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When I purchased my new HP a6360t, I also added in a HP Pocket Media Drive Bay, which allows me to directly connect in a HP Pocket Media Drive.

In turn I'm easily able to add 160GB or 250GB of additional drive space, whenever I need it, to store various media (documents, music, photos, videos, etcetera).

One thing I was curious about was whether the drive I had, a HP 160GB Pocket Media Drive, could be directly connected to my Playstation 3.

Unfortunately, it looks like they cannot be directly connected.

If you attempt to do so, the drive appears to not have enough power to fully spin up. The front drive light flashes a couple of times while the drive spins, but then both stop, only to start back up in a few moments. Repeat.

While it's unfortunate that this doesn't work, I suppose it could be expected. But, it is a little unfortunate. Perhaps with an external power supply, or if both cables were plugged in, things might function ...

Yesterday afternoon I took digital photo number 10,000.

Between the three digital cameras that I've owned (and excluding the one that I borrowed from my sister, which was a gift from her friend Char), I've taken the following.

From April 6 2005 to May 9 2007, I took 2924 photos with a Canon 300D (Digital Rebel).

From May 18 2007 to March 29 2008, I took 6447 photos with a Canon Digital Rebel XT (350D).

From February 2 2008 to March 29 2008, I took 776 photos with a Casio EX-Z1200.

They say that your first 10,000 photos are your worst, and since I was only able to pick out a little more than 600 that I thought would be good enough to sell, I do hope that that's true.

Recently the much anticipated Photoshop Express was released. However, crawling through the general terms of use there's a rather troublesome paragraph.

Using the terms that are effective 3/1/2008, at http://www.photoshop.com/express/terms.html, we have the following at 8.a.:

Adobe does not claim ownership of Your Content. However, with respect to Your Content that you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Services, you grant Adobe a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, derive revenue or other remuneration from, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such Content into other Materials or works in any format or medium now known or later developed.

(Emphasis is my own.)

I'm lucky enough to have a copy of Photoshop CS2, but this paragraph has effectively removed it as an alternative while on someone else's machine, or as something I can recommend to others, professionally.

Now if the individual has their photo on some of the various 2.0 photo social networks, then I can recommend this, since their photos are effectively for anyone to do with as they will ('dump your friends').

But, as someone who wants to protect his work product ...