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So what happens when you have a desktop where every inch of space matters? I happen to share a desk with my fiancé, and between our two laptops and all of our other clutter, it can get a little bit “tight” sometimes. Even though I did have the courtesy to move the majority of my […]
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Product Requirements: Device: XXX “Don’t forget the pants…” This phrase has haunted me since it was told to me repeatedly in 1995. I was making my big independent film and there was a single piece of costuming that I had to bring for a night’s shoot – guess what I did? I forgot the pants.
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Product Requirements: Device: Windows® 98 Second Edition, Me, 2000 Professional, XP Home, XP Professional USB Port Julie’s comments are in Black Judie’s comments are in Blue I started out in the handheld PDA world with a Palm OS device. My first one was the PalmPilot 1000 which had a whopping 128K of RAM! That’s the
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Do you believe in fate? I do. Case in point: A few weeks ago, I was contacted to see if I would be interested in writing a review of a laptop bag called the TiBag. I like reviewing gear bags, so I accepted. The bag was delivered, I looked at it briefly and then stuck
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Product Requirements: Device: Sony Clie n700 series If you are unwilling to settle for just any stylus – and you feel that your choice should be able to do more than just write on your PDA’s screen, then you really need to check out the line of stylus replacements that Pilot Pentopia offers. Like
Pilot Pentopia Chameleon for the Sony Clie Review Read More
The first time I saw a SD/MMC card I couldn’t believe my eyes. An ultra-small postage stamp sized card which hardly weighed more than two grams which could store 64MB (now 512 MB) of my favorite songs, pictures and programs for my Palm handheld. A year ago, this new flash memory format was only
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Product Requirements: Device: Any touch-screen PDA For those of you that don’t want to use the thin stylus that fits in your PDA’s silo, finding a good multi-pen that includes a stylus tip just makes sense. Like every other thing in life, there are many different choices that you can make when deciding which multi-pen
Next Pen Ultra Carbon Fiber Twin Stylus Review Read More
The new Palm m130 is the first m1xx series handheld to have a color screen. It comes with a color transflective 12 bit screen (4096 simultaneous colors / 58,621 dithered colors), 8 MB RAM, 4 MB ROM, SD/MMC expansion slot, Palm OS® 4.1 and a Universal connector. All that for $279 with a street price
Product Requirements: Device: Windows 98 or later Mac OS 8.6 or later Most PDAs, digital cameras, MP3 players, etc. have one thing in common. They all use removable media. Whether it be Compact Flash (CF), SmartMedia (SM), Secure Digital (SD), Memory Sticks (MS) or MultiMedia Cards (MMC). That in itself is fine and dandy, but
CSD4-USB 4-in-1 Memory Card Reader/Writer Review Read More
I want to see a show of hands, how many of you have spare AAA batteries rolling around in the bottom of your purses, gear bags, pockets, or desk drawers? Yeah, I did too until I found the Battery Holster from RS Innovative. The Battery Holster definately isn’t a high tech whizzy-fob that you’re used
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On a typical day, a person wouldn’t normally mention the words pocket knives and PDAs in the same sentence. Just the idea conjures up nightmarish thoughts of someone trying to use a pen knife as a stylus substitute! EEP! But in this case, I can talk about pocket knives and PDAs together and not feel
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Almost a year has passed since Palm launched the m505. The first Palm handheld which had a color screen and could easily become the best PDA around. It had it all, 8 MB RAM, SD/MMC expansion slot, the sleekest and smallest design around and a color screen. Speaking of the devil, the screen was the
Anyone out there play with gyroscopes as a kid? I remember being fascinated by them. I had a metal one that came with a book of tricks that you could do like balancing it on a string tied between two points as it spun. This product that I’m about to write about reminds me of
Product Requirements: Device: PC or Mac with CD-ROM Drive LocalTalk or RS-232-compatible serial connection A new crop of PDAs have just been released, and yet another are being groomed for a fall launch – but is the latest and greatest gizmo always the best? As I have already made my PDA purchase for the near
Apple eMate 300 (Blast From The Past) Review Read More
Product Requirements: A “round stick style” ball-point pen or a regular wooden pencil Are there those of you out there that regularly carry a Bic ballpoint in your pocket? If you are, and you don’t like using the skinny little stock stylus that came with your PDA, then you might like to check out the
TrueTip Pen Cap Stylus Review Read More
Product Requirements: Device: Microsoft Windows 98, 98SE, ME, 2000, XP Pentium 133MHz or faster USB Port A lot of people, myself included, like their personal electronics to be sleek and sexy. As a result, Palm was the first to go skinny with the Palm V, Vx, m500 and m505. Then came Handspring with the Visor Edge.
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Product Requirements: Device: Palm m500 series, Palm m100, m105, Palm III series, VII series, and V series. Handspring Visor, and Prism Sony Clie (Except T series) Of all the different PDA accessories on the market today, I would have to say that styli are probably the most popular. There are big styli, little styli, styli
Cross MicroPen Stylus Review Read More
The point of small, electronic devices is that they are portable and easy to access, wherever you may be. This is great, but you can quickly reach the point (as I have) at which the indispensable number of items carried on your person gets quite high and a method of carrying them has to be
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Product Requirements: Device: Any touch-screen PDA The first time my daughter saw the Avery doubleCLICK pen/stylus in my review box, she informed me that it was the pen Michael, a boy at her school carries. “Has he ever let you use it?” I asked her. “Nope,” she replied “no one touches Michael’s pen.” Well, whether
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Product Requirements: Device: Digital Camera with any one of three following memory module formats: Compact Flash, Smart Media, or Memory Stick. No computer is necessary unless you want to store or manipulate images. Desktop: Windows 2000, 98, 95 or NT 4.0 with USB port support. No Apple Macintosh support at this time. Part of the
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