April 2011

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If you are like most people in today’s economy, you are always looking for ways to save a little (or a lot) of money. The same holds true in the audio world. It doesn’t matter whether you are happy with the earbuds that came with your iPod/iPhone or have invested in better quality headphones or [...]

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Here’s another minimalist wallet for your consideration.  ColsenKeane offers the microWallet, which can hold 6-8 plastic cards and 7-8 folded bills.  It’s available in vegetable tanned, latigo, or oiled leather and with or without a flap closure.  All ColsenKeane leather goods are handmade using quality leathers in their shop in North Carolina.  The microWallet starts [...]

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Do you ever get frustrated feeling like you miss the big picture because you always have your eye glued to a camera viewfinder?  If you have kids, does it seem all your photos show them at an angle, because using the viewfinder to frame the shot requires you to shoot downward (or lay on the [...]

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Today’s LogicBUY deal is the newly released 14” Lenovo Essential B470 Core i5-2410M 2.3GHz Dual-core Laptop for $649.  Features:  4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, fingerprint reader, and 1GB GeForce 410M. Core i5 Model 431523U:  $999 – $350 off = $649 with free shipping Core i3 Model 431524U: $899 – $300 off = $599 with free shipping [...]

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Adding more storage capacity to a desktop or laptop computer used to involve having to take the computer apart and adding in the extra drive, not to mention on some computers the pain and frustration of getting to the drive to remove it. Not so anymore with all the external drives coming out on the [...]

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Hipstamatic, that addictive app that lets you “vintage-ize” photos taken with your iOS device, has joined forces with Agent 18 to create the HipstaCase 100.  Just slide in your iPhone 4 or iPod Touch 4th gen and your device will be protected while masquerading as a little black camera with an old-school style.  The HipstaCase [...]

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There’s just not a lot to say about this other than… I want one.  This is the ultimate in Cool Cubicle Gear. Splat Stan could be your boss, that brown-noser who always kisses the boss’ ass or that troublemaker who isn’t happy unless she’s complaining about something or causing some kind of trouble. Whatever he [...]

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I love Rush – the Canadian rock group, that is – and I was surprised to see that they have an app in the iTunes store.  With Rush Time Machine, you can get news, tour itinerary and ticket information, and information about places to stay near concert venues.  The Gear section lets you explore the [...]

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I actually saw one of these in action at my company and thought I’d share with others who are trapped in a cube farm just like in a bad Dilbert strip. It reminded me of a Shoji screen presented on all the chic home-improvement shows, but a Modular Privacy Wall is meant for The Office.  [...]

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Today’s LogicBUY deal is the newly released 11.6” Lenovo IdeaPad S205, loaded with features, for $429.  Features include: dual-core AMD Fusion CPU, Radeon HD 6310 graphics, up to 4GB memory, 11.6” LED-backlit anti-glare LCD screen, 1.3MP webcam, HDMI, 500GB hard drive, 6-cell battery. Flagship S205 (model 103829U): $629 – $50 off – $150 stackable coupon [...]

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Most video surveillance systems don’t have the smarts to distinguish between a burglar jimmying the lock and the azalea bush blowing in the wind, and this results in a lot of false alarms and wasted recording space.  Archerfish say they have “Intelligent Surveillance Technology that’s more advanced than motion detection” that understands what it sees.  [...]

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Remember the old days in label making?  They weren’t necessarily good old days either.  For those too young to remember, skip this review because I think Spongebob is on.  For those old enough to remember when The Partridge Family was cool and a job at Burger King was the bomb, stay with me. You remember [...]

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Today’s LogicBUY deal is the Samsung Charge 4G LTE Smartphone for Verizon for  $249.99.  This phone features a 4.3” Super AMOLED Plus Display, a 1 GHz Hummingbird processor, dual facing cameras (1.3MP front, 8MP back), and 2.2 GB of built-in storage.  The phone is ready for DLNA streaming, runs Android 2.2, and offers 11 hours [...]

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The iPad Extreme Sleeve is made by G-Form, a company that “brings you the most innovative cycling and sports impact protection products available today.”  They’ve applied that technology to a protective iPad sleeve that can be used alone or inside another bag.  The sleeve is made of molded PORON® XRD™ material, so it “offers consistent, [...]

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Unless you have been living under a rock or in a cave, you’ve heard about the pending merger of AT&T and T-Mobile. What will this mean for us, those who love AT&T’s network and those who love T-Mobile’s price point? We aren’t sure but it certainly has a lot of us worried. Why? Competition. Pin [...]

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At long last, Apple has debuted its iPhone 4 in gleaming, pristine white.  This color scheme, which is different from the white iPhone 3GS in that it has a white front as well as back, was to have been available waaay back when Apple originally released the iPhone 4, but various issues prevented it from [...]

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Audio company Audyssey has laid down the gauntlet to other makers of iPod/iPhone speaker docks with “The Audyssey Audio Dock Challenge,” a sweepstakes where potential customers can compare the Audyssey South of Market Audio Dock speaker to any speaker of their choice for the chance to win an Audyssey Audio Dock of their own. More [...]

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The Monteverde One-Touch Stylus Ballpoint Pen has the features you expect from a refillable ballpoint – one-hand click to open, and it can accept standard ink, gel ink, or liquid ink ballpoint refills.  What you don’t expect is that you can also use this ballpoint to write on capacitive touch screens.  The clicker has a [...]

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In the middle of my commute last week, my trusted Sennheiser CX-300 earbuds decided they were finished with this world.  Needing a quick replacement, I found a nifty pair of earbuds at Target–The Specked by Philips/O’Neill.  The primary feature to catch my attention was the cord.  It’s wrapped in nylon, matches the color of the [...]

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