Gear Diary

It’s time to start planning my fall (2nd week of October) vacation, and I’m looking for some ideas on where to go. Last October, I visited Sedona Arizona and had a great time (see my trip report). I want this year to be just as great or even better. Here are my criteria… I want […]

HELP WANTED: Case and Accessory Reviewers I’m looking for Zire 71, Sony Ericsson P800, Sony CLIE SJ33, HP1910 owners with good writing skills and access to a digital camera. I have 1 case and stylus for the HP1910, 1 case for the SJ33, 1 belt clip case for the P800, and 3 cases for the

It looks like a version of a gadget that I lusted over, back in 2001, may actually be available now…and I am debating whether I should get it or not! Rememeber the Triton that Julie and I went gaga over at Chicago COMDEX 2001? Well, I haven’t heard anything about that device since then, and

Fonts, fonts, fonts! Who doesn’t love fonts? Palm users have typically only had the choice of 4 font styles: Standard, Bold, Large, Large Bold. Wow, how exciting……….not! If you want to spizz up your Tungsten|T, Tungsten|C or Sony NX, NZ, TG, then check out the Fonts4 packages from Lubomir Veselovsky. Use it for 14 days

My new computer is all put together now! It was more time consuming building this one due to the special heat sink for the video card that I had to put together. I opted for the Zalman heat pipe. So far, I’ve booted up once, just to see if everything appeared to be working correctly.

I got quite a shock tonight. My Tungsten|T has been “dimming” on me over the last couple months, which I remedied by turning the brightness all the way to the top. I finally decided to call Palm, when I noticed that my battery life wasn’t all that it used to be, either. Guess what, all

Today, the final piece to my new quiet computer puzzle arrived… the case. I ordered a very cool CaseArts Knotty Burl painted Cheiftec case from Directron. This weekend is going to be a computer building funfest — at least that is my plan as long as the computer gods don’t frown upon me. Tomorrow night,

If you are like me, always adding programs to your Palm then taking them off after trying them for a bit, then you probably have a lot of garbage left on your PDA that you are not even aware of…lurking there…taking up space. I use Cleanup to take care of these things. You might want

I’m in the process of building myself a quiet PC. I ordered the Motherboard, Athlon 2800+ Processor, nVidia 128MB Video Card, TDK CD-RW, 1GB of RAM, and Win XP Home this past Wednesday afternoon. All of it was delievered today! WOW, that’s fast service if ever I saw it! I also ordered an ultra quiet

Holy WiFi Batman! I just received the Palm Tungsten|C and it took all of 3 seconds to get connected to my home wireless network! Immediate impressions: brilliant screen, Graffiti 2 is not that different than what I am used to, and the thumb keyboard is easy to use (though I wish the keys had been

I just got my new metal-clip SportBrain! YAY! Some of you may remember Julie’s and my joint review on this service a couple years ago, and you might also remember the bad news that SportBrain had eventually gone out of business. Well, they are back – and it looks like btter than ever! If you

Hey Palm fans! I’ve got the new Zire 71 in my hot little hands, and will have a full review posted tonight (Wednesday). I think Palm has a real winner with this one. We’ll have a review of the Tungsten | C soon too. Judie doesn’t have the evaluation unit yet, but it shouldn’t be

I went new TV shopping in Greenwood, IN today. Visited a Circuit City, HH Gregg, Best Buy and a Sears store. I had been all set to just purchase a 36″ flat screen TV, but from the moment that I saw the projection TVs, I was in love with their crisp, bright picture. WOW! My

One of my uncle’s favorite hobbies, while he was alive, was researching our family’s genealogy and history. Evidently he enlisted people from all over the country to aid him in his quest, and while he was alive he compiled a nice thick record of our history back into the 1700s. It gets a little murkey

I am green with envy! Fresh after seeing all of the cool European phones while we were in Scotland, now I have seen the ultimate! If I could just have this wrist phone, I think it would be my last phone for a long time – at least until its next generation came out. Why

Am I the only person that has waited till the last minute to get their taxes done? My appointment is tomorrow afternoon. Depending on the outcome, I may be shopping for a 36″ TV, or a new (quiet) PC. If I’m really lucky, both… Can you believe I’ve still not played around with the GamePark

The GamePark handheld game arrived yesterday. I was so busy, that I didn’t even open the package until midnight last night. First impressions without even turning it on, are that it feels cheaper than a Game Boy. I’ll actually play with it tonight! The Neuros review has been delayed until this coming Thursday. I had

A couple weeks ago, I was surprised with an “out of the blue” package from Landware. Inside was a CD containing the Money Magazine Financial Assistant for Palm Powered Handhelds. I have to admit, my first thought was, “I have an accountant, what do I need this for?” Little did I know!After running the CD

Check out the handheld game console that I just ordered from the UK. It’s called the Gamepark GP32. It is a USB color device that can emulate a wide variety of game systems including: NES, SNES, Sega, Spectrum, Aracde, MSX, GBC, NGP, and PCE. I should have it early next week, so we’ll see how

I had no sooner posted the updated iPAQ 3800 Antenna Stylus review, when Mark Hammill – its inventor, send me the following e-mail: “I have set up a coupon for your readers. The coupon ID is: TheGadgeteerC1 It will last till the end of the month and gives a 40% discount to anyone who orders