Gear Diary

I am trying to decide if I could (or should) get a “super portable” computer to replace my PDA and my Fuji laptop. Here is the thing – most of the Palm programs that I really use also have desktop counterparts. So technically, I could buy a super portable, like the Sony Vaio U70/U50 or […]

Scott Jordan of SCOTTeVEST sent me a prototype of one of their newest products yesterday. I have to say that their product line is really going south… South of your waistline that is. They are hidden cargo pants! For those of you that mourned the loss of the Docker Mobile Pant, you’re going to love

Happy 4th of July everyone! My family is headed to the ranch where we will enjoy a couple days of 100 degree weather, if the forecasts are correct. It doesn’t look like we will be setting off any fireworks this year – we wouldn’t want to be responsible for a grass fire! :0/I hope that

Happy Friday! It’s a 3 day weekend for a lot of folks here in the US. Hope you all have a great time attending picnics and watching fireworks! I ordered an LCD Monitor last night. I opted for a Samsung 710N. Hope it was a good choice. I couldn’t pass up the 10% discount and

I’m in the market for a 17in LCD monitor with a digital input that I can use with both my PowerBook and PC. If I was independently wealthy, I’d run right out and buy one of Apple’s new HD Cinema Display’s. Alas, I’m not… Anyone care to share some advice with me? I want a

Raise your hand if you can remember when I was using a Pocket PC as my primary PDA? Yah, I know – it’s been ages. Adding more ammo to my argument that I am not missing anything by using a Palm, eSoft Interactive has released one of my favorite Pocket PC puzzle games for the

Talk about fast… I listed my Sony CLIE TH55 on eBay and it was sold less than 3hrs later! I was wrong about not owning a Palm OS PDA after selling the TH55. In the process of boxing it up and adding a few extras to it, I came across my Palm V (which had

I’ve just posted my Sony CLIE TH55 on eBay. When it sells, this will be the first time since the PalmPilot was first introduced, that I won’t have a Palm OS PDA of my own. This will be true until the OS 6 devices are finally released… Which seems to be taking For-EVER! For the

Yesterday, we took a ride to the Mini dealership in San Antonio. Interestingly enough, my car needed a software upgrade. Supposedly, I will now have even smoother starts in first gear. I wish someone could create a software upgrade for me, to give me smoother starts first thing in the morning… ;0)

I just posted all the details about our latest contest: Show Us Your Space. Can you believe that it’s been amost a year since we had our last contest? Wow, time flies! I have to tell you that the idea for this contest is purely selfish on my part. I’m looking for ideas to remodel

I would like to give a great big “Thank You!” to Tyler Puckett for sending gMail invitations to Julie and me. He could have just as easily actioned them on eBay. Tyler, you are a good guy! :0)

Monday Morning Quickies We’ve got a Gadgeteer Garage Sale started on eBay. Take a look, maybe there’s something we listed that you just can’t live without! We have a big contest in the planning stages that I hope to announce either late this week or next Monday.

Pardon me while I pat myself on the back. I was just looking to see what I needed to write about for tonight’s post, when I realized that Monday’s LapPads review was actually my 500th review! I guess it is fitting that it was the review to be Slashdotted. Wow, 500 reviews in almost 7

I just got an email from Alex, with Slappa – makers of the multimedia storage products I recently reviewed. He said to let you all know that if you order from their site you can enjoy a 10% discount (until the end of June) by entering the code “gadgeteer.” If you have been looking for

Whew! Here it is 4 days after returning from vacation and I’m just now crawling out from under the piled up work from my day job, Gadgeteer stuff and the rocks in my yard (don’t ask…). I’d like to thank all of you for the Birthday wishes in the discussion forum and for the personal

It’s the end of an era…Since Sony has announced that they will no longer be making PDAs for the US market, and since I do not presently even own a CLIE, I have regretfully listed my 1GB Memory Stick on eBay. You know, even though my TH55 was such a lame experience with Sony’s customer

Games like this make me almost wish that I had a Pocket PC again…PDAMill has released their alpha version 0.2 demo for Flux Challenge, their upcoming 3D racing game. According to their site: “This unique racer revolves around a world of magnetic-levitation tunnels. While originally designed for mass transportation, it soon spawned many underground ship-racing

Julie has been here since Saturday and we have been having a great time! We climbed to the top of the mountain behind the Indian Lodge in Ft. Davis, trekked through the Limpia Creek Primitive Area, and last night we arrived at my family’s ranch where she saw her first rattlesnake. Yikes! We’ve been taking

In a few days, I’ll be winging my way to Texas to spend a week with Judie and her family. I won’t be lugging my Powerbook with me on this trip. I figure I can check my email from Judie’s PC if I want to. I will probably just bring along a PDA and digital

I just made the switch form Verizon DSL to Cox Cable…and now I am wondering why I waited so long! Using Verizon was truly becoming an ordeal, but it was still better than dial-up – but just barely! For instance, it got to where I would have to reset the DSL modem up to six