Gear Diary

For the last week or so, I have been plagued by this “1 Unread Message” on my PPC’s Today screen. This happens whether there is anything unread in my folder or not, and even when there is nothing whatsoever in my inbox. I have done soft resets, and was contemplating doing a hard reset, when […]

I have received a bit of sad news from Mark Hammill. Metal Styli, his custom business is closing down, “Due to circumstances out of our control.” His styli prices have been slashed, most by 50%. If you ever wanted to get a fabulous replacement stylus for your PDA, then you should get one of these.

Today’s guest review of the iPod Photo by Jody Farr marks the 1000th review posted on The Gadgeteer since its inception in 1997! That is a LOT of reviews folks! To break it down, I’ve written over 500 of them, Judie has written over 300 and we’ve had 200 or so guest reviews. I’d really

Thursday Tidbits: We have signed up with a new affiliate store that sells all types of mobile phone acessories. Please check it out. — Palmsource has added a useful section to their site. It’s a How-to Expert Guides section that has info for using your PDA to help with everything from Amateur Radio to Real

Ed, the Editor-in-Chief at Brighthand, just posted an article about Palm OS 6 (Cobalt) possibly not appearing until 2006. In Ed’s article, palmOne’s president Ed Colligan was quoted as saying, “Nobody knows when we’ll start the shift to Cobalt, OS 6, or on which devices,” Mr. Colligan said. “For now, we’re saying that we’ve built

In celebration of Friday, we’re gearing up to have a mass gadget sale. We’ve already posted a few things on eBay, but will be listing more as the day and weekend goes on. We’re cleaning out our gadget cabinets and drawers in order to bring you some good deals and make us some extra money

Tomorrow is Election Day for all of us here in the US. Consider this a friendly reminder to get out there and vote! And while you are waiting in line at the polls, you might as well do something geeky with your Pocket PC and play a cool new game I’ve been checking out. It’s

Everyone prepare to roll your eyes. Ok ready? I’ve changed my mind and am NOT selling my hx4700 after all. Are you done rolling your eyes now? Ok. So why did I change my mind? I dunno, I’m a girl… I’m entitled ;o) Actually, the real reason is that right now there isn’t anything else

Ok! Let’s start a countdown…!!Julie just IM’d me with a link to the new 60GB color Apple iPod Photo. My $1 says that she will ditch the 40GB within a month and get this bad boy. Who’s in? ;0)

Well guys, I’ve decided to sell my 4700. Why? I just can’t deal with the touchpad. It’s a deal breaker for me. I like to play some action games and it just don’t work well for that task. I love everything else about it though… If one of our readers is interested in buying this

I am in the process of running some major benchmark tests on my iPAQ hx4700. I want to compare those results to the ones I get after I have received my iPAQ back from its Pocket PC Techs’ 128MB internal RAM upgrade. It will be hard to go back to the iPAQ 1945 for a

I’ve been reviewing an Audiovox SIR-PNP3 Sirius satellite radio for the past week, and I have to say that I’m totally hooked on it already. Now I’m hearing that their competitor XM radio may announce a portable / wearable satellite radio next week that could supposedly have a built in hard drive. Think TIVO for

Here’s something that may be of interest to Tungsten T / T2 / T3 owners. InfosystemsPro LLC is selling replacement screws for the slider assembly. They are even offering 24 Kt. gold plated screws for those of you that want to up the bling-bling quality of your PDA.

Not exactly gadget related, but definitely worth a mention: For those of you that have a macabre sense of humor (like me), I submit to you the most unusual “family portraits” ever…just in time for the Halloween season. ;0)

My sweet husband ordered me one of the Power Stations offered in the Herrington catalog that we have posted in the Latest Gadgets section. It came today and I must say that it has solved a huge electronics to outlet ratio problem that had me stumped. The Power Station holds up to three electronic items

I was goofing around this afternoon trying to find fun new Shockwave Flash content to watch when I stumbled upon a series called Zombie College. This stuff is the BEST! If you have a twisted sense of humor like I do, you will love these short cartoons. Icebox.com, has the first episode that you can

I received a very nice surprise in the mail today! I’m sending a giant THANK YOU to MattP9 for sending me The Adventures of Indiana Jones (Raiders of the Lost Ark/The Temple of Doom/The Last Crusade) DVD set. This was one of the items on my Amazon wish list. I’m on vacation next week, so

Well, it looks like Sirius Satellite Radio just became a major contender. In a $500 million deal, they signed Howard Stern to a five year contract beginning January 2006. Whether you listen to him or not, this defection by Howard Stern from mainstream radio to satellite is big news. Add to that the fact that

Now that I am back to using a Pocket PC as my daily driver, I am once again enjoying the built-in Today Screen and all of the little programs that can be displayed there. These make my whole PPC experience more enjoyable and personalized. Two of the programs I can’t do without, Journal Bar and

I bought an Xbox this afternoon. Although I’ve had almost all of the handheld gaming devices (Gameboy original, Gameboy Color, Gameboy SP, Atari Lynx, Sega Gamegear, and the GP32) on the market, this is the first gaming console that I’ve had since the Atari 2600 when I was a kid! I bought the Xbox because