to transfer up to 480 Mbps, uploading or downloading your data to your computer is not only easy it is fast.