2009 Audi A4 effort
Sporty and superlative, progressive and emotive – the A4 takes Audi into a new dimension in the midsize car segment.
September 2009
Pzizz for iPhone/iPod Touch Review
Feeling worn down, stressed out, or just not getting enough quality sleep? Guess what — yep! — there’s an app for that. Pzizz (pronounced puh-zizz) may be just what you need. In the most simple terms, Pzizz Relax is a power-nap app. Using the application religiously over the past two weeks I can say it is much more. The application is new for the iPhone/iPod Touch, but it’s been around for quite some time for the Mac/PC — and those earlier versions have been reviewed by Gear Diary as well as the original “Pzizz player” on the Gadgeteer. So, is an…
Rollip Makes Your Photos Look Like Polaroids
OK, I am definitely a product of the 80’s & 90’s…nothing beats GI Joe (uh..the original!), Saved By the Bell, Alf (yeah that just happened), and Polaroid pictures! Unless you are able to track down one of these relics at a yard sale or flea market, what can you do?.
CoPilot Live 8 for iPhone (North America)
I’ve been doing a series of reviews of navigation software for the iPhone. The folks at ALK (the makers of CoPilot) have released CoPilot Live into the market for a very nice price of only $34.99 (for the North America version). At this price it will appeal to many people. Here I’m taking a first look at CoPilot Live (with a full review to follow) and give some initial impressions. So let’s get to it!
ESPN Fantasy Football Draft Kit 2009
It is that time of the year again!!! My football season is in full swing and we won our first game of the year 40-7. The NFL is finally winding up the pre-season and NCAA begins this week. The only thing else we need is fantasy football!!! For those of you who have never played fantasy football, it can become a true addiction! The Beaver Bowl III (my league) has its draft party tonight! Each of us come with our own tools to ensure the best draft possible. So, the iPhone guy on staff must have an app for that,…
Palm Pre App Catalog. 30 Apps in 30 Days. Day 30: Yelp
When I started this series, my hope had been to tackle all of the apps in the Palm Pre App Catalog before its official launch, later this month. But the developers turned out to be too fast for me. In the month since I started this series, the App Catalog has grown from 30 apps to 45, and is really starting to gain momentum. So, a slight change of plans will see the series ending today, with an overview of 30 apps. As a finale to the series, I thought we would take a look at Yelp, the location based…
Review: Nimbuzz for Android
Android has a built in IM client that is actually pretty good. It supports a lot of the instant messaging services, but does not support any of the new chats like Facebook chat or Skype. Nimbuzz has finally released a client for the Android operating system that supports Facebook and Skype as well as Live Messenger, Yahoo Instant Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, Google Talk, My Space, Study VZm SchuelerVZ, Gadu Gadu, Hyves,Jabber and Giovani. Most of these other services Nimbuzz supports I have never heard of.
Sungale Desk Lamp With Photo Frame Review
The Sungale CD358LD Desk Lamp is a super energy efficient LED Desk Lamp sporting an ultra thin 3.5 Inch LCD Screen that not only displays and stores hundreds of photos of friends and family back home but it also doubles as a video and audio player with built in speakers, calendar, analogue clock and alarm functions with user friendly navigation buttons and shortcut keys to access content. With internal memory storage of 512 MB with optional SD, MMC, and MS memory card support the Sungale CD358LD Desk Lamp can store up to 2 GB of JPEG, AVI and MP3 files…
Review: Mik-Mak by Rapid Turtle Games
When I was younger, PacMan was all the craze. And, like most crazes, it inspired a bunch of sequels and knock-offs. Who would have thought, this many years later, that the game would still be hanging around in it’s many forms. Enter Mik-Mak. Mik-Mak is a variant on the standard type of PacMan game. So how does this pan out? Read on…
Review: Tales of Monkey Island Episode One for PC
Before I can start to talk about Tales of Monkey Island, the five-part episodic adventure game made by TellTale Games in cooperation with LucasArts, I need to step into the way-back machine nearly twenty years and talk about one of the true classics of the adventure game genre, Secrets of Monkey Island. Secrets of Monkey Island was released in 1990 by Lucasfilms Games (as LucasArts were then called), and used the SCUMM engine that Lucasfilms had developed as a means to more quickly develop adventure games. The game is largely the brain-child of Ron Gilbert, with the humorous script mostly…
iFrogz Timbre Review
iFrogz has quickly become one of the leaders in cutting edge accessories for Apple product, Mp3 players and other electronics devices. Their Ear Pollution line of headphones is one of the most popular headphone available on the market. iFrogz recently released a new item in the Ear Pollution line, the iFrogz Timbre. Available with or without an inline microphone the noise isolating ear buds are made with natural wood. I was recently sent a pair by iFrogz to review. Do the Tibre’s perform as good as they look? Read on to find out.
Jelly Lens 6 Image Mirage Maker
Here’s another quick look at a fun gadget from BudgetGadgets.com The Jelly Lens 6 Mirage Maker gently sticks to the lens of your cell phone or digital camera. Once on your phone you can turn regular old photographs into morphed 6 headed images with ease.
Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks: Week One into the Rosetta Stone TOTALe Program
Today marks one week since I began learning Spanish with the Rosetta Stone TOTALe program, and here comes the part that you all have been waiting for – where I smugly tell you that I am now completely fluent in all things Spanish, that I am totally confident in my foreign language speaking ability, and that I am ready to go to Mexico and take up with the locals…right? Okay, obviously I’m not. And it would be completely ridiculous for anyone to expect that. But I am three full lessons closer to being fluent than I was when I started.