Last summer I became a veritable recluse while playing PDAmill‘s Arvale: Journey of Illusion. It was the first Turn based RPG that had caught my interest to the point where I had no choice but to play until it was finished, like a crack-addicted junkie. Today I just got word that Arvale: The Ocean of […]
Judie’s Gear Diary – 2005-06-29 Read More
As I have mentioned in the past, I get concerned when I see people on the street that are not properly outfitted for maximum visibility. Whether it be an older married couple taking an after-dinner stroll, a fitness buff running in the early morning hours, a Policeman directing traffic in the rain, or a teenager
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If you are the type that pulls CDs out of their cases without returning them after use, then you probably have found that it is very easy to scratch or misplace those same CDs. Let’s face it, CDs come with cases because they need protection when they are not lying in a CD tray. Disc-it!
I’m back, and what a week it was! We went to Kansas City, Missouri and spent a wonderful week with Steve’s sister and her family. While there, we visited the Botanical Gardens and the Zoo, and I got some great impromptu shots of the animals with my i550’s built-in camera. Back in the real world,
Judie’s Gear Diary – 2005-06-28 Read More
I have finally got the i550 to do just about everything that I want or need it to do: It’s working perfectly on the Sprint PCS network and I’ve signed up for the Vision plan so I have all of the data I care to access. It is working very well as a supplementary PDA,
Judie’s Gear Diary – 2005-06-18 Read More
As most of you that have read any of my LED flashlight reviews know, there is a long dark hallway that runs down the spine of my home. While this hallway is fabulous for taking pictures of a flashlight beam’s reach or for hanging a mini art gallery, this same hallway used to give my
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Last year I reviewed a Victorinox knife that was equipped with a detachable 64MB SwissBit USB memory module. I was recently sent a major upgrade to what I had already determined was an excellent product. While much of the appearance has remained the same, there have been subtle changes to the knife itself as well
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Well, here is an update on my Samsung i550 saga for those of you that have been writing to ask: I called SPCS yesterday to get my service switched over from the i500 to the i550. I already had the lock code for the handset – I just needed to get things set up on
Judie’s Gear Diary – 2005-06-14 Read More
This has been a “good mail day”… I just opened a package from SCOTTeVEST and found several new items that will be reviewed soon, including their v2.0 ball cap (which fits me very nicely), a light Microfleece Pullover (great for cool nights), and their new “wired’ t-shirt. I also received the new Tekkeon myPower ALL,
Judie’s Gear Diary – 2005-06-13 Read More
Product Requirements: Two 3V lithium CR-2016 Batteries (first set included) Not long ago, I reviewed a Mobile Torch Bank Note Detector, which was essentially a device with two purple LED lights which could be used to detect the fluorescence in authentic bank notes and other documents that had been imbedded with fluorescing security features. After
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Product Requirements: 3 LR44 (AG13) Batteries (comes with first set) How many of you read books in rooms that aren’t really bright enough? I catch my daughter doing it all the time, which is why I was interested in reviewing the Gadget Brando 3 LED Clip-On Flashlight. Granted, nowhere on the packaging amidst the mentions
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If you are using the Samsung i500 Palm OS PDA phone and you are lamenting the lack of true two-way SMS, then you owe it to yourself to check out PDA Apps I500SMS. Samsung really dropped the ball on this otherwise feature-laden phone because it included software that allowed users to receive SMS messages, but
Judie’s Gear Diary – 2005-06-08 Read More
Product Requirements: Two 3V CR2032 Batteries Sometimes it pays to blend in with the crowd and not catch any unwanted attention. However, there are some times when getting others’ notice is exactly what is wanted, whether it be for safety or individual expression. For those that have the need of high visibility with a twist,
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It’s no stretch to say that my genealogy “hobby” has turned into a bit of an obsession.Maybe it’s because I finally got serious about it or because I recently found several distant cousins through the internet, but these days it seems like every spare moment that I have is spent researching or adding information to
Judie’s Gear Diary – 2005-06-02 Read More
Product Requirements: Device: A laptop computer The very idea behind the laptop computer is that it will be a portable means of taking everything along. Files can be accessed and worked on while the user is just about anywhere, even in some of the most cramped and inconvenient locations imaginable. Due to the dimensions of
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If you enjoy playing word games on your PDA, then you have got to try Astraware’s Super Wild Wild Words. I am playing the Pocket PC version and I am hooked! It’s like several word games wrapped into one…how best to describe it? Have you played Bookworm? It’s similar to that in the way that
Judie’s Gear Diary – 2005-05-26 Read More
Back in 2001 I got the brilliant idea of buying a laptop that would replace my desktop, which resulted in the purchase of the Gateway DS Solo 9550 XL. In case you didn’t catch it, the “XL” is on the end of that name for a reason; that laptop was a beast. Measuring about 13″
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Product Requirements: A free USB port Summer is officially here and with it comes the seasonal malaise of knowing that kids everywhere are off from school…while we, the adults of the world are still stuck at work. I won’t get into the unfairness of it all in this review, but I am happy to tell
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Okay, I know that this may be bordering on the “Too Much Information” threshold, but I’ll confess that when I was a kid, I loved magnets. Not many things would make me happier than coming across an old speaker that I could dismantle to remove its magnet disk. Ball bearings were the other thing that
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Product Requirements: Three “C” Batteries If I was the prop director for the next blockbuster science fiction movie, there would be no question in my mind about which flashlight the hero would carry – it would have to be The Lumaray FL6. I mean, just take a look at it; the Lumaray is futuristic, to
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