Gear Diary

One of our readers (Aequitas) has graciously decided to give away 6 GMAIL invites. To make things a little more interesting, he’s decided to make a contest out of it. The contest involves posting a small story about which one of your current gadgets you could not live without and why. Judie and I have […]

Perhaps you all have noticed that The Gadgeteer has long had an Amazon affiliate bookstore as well as a Clickgamer software store. Well, Julie and I are trying something new. We decided to create a page with nothing but affiliate links for stores and companies that either interest us or that we think might interest

If you are using a Pocket PC but you haven’t updated the built in Contacts, Calendar and Tasks applications software, then you seriously need to check out Pocket Informant. A lot of tweaks have been made since I first tried this program in 2001 and first wrote about it in 2002, but one thing that

The wait is over! I just came home to find my hx4700 on my doorstep. It’s already out of the box and charging. Wow, it’s smaller than what I imagined it would be. I’m already in love ;o) Judie just informed me that hers just arrived too. As always, we will use these new PDAs

While Judie and I both wait with our noses pressed up against the front window waiting for the DHL guy to drop off our shiny new HP iPAQ hx4700’s tomorrow, there’s a review at Pocketnow.com that is worth checking out. — Info junkies will be excited to learn that Town Compass has a new version

Scott Raulinaitis with Tapland emailed me last night saying, “I wanted to let you guys know that Tapland celebrated its one-year anniversary just a week or so ago and we’ve been running a week full of contests this past week. Our final contest kicked off on Friday and will close on Monday at 11:59pm EDT.

Do you ever get that deja vu all over again feeling? Well, I just did… Judie and I just canceled our iPaq HX4700 orders at Buy.com after reading some forums that they are really backordered. Third time is the charm as they say… We have reordered with PC Connection and were double and triple assured

File this under the heading “Why am I not surprised?!“: Julie’s and my 4700s did not arrive yesterday. We may or may not get them on Monday…but I am figuring it will be Tuesday as the orders are still showing “Sent to Warehouse” – the same designation they have shown since noon on Thursday! Lame

Special thanks go out to Stephen L. Dattilo who sent me a gift of his Logitech MX700 wireless mouse after he upgraded to a brand new version. He had seen that I had the MX700 listed on my Amazon wish list. So far, I’m really liking the feel of this device. And the best thing

Julie and I just cancelled our HP iPAQ 4705 eCost orders and changed them to HP iPAQ 4700 orders from Buy.com this morning? Why? Because Buy.com is showing the 4700 as in stock and shipping! Right now we think that the only differences between the 4700 and the 4705 may be 4700’s lack of a

PDAmill is running a 50% off promotion on all their Palm OS products this week. This includes the Palm OS versions of Snails, GameBox Asia, Classics, Gems and Solitaire. To use this special promotion you have to go to www.pdamill.com, add the item(s) to your shopping cart, then enter ‘PDAMILL’ as the promotion code, then

This is my Public Service Message for the week: If you have been watching my list of favorite Palm and Pocket PC programs for any length of time, then you’ll know that eWallet, by Ilium Software has been on that list since the beginning. I consider this program to be absolutely necessary. In all honesty,

eBook fans will be interested to know about the special going on over at Fictionwise. They are giving away a bunch of books for free. There’s something for everyone: Science Fiction and Fantasy to Romance and Mystery. — Are there any other FireFox browser fans out there? I had used it on my PowerBook and

CLIE User Club in Japan has what I believe may be the first review of the Sony PEG VZ-90, so I am posting the translated and original versions. What do you all think?

Thanks to everyone that emailed me with info regarding Sony’s new CLIE. The PEG-VZ90 has 95mb of RAM, Palm OS, and an OLED display. This device looks gorgeous to me. Well, all except for the $900 price tag! Too bad it’s not coming to the US. >:o[ It would have been cool to test out.