The Gadgeteer » The Gadgeteer http://the-gadgeteer.com Gadget reviews and news by Julie Strietelmeier and friends since 1997 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:05:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Win an Olive Opus 4 Hi-Fi Music Server worth $1500! http://the-gadgeteer.com/2009/11/12/win-an-olive-opus-4-hi-fi-music-server/ http://the-gadgeteer.com/2009/11/12/win-an-olive-opus-4-hi-fi-music-server/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:24:07 +0000 Julie http://the-gadgeteer.com/?p=25236 Filed in categories: Contests, News

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opus4Are you tired of the hassle and clutter of CDs? Listening to your favorite music but with subpar sound quality? This holiday season, Olive has a great giveaway for one lucky Gadgeteer reader – the Olive Opus 4 Hi-Fi Music Server. Valued at $1,499, this stereo system provides the ultimate in sound quality (compared to MP3s and iPods), storage capacity, design and user friendliness. Product info and contest instructions after the jump. … [visit site to read more]

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Win a Saddleback Leather Laptop Bag! originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on September 27, 2009 at 5:07 pm.

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Saddleback Leather Company bags are fantastic handmade rugged leather bags that will last a lifetime and now you can win a Saddleback Leather Laptop Bag to protect your laptop! Winning is easy, get the details after the jump. … [visit site to read more]

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Win a Saddleback Leather Laptop Bag! originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on September 27, 2009 at 5:07 pm.

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5min-fpI wanted to give everyone a heads-up that I’m testing out a new widget / revenue stream for The Gadgeteer. It’s from 5min, a how-to, instructional video site. You’ll be noticing a thumbnail bar at the bottom of all the articles and review pages. Each of thumbnails is a video relating to the content of that particular article. If you click on one, it will open a popup window to play the video. … [visit site to read more]

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Win a $250 gift card from HP and The Gadgeteer! originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on August 25, 2009 at 8:32 pm.

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hpshopIt was Christmas in August last week when HP sent me a gift card to try out the HP Official Store. I spent a couple hours looking at their laptops, LCD monitors and printers, but ended up choosing the HP Photosmart A826 Home Photo Center because I wanted to see how it would compare to the Epson PictureMate Dash that I had reviewed a couple years ago.

The Photosmart is a very cool little standalone printer that has a multi-card reader and a touch screen that can be used to customize your images before printing them. Look for a full review will be posted soon. I plan to use the rest of the gift card funds to purchase an HP Mini 110 Mi Edition Netbook to give away.

Would you like an HP gift card of your own? You’re in luck because HP wants to share the love with The Gadgeteer by generously offering a $250 gift card that one of you can win! It’s super easy… … [visit site to read more]

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Win a $250 gift card from HP and The Gadgeteer! originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on August 25, 2009 at 8:32 pm.

]]> http://the-gadgeteer.com/2009/08/25/win-a-250-gift-card-from-hp-and-the-gadgeteer/feed/ 463 The Gadgeteer turns 12yrs old – Big birthday giveaway! http://the-gadgeteer.com/2009/08/03/the-gadgeteer-turns-12yrs-old-big-birthday-giveaway/ http://the-gadgeteer.com/2009/08/03/the-gadgeteer-turns-12yrs-old-big-birthday-giveaway/#comments Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:09:45 +0000 Julie http://the-gadgeteer.com/?p=18426 Filed in categories: Contests

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birthday-cakeTwelve years ago this month (give or take a week or two) I started The Gadgeteer as a goofy little review site on the then free webpage hosting service Geocities. People seemed to like my reviews, so I registered the domain name four months later, moved to a real hosting site – and the rest is history!

I want to celebrate this 12th birthday with all of you, because without you (and my awesome team of contributors), the site would never have grown to what it is today :) Thank you, thank you, thank you!

For a chance to win an HP Pavilion dv4 laptop and lots of other goodies from (Vaja, Livescribe, Tom Bihn, Seagate, TokyoFlash, NZXT and FlipSide), keep reading! … [visit site to read more]

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The Gadgeteer turns 12yrs old – Big birthday giveaway! originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on August 3, 2009 at 11:09 am.

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Ever since we moved to Wordpress last December, I haven’t been very happy with the built in search functionality. It’s pretty bad when the owner of a site can’t find her own stuff. ;) So I finally made time to install a new search feature. Check it out, it’s at the top of the Right sidebar. It’s powered … [visit site to read more]

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Testing a new search feature originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on July 17, 2009 at 2:35 pm.

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Looking for another place to discuss your favorite gadgets? Check out our new IRC channel, #gadgeteers on AfterNET! For now it’s just an open channel for the Gadgeteer community, but we will soon be having scheduled chats as well.

