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 tuned, y’all… things are about to get really cool around here..!

Can’t wait??  You can also catch a really cool review by our good friend Mark Briggeman (WM MVP) and colleague at mobilityminded.com.  Mark  has written an extensive review about the HTC Touch Pro2.

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

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 recommended.  The software supports importing/exporting to FreeMind and MindManager.

See the full release details at MindBerry.

* 10-Day MindBerry Trial for Storm:  OTA Download.

* MSRP: $12.95 through June 12th.

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 The Streets Have No Name
I Will Follow
The Unforgettable Fire
Sweetest Thing
Desire
When Love Comes To Town
Angel Of Harlem
All I Want Is You
October

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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 are being offered on the beta site. This newly revamped store is listed as “beta” and may be accessed at http://wireless.amazon.com.

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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 FW

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 storage.

The storage and streaming services are all “in the cloud” — meaning Android users can bypass current device and microSD memory card limits to have anywhere from 2GB to 250GB  of storage for documents, video, music, and applications.   Developers can also request access to their API to integrate Android Storage services into their own applications.

While the majority of services are noted as “Coming Soon,” it looks like Android fans should be getting a wider variety of services as more devices come into the market this year.  Pricing plans and application services from Android Storage are detailed after the jump.

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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 backs up.  The only time management setting offered by Time Machine is on or off.  When it’s on it backs up everything on your Mac, every hour.  I find this to be a major nuisance as it seems my iMac is always backing itself up and it’s usually suffering some performance when doing so.  This becomes even more of an issue when I’ve been busy on my iMac over the previous hour because it leaves Time Machine with a large amount of work to do.

Thankfully, while listening to a recent podcast from the Mac Observer, I recently discovered a great freeware utility that allows the user to set a real schedule for just when Time Machine goes to work.

Time Machine Editor is a simple program that once installed gives you complete control over when your back ups occur.  You can set daily, weekly, or monthly back up and even specify the time that the back ups are done.

With Time Machine Editor I feel like I’ve gained a little bit more of the power of my iMac back.

You can learn more about this free application on the developer’s web site.

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, dramatically simplifying cabling and helps provide the highest quality home theater experience. If HDMI is not right for you, the panel offers 7 added connection options: VGA, DVI-D,HDMI, S-Video, Component, Composite and DisplayPort. This super large display offers 2560 x 1600 native resolution and TrueColor Technology that promises 117% of the NTSC color range. Don’t need a monitor this large? Check out these other Dell monitor deals.

Dell UltraSharp 3008WFP – $ 1.259.10 shipped

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/yourname. Facebook has been offering these types of URLS since earlier in the year but only to celebrities and the closely connected business customers. It’s unknown whether these URLS will be free or if there will be a fee associated. Adding a vanity URL will likely go a long way toward enticing users to establish and use a Facebook profile as their primary online identity. The biggest issue will be duplicate users. While it will be great to have http://www.facebook.com/fred (assuming of course your name is Fred) – the reality is that you’ll probably be stick with http://www.facebook/fred1658.

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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 now available for download . New features include integration to Twitter and Facebook as well as significant control over the type of local and national news that you receive.

AP Mobile News 2.0.1 (iTunes Link) via What’s On iPhone

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 Touch application developers.  With hits like Spore, Tiger Woods PGA Tour, Need For Speed Undercover and more, they are setting the bar for gaming in the iTunes App Store.

One of EA’s newest releases is a remake of one of those games I grew up playing.  Clue.

Although the characters are the same as in the original the iPhone/iPod version plays quite differently than the original version.

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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 think will be of interest to everyone. They need a new logo, and if your design is one of the top three chosen, you can win big…

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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 you to this link for a rocking side by side comparison of the PSP 2000 vs 3000. Having a few pre-teens around the neighborhood addicted to this PSP makes me think that anytime you can grab one for $50 below what everyone else is asking that it’s a pretty good deal.

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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? Perfect machine for the parents! Big screen. Rip off Vista and load up Windows 7. Get the parents hooked on using Internet applications (instead of loading up their hard drive with programs) and you may not have to ever serve as their technical support representative. Click on through to check the deal for yourself.

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