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Update 03/28/03 Here’s a confession: I’m an MP3 junkie! I listen to them through my desktop PC while I’m surfing or writing reviews and I listen to them through my Tungsten|T while I’m at work or on the go. The thing is that I’ve been wishing that I could listen to my MP3 collection while […]
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It is highly likely that most of our readers have had to buy several different cases over the years as they upgraded to different PDAs. Depending on your tastes, this might be quite an expensive prospect. One of the more obvious ways to avoid this dilemma is to use a pouch that can adapt from
Product Requirements: Device: Windows 98 and higher, USB port Instant messaging applications such as Windows Messenger, ICQ and Yahoo! Messenger are extremely popular with both teens and adults alike. The ability to type in real-time back and forth to your friends is fantastic. I know I would feel totally cut off if I didn’t have
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Product Requirements: Device: Windows 98 or higher If you are a music enthusiast, you have it pretty good right now. MP3 players seem to be everywhere, and come in all shapes and sizes, so you can take your music with you where ever you go. The latest player to come across my desk is the
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Product Requirements: Device: Apple iPOD (10 or 20 gig models) I feel like I’ve been living a lie… Here Mikey goes again, claiming to be the Great Gadget Warrior, when I am holding a deep, dark secret from all of you… I have never owned a Vaja case. Sure I could claim that I am
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Product Requirements: Device: Apple iPOD So you have an iPOD and are looking for a case to protect its beautiful white and chrome plated skin. Compared to the case that ships with the newer iPODs, one has the feeling that the Vaja case is the Victoria Secrets of cases. Great design, styling, and quality-finished construction
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Like many of you, I like my music collection and have amassed a large collection of music CDs over the years. Because I commuted a lot and wanted to listen to a large range of my music collection I purchased a portable minidisc recorder/player. Later I replaced this with a full deck and a portable
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Can you believe that I haven’t purchased a DVD player yet? And I call myself a Gadgeteer?! Yes, it’s sad but true… I guess I can rationalize this by also telling you that I subscribe to EVERY premium movie channel there is on DirecTV. So see, I do watch movies! I just never had the
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Product Requirements: A flat surface and a sound producing electronic device (personal stereos, mini-disc, CD or MP3 players, handheld games, camcorders or laptops, etc.) with a standard 3.5mm head-phone jack, 3 AAA batteries (included) When Julie and I first let our Gadgeteer readers know that we were getting matching Fujitsu P2000 notebooks, we were not
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Product Requirements: Device: A television with audio and video input jacks How many of you have basically traded in your VHS collection for the DVD equivalent? If you were one of the early adopters, then you can remember when an inexpensive DVD player was upwards of $300, and the word “portable” only applied to the
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Product Requirements: Device: Almost any portable music device with a headphone jack and an FM radio It is an inevitable thing that you may have the “world’s greatest” stereo system in your car or house; but the music that you want to hear at some point and time will happen to be in a format
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Product Requirements: Device: Pentium 133MHz or faster Windows 98/SE/ME/2000/XP/Mac OS USB port CDrom My search to find the coolest MP3 player continues with the MPIO-DMK Digital Music Player from digita@lway which is available in a 128MB internal memory version with 3 colors choices of Silver, Blue and Gold. Hardware Spec: Digital Audio Format: MP3 Internal
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Product Requirements: Device: Pentium 133MHz or faster Windows 98/SE/ME/2000/XP/Mac OS USB port CDrom I’ve had a fascination with music since I came into this world. I have some fond memories of listening to a transistor radio late at night under the covers, of my sister and I spending Sunday afternoons taping our favorite songs off
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If you are someone that is content to sit inside and never leave the comfort of your easy chair and chip bowl; you will most likely never need any of these products. For those that actually manage to get out and enjoy an active lifestyle (even if it’s only once a year while on vacation)
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Introduction A few weeks ago I was talking with an acquaintance and he told me that the TiVo that they had purchased for Christmas 2000 had really changed the way they watched TV. Their lives are busy (two school aged kids and both parents work) and this allowed all to watch what they wanted when
Program Requirements: Desktop: Windows 98/95 or NT 4.0 Pentium 100 with 32meg of RAM Bi-directional Parallel Port MP3 players are very popular right now and are great for listening to tunes while you are exercising, walking, biking etc. But what do you do while you’re driving or in the office and don’t want to wear
VRJoy are LCD shutter glasses that transform images, movies and games into stereoscopic 3D. These glasses will work with any computer that uses a CRT monitor. They will also work with any operating system. There isn’t any software that you have to install to use these glasses if you just want to view images, or
Official Gadgeteer Hands On Review: Program Master by Julie Strietelmeier Last date revised: 03/25/99 Are you a TV freak? A real couch potato? I’m not ashamed to say that I am and when I saw the Program Master from Scottsdale Technologies, I was pretty excited. What is the Program Master? It is a One-Button VCR
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The Tune In! remote control by Beery Systems, Inc. is a universal remote control that can be used to control up to 6 separate devices. It can be used to control TVs, VCRs, cable boxes, DSS/DBS receivers, amplifiers, amp tuners, audio cassettes, CD players, digital audio tape, laser disk players, …well, you get the
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Program Requirements: Desktop: Windows 95 System Configuration: Pentium 75mhz or faster Bi-directional Parallel Port, (ECP for optimal performance) 16MB RAM min. Sound card, microphone, speakers. Enough free disk space to store your videos. The eCam from Newcom Inc. is a desktop digital video camera that you can use to take videos, and email them to