Gear Diary

It has been 30 days since I listened to a voice mail at work and heard 3 words that I’ve dreaded hearing all my life: You are Diabetic. Needless to say I freaked out for about a week. I had good reason, I watched my Mom slowly die of the disease. From amputation to congestive […]

We are back safe and sound from our trip to Hawaii. While Julie was suffering from the snow you saw in her pictures, we were lazing on the beach, walking over lava flow on the Big Island and climbing Diamond Head on Oahu. What a contrast! These are two pictures from Christmas Day – nothing

Note to those of you dreaming of a white Christmas… STOP IT! Since early this morning, we’ve (Columbus, IN) received about 9 inches of the white stuff, with as many as 11 more predicted before the end of the day tomorrow. Eesh! Having a Direcway satellite dish for my broadband isn’t too fun when you

Only 5 shopping days till Christmas! Let the stress begin (or continue)… For those of you asking about the Dell x50v review, it has unfortunately been put in stasis for a few more days. Lucky me, I stumbled upon a weird bug that causes the Bluetooth license to expire. Everytime I turn on the PDA,

Well, I will say Happy Holidays to all of you a bit early, as we are off to catch a plane shortly. I hope that you all wake to gadgety surprises under the tree, and that your family time together is wonderful! I’ll be back December 26th – hopefully with a tan and a new

It’s here! It’s here! The Sony PSP arrived about an hour ago. I have to tell you all that Brando is the absolute greatest for going above and beyond the call of duty to get one of these for me to review! The device is just gorgeous! Much nicer than the Nintendo DS in looks.

Can you say HECTIC? I spent the weekend moving everything but the furniture out of my computer room in anticipation for the remodel. The remodel began yesterday. My contractor moved all the furniture in front of my only TV in the house. ACK! Good thing I moved my computer upstairs and was able to wirelessly

Today, Steve and I decided to take Sarah on a short road trip to the Caverns of Sonora. On the drive, I kept myself occupied with the newest incarnation of an old favorite, Bejeweled 2, by Astraware. It you have a PDA with as glorious of a screen as the new high resolution Palms and

If you haven’t heard of ATP flash cards, you might be interested in knowing that they are high speed, completely waterproof, dust proof, ESD proof, and extreme temperature resistant. They also use Samsung SLC NAND flash components, the longest lasting, fastest flash in the industry. Their company sent me a 60X 512mb SD card to

If you are in the market for a special PDA case, then be sure to check out my recent review of the nSignia, from Australia. Graham Walker, the company’s director, has offered a special 15% discount to the first 100 people between now and Dec 31, 2004. Just enter the code UAPX79FE at checkout. While

Hey all. I’ve returned from a Mobius trip that I attended last week in Seattle, WA. Microsoft put up a group of us (about 20 or so people representing the top mobile related websites). This was my 4th Mobius trip and like last year it was focused almost entirely on Smartphones and associated software /

Happy Monday! Today is Gadgeteer Christmas Review Bundle Day. Whoohoo! I’ve already posted the first two, but there are MANY more on the way. When it is all said and done, we may post as many as 12-15 reviews today. I think that will be a Gadgeteer record. Right now I’m working on a review

Well, I did it! I had set a goal to post seven items in Julie’s and my annual Christmas review-athon extravaganna, and I just finished the last one. Now it’s bed time! Tomorrow should be fun – lot’s of gift-inspired reviews for your holiday pleasure. :0) Speaking of holiday pleasure and gift-giving, be sure to

I didn’t do the after Thanksgiving shopping thing this year. Actually I never do that… ;o) Instead I’ve planted myself in the basement in front of my computer and am hard at work on at least 4 reviews (1 down, 3 to go) for our annual Gadgeteer Christmas review bundle. Look for Judie’s and my

Even though Snopes.com dismisses the idea, I am still blaming our Thanksgiving turkey for this afternoon’s lethargy. It was about all I could do, to crawl on the couch and read an eBook this evening without falling asleep. It was a good thing that I had finally received the iPAQ extended battery I had been

Happy Thanksgiving Day everyone! Hope you all have a great day filled with family, turkey dinners, pumpkin pies, naps, football games, leftovers and websurfing! :o)

Finally…I finished Arvale. This is a big deal for me, as that is not only the first RPG that I ever seriously played, but also the first I have ever finished. Yes, I got seriously stuck a few times and thought about quitting, but the game was so interesting and fun that I kept coming

I bought the Nintendo DS on the way home from work tonight at Circuit City. It’s charging as I type this. Whoo Hoo… — I love it when technology solves problems! A couple weeks ago, the west coast ABC feed on DirecTV was down one night and I missed recording one of my new favorite

Hey all… This should be a great weekend as I have 2 new toys to play with. One is gadget related and the other isn’t. The gadget is the Dell X50v Pocket PC that arrived a day or two ago. I’m liking it pretty well so far even though I did have a slight problem

I would have never in a million years thought that it would be possible, but I have been sucked into an RPG! I was sent a notice from Peter Balogh, of PDA Mill that their new game Arvale was available. So I went to take a look, and I even sent Julie and email to