Gear Diary

I opted not to do the CES thing this year. Instead, I’m going to attend my first Macworld Expo next week in San Francisco, California. I’m really looking forward to it! I leave Saturday and come back Thursday. My plan is to try to get the show done in a day or so and use […]

Anyone else out there feel like we having a dry spell lately with releases of new and interesting gadgets? My end of the year tax induced spending spree was kinda boring. All I ordered was a Zoom H2 recorder (this is for my Ukulele Review site, but I might review it here too if there

Happy New Year everyone! I can’t believe how quickly 2007 flew by. It was a fantastic year for me both professionally and personally. Most notably, The Gadgeteer passed a very significant milestone by turning 10 years old. Also of significance, was the posting of 217 reviews and articles. Of those 217 reviews posted last year,

With only three days left in 2007, I find myself reflecting on all the products that I have had the opportunity to review this year. A quick look at my stats show that I’ve written 125 reviews in the last 365 days. Wowza! That’s a lot of typing! :o) Here are some of my favorite

Here’s a warm happy holidays wish for everyone! May Santa bring you all the gadgets that you’ve ever dreamed of, along with a generous supply of batteries! Like a lot of people, I’m taking off tomorrow to travel over the river and through the woods, for a family get-together. I’ll be back on Wednesday though

I’m on vacation from my day job until January 2nd. Yay! During my time off, I plan to work with Rob to implement some of the comments and ideas that you all gave me in The Gadgeteer turns 10 years old post. I will also be doing some shopping in order to spend some money

The folks at AT&T sent me the Pantech Duo (C810) to review. This is a small Windows Mobile 6 smartphone with a dual slider. The face slides up to reveal a dialing keypad… Slide the face to the right and it reveals a QWERTY keyboard. Pretty cool for a device that is 4.02 x 1.97

What follows is a contributed article from Purosol, a company that makes screen cleaning products. You can consider this posting both as information and advertising. They didn’t pay me to post this and haven’t sent me any products to try. I just thought it would be good info… Challenges in cleaning your new flat-screen TV

On 12/08/07, it will be 10yrs since I started The Gadgeteer website. It actually turned 10yrs old this past summer, but I like to count the real birthday on the day that I registered the domain name. Before that, I was running the site on GeoCities. So tomorrow is the day! I can’t believe how

I’m looking to increase our group of contributing writers by finding an additional Windows Mobile software reviewer and also a Symbian software reviewer. If you meet the following qualifications, please send me an email explaining why you should join the Gadgeteer team. 1. Able to contribute 1-2 reviews per month 2. Currently use a Windows

This toy doesn’t require batteries, firmware updates, cables, screen protectors or a case. It does require careful handling and some training though… After 2 years with out a dog, I finally caved in and got new puppy today. He’s an 11 week old schnoodle (cross between a poodle and a schnauzer) and as you can

A few weeks ago I posted a link to a site that offered Christmas ornaments made of circuit boards. Here’s another such site, but this one offers different types of jewelry. Debby Arem Designs has some really interesting offerings. I especially like the key chains, clip boards, and bookmarks. You might get some holiday gift

As of today, the comment system that was only implemented for the gear diary posts, will now be operational for reviews and articles. Posting via the VBBS forums will be turned off later today. Everyone will still be able to see old posts in the forum area, but they will become view only. All new

One of my co-workers at my day job (Cummins Inc.) has just started a new blog called A Better Geek. She co-authors the site and from what I’ve seen so far, it’s got a good mix of gadgets, Windows OS talk, Mac talk and general propeller head fun. Check it out.

This is pretty much off topic, but that’s never stopped me before has it? I just wanted to mention that I started up a second review website over the weekend. It’s called Ukulele Review and I’ll be reviewing CDs, DVDs, books, instruments and accessories that relate to this little four stringed instrument. I might have

Most of us are back to work today. Yay! Not… I slept through my alarm this morning. Argh! In case you weren’t aware, today is Cyber Monday, which is the online version of last Friday’s Black Friday. Today is the day when a lot of people are doing their online holiday shopping. Not me though,

I’m wondering how many of you were crazy enough to get up early and go shopping today? Me? No way! I didn’t drag myself out of bed until almost 9am ;o) My preferred method of shopping is in my pajamas in front of my iMac! If you share my lazy shopping style, here is a

I want to wish all of our readers a very happy Thanksgiving. You don’t have to be an American to appreciate the idea behind today’s holiday. Everyone should take a couple of minutes and reflect on what they are thankful for. I have so many things that it would take an hour to write this