Gear Diary

JAVOedge sent me a nifty little 4-pack of their Micro Swipes. They look like the kind of swag that you can pick up at a trade show, so I wasn’t expecting anything mind blowing when I opened the package… A Micro Swipe is a two inch long little puffy plastic pillows with a layer of […]

I wanted to pass on a link to a site called Coupon Winner. With the CouponScout tool, located within the various categories, consumers can compare coupon deals on merchandise from the top retailers, side-by-side without having to flip from one resource to another. Coupon Winners, a part of SurfMyAds.com, provides almost 7,000 money-saving offers from

I am happy to announce that we now have the ability to use avatars in the comment system. We’re using the universal avatar service called Gravatar. It’s completely free, so go to the site and sign up now :o) It will automatically associate the avatar that you setup for the email address that you used

Are you ready for February 17th, 2009? That’s the date when all full-power broadcasters will be required to convert all of their programming to DTV (Digital TV) and will no longer broadcast analog signals. As a result, to receive TV programming, some consumers will need to make changes in some of the equipment they currently

If after reading Ryan’s review of SLAPPA’s new Ballistix line of laptop bags and sleeves, you found yourself interested in buying one, SLAPPA has an offer to help you out. For the month of April, you will receive a 15% discount, if you use the coupon code “gadgeteerapril”. This code is good for all of

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