Gear Diary

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

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