Gear Diary

This time of year is hectic and stressful for a variety of reasons. But for me, the biggest issue is coming up with ideas to tell people when they ask me for my Christmas idea list. Most of my friends and relatives are terrified to buy me anything that resembles a gadget, so I’m usually […]

Hello folks! I’m happy to report that content links are working again and the forums are back up. Thanks for bearing with us during the past 36hrs or so that things were in flux. A big hand goes to Rob for staying up last night rebuilding databases and the web server configuration for the-gadgeteer and

If you’ve been trying to access any of the reviews on the site or read Rob’s announcement, you’ll know that we had a devastating server crash yesterday. Things still aren’t back to normal as you can tell. I’m hoping that we’ll be back in business by the end of the day today, but in the

I plan to write a full review soon, but I just wanted to post that for the most part I am liking the Nokia E61i smartphone. It’s not going to be my end all / be all phone, but it is a nice change of pace from the iPhone. I’m really amazed by the signal

I just received a bit of interesting news that I wanted to pass on to all of you… Handango, the leading retailer of smartphone content, is giving away one high quality, fully-functioning mobile software application for free each Friday on Handango.com through a new program called Free App Friday. The free application will only be

The season of giving is swiftly approaching. How about getting a head start by giving a laptop to a needy child. Your donation of $399 will give this gift, but you’ll also receive a laptop for yourself. The mission of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is to empower the children of developing countries to learn

I’ve been using the iPhone since the day I stood in line to buy one… During the time that followed, I’ve complained about its deficiencies, but kept right on using it. I truly think Apple used some kind of spray-on absorbing drug on the shell of the iPhone. There’s no other explanation for the reason

Nicola Harper of Acorn Studios sent me an email telling me about her geeky craft gifts. Check out her Geekware blog too. Fun stuff! Have you guys created anything similar, or re-purposed computer parts?

How many social networking sites do you guys subscribe to and actually use on a regular basis? I subscribe to quite a few, but the main ones that come to mind are : http://youtube.com/user/juliethegadgeteer http://twitter.com/thegadgeteer/ http://flickr.com/photos/thegadgeteer/ http://gadgeteer.stumbleupon.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/ http://www.plaxo.com/ http://www.facebook.com/ The order I have listed these sites is pretty much my order of usage. I

The FedEx guy brought my Leopard Family Pack around 1pm today. I started the upgrade at 3:30pm and was playing with its features by 4:30pm or so. The upgrade was painless. It was almost completely automatic. The only user input that it asked for was the language, which hard drive to install to and after

I recently posted a Gear Diary entry with ideas about a project to create an ultimate alarm clock. My plan (whenever I get time to actually work on it) is to use devices that I already own, like my iMac, some speakers, an Airport Express and a WiFi PDA or smartphone. This leads me to

If you read the thread that I posted a few days ago about non-gadget hobbies, you might remember that I mentioned wanting to buy a ukulele. Well, I ordered one over the weekend from an eBay shop called Ukulele4U and it arrived today. It’s a beauty and I thought I would share some pics with

Ever since I posted my Chumby review last week, I’ve been thinking about features that I’d include in an ultimate alarm clock if I could have everything that I wanted. I had actually goofed around with an idea of creating a clock a year or two ago, but didn’t get very far. My whole idea

I would guess that most of you reading the-gadgeteer are just as gadget obsessed as I am. I love gadgets and running this site, but I’ve come to realize that eating, breathing and sleeping gadgets is not always a good thing. Yes, admitting you have a problem is the first step… ;o) Sometimes a person

It was a good mail day for me today. Three different review samples showed up. Yay! I have to say though that the most exciting sample was a shiny Red Palm Centro from Sprint. I’ve only had a couple of hours to play around with it, but the Centro is making me consider that maybe

Have you guys seen some of the new iPhone commercials that they just started showing on TV? I saw 3 of them tonight during Prison Break on Fox. You know, I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a big fan of Apple products. Heck, I own 4 of their computers (24″ iMac, 20″ iMac

I posted a garage sale several weeks ago that helped me clean a lot of unused items out of Gadgeteer HQ. Once I packed up and shipped all those items away to their new owners, I uncovered a few more things that I thought I’d go ahead and put up for sale too. I’m in

Boys and girls it’s time once again to tease you all with some thumbnail images of three of my upcoming reviews. Let’s see just how gadget-savvy all of you are. Can you guess the identity of these products? Impress me with your expert knowledge. :o)

I received an email from Bill Moody of LapWorks asking for all of your help: We are asking LapWorks’ customers and other interested parties to help select the colors we plan to offer for the new Laptop Desk Futura. As you know, the newly-announced Futura will be LapWorks’ first portable laptop desk to come optionally

If you’re a Mac user and if you also have a Sony PSP, iPod, AppleTV or iPhone, you might want to check out one of these three video conversion applications from Roxio: Crunch, Popcorn or Toast… Their entry level ($39.99) application is called Crunch. It has a very simple drag and drop interface that allows