Gear Diary

Iambic didn’t post these images for this purpose, but they serve as a perfect reminder of the difference between a regular Palm’s display resolution and a Sony CLIÉ’s. Here in “graphic detail” are the differences of what you see with 160×160, 160×320, 320×320, and 320×480 resolution. I know this is old news to some, but […]

It’s not even 7am on a Saturday morning, and I’m awake! What’s wrong with this picture? Actually nothing, I’m on my way to the airport to travel to Sedona, AZ for my first (REAL) vacation in probably 6-7yrs. WOW! I’m taking MiniMe (Fujitsu Lifebook 2110) with me of course, but don’t look for many (if

Here we go again…. Julie and I just put in our orders for the CLIE NX70V and its compatible LAN card at the Sony site. Reviews will follow, some time in November…

Here is a great website for those of you that would like to replace the rechargeable battery in your Palm or Pocket PC PDA. Laptops For Less is selling complete kits to replace the PDA battery for several brands: Compaq (Ipaq), HP (Jornada), Sony (Clie), Palm (Pilot). They provide a complete kit and full instructions.

Not that I am in the market right now, but the next time I buy a vehicle, I want one with a navigation/DVD system built in. So I have a question for those of you that already have such a system in your car: Do you really use it? How / when do you use

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.