Julie and I just cancelled our HP iPAQ 4705 eCost orders and changed them to HP iPAQ 4700 orders from Buy.com this morning? Why? Because Buy.com is showing the 4700 as in stock and shipping! Right now we think that the only differences between the 4700 and the 4705 may be 4700’s lack of a […]
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Name: Drew Golden Location: Plano, Texas Where did it all begin? Well, I was a freshmen in High School when I was first introduced to the TRS-80 Mod III. I was intrigued, and signed up for a summer course in Basic. I remember the class and yellow book entitled Basic Basic – and the follow
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Wireless Multimedia USB Keyboard with built-in joystick/mouse. SHARE ON TwitterFacebookPin It
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Product Requirements: Device: Mac OS X 10.1 or higher and Windows XP systems that support the Bluetooth v1.0 HID device profile Not too long ago, I reviewed Bluetake’s BT500 Bluetooth mouse. While it worked pretty much flawlessly with my Apple PowerBook, the short battery life left me wanting more. I actually ended up going back
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PDAmill is running a 50% off promotion on all their Palm OS products this week. This includes the Palm OS versions of Snails, GameBox Asia, Classics, Gems and Solitaire. To use this special promotion you have to go to www.pdamill.com, add the item(s) to your shopping cart, then enter ‘PDAMILL’ as the promotion code, then
Julie’s Gear Diary – 2004-09-20 Read More
This is my Public Service Message for the week: If you have been watching my list of favorite Palm and Pocket PC programs for any length of time, then you’ll know that eWallet, by Ilium Software has been on that list since the beginning. I consider this program to be absolutely necessary. In all honesty,
Judie’s Gear Diary – 2004-09-18 Read More
9/17/04 See updates in red below The SCOTTeVEST line of technology enabled clothing sure has evolved from their first vest. Since then, they’ve created casual jackets, leather jackets, caps, neckties and even sport jackets. It is surprising to me that it has taken all this time for them to finally come out with a pair
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Polk Audio’s XM radio tuner for your home audio system. SHARE ON TwitterFacebookPin It
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eBook fans will be interested to know about the special going on over at Fictionwise. They are giving away a bunch of books for free. There’s something for everyone: Science Fiction and Fantasy to Romance and Mystery. — Are there any other FireFox browser fans out there? I had used it on my PowerBook and
Julie’s Gear Diary – 2004-09-16 Read More
Product Requirements: OS: Microsoft® Windows 98SE/Me/2000/XP, CPU: Pentium 233MHz or higher, Memory: 64MB minimum, Hard Drive: 160MB, USB Port A little over a year ago Julie posted her review on the Neuros MP3 Digital Audio Computer from Digital Innovations. Needless to say, quite a few things have changed since then. While the original design of
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CLIE User Club in Japan has what I believe may be the first review of the Sony PEG VZ-90, so I am posting the translated and original versions. What do you all think? SHARE ON TwitterFacebookPin It
Judie’s Gear Diary – 2004-09-15 Read More
Cool looking overpriced Sony CLIE. Japan gets all the cool stuff! SHARE ON TwitterFacebookPin It
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Thanks to everyone that emailed me with info regarding Sony’s new CLIE. The PEG-VZ90 has 95mb of RAM, Palm OS, and an OLED display. This device looks gorgeous to me. Well, all except for the $900 price tag! Too bad it’s not coming to the US. >:o[ It would have been cool to test out.
Julie’s Gear Diary – 2004-09-14 Read More
Product Requirements: Device: Windows 98/2000/ME or XP, Macintosh running Mac OS 9, version 9.2.2 or Mac OS X, version 10.2 or 10.3 I’ve owned a LOT of handhelds over the years…starting with the early wonderful Apple Newton, progressing to the first Windows CE HPCs, and so on right up the food chain. I also have owned a
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Judie and I are both getting really anxious to receive our HP iPAQ HX4705’s which have been on order since July 22nd! I have my fingers crossed that they may ship really soon… In the mean time, I’ve taken advantage of some of the really crazy flash card prices and have purchased a 1GB SD
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Here come the Firewire flash drives. SHARE ON TwitterFacebookPin It
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 We’ve reviewed quite a few FM transmitters here on The Gadgeteer. But none as simple as the ZUKZ FM Transmitter from Crayton Electronics. This product uses the cigarette lighter socket in your vehicle for power, so you don’t have to worry about batteries. It has one LED, but no switches or buttons. To use
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 Six months ago we took a look at the Anydrive Car MP3 + FM transmitter from Merconnet. It was the first USB / FM transmitter device that we had seen. Now there’s a smaller device available with similar features. The MP-308 Car USB / FM Transmitter from Brando, is a very small cigarette lighter
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Product Requirements: Device: iPod earbuds You gotta know that you’re doing something right when your product spawns a legion of accessory manufacturers. Case in point: the Apple iPod. There are probably more cases, cables, and plug-in doodads available for this one digital music player than there are for all the different music player brands and
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Product Requirements: DC power from any automobile I can’t tell you how many times this scenario has occurred: I am driving along, minding my own business, when I look down to see that my speedometer is reading somewhere between five to ten miles above the legal speed limit. It can happen both in town and
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