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Software Installation:

The software that comes with the device is called MManager and it is used to transfer your files to the device. It is basically synchronization software for the POD.

I ran the program on a Pentium 3 450Mhz without a single problem. It takes up about 4mb worth of space which is extremely small in today's hard drive market.

The installation program itself is very simple and straightforward. The program was installed in less than 10 seconds and didn't even have any options or settings to fiddle with to get things to work.

That was it. MManager is now installed and can be used.

Program Run Through:

The first screen to come up on the MManager software is where the magic happens. All of the controls are on this screen and this is the extent of the program.

As you can see there are two main windows, a preview window and a couple of buttons to connect, disconnect and defrag the hard drive in the POD. Once you have connected the device up to the computer all you have to do is to hit the connect button and wait while it finds the POD. When the POD it is actually unusable and will not response to commands from the buttons on it including the power button until the USB cable is disconnected from the POD itself.

Once it is connected you can then select the files you want to transfer in the left hand window and so long as you are in the folder that you want to put them you just hit the arrow button. At the bottom of each window is a transfer indicator. This will let you see roughly how long the files are going to take to copy across. Also there is a display telling you how much space you have left on the POD.

Once done you will now be able to see the files in the second window which is the POD's hard drive. At this point you can either disconnect the POD to view the files on it or transfer other things across.

One complaint that I do have with this software is that you can't seem to move folders around. Here I would have liked this option as sometimes you make mistakes and want to move things around for better access. To do this you would have to copy the files back to your PC and then copy them back again into the new folders. Also I found it quite hard to be able to select a folder so that I could rename it.

Here I think it is worth pointing out that you can also use the POD as an external hard drive. This means that you can copy across anything that you want to and move it to another computer at work or a friend's house.

Lastly here I would also like to say that you don't need to use the software if you don't want to. XP found the device and let me access it as another hard drive. This means so long as you put your pictures and movie files into the correct first layer folders you can use it without the software.

Overall the program works well but I think it is lacking a few options at the moment. Hopefully these will be looked into in the near future so that you are not restricted as to what you can do with it.

Now lets try out the pod

Close-Up Look

Using The Pod