Gear Diary

I’m going to sound like a grumpy old woman in this post, but so be it… Am I the only person surfing the internets that gets really annoyed on April 1st when everyone that runs a website tries to be clever and posts ridiculous fake articles? After about five minutes, it makes me want to […]

I’m weird. Yeah, yeah, I can just hear everyone thinking out loud “Well duh! So what else is new Julie?!”… :o) So, here’s the thing. I don’t think I’ll ever read another physical book. Ever. There, I said it. I wholeheartedly prefer eBooks for a couple of very important reasons… 1. I can carry a

Last summer I bought an add-on HD DVD player for my XBox 360. I decided on HD DVD only because I’d been offered an HD DVD game to try out and needed a player to play it on. ;o) Now that the war between Blu-Ray and HD DVD is over, I’m wondering how many people

I’m shipping back that Pantech Duo tomorrow that I really liked. That has me wondering what you all are really liking right now? Which phone is currently making you very happy and why? For me, I just dragged the HTC S620 out of the drawer, synced it up to my Mac with MarkSpace’s MissingSync will

If you’re a uke player or a guitar player and also own a Palm PDA or smartphone, you might want to read the article that I posted the other day on my Ukulele Review site. I’m going to follow up in a week or so with another article looking at the same type of applications

Mary from psychoPEDIA.com sent me a link to a travel gadget shopping guide on her site that I found interesting and thought you would too. There are a couple of gadgets mentioned that I’d not seen before. Check it out :o)

The folks at ATP contacted me recently to ask if I would like to test their ProMax II CompactFlash card. They claimed that it is the world’s fastest UDMA CF card and even offered to send me one of their UDMA ready USB card readers to make sure I would experience the fastest file transfers

I’m sure that most of you have heard that wearing a copper bracelet can help you if you have arthritis. Supposedly wearing magnets can have the same effects on pain. Then there are those pads I’ve seen advertised on TV that you stick to the bottom of your feet to pull out all the toxins

In the spirit of Valentines Day, I thought it would be appropriate to share the love by offering my Nokia E61i up to one of you. Yeah, I’m nice like that. ;o) How can you be the lucky one that snags it? Just respond to this gear diary entry to tell us all how your

How many of you have called your own mobile phone just so you could hear it ring in order to find where you had left it? I know I have ;o) So when I heard about the Berry Locator application for Blackberry devices, I had to give a nod to the developer for a great

If you read my review of the American Innovation Roadshow Travel Alarm and were thinking of buying one, I have something for you that might sweeten the pot. The folks at American Innovation are offering two discount codes to all of you: TGRS15 – 15% off Roadshow for The-Gadgeteer.com readers. RS25 – 25% off Roadshow

Here are the top 10 most read reviews and articles on The Gadgeteer for January 2008: Kill-A-Watt EZ Electricity Usage Monitor review Aliph’s Jawbone Bluetooth Headset review Apple iPhone Bluetooth Headset review iTrip iPod FM Transmitter Motorola Razr V3 review Revisiting the Palm TX article Twister Tube review Emulators for the Sony PSP: An Overview

A new online comic launched yesterday that will appeal to all the IT geeks out there: www.heroeshappenhere.com/comic There are only two strips so far, but it might be fun to keep an eye on. Reading the strip requires a Windows plug-in for Internet Explorer… I haven’t read many comics online, are there any good ones

If you’re interested in booq products, you can save 10% by using the promo code GT8.

My Dad called me at work the other day to ask me if I could look up the price of an AC charger for the new Garmin nuvi GPS that he had recently purchased. In his retirement he has taken on a job that requires him to drive all over Indianapolis every day, picking up

(This is an article that was sent to me by the company that is offering an iPod repair service. Consider it an unpaid advertisement…) Do you replace or repair your broken iPod? By Glen Kashgegian Unlike any other consumer product introduced in the last ten years, the Apple iPod has taken America by storm. In

I decided to be a lemming and use the iPhone last week during my trip to San Francisco for Macworld. It worked fine last week in California, but now I’m back home and I’ve still been using it… but guess what? It doesn’t work so well when it’s 6 degrees in the morning and you

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I had planned to post a trip report article about Macworld Expo tonight, but the wifi in my hotel room is horrendous. As a result, there’s no way I’ll be able to upload pix. So a report will be posted after I get home Friday. This was my very first Macworld, so I can’t really

I got in yesterday evening. Haven’t had time to get the lay of the land yet, but getting ready to take a city tour in about an hour. :o) Hope everyone is having a nice weekend…