Janet Cloninger

Epson Debuts the Stylus NX625 All-in-One Printer for Home Users

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The newest all-in-one printer, the Stylus NX625, from Epson offers superior performance at a suprisingly low price.  At $149.99, you probably wouldn’t expect high-speed, automatic two-sided printing, the fastest print speeds in its class, and built-in 802.11n WiFi and Ethernet.  The Stylus NX625 also has a memory card reader, a 2.5″ color LCD, and the “ability to […]

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Dog Dazer Ultrasonic Dog Deterrent

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After reading Robin’s post yesterday about her dog being attacked by off-leash dogs, I remembered seeing the Dog Dazer while surfing the Sky Mall site.  The Dog Dazer emits a high-frequency sound that’s painful to dog’s ears, but inaudible to humans.  Use a 1-2 second burst to startle and hopefully deter a threatening dog from

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Remote Control Organizer from Sky Mall

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If you have a lot of remote controls for your home theater or audio system, you may find it difficult to keep up with them.  The Remote Control Organizer from Sky Mall is designed to organize and help you find your remotes.   The silver plastic Organizer holds four remotes upright for easy selection.  You can

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Green Figure iHolder Stand for iPad Review

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As I’m sure you’ve noticed, there are a large variety of iPad stands on the market.  There are metal stands, wood stands, plastic stands, and cases that convert into stands.  Green Figure makes the iHolder stand, which allows you to convert your iPad into a tiny iMac twin.  Pyramid Distribution offered to send an iHolder

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Convertible Coffee Table to Make Surfing in the Family Room Easier

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If you spend a lot of time using your laptop in the family room because you like to surf while watching TV or because you don’t have a dedicated office space, a convertible coffee table could be a back-saver.  I’ve seen these tables in lots of styles and price points at furniture stores, and now even Hammacher

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Nymgo VOIP Service Announces 30 Minutes of International Calls for Less Than a Quarter

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Nymgo is a VOIP provider based in the UK, but they provide service for customers world-wide.  You simply download their software, then you can use your computer to make calls for less than a penny per minute.  You can call within the US, or from anywhere to the US, for $0.008/minute.  Nymgo provides service to

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Pinball Magic for iPhone and iPod touch

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ThinkGeek fooled some of us with their iCade April Fool’s joke, but the Pinball Magic “[app]cessory” from New Potato Technologies seems to be legit.  You connect your iPhone/touch’s docking connector to the pinball-machine frame from New Potato and download the free Pinball Magic app from iTunes and turn your iPhone or touch into a realistic pinball machine –

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SlovoEd Bilingual Dictionary Apps for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad

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My daughter is starting high school this year.  She’ll be taking French, and she needs a bilingual dictionary.  We’re getting her a Langenscheidt French/English paper book to use at school, but I wondered if there was a dictionary for her iPad as well.  I wanted an app instead of just an ebook, because I was

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Brando USB Multi-Touch Smart Pad

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The USB Multi-Touch Smart Pad from Brando replaces your mouse or trackpad and adds a numeric keypad.  With the flick of a switch, you change from the numeric keypad to a multi-touch smart pad that lets you scroll, click, zoom in/out, and magnify a portion of the screen display using two-finger gestures.  Three-finger gestures let

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Borders to be Offering the Android-based Cruz Reader and Cruz Tablet from Velocity Micro

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Borders is expanding their ebook reader offerings again.  They’ll soon have two Android-based devices from Velocity Micro.  They are the Cruz  Reader (left) and the Cruz Tablet (right).  Both come pre-loaded with the Borders ebook reader app, both have 7″ TFT full-color displays and Android operating systems, allow web surfing, listening to music, and watching video.  Both have accelerometers,

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Control a Lamp With a Remote Control Light Switch

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ThinkGeek is offering a remote control light switch that allows you to control a lamp without the expense of having a light switch installed.  You plug a module into a power socket, then plug a lamp into the module. Place the Instant Switch within 60 feet of the power module and you’ll be able to remotely flip the lamp on/off

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You Can Now Watch Netflix Streaming Content on your iPhone or iPod touch!

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I checked for updates to the apps on my iPad today and saw that I had an update for Netflix.  The Netflix app for iPad that lets you access your Netflix account and watch streaming movies and TV shows has been updated to also work on iPhones and iPod touches.  The app requires iOS 3.1.3

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Moshi Codex Shell Case for MacBooks

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I’ve used Windows computers for years and loved them, but I will admit I’ve been tempted to change over to the Apple team recently.  I just discovered a MacBook case that’s a big plus in the pro-Apple column.  Moshi offers the Codex protective shell case for MacBooks that is very beautiful and seems very protective.  The TSA checkpoint-friendly

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Emerald Chronometer App for iPhone

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Emerald Sequoia LLC makes some wonderful clock apps for iPhone and iPad.  Earlier, I told you about the Emerald Observatory app for iPad.  Today it’s the Chronometer app for iPhone/iPod touch.  The Chronometer app is an alarm clock/stopwatch/interval timer with date/day/month/year information.  What sets this app apart from other similar apps is the appearance:  all

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