Gear Diary

I ordered the ETEN M500 Pocket PC Phone Friday from Mad Monkey Boys Gadgets and it arrived bright and early Monday morning. This a cute little phone! At first I was worried about the signal strength that it was reporting, but it appears that the on screen indicator is just not very accurate. We’ll see […]

Hi all! I am writing this entry from a £1/20 minutes internet cafe that I found off of the Royal Mile, here in Edinburgh Scotland. You would not believe how ancient the computer I am using is, but I am not complaining – believe me, as this is the first internet access I have had

Happy Friday! I’m looking for some show offs. I want to expand the popular Featured Gadgeteer (Gadgeteer of the month) articles into other featured stories. I know there are those of you out there that are just dying to brag about your gear, your cool car, your favorite gear bag and its contents, how you

Happy Monday everyone! Yeah, I know that I shouldn’t be so peppy, but the work day is half over already and I have a fun review scheduled for tonight that will hopefully be of interest. Nope, no hints… You’ll just have to check back later. — I haven’t returned the Nokia 6230 yet to my

This post is for all of you antique watch fans… I recently inherited my grandmother’s Avalon pocket watch, circa 1935 – 1940. Although the crystal was broken and the movement was quite dirty, the watch seemed to be keeping decent time. It came with a really fabulous chain that could either be worn as a

Tapwave, we hardly knew you! So I was checking out Engadget (as I often do), and I noticed they had a blurb about Tapwave killing the Zodiac. So I went to the Tapwave site…and got a surprise! “We are sorry to inform you that the Zodiac business was discontinued and service and support are no

It’s Saturday and since it is a least 10,000 bazillion degrees outside, I’m down in my basement surfing for… GSM phones :o) Verizon is about to be history for me folks! A couple weeks ago I noticed that the Verizon tower less than .5 miles from my house had new equipment on it. It had

I had a problem start occurring in Outlook about a week ago, and it was really starting to frustrate me – to the point that I started running Thunderbird just to check a single email account – but the issue was still not solved! I should probably stop for a moment and give you some

Yesterday I made my first visit to a Mac addict’s holy place. Yes, an Apple store. The Keystone at the Crossing Apple store in Indianapolis, IN to be precise. I was able to leave the store without spending any money, but it was pretty difficult considering all the yummy products they had on display. I

<cue the Hallelujah chorus> My Samsung SPH-i550 is syncing now! Those of you that have been following the saga know that it came with no software and the i500’s would not work. Julie sent a copy of her Treo 650 software disk and after trimming off all of the Treo specific utilities and applications (which

Julie and I were IM’ing tonight when I mentioned that anytime I even start to think that I might have spent too much on my Samsung i550, I just take a look at the various offerings on the Wireless Imports site. Surprisingly enough, she had not heard of this site so I figured I would

As Britney Spears would say (sing): oops I did it again! What did I do? I just placed an order for an Apple iMac. So this will be switch #3. They say the 3rd time is the charm, so we’ll see :o) What made me decide to take the plunge again? Well, I had a

Happy 4th of July! If you’re not outside enjoying the holiday, you might want to check out Vaja’s new interactive case creation system that they have just implemented. It allows you to choose front and back case colors to see what your design looks like before you place an order. If you’re bored, you should

I just received a box from Australia that was filled with nine gorgeous nSignia PDA cases, including my breathtaking new black stingray iPAQ 4700 with extended battery flip-case. I think that it is safe to declare nSignia the premier exotic leather case manufacturer. At first I thought that all of the nine cases Graham had

Last summer I became a veritable recluse while playing PDAmill‘s Arvale: Journey of Illusion. It was the first Turn based RPG that had caught my interest to the point where I had no choice but to play until it was finished, like a crack-addicted junkie. Today I just got word that Arvale: The Ocean of

This has nothing to do with gadgets or technology, but I had to share my latest health news. For those of you following along at home, I was diagnosed with Diabetes this past December. At that time my A1C test was 6.7, then 3 months later it was 6.4 and now it is 6.0 which

I’m back, and what a week it was! We went to Kansas City, Missouri and spent a wonderful week with Steve’s sister and her family. While there, we visited the Botanical Gardens and the Zoo, and I got some great impromptu shots of the animals with my i550’s built-in camera. Back in the real world,

I just got off the phone with Verizon. I decided it was time to turn off the data plan on my Verizonized Treo 650. The last month I had only used 13k. Definitely not worth the $49.99 I was paying per month! OUCHY! Now if I need to check something online, I can pull from

The new site is now live and permanent. The DNS switch was flipped last night. We’ve experiencing a few hiccups this morning (the server crashed for approximately 2hrs), so please let me know if you experience any strange behaviour. This new site actually feels much faster to me. What do you all think?

I’ve been using my new HR10-250 DirecTV / TIVO PVR for a few days now and so far I like it. Being able to record and pause live HD programming is great! I do have a few gripes though… The guide is slower to navigate than my 5040 ReplayTV, and I no longer have the