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Reviews April 30, 2007

Discovery Toys: Gear For the Youngest Gadget Lovers

Here are a couple of goodies from Discovery Toys which have been designed to entertain kids while allowing them to learn. They are also interesting in their own way, so much so that the adults in the child’s life won’t be embarrassed to be caught playing with them. TODDLER TALK Recording Phone – The Toddler [...]

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Reviews April 28, 2007

by Mitchell Oke

The GPSGate Review

Ever wanted to spy or follow someone without their knowledge like they do in TV shows? All you need is a WM Phone with GPS and a data connection! Plant this in their car and you can follow their every move� GPSGate is a small piece of software that you install on your Windows Mobile [...]

Acer America Corporation Recalls Notebook Computer Batteries Due to Previous Fires

I just received information on an Acer�Notebook�battery recall, and figured I ought to pass the news on to you. If you have -�or know someone that has -�an Acer laptop, then you might want to take a look and see if your battery is affected. And yeah, I know that this is a picture of [...]

Vista a Mac OS X Rip Off? No Way!

I just watched this enlightening video that proves once and for all that Windows Vista isn’t a rip off of Mac OS X. David Pogue from the NY Times looks at several features that people are saying Vista copied from OS X, and shows how the similarities are completely coincidental, and were not copied at [...]

Birthday Week Is Over…and I Have an Eggling!

Well, my Birthday Week is officially over, and now it is time to get serious and get back to work. “Birthday Week?” you say…”what happened to celebrating for a single day?” The deal is that once you turn 40, you get to celebrate your birthday for an entire week – not just a day. Seriously! [...]

Catching Up on My Pzizz

First of all, I’m not normally a procrastinator. I am a chronic snooze alarm abuser though. The snooze function on Microsoft Outlook has proven to be one of the most damaging features for my career. My current record for putting off the completion of a project is an appointment that keeps popping up on my [...]

Catching up on my Pzizz

Resco Explorer 2005 for Windows Mobile Review

The built-in File Explorer in Windows Mobile is to put it simply, lame. It only has a very basic feature set, and add to that there is no registry editor included at all. Resco has come up with a replacement application that should fulfill the needs of even power users, and throws in some features [...]

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Reviews April 19, 2007

by Kerry Woo

Observing Nature Device: A Review

He rocks in the tree top all a day long Hoppin’ and a-boppin’ and a-singin’ the song All the little birds on J-Bird Street Love to hear the robin goin’ tweet tweet tweet – Rockin’ Robin (Bobby Day) Here is a fun device that will open up a whole new world of nature�s best � [...]

Orb on Three X-Series

Part of the X-Series offer on Three is Orb, the video streaming application that lets you access your media files from practically anywhere that you have a decent internet connection. I’ve never really tried it before, but this seemed the perfect opportunity. With my daily train commute, what could be better than catching up on [...]

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Reviews April 18, 2007

by Kerry Woo

Need a boost? The Tekkeon myPower Go MP1500 Review

It never fails at the airport… I always observe some frantic person with their cell phone on life support status � the familiar beep � beep � beep of a dying battery. While not as frustrasting as a dead battery in a car, having power to spare is a good thing. Of course there are [...]

The Don’t Bug Me All Natural Insect Repellent Patch Review

What smells like a vitamin supplement, sticks to you like glue, and may just keep you from becoming a human feast this summer? Well, the Don’t Bug Me Insect Repellent Patch – of course! According to their press release, the Don’t Bug Me Patch is “now available at major retailers nationwide, the effective and waterproof [...]

Don’t Ask: Back to XP

Tonight, after I finish the Don’t Bug Me Insect Repellent Patch review, I am going to reformat my T4215′s drive and reinstall XP. I’m not sure which problem it was that tipped the scale in XP’s favor exactly, maybe it was the… 1. Loss of my keyboard function buttons. 2. Loss of my tablet function [...]

What is an MVP Anyway?

I have often asked myself this question. A small attempt to define them has been made here. Even this effort has, I think, has fallen short. As I touched upon it in my Smartphone Thoughts post, I am convinced the MVP is an evil secret society trying to direct the lives of all of us geeky [...]

Crank It Up: XC-253 Flashlight Review

Here in the states with the change of seasons, there is always the possibility of inclement weather, power outages at home or being lost in the campgrounds with nightfall approaching. The Boy Scouts have a motto: Be Prepared. “Be prepared for what?” someone once asked Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the World Scout Movement. “Why, [...]

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