2007 January

Archive | January, 2007

January 20, 2007

The Trouble with Treos…..

I left the room for a minute, and I guess my Palm got lonely.

iSkin ProTouch Keyboard Protector Review

With the increasing amount of time that people are spending on their computers these days, be it for work or pleasure, eating and drinking in front of the computer is commonplace. With this comes the risk of spilling that coffee or cup of Diet Coke (Judie ), or dropping crumbs of that cookie into your [...]

Unboxing the Fujitsu LifeBook T4215 Tablet PC

How did you ring in 2007? At about 11:50, I got online and placed my last gadget order of 2006 at the Fujitsu site, buying the T4215 Tablet PC. It has been an agonizing 20 days waiting for my first non-UMPC tablet to show up, but it finally shipped from Osaka Japan on the 15th [...]

The VITO Technology QuickContact For Pocket PC Phone Edition Review

If you own a Smartphone with hard numeric buttons or a Pocket PC Phone Edition with an always visible keyboard such as the Treo, then you probably don’t need the program I’ll be talking about today. But if you have a Pocket PC Phone Edition that is all screen with very few hard buttons – [...]

Holy Cow…It’s Cold!

I can’t remember the last time we had this much snow! For those of you that are in Australia – ahem, Mitchell and Jenneth – enjoying your 100 degree summer heat, let this pictorial be a reminder of the freaky things nature is doing in Texas… Sarah woke me up at 5 am this morning [...]

The Nokia 770 Internet Tablet Review

The Nokia N800 has been introduced at CES and all of the talk on the Linux based device websites has been about this new device. While I don’t have a N800 yet, I do have a Nokia 770 Internet Tablet and Judie has asked me to write my thoughts about it for Gear Diary. I [...]

The Belkin ClearScreen Overlay for Microsoft Zune Review

It just looks like a naked black Zune lying there, right? But looks can be deceiving.This particular Zune has a Belkin ClearScreen Overlay in place, which means that even when it is rattling around the bottom of my Whiskey Chloe Edith, it’s screen will not get scratched by the keys or other pointy objects riding [...]

Dear Gear Diary…

Q. Hi Judie, I’m writing to you because I’ve read on geardiary that someone asked you for advice on buying a PDA; I have a couple of doubts in buying my first PDA and I was wondering if you could help me… The first and basic use I would give to this PDA is internet [...]

The i.Tech Virtual Keyboard (VKB) Review

[Ed. note: this review picks up where the Unboxing left off. If you haven't already read it, read the i.Tech Virtual Keyboard Unboxing first.] This past month with the i.Tech Bluetooth Virtual Keyboard has been a bit of a roller coaster ride for me. During this time, I have managed to learn way more about [...]

Pimping my Mac (Aquarium)

This past August in Nashville, Tennessee it was too hot to be outside to do any yard work, so I decided to work on a project in the comfort of air conditioning. Everything I do or build is a mentally consuming exercise. I Google for ideas, pictures and documentation. Later I sketch, process and make [...]

IMAP Idle on Windows Mobile

Switching to Three Australia for my cell phone service was an excellent decision. I get excellent call rates, good coverage, fast and cheap internet (thanks to UMTS), and as an added bonus I get a free IMAP email account with which I can receive unlimited emails (with attachments), and for $3 send unlimited emails (also [...]

Moving and Copying behaviour in Mac OS X

Mac OS X deals with file moving and copying similarly to Windows. When you drag files/folders between folders on the same disk, they are moved, and when you drag them between different disks they are copied. On Mac OS X it is a little bit harder to change the default behaviour when you are dragging [...]

Ninja’s Serving Up Food?

Last time we saw the strangest restaurant. Next we have what I would have to say is the coolest restaurant… a Ninja theme restaurant. Yes, that’s right -�Ninja’s! We all know how cool Ninja’s are, from all the movies and the most famous Ninja of all, Batman (see ‘Batman Begins’, if you dont know)… but [...]

The Vaja Balance Case for Zune Review

I am trying to remember the last time that I�reviewed a Vaja case and ended up less than pleased. …still trying. After all, it would add so much to my coolness factor if I didn’t get excited every time they sent me a new case to try -�if I could remain aloof, if I didn’t [...]

The Multi-Color LED Flashlight Review

What a long way�we have come, fire, torches, oil lanterns, and then the common everyday flashlights we all use. The flashlight to me is a neat human invention, a battery source running a bulb all mounted inside a portable casing so that you would never have to be stuck in the dark. The 21st century [...]