Archive | December, 2007

A Look at the Vodafone Palm Treo 500v

A look at a device we don’t have here in the States, just yet! Pretty Box, don’t ya think?

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Happy Birthday Jenneth!

Happy Birthday Jenneth!

Please join me in wishing a very Happy Birthday to the lovely, beautiful, vivacious and talented Jenneth Orantia! I’ll tell you a little story about my friendship with her… I’ve enjoyed reading Jenneth’s various blogs over the years, and I finally got the opportunity to meet her in the flesh at the 2006 Thailand Mobius [...]

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An Afternoon With Ford

Tuesday I was in Dearborn, Michigan, with about 200 other journalists attending an event held in and marking the reopening of the renovated historic Ford Dearborn Glass Plant. Before I get into the particulars of our day, I want to mention that the Dearborn Glass Plant was designed by Albert Kahn and built in 1922. [...]

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Review: Zibra Open It! Will This Packaging Removal Tool Render Scissors Obsolete?

One thing I hate about Christmas morning is fighting the industrial strength “blister pack” around my kids’ toys. Hate it. Hate it. Hate it. (Did I mention I don’t like it?). If I use a razor to open this industrial strength substance, I risk amputation of fingers. Since I have twins, the fun is doubled [...]

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ASUS Eee PC 8GB Unboxing

ASUS Eee PC 8GB Unboxing

Somehow word of the ASUS Eee PC flew under my radar. I had no clue as to its existence until the first week of November (two weeks after the US launch) when a colleague at work informed me of this low cost ultra compact portable computer. After hearing the brief details and that the computer [...]

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It’s Funny How Sometimes Irony Can Be So…Ironic

November was Alzheimer’s Awareness Month. It was suggested that it would be appropriate if I helped to publicize this by reviewing a new set of online games designed to keep your mind healthy and your brain fit: Happy Neuron online brain games. I forgot. Better late than never, after the jump.

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Review: Flip Video Ultra — A Pocket Video Camera For The Rest Of Us

Before my first son was born, I bought a camcorder so we could capture all of the precious moments of his life. Now, almost six years later, I have a box filled with unwatched video, mostly of a baby not doing anything in particular. That set me wondering what would it take to have done [...]

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The Alltel Motorola MOTOROKR Z6m Mobile Phone Review

With all the smart-phones that we cover here on Gear Diary, it can be easy to overlook a huge segment of the mobile market…the dumb-phone. No, these phones don’t have low IQs and they certainly aren’t stupid, they just don’t offer the PC-like capabilities and advanced features which are generally associated with phones running the [...]

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Save on Sony’s MDR-RF4000K Wireless Headphones

I’m a huge fan of using Bluetooth stereo headphones. A quick search of the site will show that to be [...]

The Line Between Writing As a Business and Writing As an Art

(image courtesy Seattle organic seo) Publishing has had a rough year, and it is only May! The Department of Justice [...]

When is a ROM Update a Official Update? The Verizon Galaxy Nexus Edition

As a Verizon Galaxy Nexus owner for merely a month, one thing that I have learned is that you can [...]

Waterfield Designs’ CitySlicker Brings Style and Minimalist Protection to Your MacBook Air

If you are going to have something as thin and light as a MacBook Air, then why in the world [...]

Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom for PSP Review

This “visual novel” provides a very unique, narrative experience from Japan where choose-your-own-adventure-type choices rule over button mashing gameplay.

Who Doesn’t Want the Best Seat in the House? A Contest

Who Doesn’t Want the Best Seat in the House? A Contest

This post brought to you by Pep Boys. All opinions are 100% mine. Who doesn’t love a good contest? Pep [...]