This morning my younger son left for school carrying his towel … since he became a big fan of Douglas Adams Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy a year or so ago he ALWAYS knows where his towel is! He has been excited about celebrating ‘Towel Day’ all week. Unfortunately he wouldn’t let me take his [...]
Archive | May, 2011
T-Mobile Goes “Ludicrous Speed” with HSPA+ (42Mbps) in over 50 US Cities
Image courtesy of T-Mobile This year has been all about 4G. ’4G’ refers to the newest high-speed data transfer protocol used by cell phone carriers for smartphones. 4G coverage is spotty at best no matter which carrier your contract is with. Every carrier now has some form of 4G, and as we all know some are [...]
Amazon Debuts Kindle 3G with Special Offers
Apparently Amazon was NOT going to let the day go without some sort of ebook reader announcement. Not surprising, since both Kobo and B&N unleashed big hardware updates that made the Kindle 3 look, well, kind of boring. Since even Amazon can’t release a hardware refresh on a 6 hour turnaround, they’ve done the next [...]
GD QuickRant: Red Card for Improper Use of Technology!
We constantly get emails with all sorts of proposals – most come from great people with great products worthy of coverage. Sometimes we get very questionable products and refuse to simply parrot the hype. Then there is this … I just wanted to copy a bit of an email Judie shared with us today … [...]
B&N Unveils New Touchscreen NOOK!
Well, after a quiet winter with no big hardware news for ereaders, we’re drowning in new releases, with the crown jewel being today’s B&N NOOK announcement. It was pretty much common knowledge that a new NOOK was coming, but they blew expectations out of the water with their new touch-screen eInk device! What’s so exciting [...]
Android Device Review: HTC Verizon DROID Incredible 2
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Music Diary Songs of Note: In a Sentimental Mood
Have you ever just had a song come on and you and your spouse/boyfriend/girlfriend/significant other just start dancing? Last night the song Skywriting by a never popular British group ‘The Bible’ came on my wife’s iPod, and we had a nice little dance … to the amusement and embarrassment of our kids. I makes me [...]
Bloomberg Businessweek: A More Nuanced Approach to Discussing Nuance Please
Let me begin by making it clear that I have no formal association to Nuance, the leader in voice recognition technology and innovation. I do not work for them, they do not directly advertise on Gear Diary, and I have personally paid for all of the Nuance software I have or currently use. I have, [...]
Pop Goes the Music Diary: Original Cindy Ain’t Down With That
OK, so my family has been on a Dark Angel kick lately, plowing through the entire series on DVD (which I grabbed on Goozex). One of the best things is the endless stream of quips from ‘Original Cindy’ (OC). She always seems to have a comment to match the situation, such as when Normal gets [...]
Random Cool Video: Classic Sesame Street
I consider my family fortunate – I grew up watching Sesame Street when it was brand new, and my kids got to experience it as well during a time when both classic and new material was presented side-by-side, and there were plenty of videos, computer games, and music CD’s to enjoy! Last week my wife [...]
Photography Gear Review: USBfever HDMI Adapters and Retractable Audio 3.5mm Jack AUX Auxiliary Cable
My pile of field production equipment is ever-growing. I am a “one-man-band” of sorts so I am constantly looking for gear and “doo-dads” to make production work easier. Recently I picked up a great set of headphones (which I will feature in a separate post), and I learned the Swann RC helicopter won’t lift my [...]
Kobo Announces the eReader Touch Edition
Poor Sony. Yet again they’re ahead of the ebook reader curve, and left with nothing…they were putting touch based eInk screens on their devices over a year ago, but now that the Sony Reader line is outpriced and outmatched, everyone else is jumping on the touch bandwagon! The latest entrant is Kobo, with their “eReader [...]
Open Source Media Player Review: aTunes
The trend toward strangely-capitalized programs is really annoying. The mediaplayer aTunes is trying to follow the iTunes naming model somewhat slavishly, so we’re stuck with that I suppose. Of course, that means sentences starting with the name of the program are either capitalized wrong or the word is capitalized wrong. Such choices! Installation was smooth [...]
Random Cool Video: What Would You Do
‘What Would You Do’ is one of those ‘if we happen upon it’ shows my family will watch occasionally on Friday. The show sets up actors playing roles on hidden cameras in public places. Some of the ones we have seen are different teens (boy/girl, black/white) attempting to take a bike chained to a pole, [...]
Android Owners: Screenshots or Movies … Pick One
I have been reviewing games since … well, since before the advent of smartphones anyway. And yet I have always managed to be able to come up with screenshots from my chosen device -Newton, Psion, Palm, Windows Mobile, iOS … but not Android. For some mind-numbing reason Android lacks a built-in screenshot utility. No problem [...]
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