Forget Trackballs, Get Ergonomic with a Trackbar

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Are you all about an ergonomic workspace? Me, I’m a slouching, crossleg sitting, traditional mouse and keyboard using geek. That doesn’t mean that I don’t ‘think’ about trying alternative input devices though. I happened to run across the Emotion Trackbar Ergonomic Mouse and it seems more unusual than most. It has two 1000 dpi optical

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More Junk to Hang Off Your BackPack – But It’s YOUR Junk

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I bumbled across this on Lifehacker: Make Photo Necklaces, Earrings, Magnets and More Using Shrinkable Plastic.  Make your own zipper pulls, earrings, nose rings, key chain fobs, dog collar fobs, cell phone fobs, wine glass fobs, e-reader fob, blah blah blah.  The technique involves the “Shrinky Dink” shrinkable plastic from waaaay back in the day,

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Logitech Harmony 900 Universal Remote Review

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This past holiday season, my wife and I remodeled our basement putting in a relatively nice media room with fancy in-the-wall speakers, A/V receiver, big LCD TV, Blu-ray player, AppleTV, and Nintendo Wii. All of those components having their own remote which adds up to a fair amount of juggling just to do something as

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Wicked Witch Vinyl Decal for Macbook

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This is the most tempting reason I’ve found to buy a Macbook.  Instead of obscuring the Apple logo, this vinyl decal from the lildecalshop on etsy incorporates it into the design.  The decal shows the Wicked Witch from Snow White tempting you with her poison apple.  The standard color is black, but you can request it in other colors.  The decal is made from

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A Week With the LG eXpo Smartphone and Pico Projector Days 1-5

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My first five days with the LG eXpo Smartphone has been a mixture of good and bad experiences. Good because I like the phone’s hardware and bad because I’ve had issues with that hardware. Life with gadgets is never perfect is it? In this installment, I’d like to talk about the user interface, using the

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My Life Pocket Digital Photo Frame

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Not so long ago, proud parents carried small photo albums called brag books loaded with pictures of their families.  Brookstone is offering the 21st century version of the brag book – the My Life Pocket Digital Photo Frame.  This portable frame offers a 3.5″ screen with 320 X 240 resolution.  It has a rechargeable battery for

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Want to file your taxes? There’s (kind of) an app for that…

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Stocks, streaming radio, social networking…taxes?  For many iPhone users, the world is at their fingertips.  And now, thanks to the folks over at Intuit (of TurboTax fame), filing your taxes is part of that world.  The setup is simple – snap a photo of your W-2, answer a few questions, review, and e-file!  The catch? 

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Keypad Protected USB Hard Drive

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The Aegis Padlock is an external USB hard drive that is protected PIN number that you punch into the built in keypad. No software installs are required to setup your AES encrypted PIN numbers. Up to 10 different PINs and one admin PIN can be created and the drives are available in 250, 320 and

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Another Wall Outlet Organizer Thingy

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It is now my lifelong quest (which started last year) to find and report about every wall outlet organizer product in the world. I found another one today – yay me! It’s the Driinn Cell Phone Charging Ledge. This one isn’t nearly as elegant as some of the others I’ve told you about, but since

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Sound ID 400 Bluetooth Headset Review

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When Julie announced the Sound ID 400 I couldn’t wait for it to be announced.  Small, simple and packed with features like PersonalSound (enhanced listening power) and Automatic Volume Control (self-explanatory) in a nice looking package.  Well I’ve been using the headset for a little while now, and was surprised by how it performed. SHARE

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Totally Free App Market for Windows Mobile

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Several of my favorite Windows Mobile sites are talking about OpnMarket this morning. It’s a new application market for Windows mobile devices that only offers completely free apps that can be downloaded and installed directly from your phone. The only steps required to use it are to sign up for a free account and install

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