Archive | May, 2009

Gear Diary gets Touched – Touch Pro 2 Review is Pending!

No doubt about it, HTC is making some of the best mobile devices available right now. Case in point – the Touch Pro 2. Thankfully, we’re getting a review unit, and Judie should be putting this thing through its paces and posting such exciting things as an unboxing, first impressions, and eventually her review. Stay [...]

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Xerox wants to save us from ourselves.

Just to end your weekend with some silliness: Xerox has a cure for a disease they call Information Overload Syndrome. Check out the awesome video and poke around the website. It’s a very impressive bit of viral marketing for Xerox’s services. Via Geek.com Xerox Information Overload Syndrome website

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MindBerry Now Available for Storm

MindBerry Now Available for Storm

MindBerry just released an updated version of their mobile mindmapping software that supports the BlackBerry Storm.  The updated version of MindBerry includes a new sliding toolbar, hyperlink feature, and improved performance. Gear Diary reviewed MindBerry in April.  If you currently do — or are interested in — MindMapping, and use a BlackBerry, MindBerry is highly [...]

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U2 MP3 Album – The Best of 1980 – 1990 – $2.99

Amazon has this great U2 MP3 (DRM free/256 kbps) album – The Best Of 1980 – 1990 for only $2.99. Hard to go wrong here. Check out the songlist: Pride (In The Name Of Love) New Year’s Day With Or Without You I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For Sunday Bloody Sunday Bad Where [...]

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Amazon revamps wireless site – clearer upgrade options and all phones rebate free for AT&T and Verizon phones

It looks like Amazon has refined their online wireless store so that AT&T and Verizon cell phones will be sold without the need to file a rebate. Amazon has always sold phones however some were sold with a requirement to file for a rebate while others were rebate free. For now only AT&T and Verizon [...]

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GearDeal – Microsoft 4GB Zune (refurb) – $59.99 w/car kit

Here’s an ok deal for a remanufactured Black Zune 4GB. Normally priced in the $99 range you can pick this up today only from Newegg for $59.99. Included is a free car pack that broadcasts the signal to an FM station. Shipping is free and the deal is active only through 5/31/09. Zune 4GB via [...]

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Android Storage plans 50GB for $10 a year

Android Storage plans 50GB for $10 a year

Android Storage is a web based portal which ties in a media storage application via Android platform phones. The service is set to offer 2GB of free music, video and image storage for your Android phone, as well as a series of paid mobile media and streaming services starting at $10 per year for 50 GB of [...]

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Take Control of Time Machine

I’m a Apple fanboy through and through.  This I admit freely.  But I’m also man enough to admit that not everything Apple does is perfect. Time Machine, Apple’s default back up program, is one of those not so perfect things. My biggest problem with Time Machine is the inability to customize just when Time Machine [...]

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Dell UltraSharp 3008WFP 30-inch Widescreen LCD Monitor – $1,259.10 shipped

Today’s GearSponsor deal via LogicBuy is for the true graphics professional who demands a big monitor, big color and big resolution. Dell’s UltraSharp 3008WFP Widescreen Flat Panel Monitor supports higher definition than HD Television and comes with an integrated HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) connection. HDMI delivers crystal-clear, all-digital audio and video via a single cable, [...]

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Facebook rumored to offer vanity URLs as soon as next week

If rumors are true we may see Facebook offer vanity URLS as soon as next week. What the vanity URL promises is to turn ugly lengthy links to your profile like http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=531173044 into something more memorable like http://www.facebook.com/judie.lipsett. Facebook has been offering these types of URLS since earlier in the year but only to celebrities [...]

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AP News iPhone App fixes horrible upgrade bug – actually looks decent with new Twitter and Facebook integration

AP Mobile News released version 2.0 of their popular iPhone App last week. There was only one problem. The application completely froze and refused to start (and subsequently re-start) on my iPhone and, judging from the iTunes reviews, those of many other upgraders. Thankfully the AP App has been fixed and a new update is [...]

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Review: Clue for iPhone and iPod Touch

Life, Sorry, Monopoly, and Clue were just some of the board games I grew up playing.  Times change and with new technology comes new, updated versions of some of our favorite classics.  Sometimes the updates are improvements, while other times the original seems better. Electronic Arts has become one of the premier iPhone and iPod [...]

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Here’s Your Chance to Win $2500 or Other Prizes

Buzz Corps, the marketing agency which has been the driving force behind so many great giveaways on Gear Diary (and a plethora of other sites), is changing it’s name to Ivy Worldwide. Ordinarily this would not be a reason to create a post, but they have tied a contest to their name change that I [...]

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GearDeal – PSP 2000 – $119 shipped

Dell Home has the Sony PSP 2000 on special for only $119.99 after coupon code which is good for the first 1,000 deal seekers. This is a slightly older PSP and according to the site can be hacked while the newer PSP 3000. I’m admittedly not much of a gamer so I’ll have to refer [...]

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22″ 1080 HD LCD Monitor – comes with pretty decent Dell Vostro 220 – $369

Well look at what our GearSponsor LogicBuy dropped off at the offices. It’s a cool deal on a 22″ 1080 LCD monitor – and the damn thing even comes attached to a Dell Vostro 220s Slim Tower Computer (2.6 GHZ Dual-core, 3GB RAM, 250 GB HDD, DVD+/-RW, Vista Home Basic). You know what I’m thinking? [...]

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Is the 2012 Scion iQ the ‘Smart’ Choice?

Move over smart car, Scion is taking over the micro-subcompact car segment with its iQ. The new Scion iQ is [...]

Mary Halvorson Tops Her Critically Acclaimed Last Album with ‘Bending Bridges’

Mary Halvorson Quintet – ‘Bending Bridges’ Mary Halvorson Quintet – ‘Bending Bridges’ In late 2010 Mary Halvorson released Saturn Sings, [...]

A Second Opinion on the LifeProof Case

At the start of the year, Dan reviewed the LifeProof iPhone case. He loved it. I have had one for [...]

Contemplating the iPhone 5? Try Radio Shack

Ah, Radio Shack!  Back in the day, Radio Shack was the go-to place for electrical and electronic, well, stuff.  Cables, [...]

New iOS App “Carpet Ball” Now Available

I’m not much of a pool player, really.  I like pool–heck, I also like snooker a lot!–but the combination of [...]

SPIGEN SGP HTC One X Crumena Leather Pouch Series Review

The HTC One X is a beast… and I mean that in only the best way. It is big, it [...]