Gear Diary

Okay the preliminaries are out of the way and the concensus is in – 20GB iPod it is. Folks, I am a little bit concerned that so few of the 27 people that helped me complete this experiment have written back to both vote on their choice and to let me know that their address […]

For those of you that have been waiting and waiting and waiting, the Dell X50V Pocket PC review will be posted Friday. :o) — Just received a new addition to my gadget family: The Sony U71P mini XP tablet/ultraportable. So far this little guy is very nice! Review soon. — My computer room remodel is

For those of you that are helping with the Free iPod article – I just checked my status, and I have been approved! Expect a letter from me today asking you to vote for which iPod I should selct.I must hear back from you by Wednesday February 9 in order for you to continue on

Happy Monday I spent the weekend playing two games on my Pocket PC. Shape Shifter from Astraware, and Curse of the Pharaoh. Both are fun puzzle games that will keep your mind occupied for several hours (or until your battery dies!). Judie is addicted to Shape Shifter too. Can Astraware make a bad game? I

Rob Davis sent me an email that read, “I thought your blog readers would go for this contest — Volvo and Virgin Galactic are giving away a seat on Virgin’s premier flight to space. The contest will begin following Volvo’s Super Bowl ad in the 3rd quarter of the Bowl on Sunday.”Hmmmm – I might

I just wanted to give you all an iPod and FlatScreenTV giveaway update: I am still waiting for the iPod account to be approved. We have met the requirements and they are still reviewing it! I must say that they are either very thourough, or they are just very slow. We are going on two

Weekend Web Tidbits How would you like to play every old school Nintendo NES game via your web browser? Click the link below for a blast from the past! Pretty cool, although the games have no sound. How about a game of Lemmings using your web browser? This one DOES have sound! Now back to

Peter Balogh, the CEO of PDAmill Ltd sent word that they have just released two cool new games for public beta testing. One of them is the Smartphone port of their best-selling futuristic 3D racing game, Flux Challenge. The other one is a VGA resolution version of the award winning GameBox Solitaire for the new

James McCarthy of Pocket Anywhere Magazine has been kind enough to offer the latest issue of his online magazine to The Gadgeteer readers for free. This is a 48 pages of content for Palm OS, Windows Mobile, iPod and Mac OS X enthusiasts. If you register for a free account, he’ll even throw in a

In my quest to create an all digital music collection, I have ripped a good portion of my seemingly never-ending CDs. There are still quite a few that have not yet been done, and there have been more than a few errors and duplications along the way. Jeremy, with LIVEdigitally, has brought a new service

It must be kismet…no sooner had I mentioned that I had placed an order for the Sony DSC-M1, when one of our BB members (inspector_gaget) posted that he was not very thrilled with his. He was able to succinctly explain why, without making me question his loyalties to a particular brand or if there was

After being disappointed that I wasn’t able to use either the Orange SPV500 or the Motorola MPx220 smartphones here at my house on the Cingular or AT&T networks, I pretty much resigned myself to waiting until March (that’s when my current Verizon contract runs out) to upgrade to a new phone. As usual, my impatience

After stopping another CES attendee just to get him to show me his camera, I discovered the new Sony DSC-M1. I’ve put in an order, and I am hoping that I will love it. Otherwise, back it goes! Are you a product of the 80’s? I definitely am. I have a 75.55 on this quiz

Here’s the latest iPod update! I just clicked the button telling them to review my account because I have now met the requirements – thanks to those who helped me do it! Now the site says that I should wait 5 business days, and after their review of those who signed on under me (checking

Yes, Julie and I are back from Las Vegas, and it is great to be home! CES was a mad house this year between what had to be a record attendance and some truly nasty Vegas weather. Now that I have a moment to slow down, I just wanted to give those who are helping

We’re baaack (me in Indiana and Judie in Texas). As you can tell, we didn’t get around to posting the CES trip report while we were in Las Vegas. We hope to have it up tomorrow if Judie gets her luggage back today as all of the CES show pictures are on her MiniMe (Fujitsu

Judie and I are flying off to Las Vegas tomorrow to the Consumer Electronics Show to see gadgets, gizmos, widgets and thingamabobs! Our plan is to try to post our trip report Thursday and Friday nights while we are there. We’ll see if that actually happens ;o) We might be too busy gambling…. NOT!

After being assaulted by what has to be the one-thousanth “free iPod” advertisement, I have decided to conduct a scientific experiment. I am going to follow their process to see if I can really get a free iPod, but I am going to need our readers’ help. Now, before I go any further I should

I hope everyone has been enjoying New Years Day today! Yesterday was a fun day for me. I went up to Indy with Bill Ray (he has contributed several photography related reviews to the site…) to check out Nikon’s 8800 Coolpix camera. I liked it so well that I placed an order with NewEgg last

Happy New Year’s Day, everybody! With the new year comes new resolutions…some to be kept and some to be discarded after a week or so. I’m pledging the obvious ones – work out more, eat healthy, and keep my spending in check. Hopefully I can keep two out of three, if not all three. What