Julie Strietelmeier

Update on new car shopping… The shopping is over and a purchase has been made! I bought a 2006 Copper Red Mazda 3 5 door. It’s my first car in 15 years. It feels a lot different than driving a little pickup truck. It’s extremely zippy and has a special sport transmission. It also has

It’s Friday! Not just any old Friday either. It’s the Friday before I’m off for a week’s vacation! Yay! No big trips planned this time around, just a nice relaxing week at home to de-stress from the last 2 months that have really sucked (don’t ask). I do have two activities planned for my time

I just happened upon a new site that I think most of us (the Gadgeteer collective) will really be able to appreciate: Unboxing.com. Live vicariously through other people’s joy. Or else become really jealous… Whichever works for you. ;o)

It’s been raining nano accessories at Gadgeteer HQ lately. The folks from AVA sent me their silicon LAVA case and their ELEMENTS Chrome case. The silicon case is hourglass shaped, is very thick and is available in quite a few bright colors. The chrome case is really made of plastic, but it’s a two piece

After learning last week that the DualCor would not have Wifi or Bluetooth radios built into their forth coming cPC device, both Judie and I pretty much marked them off our list of must review gadgets. I mean, who the heck is going to pay $2000 for a device with that handicap? Not I… Now

Winners of the SLAPPA Laptop Bag Contest are: 1.BulkHead PRO 4:1 Name : Lisa Lombard 2.BulkHead PRO 2:1 Name : Andrew Ferguson 3.FlipTop PRO Name : Jim Latimer 4.Metro PRO Name : Ed Mulholland 5.HardBody PRO Name : Ronnie I. Mimran 6.Velocity PRO Backpack in Blue Name : Mark Stheiner 7.Velocity PRO Backpack in Silver

Friday Quickie It’s a very miserable Friday night here. It’s not even 50 degrees, and it’s raining. Didn’t anyone tell Mother Nature that it’s May, and not March?! I don’t think she’ll be getting a Mother’s Day card from me this year ;o) I received an email announcing a cool new site that a lot

Do we have any photographers out there? If so, you might want to check out the Flash Synchronizer module from Gadget Brando. It’s a small clear plastic thingy with a hotshoe on one side and a standard sized threaded tripod attachment point on the other. You attach this module to your external flash and then

I’ve spent all day (off and on) exploring a very cool web site called EDC Forums. EDC stands for Every Day Carry. The site is all about the things we carry with us every day in our pockets and gearbags. Things like keychains, flashlights, pocket knives, mini tools, etc. I’ve been talking with the site

Just a reminder that you still have exactly 2 weeks to enter the SLAPPA laptop bag contest. All entries must be submited by midnight on 05/17/06. The 9 winners s will be picked at random and announced on 05/18/06. The contest is open just for our US readers (sorry for the rest of you… I’ll

It’s Mystery Gadget time again! This time we hear from Rich Driemeyer of Prior Lake, MN. Rich says: “I have been searching the internet to find out what the heck this gadget is and coming up blank. I found this in my garden. Think it fell out of an airplane? My wife recognized the biohazard

This entry is just for the iPod nano toting girls in the audience. Well I guess it could also be for the guys that love them too ;o) Designer Maggie Stephens sent me one of her iPod nano Outfits. These are vinyl cases are designed to totally enclose the player (even the click wheel and