I think this is honestly a first…I placed an order for the Sony CLIE TH55 with SonyStyle USA, and even though it showed a shipping date of February 20, I should be receiving it today. I can’t even remember the last time I ordered a new PDA from a manufacturer and got it before the […]
Judie’s Gear Diary – 2004-02-19 Read More
Product Requirements: Four AAA Batteries SCRABBLE is one of my favorite all-time games; but it wasn’t until I began to write this review that I bothered to learn anything about its history. SCRABBLE’s roots go back to the Great Depression when Alfred Mosher Butts, an out of work architect, came up with the idea to
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I need to be a proud mom for a minute and tell you all that Sarah just placed 3rd in Chemistry at her school’s Science Fair. Her project was “Preventing Enzymatic Browning on Apples and Bananas.” The District Science Fair is March 9th, so please keep your fingers crossed for her. :0)
Judie’s Gear Diary – 2004-02-13 Read More
Product Requirements: Windows 95 or above, 5MB hard disk space, One free serial port, CD ROM drive, 1996 or later foreign or domestic vehicle – check list here When I was 15, I started taking Driver’s-Education classes at my rural high school. I didn’t know when or if I would ever get a car of
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Sony has finally come up with what may be the perfect CLIE – the PEG-TH55. This tablet style PDA comes with a laundry list of features, but perhaps the most important two are that it has a 480×320 high resolution TFT display and built in WiFi. Also worth noting is that the TH55 has 32MB
Judie’s Gear Diary – 2004-02-10 Read More
It seems like a million years ago that I was a Datebk3 user. I loved creating appointments then distinguishing them with little icons, and the floating appointments were a real convenience. Then I switched to the Pocket PC OS and I started using products made for that platform. Now that I am back in the
Judie’s Gear Diary – 2004-02-02 Read More
Product Requirements: A vehicle with an easily accessible cigar lighter/power point With the cold temperatures most of the country is facing at this time of year, it is hard to believe that there is an end in sight. That the spring thaw will come, and soon following will be the inevitable road trips, spring break
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Product Requirements: Windows XP, 25MB free disk space, One free USB port Back in the late 70’s and early 80s, my parents trusted me to stay in the house by myself and not invite friends over when I was left at home alone. There really wasn’t that much I could do that would put me
Parental Internet Control Key Review Read More
Product Requirements: A local FM radio station If you read Julie’s and my CES trip report, then by now you know about LobeMan, the product that came from out of nowhere and pleasantly surprised me. No, I was definitely not in the market for an in-ear FM radio when Scott Hynd, their Director of Marketing,
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Here is a product that you Palm OS users might like to take a look at: Hide ‘Em by Andreas Schönfeld. If you have icons for applications that are cluttering your launcher, perhaps because you have assigned that application to a hard button, then this is the product for you. Hide ‘Em helps you tidy
Judie’s Gear Diary – 2004-01-22 Read More
Jealousy…it’s such an ugly word. But that is exactly what I felt after I finished the most excellent corporate espionage thriller I can remember reading – Paranoia, by Joseph Finder. As I was reading the acknowledgements (yes, I always do that), I came accross Joel Evans’ and Wes Salmon’s names, two guys that I have
Judie’s Gear Diary – 2004-01-21 Read More
Two things I need to rant about tonight… 1. If you are going to write me and make like a satisfied customer that is recommending a product you have tried and liked, then don’t put a physical address at the bottom of your email that matches the physical address of the company you are recommending!
Judie’s Gear Diary – 2004-01-13 Read More
Product Requirements: A laptop computer that measures under 15.5″ wide x 11.5″ tall x 2″ thick There are certain occupations where any form of individuality is frowned upon. You know the type that I am talking about – ones where all employees wear a basic uniform of blacks, dark grays and a shirt in the
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CES was great, but slightly overwhelming! As Julie mentioned, while our SPOT watches won’t work where we live, we were impressed enough that we went ahead and got them. I’ll leave it to Julie to describe hers, but I got the Dick Tracy model, and I love it! I have finally got the wrist communicator
Judie’s Gear Diary – 2004-01-10 Read More
By now, I think everyone knows that I am using the Tapwave Zodiac as my Daily Driver. While there are many things about this PDA that I absolutely love, of course there is always room for improvement. This is where certain developers really shine. Today, I want to tell you about a program that has
Judie’s Gear Diary – 2004-01-05 Read More
Product Requirements: Complete list of compatible PDAs here Just when I thought I had seen it all, at least in the area of screen protection, a box with several samples of the Martin Fields Overlay Plus Screen Protector showed up at my door. There was nothing in the product packaging to let me know that
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Yesterday we saw ‘The Return of the King’ at our local theater. Since we had just watched ‘The Two Towers’ the day after Christmas, we were eager to see the series conclusion, and boy – was it something else! It is rare for me to sit straight through a two hour movie without getting up
Judie’s Gear Diary – 2003-12-30 Read More
Product Requirements: Three AA batteries It can be so easy to fall into the trap of assuming* that the rest of the world uses their computers, PDAs, and smartphones in the same manner or frequency in which I use mine. It’s almost a form of snobbery to think that everybody else is just as proficient
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Merry Christmas to me! I just received a stainless steel prototype/pre-production Tapwave “Bolt” stylus from Mark Hammill, and let me tell you – this is a vast improvement over the stylus that shipped with the Zodiac. Mark has told me that so far there are just two of these styli in existance – one in
Judie’s Gear Diary – 2003-12-24 Read More
Update 07/20/07: There’s a new and improved version of the Kill-A-Watt now. Read the review of the Kill-A-Watt EZ. Product Requirements: An electronic device that uses a regular US two or three (grounded) 125V pronged power cord I don’t know about you, but there are some months when I get my electric bill that make
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