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Wow, this has sure been a chaotic week! I just looked and noticed that I hadn’t entered a new diary entry in 7 days. Where did this week go anyway? My goals this weekend are to get really acquainted with the Zaurus c760 (I’ve not had any real time with it yet), setup a new

Did you hear the one about a teen that snapped a picture of his would-be abductor with a camera enabled mobile phone? You gotta love it! Does anyone else have any good stories about how they use the camera on their mobile phone or PDA? I am sure you all remember my McLaren F1 encounter

Everyone ready for the weekend? I know I am! Among other things, I’m going to take a test drive on a CityMantis electric bike (review coming soon) and play with my new Sharp Zaurus C760. Those of you that might have read my FlexUSB review and were thinking about buying one, will be interested in

Aloha! Well, my family will be saying that again on Monday. Yes, it is almost time for our annual trek to the beautiful state of Hawaii, and once again, to Waikiki beach. After spending spring break in freezing cold Scotland and then suffering through another scorching West Texas summer, we are ready to get to

The Gadgeteer Spirit Contest voting is now open. You can vote here. Good luck to those of you that submitted entries! In other news, I’ll have a review of the HP2215 posted later this week. I’m getting a Sharp Zaurus C760 delivered tomorrow from Hong Kong. Now to find a way to translate it to

The Show Us Your Gadgeteer Spirit Contest is almost coming to a close. You still have time to get your entries in by midnight EST July 25th. So far we only have a total of 16 entries, which means you have a great chance at winning one of the prizes: 1st Place $200 Cash Prize,

We have a new contributor in the discussion area! Mike Roselius (AKA SQLDBa). He’s going to be helping us all find the latest gadget deals, sales, closeouts, discount codes etc. So check out Rosie’s Gadget Deals forum! Also, thanks for all the emails asking to be one of the people to review the Innopocket hard

VeriChat, by PDA Apps, is the shiznit. If you have a connected Palm and you want to be able to chat with your friends and co-workers via Yahoo!, ICQ, AOL Instant Messenger & MSN Instant Messenger, then this is the program that can do it. You can log into one or all the services at

Help Wanted! I’m looking for some people interested in reviewing the following brand new hard cases from Innopocket: Toshiba e740, Palm Zire 71, Palm Tungsten C, HP iPAQ 1910, and Sony CLIE NX series. If you own one of these PDAs, have a digital camera that takes good macro (close up) pictures and are a

Anyone else out there enjoy watching TV shows like Trading Spaces or While You Were Out on The Learning Channel (TLC)? I think it’s really fun to see how people remodel different rooms. I keep thinking that I would like remodel the Gadgeteer Control Center (my office) this year, and thought it would be fun

Remember when I said that the next vehicle I bought would have an in-dash GPS system? Well, after reading all of the pros and cons our Gadgeteer readers were kind enough to post and after trying out the Destinator software in my iPAQ, I became convinced that mobile (and therefore – transferrable and portable) is

I hope everyone had a great 4th of July! Here in West Texas, we are enjoying our second day of rain and under 80 degree weather – which if you knew how dry and hot we usually are, you would understand this is a very good thing. :0) I received a package from Brando today,

Here’s wishing everyone a safe and happy 4th of July holiday weekend! Have fun watching fireworks shows, attending cookouts and celebrating our independence! We’ll be back Monday with a new review! Until then, be sure and check out the Show Us Your Gadgeteer Spirit Contest. We’ve already received a few entries that have been posted

Tell me the truth, am I the only person out here that is totally bored with PDAs right now? Why do I feel like the golden age of PDAs is long gone? Remember when you just had to download and install every new program that you found for your PalmPilot on PalmGear? Remember when Hackmaster