Listening to the Voices in My Head

Answer: A 3tb Seagate Expansion Hard Drive.

I am so glad I didn't wait like Wing wanted me to do, and got the new external drive, and then copied all the data over the past few days, because the drive failed. I mean cakked it. This is the 3rd Seagate drive I've had do this, so this time, I'm not just shrugging it off. This is what I wrote to them (no, not going to hold my breath, but it needed to be done):

Dear Sir/Madam;

375 days ago, I purchased a 3tb Seagate External Drive. 7 days ago, the drive started having write errors, and making intermittent clicking sound. I ran diagnostics on it, and was shocked to see the amount of errors and overall health of the drive. Not taking any chances, I went out and got another large capacity external hard drive, but not a Seagate, and spent two days moving all my files over to the new drive. It's a damned good thing I did, because this 1 yr, and 10 old drive failed. I would have lost years of my photography and graphic work that I have built over the years. This is the 3rd Seagate that has failed after a short usage time. And what I mean by short is just barely over a year. No, not abusing the drives, not dropping them, I have battery backup surge protectors. I have 4 Western Digital external hds that are 4 years old, and Hard Drive Sentinel reports they are in perfect shape. I have two Samsung External hds that area also report back as Perfect Health.

As I bought it days over a year ago, probably won't be able to find the original sales docket. But I emails I traded back and forth with Seagate about not being able to use the drive for backing up my windows 7 machine, which led me to get another portable external HD to make a system image.

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Google is my friend. I did a search to see what else I could to to make my computer more left hand friendly. Like menus opening to the right rather than the left, moving the scroll bar on my browser to the left side, and left handed cursors.

I also got a reply from Razer about a left handed Naga gaming mouse. They told me it is in the works, and they will email me when they are available. Chances are they will be special order items. I did order a Razer Death Adder for lefties, which will at least be more comfortable to use than the right handed Naga mouse.

Still having issues with fine controls in photo editing programs. Luckily, I can mitigate is by using the graphics tablet and stylus.

Ordered a Razer DeathAdder for Lefties. I had tried to find a computer/tech store that had the Logitech Trackman trackball but no one had one in stock. Actually, none of the stores had any left handed or ambidextrous devices at all.

What's going to be 'fun' is getting used to gaming with left hand mouse, and keyboard.

There are a few things any Android user is aware of. Limited screen space for shortcuts. I got a nifty app Launch X Pro, made 5 widgets that can be scrolled through. I could have made just one, but for now, the 5 categories work fine.

Also, I found it a bit annoying that the Launcher for my Suli didn't allow for launch screen rotation. It's capable of it, as all the programs/apps rotate. Even the crappy ePad did that much. Easily enough fixed. I tried ADW.Launcher. It worked, but it was a memory hog. Uninstalled it and tried Zeam instead. Much smaller footprint and memory use is much less, too.

Also, the Kindle App for android issue: the support guy for Kindle has tried to say that because the Kindle App wasn't preinstalled, that is why I have problems with some ebooks. Have found out that other people who have Android phones or tablets without it preinstalled aren't having this problem, but it's a known issue. But since it affects only a small percentage of Android Users, they aren't going to bother trying to fix it.

Fine, I will just keep 'convincing' the e-books I buy to play nice. It's not something I want to do, but more like painted into a corner to do so.