Julie Strietelmeier

I created The Gadgeteer in 1997 as a fun way to share my passion for gadgets which began when I was a little kid. Some of my other interests include ukulele, photography, productivity hacks, and minimalism. Learn more about me and my favorite gear.

Screen Cleaning

What follows is a contributed article from Purosol, a company that makes screen cleaning products. You can consider this posting both as information and advertising. They didn’t pay me to post this and haven’t sent me any products to try. I just thought it would be good info… Challenges in cleaning your new flat-screen TV […]

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moshi celesta keyboard

Are you content to use the keyboard that shipped with your desktop computer? I’ve been totally happy with the keyboard included with my iMac, but that doesn’t mean that I wasn’t ready to test the celesta keyboard from moshi when they asked if I would like to review one. I mean, it wasn’t hard to say yes after seeing its sleek lines and aluminum frame.

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Intelli IMT-500 Clip-on Digital Chromatic guitar tuner review

Back in the stone age when I was learning to play guitar, there were only two ways to tune an instrument. By pitch pipe, or by ear. I wasn’t good at either method and was always frustrated that my guitar sounded ‘funky’ when I would play it. Years later, when the first electronic tuners were introduced, I was over joyed. Finally an easy way to keep my instrument in tune. They only problems with those tuners were the fact that they were somewhat bulky and required either a quiet room or a patch cable to connect to the instrument’s pickup. Things have changed since those days. Now we have nifty strobe type tuners like the Waves Strobe-On-String tuner that I reviewed not long ago and the Intelli IMT-500 Digital Chromatic Tuner that I’m going to show you today.

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Spire Endo Courier Laptop Bag

We’ve reviewed a couple Spire backpacks here on The Gadgeteer, the last one being their Torq backpack. Their latest offering is a courier laptop bag (messenger bag) that comes in three sizes: Viro (for laptops up to 14.1″), Endo (for laptops up to 15.4″) and the Mojo (for laptops up to 17″). Available in Cosmic Green, Midnight Blue and Stealth Black, I was sent the medium sized Endo bag in Midnight Blue.

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Help Wanted : Windows Mobile and Symbian Software Reviewers

I’m looking to increase our group of contributing writers by finding an additional Windows Mobile software reviewer and also a Symbian software reviewer. If you meet the following qualifications, please send me an email explaining why you should join the Gadgeteer team. 1. Able to contribute 1-2 reviews per month 2. Currently use a Windows

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ezGear Slimline and Max skins for the iPhone

What kind of case do you use for your iPhone? For me, I tend to keep it naked, but if I did want to use a case with it, I would pick something that added the least amount of bulk and weight. ezGear offers several case options that fit that criteria. They sent me their ezSkin Max and ezSkin Slimline iPhone cases to try out. Here’s what I learned…

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The new comment system has been implemented site wide

As of today, the comment system that was only implemented for the gear diary posts, will now be operational for reviews and articles. Posting via the VBBS forums will be turned off later today. Everyone will still be able to see old posts in the forum area, but they will become view only. All new

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Ukulele Review

This is pretty much off topic, but that’s never stopped me before has it? I just wanted to mention that I started up a second review website over the weekend. It’s called Ukulele Review and I’ll be reviewing CDs, DVDs, books, instruments and accessories that relate to this little four stringed instrument. I might have

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