This was a fun weekend for a change. I went to two movies: Harry Potter (love those books!) and Monster’s Inc. Both were a lot of fun! And tonight I’m finally going to sit down to watch Star Wars Episode I The Phantom Menace. Yes, I think I’m the only person in the universe that […]
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I’ve been a fan of the Handspring Visor since it first came out. I like the Springboard expansion system and own several modules. On more than one occasion, I’ve found myself digging around blindly at the bottom of my gear bag trying to find module X. After several moments of grumbling, I usually find it,
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Product Requirements: Device: Compaq iPAQ 3100, 3600 and 3800 series The FORTE Belt Clip PDA case is a brown leather holster style case. It isn’t a play thru case like the popular Vaja and E&B slipper style offerings. Instead, you just use this case to transport your PDA, and must remove it to use it
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Piel Frama is a leather goods manufacturer located in Ubrique, Spain (The Land of Leather). In business since 1960, they have just come out with their first line of PDA cases. Created in the same style as cases made by Vaja, they are the slipper / play through variety. Versions are available for the Palm
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What is the first thing that pops into your mind when I say the words Swiss Army? A pocket knife, with all kinds of blades and nifty tools right? Ok, now what do you think of when I say PenTool? Nothing? Well, that won’t be the case after this review… The PenTool from Unique Tools
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Product Requirements: Device: Stowaway Folding Keyboard and various Palm and Pocket PC PDAs Are you one of the thousands of PDA users that also own the Stowaway Folding Keyboard from ThinkOutside? Maybe you would like to replace the thin zippered pouch that was included with your keyboard with something more substantial? Or maybe you would
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Product Requirements: Device: Palm III series (not including IIIc), Palm VII series, Palm V series Have you been looking for a PDA case that will allow you to retire your regular wallet? Most PDA wallet combo cases tend to be geared towards the corporate Joe and have that stuffy office look about them. If you
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Product Requirements: Device: Compaq iPAQ 3100, 3600 series What do you get when you take a popular custom iPAQ accessory and combine it with an equally popular case manufacture’s iPAQ case? You get one must-have iPAQ item! What am I talking about? I’m talking about merging the Whitney CompactFlash sleeve mod with a sync-able Vaja
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Product Requirements: Desktop: Windows PC for syncing application How would you like to shrink your PDA down to the size of a keychain? Or even better, how would you like to actually turn your PDA into a keychain? Sound interesting? That’s what I thought when I first heard about the Magic-i Keychain Mini Databank from
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Product Requirements: Device: Visor, Visor Deluxe, Visor Neo, Visor Platinum, Visor Prism, Visor Pro SnapNType.prc 7k FaceBoard.prc 30k The SnapNType T101 from TT Tech LTD. is a unique snap-on input device that is compatible with all of the current Handspring Visor PDAs excluding the Edge model. This thumb-type keyboard is reminiscent of the popular RIM
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Product Requirements: Desktop: Windows 98, NT 4.0, Windows ME, Windows 2000, or Windows XP Pocket PC 2002 was officially announced on Oct 4th, 2001 and with it, several new Pocket PC devices were also unveiled. The first one to become publicly available is the Hewlett Packard Jornada 560 series which is an update of their
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Product Requirements: Device: Palm III series (not including IIIc), Palm VII series, Palm V series Swiss Army PDA cases are one of the more unique line of cases available for Palm Connected Organizers. What makes them unique is their special quick-release clip for the Palm V series, Palm III series and Palm VII series PDAs.
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Product Requirements: Device: Compaq Aero, iPAQ 3100, and 3600 series Picture this scenario: You’re sitting in an airplane happily listening to Cake sing Short Skirt/Long Jacket on your iPAQ when your PDA starts complaining about fatally low battery levels and shuts off. ACK! What do you do now, your flight still has several hours left.
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If you’ve been visiting The Gadgeteer for any length of time, you’ll have noticed that so far, I’ve not done any mobile phone reviews. I’ve always had an interest in phones, but since I happen to live in what I like to call the “town before technology”, I’ve not had any way to test the
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Product Requirements: Device: Palm V/Vx PyroMic.prc 37k PyroPlayer.prc 132k PyroPower.prc 22k PyroProFile.prc 65k Desktop: Windows 98, 2000, ME Free USB and serial port Can we all agree that Palm, Inc. is pretty much the creator of the handheld PDA as we know it today? They came first and several others have followed in their footsteps.
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Product Requirements: Device: Compaq iPAQ Pocket PC “Build Your Own Case”… I really like the sound of those words. They mean that there is an opportunity to create something that will be exactly the way that you want it. You can pick the color you want, the style that you want, basically every detail will
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I love it when a software developer goes out of their way to add features to a program just for little ol’ me! Case in point, Biohazard Software. I saw that they had a date calculator app and downloaded it. I was very happy to find this for the Pocket PC because I’d been using
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Product Requirements: Desktop: IBM compatible 486 PC or higher running Windows 95/98/2000/NT 4.0 or Macintosh PowerPC running OS 7.5.3 or later One available USB port** 30MB free hard disk space 16MB RAM for Windows(64MB recommended for Windows 2000) 6MB free RAM for Macintosh CD-ROM drive ** Windows 95 and NT 4.0, or serial connectivity, require
I’m sure everyone has heard the terms “wearable computer” and “mobile computing”. But, how about the term Personal Area Network (PAN)? Does that ring a bell? Probably not, but it should as PANs are what real mobile wearable computing should be. Ok, I can see the gears turning in your minds. You’re all picturing little
What do you get when you gather 55 rabid tech news reporters, webmasters, geeks, reviewers and general “all around mobile technology freaks” together at one location to learn about the latest version of Pocket PC Software? You get a PARTY! But the real name of this Microsoft hosted gathering was Möbius 2001. Some of you
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