Gear Diary

Lexar Media was kind enough to send me a sample of their latest enhanced Memory Stick. This is a translucent purple stick that has a green LED safety light that lights when you write. The LED gives you a visual indicator when it is in use so that you won’t eject it during the process […]

This has been a complete roller-coaster of a week. On Wednesday I took my husband to the ER, and he was immediately admitted after a ctscan showed an unidentifiable mass in his lower abdomen. What has ensued has been a steady system of ups and downs. Down when the doctor kept dropping words like “possible

The folks at QuickTap contacted us recently to tell us about their new Palm OS launcher application. Launcher Plus! This launcher has support for external storage (memory sticks, SD medias), can launch programs from memory stick, and SD medias directly, beam directly from memory stick, and has theme/skin support.

I have two things I want to tell you about today…ready? The first is that I finally got my Gateway laptop’s SP1 issues squared away with the expert help of Matt Nelson, owner of N2 Systems here in San Angelo. Thank you Matt!! The second item is a confession. Here goes: I have done basically

Sometimes the littlest thing can make me so happy. :o) Like this morning, I was re-reading our Zayo review (the anal retentive in me was looking for typos…) and came across the passage where Judie says that she is using the Stabo Stylus Q with her Zayo. So I open my gadget cabinet and start

Here I sit in Westford, MA again for another week of training (for my day job). This time I’ve brought Mini-me (Fujitsu 2110 Lifebook) with me. Is it working out better for me than the PowerBook did on my last trip? So far, so good. Like the PowerBook, I just plugged in the ethernet cable

How do you spell frustration? XP-SP1. It installed fine on my Fuji, but when I installed it on my Gateway, I received the Blue Screen of Death with a fatal error explanation. :0/ Now my laptop just keeps trying to reboot, gets the fatal error, resets, try to boot, gets the error….…

Robert Crago just sent me some info on his Palm OS program called CalcWrite. It is a different style of calculator than what we are typically familiar with. Instead of tapping numbers, you actually write numbers and mathematical operators directly onto the Palm screen. Pretty cool!

Judie and I would like to congratulate mutual friend and past featured Gadgeteer Tim Warner on the birth of his new son this past weekend: Ashton Russel, 6lbs 7oz. Mom and baby are doing great while Tim is tired and hungry ;o)

I’ve been playing with the Zayo Pocket PC for a while, now. I didn’t think it was possible, but this tiny PPC has completely replaced my Toshiba! For those of you that would like to know more about this new PDA, Julie and I should have a joint review up sometime next week.

The popular Stowaway folding keyboard is now available for the latest Sony CLIE models including the NR and SJ series PDAs. They are being sold thru the Sony Style site, and have the CLIE Gear brand printed on the outside of the keyboard. The one I have been trying out, has a great feel, and

Well, I am back from my honeymoon, and it looks like there are all sorts of things to catch up on! First order of business is to tell all of you Palm OS users that if you haven’t yet tried Cutting Edge Software’s Quickoffice 6.0, then you owe it to yourself to do so. Quickoffice

Here is something for the doctors, pharmacists, scientists, healthcare professionals, students and academics in the crowd: The world’s largest database (over 46,000 entries) of medical, pharma, biotech & agrochem abbreviations for your Palm Pilot or Pocket PC.

Two of my favorite Pocket PC friends have written me with news!Alex Kac has released version 3.2 of Pocket Informant. In Alex’s words: “Some of the changes in this release include Pocket PC 2002 Phone Edition support, a day view time bar, tasks in the day view – and probably most appreciated of all –

A Razor Zayo Pocket PC evaluation unit arrived in my mailbox yesterday! This is the smallest Pocket PC to date! I’m falling in love with the size and metal case! Click on the thumbprint images below to see fullsize pics. Review to follow soon. Hopefully a Julie and Judie dually.

This is for those of you that may have read the Tom Bihn Empire Builder bag review and were thinking of purchasing one. Tom Bihn is offering a $15 off coupon for this bag. Just enter the coupon code of: EMPIREBUILDER during the checkout process.

If you were impressed by Vaja’s first i-Volution Morpheus case for the Compaq iPAQ, you’re going to love the Morpheus II. Changes from first version: It has a snap shut lid, One SD storage slot, and laser engraved personalization. I like this updated version better than the first one.

If you have been needing a way to visually monitor remote sites, equipment, or situations, take a look at the ObserverIII from Colorado Video. This device will take pictures and then by using CDPD (cellular) service, it will either upload the pictures to a website or e-mail them to you! I need one of these

The following info appeared in my mailbox the other day. Thought it might be of interest… Handango manages a site called Games@Handango (http://games.handango.com/) that is dedicated to mobile gaming, and we’re running an August special right now: 1. Add $35 or more to your basket at Games@Handango 2. Enter code “GAMES35” and click Recalculate 3.

Regarding the troubles I was having with Audible’s billing department: A full refund for all of my incorrectly billed months was credited to my AMEX account today. I would like to thank Jonathan Korzen, their Director of Public Relations, for taking care of this matter personally. :0)