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My Life Pocket Digital Photo Frame

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Not so long ago, proud parents carried small photo albums called brag books loaded with pictures of their families.  Brookstone is offering the 21st century version of the brag book – the My Life Pocket Digital Photo Frame.  This portable frame offers a 3.5″ screen with 320 X 240 resolution.  It has a rechargeable battery for

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Another Wall Outlet Organizer Thingy

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It is now my lifelong quest (which started last year) to find and report about every wall outlet organizer product in the world. I found another one today – yay me! It’s the Driinn Cell Phone Charging Ledge. This one isn’t nearly as elegant as some of the others I’ve told you about, but since

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Kill-A-Watt Powerstrip from P3 International

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Over the years, The Gadgeteer has reviewed a couple of Kill-A-Watt products – most recently, the Kill-A-Watt EZ by Julie.  Now P3 International is offering the Kill-A-Watt PS, a powerstrip that protects your equipment while monitoring their energy usage.  Instead of monitoring a single device, the powerstrip collects data from all devices plugged in to the six regular

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La Fonera 2.0N Wireless Router Review

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The gateway between your home/office network and the rest of the internet is your router, and in most cases it’s  a very ‘dumb’ device. That’s started to change, with routers becoming more useful, and I started thinking about getting an upgrade. I’ve been using a Linksys WRT-54GL with DD-WRT firmware for the last couple months

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HP Printing Mailbox with Presto Service

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Recently, Julie posted that she still gets a lot of interest in the old MailStation email device more than ten years after it was reviewed.  People still want to provide some method for getting email to older relatives who have no interest in using a computer.  The HP Printing Mailbox uses the Presto service used

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iMo Digital Photo Frame Printer

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Recently we had a post about a digital frame with a built-in scanner.  Now here’s the iMo Photo Frame with a built-in printer!  Pictures display on an 8″ 800 X 600 pixel LCD screen.  The frame has 1 GB internal memory, and it has slots for USB, SD, CF, and other memory cards.  The built-in printer

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Omron Full Body Sensor Scale Review

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There are only 2 full days left before January 1st, 2010 and we all know what that means. It’s new year’s resolution time, the time of year when everyone makes promises to themselves to start working out, eating better and losing weight. For the past 5 years, I haven’t needed to make that resolution because

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