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Reviews December 31, 2009
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Scottevest Cotton Hoodie Review

The Cotton Hoodie from Scottevest has an MSRP of $70 and is available now. Now I know what you’re thinking — $70 is a little bit expensive for a cotton hoodie. And, in most cases you’re absolutely correct. A quick Google search for the garment yields a host of various offerings that are, for the [...]

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Reviews December 31, 2009
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PhatNotes for iPhone & iPod Touch Review

When I still regularly used a Windows Mobile device, PhatNotes by PhatWare was typically one of the first programs that I installed on a new device.  I now use an iPhone much of the time rather than Windows Mobile.  I’ve tried several notes programs for the iPhone, and while many of them are quite good, [...]

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eBooks, News December 31, 2009
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Text Input On The Camangi WebStation

Dan: Judie and I are continuing to play with, tweak and become familiar with our Camangi Webstations. There is no question that it excels as an e-book reader. Thanks to The Android version of eReader both of us have downloaded our libraries and had a number of sessions reading from the device. There is no [...]

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News December 31, 2009
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AT&T wants you to lose your landline

Ok, I admit I don’t know many people who have landline phones from the traditional phone company anymore.  Most people now a days have a VOIP phone that is part of the cable, phone, and Internet plans offered as a bundle from a lot of vendors (Brighthouse, Comcast, Verizon, etc).  The idea is to phase [...]

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News December 31, 2009
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How popular is your phone OS in the US?

ComScore survey results

As the battle of the Smartphones rages on, more consumers are making the smartphone switch every day. People are trading up their RAZR’s for something with a touchscreen, keyboard and high dollar data package. Comscore conducted a survey back in October to find out the Mobile OS market share as of Q3 2009. The survey was only [...]

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News December 31, 2009
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NPR Names the ’50 Most Important Recordings’ of the Decade …

… and so as I do with all Top-whatever lists, I record my general disagreement, complain about the myopic nature of the list, rail against the hit-driven nature of these things … and then get around to reading the list! So I recommend you do the same by heading over to the NPR list – [...]

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Events December 31, 2009
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Mophie To Show New iPhone Credit Card Reader at CES

[image courtesy of TechCrunch] It’s no secret that many members of the Gear Diary team use Mophie’s battery packs. Well, it looks like Judie, Dan and Larry may get a chance to see another brand new Mophie product at CES next week:  a credit card reader for the iPhone/iPod touch. The new case/credit card reader [...]

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Events, News December 31, 2009
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The Posimotion Helix Gaming Grip for iPhone Looks Like a Tie Fighter

Are you willing to gamble $19.99 for a product that won’t ship until Spring 2010? Do you want a soft-touch coated grip for your iPhone that is made with “sturdy, durable construction”? One that provides simple wire management, improves accelerometer-based gameplay, works in both portrait and landscape mode, and one that employs a sleek, aesthetic, [...]

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News December 31, 2009
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Energy Sistem Releasing 2 new eReaders

From Energy Sistem, a company I had not yet heard of, comes two interesting eReaders.  Both have a 6 inch Vixplex e-Ink display with 4 levels of grey, an 800×600 resolution, Integrated Speaker, and an ARM9 processor.  Where they differ is their internal storage.  The Energy Book 2060 has only 64 MB of internal storage [...]

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News December 31, 2009
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Captain Picard to be Sir Captain Picard!

Image from MyPetJawa After countless face-offs with Q, being a prisoner of the Cardassians and making first contact without ruining history, Captain Picard has finally been given the recognition he deserves. CNN is reporting that Patrick Stewart is being knighted, and while it is well deserved for his myriad roles, he will always be Captain [...]

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Reviews December 31, 2009
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Quick Review: Contour reCharge Universal

With all the restrictions on what you can and can not carry on airplane flying around, there’s one thing that seems certain.  The less you pack the better of you’ll be.  As I get my gear bag ready for CES 2010 I’m faced with a mountain of charging cables that I’ll need to stuff into [...]

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Reviews December 31, 2009
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Review: Trane XL800 Programmable Thermostat & a Giveaway

When I had my house built in 1998, one thing I wanted but could not afford at the time was a programmable thermostat.  Thankfully, Trane was kind enough to send one that I probably would not have considered, the Trane XL800. The first thing I had to do was install the thermostat.  To do so, I had [...]

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Reviews December 31, 2009
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Review: Throwboy Pillows, for the true Fan-Boy

Are you an Apple fan-boy?  Are you all Apple, all the the time?  If you are then you probably think that Apple’s icons are part of what make’s their operating system so nice to look at. Now you can look at your Apple’s icons, dare I even say you can snuggle with them, when you’re [...]

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eBooks, News December 31, 2009
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Barnes and Noble eReader Problems–Update Part Trois

I know you’ve all been pantingly eager to find out when Barnes and Noble fixes the big book problem that I’ve discussed (in mind-numbing detail) before. Being the eager sort, I finally waded through their voice mail system, waited on hold for about 45 minutes to get “digital support,” and talked to a very nice [...]

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eBooks, Editorials December 30, 2009
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Skimming through 2009 eBooks

(image courtesy of petitinvention) Welcome to the final State of the eBook for 2009! It has been a big year for eBooks, and I am going to do my best to cover a timeline of the high points, as well as a few things to look forward to in 2010. Rather than do a traditional [...]

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