When we first got out lake cabin some 12 years ago we had little more than the basics technology-wise. A single, wired phone line gave us dial-up access to AOL at an outrageous per minute fee. We had no TV and entertained ourselves by reading and playing board games. It was… peaceful… but isolating. Things [...]
Tag Archives: Movies and Streaming Video
Is Greed Good on the Internet?
[begin rant] Why does everything have to be about money? Why is someone always looking to get something for nothing? Free this, free that, promotional item here, promotional item there. Has capitalism ruined the beauty of some of the things that are free on the internet? I do video reviews on YouTube. Earlier this week [...]
iPhone Video Streaming – A Taste Of Things To Come
My gear is undergoing a bit of a transition right now. Chief among the changes, I will be selling my iPhone 3G (which is brand new thanks to Apple’s willingness to replace it after a crack appeared) and using an old iPhone “Classic” until the new hardware is released this summer. In order to get [...]
Big Content in a Small Package
In my dreams, after a long day of completing triathlons, coming in first at poker tournaments and winning Pulitzer prizes, I would sit down in my massaging, comfy chair at my home in New Jersey and sip iced tea while watching streaming internet-hosted web content on my large screen television or perhaps listen to a [...]
Review: The Netflix Player By Roku
I know it’s just the first week of 2009, but I suspect that when we are preparing to welcome 2010 in some 360 days, the Roku player that I purchased just over a week ago will be on my list of “favorite gadgets of 2009″.
Holiday Movie Time with the Gear Diary Team
The holidays are about to be in full swing, and after enjoying the good meals and time spent catching up, one of our favorite family activities is to watch a holiday movie…or three! I polled the team to ask what their top favorite holiday movies were, and these were the results. Some are classics and [...]
Go Speed Racer, gooooooooo!
I am still singing the theme song in my head, over and over. I could not wait until lunchtime today to sneak out and see the movie. I found a theater nearby with a midnight (12:01am) showing, so I was there. First stop – snack bar, to get hopped-up on junior mints and an extra [...]
Evolve Showerhead Review – Save Time, Water and Energy
How often does this happen? You start the shower so that it can warm up and then you’re distracted by other things. Maybe the kids call you from another room, you start folding clothes, reading an article in the newspaper. Suddenly 5, 10 or 15 minutes can suddenly pass and the entire time you’re wasting [...]
April Fools: The MacBook Pro Unboxing
I know, I know…I made you all wait forever for this, and it’s really Jerry’s fault. He’s the one that videotaped me unboxing my gorgeous new laptop, and since it was the first time he had used the camcorder he just couldn’t seem to get it right. He was zooming in and out in all [...]
Beware of Dog Walkers
One of my best friends just sent this to me, and I about fell over when I watched. The item in the video starts off looking like a big fat flashlight…and then, as the demonstrator says, this MAGPUL Industries FMG9 concept idea (that they say they have no intention of producing) is very “transformer-ish”, and [...]
Talk Me Out of This…MacBook Air Edition
Vincent, always the enabler, knows that I am tempted by the MacBook Air – even though I can’t exactly justify it, and even though I so recently complained about Apple Tech Support. But his video is so intriguing…and the Air is so thin, so light, and so drool-worthy. I can’t help but wonder though, if [...]
Unboxing the Ugobe Pleo
It seems like I have been waiting forever to get my hands on the Ugobe Pleo, the robotic baby dinosaur that I first read about on my way home from CES 2007. A year has passed and even though Wal-Mart canceled my Pleo order right before Christmas, in the end Ugobe came through with a [...]
Unboxing the Litter-Robot
If you own a cat, then you know that there is one part of pet ownership that can suck the joy out of the experience. No, I am not talking about hearing your cat hacking up hairballs in the middle of the night while she is sleeping on the bed next to you (not that [...]
YouTube Star, Tay Zonday
I really did not notice Tay Zonday’s music until a few days ago when he released his latest song, “Do the Can’t Dance.” When I saw the new video, I thought Wow, Tay is really an awesome singer. And the theme of the song appeals to me as geeks can’t dance. I then checked out [...]
I Am Ready to Try Walking While Working
Updated: I have created my own treadmill desk; you can read about and see it at the end of this article. Every time I get on my treadmill, I tune into mindless reality TV on VH1 (Rock of Love reruns, anyone?), the news on CNN (same old depressing crap) , or the latest nature show [...]
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