Gear Diary

Technology is reaching all corners of industry, and some of its applications are imaginative and ecological. Take a look at IdleAire, a product designed specifically for cross country “big-rig” drivers. Most of us are aware that these truckers basically live out of their rigs and that many of these vehicles are set up like a […]

Help Judie and I celebrate the Grand Opening of our other website: Traveling Fools! We’re holding a contest for the month of March. Users can submit their vacation / travel related stories, tips or travel product reviews for a chance at winning one of two prizes donated by Journeyware. First prize is a Travelpro WalkAbout

I think this is honestly a first…I placed an order for the Sony CLIE TH55 with SonyStyle USA, and even though it showed a shipping date of February 20, I should be receiving it today. I can’t even remember the last time I ordered a new PDA from a manufacturer and got it before the

Reviewers Needed! I have a few goodies that I’m willing to mail out to 3 volunteer reviewers. These reviewers need to be able to write coherently, and must possess a digital camera that can take VERY good macro shots. Goodies up for grabs this time around are two webcams from Crayton Electronics. One for desktop

Happy Valentines Day! Here’s some cool news from T-Mobile. They have recently launched a new hi-fi ringer campaign for new and existing customers. Hi-Fi ringers are a new technology to T-Mobile and allow customers to download actual songs with lyrics as their ringtone; no more polyphonic tunes, hifi ringers are the real deal! As of

I need to be a proud mom for a minute and tell you all that Sarah just placed 3rd in Chemistry at her school’s Science Fair. Her project was “Preventing Enzymatic Browning on Apples and Bananas.” The District Science Fair is March 9th, so please keep your fingers crossed for her. :0)

Sony has finally come up with what may be the perfect CLIE – the PEG-TH55. This tablet style PDA comes with a laundry list of features, but perhaps the most important two are that it has a 480×320 high resolution TFT display and built in WiFi. Also worth noting is that the TH55 has 32MB

May I see a show of hands… how many of you out there hate winter as much as I do? If you’re feeling blue, cooped up and downright bored, then you might want to check out some of the Pocket PC games that ClickGamer has let me test drive: Dread Dracula This game is as

It seems like a million years ago that I was a Datebk3 user. I loved creating appointments then distinguishing them with little icons, and the floating appointments were a real convenience. Then I switched to the Pocket PC OS and I started using products made for that platform. Now that I am back in the

Regular readers may notice that Judie and I tend to write about more than just gadgets and technology when we visit trade shows. We enjoy sharing information about our accommodations, interesting people that we meet, the places we visit and of course the food we eat. Sometimes readers have complained that our trip reports read

Here is a product that you Palm OS users might like to take a look at: Hide ‘Em by Andreas Schönfeld. If you have icons for applications that are cluttering your launcher, perhaps because you have assigned that application to a hard button, then this is the product for you. Hide ‘Em helps you tidy

Jealousy…it’s such an ugly word. But that is exactly what I felt after I finished the most excellent corporate espionage thriller I can remember reading – Paranoia, by Joseph Finder. As I was reading the acknowledgements (yes, I always do that), I came accross Joel Evans’ and Wes Salmon’s names, two guys that I have

Two things I need to rant about tonight… 1. If you are going to write me and make like a satisfied customer that is recommending a product you have tried and liked, then don’t put a physical address at the bottom of your email that matches the physical address of the company you are recommending!

While at CES, Judie and I met up with Lisa Gade of PDA Buyer’s Guide.com, and I got a chance to test drive her Toshiba e805 Pocket PC. The 4 inch screen in 480×640 VGA mode totally made me drool. I had hesitated to purchase one because I thought it might be too large. I

CES was great, but slightly overwhelming! As Julie mentioned, while our SPOT watches won’t work where we live, we were impressed enough that we went ahead and got them. I’ll leave it to Julie to describe hers, but I got the Dick Tracy model, and I love it! I have finally got the wrist communicator