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Quickies December 31, 2006

Have Your Name Sent to Mars

The Planetary Society, once again is having names put onto a special silica glass DVD to send to Mars with the next Mars probe named Phoenix. They say that the glass DVD will last thousands of years and it carries a message to future visitors�of the red planet. Until January 5th, you can get a [...]

I’m IT!!

No, I am not full of myself – I just got tagged twice in one day! First Chris, and then Alison…so a double tag means I get to cheat and do them together. Ha! The rules are that I have to post five things that you may not already know about me, which is going [...]

A Holiday Wonder

Mitchell and I will soon be doing reviews on the Spectec SDIO WLAN 802.11b and the miniSDIO WLAN 802.11b�cards, which just arrived today. Although this was exciting enough in and of itself, since we are each using�a non-WiFi enabled Palm Treo�these days (750v for Mitchell, and 700wx for me), there was something else on the [...]

Guard Against Fraud With the ID Vault

Many people are�getting down to crunch time this gift-giving season, and it is easy to imagine that in the midst of all�of the legitimate purchases, there will be more than a few that are fraudulent.� If you are like me, then you like to do as much of your purchasing online as is possible, and [...]

This Just About Sums It Up…

Some back-story on my mom: She is the queen of forwarding questionable email advice that includes every popular urban legend imaginable. It got so bad for a while that I would simply respond to each message with a Snopes link. So tonight my mother (of all people) sent this to me…and some of these made [...]

Don’t Let Me Forget to Tell You About…

Things have been absolutely crazy here at my house for the last couple of months. Between the excitement (and crazy hours) of starting Gear Diary and keeping up with contacts I’ve made over the years, I have also been doing two other things that are very near and dear to my heart – running my [...]

I See You Eating At Your Keyboard…

..and the crumbs are evrywhere, aren’t they? Hmmm – that’s kinda gross, isn’t it? Well, if you own a Mac Book, Mac Book Pro, or Apple Keyboard, then you are in luck – iSkin has created the ProTouch, a protective cover that will perfectly protect your keyboard and keep all of the crumbs, spills, key [...]

Scenes From an Apple Camp Out

Kerry Woo,�AKA WonderDawg,�has written an excellent article about people that are camping out at various stores in Nashville in the “cold & wet” weather�to get the brand new $600 Playstation 3…or�in some cases nothing more than a�raincheck! This actually looks like it might have been fun – although cold! Kerry�made the rounds of quite a [...]

What Would You Camp Out For?

…or what have you camped out for? Kismet mentioned that he is planning to “camp out” to purchase a Wii. I’ve stood in line for hours to get Star Wars tickets and the like, but I can’t remember a single product that got me to actually sleep on the sidewalk in anticipation. San Angelo “campers” [...]

Introducing BlackJack

Today is the day that many have been waiting for – the sleek and sexy Samsung i607 has just been announced�by Cingular. According to the press release, it will be available November 16, 2006 for $199.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate with a two-year activation, a qualified voice plan and an unlimited data plan.� Here [...]

A Tale of Two Treos

I need a Palm device since I don’t currently own one, and because of that I thought it�would make�perfect since to get a Palm OS Treo.� My main mobile phone is currently a�Samsung A900, but it has no�geek cred. So a little background: I�generally prefer to carry two devices, a mobile phone and a main [...]

A Stylishly Slim Envelope

Jenneth at Girl’s Gone Mobile has just reviewed the Samsung SGH-i320N, and she seems to like it…

U R A Q T: The HTC Star Trek / Qtek 8500 PINK Unboxing

UPS dropped off�a little jewel this morning, the HTC Star Trek branded as a Qtek 8500. This is HTC’s first clamshell Smartphone, and it runs Windows Mobile 5 Smartphone. �� Immediately evident is the fact that this is not the�business-like black version – oh no, instead�this is�the hot pink�version. So let’s unbox her and take [...]

Am I Right Or Am I Right?

This morning I had an email from Joe with a link and the caption, “Am I right or am I right?” Here was the link. And here is the title of his post: “Tongue-in-cheek PDA Quite possibly the only one on the planet Judie hasn’t tried” Ahhh…but I have! And it is one of the [...]

MOO MiniCards and Flickr

Chehui from Palm Is Life recently posted about receiving his box of Flickr MiniCards from MOO. I love his picture of a kitty chewing string! To order, you basically just go through your Flickr account and pick out the images you want to use. You can use the same one, do multiples of a few, [...]