A long time ago, I was the owner of an HP Jornada 420. It was slow, had terrible battery life, and very limited onboard memory – but the display was a real head-turner (at the time). Flash forward a few PDAs, and my ailing Sony CLIÉ TG50 was being held together with tape. Although by […]
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Product Requirements: Device: A 3.5mm jack on any portable audio/video device I’m not a dedicated audiophile, but I do love listening to my music on quality headphones. But I also like to write on my laptop at the local coffee bars, and full-size headphones, unfortunately, are impractical to carry around on a daily basis. In-ear
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Debbie Ann was kind enough to send me one of her individually handmade designer iPod sleeves. Available in all kinds of colors and textures, I was sent the Birds of a Feather – Toucan sleeve. This is a soft sleeve that can protect your 3rd and 4th gen iPods from dust and scratches while turning
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Product Requirements: Three “C” Batteries If I was the prop director for the next blockbuster science fiction movie, there would be no question in my mind about which flashlight the hero would carry – it would have to be The Lumaray FL6. I mean, just take a look at it; the Lumaray is futuristic, to
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Several months ago, I reviewed an LED torch that was powered by the Faraday Principle. As much as I like the idea of battery-free lighting and as much as I wanted to be able to recommend it, the performance of the Forever Flashlight was underwhelming – to say the least. Thankfully, one of our readers
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Updated 05/12/2005 Background: I’ve never been a mobile phone junkie, but I’ve been wanting a new phone pretty much since the day I upgraded to the Motorola T720 a year ago. I quickly came to the realization that I didn’t like flip phones at all. When the phone would ring while I was driving, I
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Product Requirements: Device: A vehicle that uses diesel fuel Here in West Texas where there are so many ranchers and farmers, diesel trucks are de rigueur. Whether it be a Ford, Chevy or Dodge, people swear by the pulling performance of their Power Stroke, Duramax and Cummins engines. Even though you will never get a
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Name: Mike Oetting Location: Kansas City I suppose it all started nearly 10 years ago in 1996 with the launch of the Palm 1000. I remember reading the press leading up to the launch of this product, and I was hooked. I thought it was the first PDA which seemed to have a fair amount
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If you are looking for my review of the Apple’s 2nd generation iPod shuffle, you can find it here. Product Requirements: Device: Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4 or later or Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 2 or later Mac OS X v10.2.8 or Mac OS X 10.3.4 and later (Mac OS
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Name: Terence Wong Location: Sydney, Australia This picture is of me and a Sentinel from The Matrix exhibit at Warner Bros Movie World in Queensland, Australia. A common misconception is that people who work in IT are all nerds. In fact, in my line of work as an Enterprise Java developer, I have met some
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