A Simple Guide to Cables and Adapters Baffled by the ever-
changing world of connection standards on your electronic
devices? Use this guide to make sense of the most common cables,
adapters, dongles and other high-tech connectors. We’ll explain
what all those acronyms mean and how to use them to make the
most of your hardware. USB Data Cables USB or Universal Serial
Bus is a common PC connection standard that lets you attach a
variety of peripherals including hard drives, mice, keyboards
and media players. USB connectors come in several variations,
known as Type A, Type B and so on. You can recognise them by the
USB logo (a circle with three arrows coming out of it) that
usually appears on the cable. The most common is USB type A: a
flat, silver connector terminating in a squat, rectangular face.
USB Data Cables, also called PC-to-PC Data Sync Cables, use this
Type A plug to link two computers directly without allowing
either one to switch into sleep mode. With Samsung USB Data
Cable, you can copy files from