Weekend Web Tidbits How would you like to play every old school Nintendo NES game via your web browser? Click the link below for a blast from the past! Pretty cool, although the games have no sound. How about a game of Lemmings using your web browser? This one DOES have sound! Now back to […]
Julie’s Gear Diary – 2005-01-23 Read More
Peter Balogh, the CEO of PDAmill Ltd sent word that they have just released two cool new games for public beta testing. One of them is the Smartphone port of their best-selling futuristic 3D racing game, Flux Challenge. The other one is a VGA resolution version of the award winning GameBox Solitaire for the new
Julie’s Gear Diary – 2005-01-20 Read More
Shhhhhhh… Don’t tell anyone, but I’ve been cheating on my iPod for a couple months now! Yes, I know it’s hard to believe, but it’s true. These days I don’t listen to the iPod at all on my drive to and from work. What is my new digital audio player of choice? Actually, it’s not
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James McCarthy of Pocket Anywhere Magazine has been kind enough to offer the latest issue of his online magazine to The Gadgeteer readers for free. This is a 48 pages of content for Palm OS, Windows Mobile, iPod and Mac OS X enthusiasts. If you register for a free account, he’ll even throw in a
Julie’s Gear Diary – 2005-01-19 Read More
After being disappointed that I wasn’t able to use either the Orange SPV500 or the Motorola MPx220 smartphones here at my house on the Cingular or AT&T networks, I pretty much resigned myself to waiting until March (that’s when my current Verizon contract runs out) to upgrade to a new phone. As usual, my impatience
Julie’s Gear Diary – 2005-01-16 Read More
Julie’s comments are in Black, Judie’s are in Blue and italicized. Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here. Friday Julie and I overslept! I could swear that the alarm clock was set correctly, but it’s possible that neither of us even heard it when it went off. In any case, by around 9:30 we
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Julie’s comments are in Black, Judie’s are in Blue and italicized. Read Part 1 here and Part 3 here. Thursday We started the day with a rib sticking Luxor buffet breakfast. We had to gear up for a full day of walking didn’t we? Actually their buffet was pretty darn good. Once we finished, we
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Julie’s comments are in Black, Judie’s are in Blue and italicized. When most people are still trying to recover from holiday season festivities, the first week of January is the time to take a trip to Las Vegas, Nevada to check out the Mecca for all gadgeteer’s: the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). This show which
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Product Requirements: Device: Various portable electronic devices such as mobile phones, PDAs, digital cameras, MP3 players and more You may remember Judie’s review of the iGo Juice Combination AC and Auto/Air Notebook Power Adapter. Made by Mobility Electronics, this charger allowed for notebook charging along with another device. Well, now we have a new charging
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We’re baaack (me in Indiana and Judie in Texas). As you can tell, we didn’t get around to posting the CES trip report while we were in Las Vegas. We hope to have it up tomorrow if Judie gets her luggage back today as all of the CES show pictures are on her MiniMe (Fujitsu
Julie’s Gear Diary – 2005-01-09 Read More
Judie and I are flying off to Las Vegas tomorrow to the Consumer Electronics Show to see gadgets, gizmos, widgets and thingamabobs! Our plan is to try to post our trip report Thursday and Friday nights while we are there. We’ll see if that actually happens ;o) We might be too busy gambling…. NOT!
Julie’s Gear Diary – 2005-01-04 Read More
I hope everyone has been enjoying New Years Day today! Yesterday was a fun day for me. I went up to Indy with Bill Ray (he has contributed several photography related reviews to the site…) to check out Nikon’s 8800 Coolpix camera. I liked it so well that I placed an order with NewEgg last
Julie’s Gear Diary – 2005-01-01 Read More
It has been 30 days since I listened to a voice mail at work and heard 3 words that I’ve dreaded hearing all my life: You are Diabetic. Needless to say I freaked out for about a week. I had good reason, I watched my Mom slowly die of the disease. From amputation to congestive
Julie’s Gear Diary – 2004-12-29 Read More
Product Requirements: Device: Bluetooth enabled Pocket PCs running Windows Mobile 2003, Windows XP Bluetooth enabled computers/notebooks, Mac OS X Bluetooth enabled computers/notebooks The generic name given to a Windows Mobile enabled PDA is Pocket PC. This name really fits the description when you happen to have a Bluetooth PPC and ThinkOutside’s Stowaway Bluetooth Travel Mouse.
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Product Requirements: Device: Bluetooth enabled Pocket PCs and Smart phones Most modern day PDAs have been designed to be entirely stylus driven. But sometimes you really just need a good old fashioned keyboard to get your job done. Enter the Stowaway Universal Bluetooth Keyboard from our friends at ThinkOutside. While this product is far from
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Product Requirements: Device: Bluetooth enabled PDAs and Smart phones ThinkOutside’s Stowaway Universal Bluetooth Keyboard now has a competitor. Brando is selling a similarly sized product named the Smart Keyboard. Priced $50 cheaper, what does this keyboard have that might make you purchase it over ThinkOutside’s offering? Keep reading… Package Contents Smart Keyboard 2 AAA Batteries
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Product Requirements: Device: 4G and iPod mini iPods If you’ve been drooling over a Vaja iVod case for your 4th generation iPod, but didn’t want to shell out $70-100+ dollars just for a case, then you must read the rest of this review. ipodkitz from itzkitz give you not only an iVod-like case, but also
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Product Requirements: Device: Apple iPod (4th Generation models) 4th generation 20gb and 40gb Apple iPod owners looking for slim but rigid protection for their audio players will definitely want to take a close look at Innopocket’s Metal Deluxe case. This new case is a bit different from the 3G case that I had reviewed just
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Note to those of you dreaming of a white Christmas… STOP IT! Since early this morning, we’ve (Columbus, IN) received about 9 inches of the white stuff, with as many as 11 more predicted before the end of the day tomorrow. Eesh! Having a Direcway satellite dish for my broadband isn’t too fun when you
Julie’s Gear Diary – 2004-12-22 Read More
Only 5 shopping days till Christmas! Let the stress begin (or continue)… For those of you asking about the Dell x50v review, it has unfortunately been put in stasis for a few more days. Lucky me, I stumbled upon a weird bug that causes the Bluetooth license to expire. Everytime I turn on the PDA,
Julie’s Gear Diary – 2004-12-20 Read More