If you’re not already an IRC user, the easiest way to join the channel is to go to the AfterNET home page and sign in with the web client using the box in the upper right corner. You’ll need … [visit site to read more]

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Join Us for Gadget Chat on IRC originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on June 22, 2009 at 8:12 pm.

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If you’re a fan of radio controlled gadgets and airplanes, you will definitely want to enter this contest to win the world’s smallest (1:72 scale) remote controlled warbird set from MicroFlight.com. They are offering  a Micro Spitfire Mk XVI set to one lucky reader here at The Gadgeteer. … [visit site to read more]

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Win the world’s smallest R/C Micro Spitfire set! originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on June 2, 2009 at 8:00 am.

]]> http://the-gadgeteer.com/2009/06/02/win-the-worlds-smallest-rc-micro-spitfire-set/feed/ 54 Be.ez Netbook Sleeve Giveaway! http://the-gadgeteer.com/2009/05/30/beez-netbook-sleeve-giveaway/ http://the-gadgeteer.com/2009/05/30/beez-netbook-sleeve-giveaway/#comments Sat, 30 May 2009 15:02:56 +0000 Julie http://the-gadgeteer.com/?p=15960 Filed in categories: Contests

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Today I have four be.ez Larobe Netbook sleeves to give away. One sleeve each to four different people. These zippered protective sleeves are made of Polyurethane and are available in five fun colors. They are made to fit the current crop of 10″ netbooks like the HP Mini 1000 and MSI Wind that we’ve reviewed here on The Gadgeteer. … [visit site to read more]

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Happy Birthday DustBuster Give-Away! originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on May 14, 2009 at 9:13 pm.

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This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Black & Decker DustBuster. Wow, time really flies when you’re sucking up dust. Would you believe that I only just got a DustBuster (VPX DustBuster) last year? I was waiting for them to perfect the technology ;)

To celebrate this milestone, Black & Decker is offering to send a 14.4V cordless Cyclonic Hand Vac to one lucky gadgeteer reader. Find out how it can be you… … [visit site to read more]

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Happy Birthday DustBuster Give-Away! originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on May 14, 2009 at 9:13 pm.

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I recently reviewed this Able Planet headset. If you read the review, you know I was thrilled with the quality and performance of them. I like them so well, I wanted to get a pair as a give away. And not my set! Hands off! So Julie contacted the good folks at Able Planet and they ponied up for the contest. This is a wicked headset from a very cool company. You can read my original review here to find out all about them. … [visit site to read more]

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Win a Set of Able Planet PS500MM True Fidelity Multimedia Headphones originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on May 11, 2009 at 8:17 am.

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Just a quick but heartfelt wish of happy holidays to everyone from The Gadgeteer. If you’re so inclined, feel free to let us know what Santa brings you tomorrow :) If I get something other than a few hunks of coal, I will consider it a great day! … [visit site to read more]

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Hey folks, I thought I would start up a new feature called Gadgeteer Mail. As you probably would guess, people are always emailing me asking for gadget advice. A lot of times, I can respond with info to help them, but sometimes, people ask me questions for which I don’t have a good answer. That’s where you guys come in. I know you are a smart bunch and can help me out when one of your own needs some advice, that I am clueless about. Our first question is about multi-pens. … [visit site to read more]

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Three Ways to Get a Free Sprint Palm Centro originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on December 24, 2008 at 8:50 am.

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The first way is to hurry up and enter the contest we’re running here. You still have a few hours left to get your entry in before I choose a lucky winner tomorrow. If you don’t trust your luck at random drawings, here are two more ways to get your hands on a ‘free’ Palm Centro for the Sprint network. … [visit site to read more]

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How would you like to win a brand new Palm Centro for the Sprint network? This Centro will fit right in with the holidays as it’s a very festive Christmas Green :) Click through for more info on how to enter this contest.  … [visit site to read more]

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Staples wants to make one lucky Gadgeteer reader a winner of an Acer Ultra Mini PC Netbook (a $349.98 value!). Keep reading for more info and how to enter this contest…

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Please Excuse Our Dust originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on December 14, 2008 at 7:18 pm.

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As you may have noticed, there have been a few changes here. We’ve switched to the WordPress blog platform and while we’ve tried to make the change as seamless as possible, you’ll probably notice a lot of upcoming changes as we clean up and add new features. For example, the huge list of categories you might see on the right side of the home page will soon be replaced by a more modern tag cloud. We’ll also be adding some more color to the rather minimal theme we’re starting from.

All of … [visit site to read more]

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