Sporty and superlative, progressive and emotive – the A4 takes Audi into a new dimension in the midsize car segment.… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

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 application that can help relieve daily stress, promote relaxation, and maybe even help give a boost during those long work days something worth a slot on your iPhone?… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

Please note- AT&T has now determined that the official end of summer occurs on September 25. As you likely know, when the iPhone 3GS was announced AT&T was conspicuously missing from the list of providers and announced they would implement the service “late summer”. As we noted last week in our open letter to the company, they seemed to have their own idea what “later summer” meant. Now AppleInsider is reporting that, as Chris noted in an email to the GDTeam- “There’s one mystery solved.” Now only one question is left- With so many ways to share pictures form the iPhone, who the heck… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

Today is day twenty-three of HP and Microsoft’s ‘Back to School and Better Together’ Giveaway, which means that ClintonFitch.com! will begin theirs. Up for grabs is a computer combo containing an HP dv6, an HP Mini 110 and Syncables software – which allows you to keep the larger laptop at home but carry the smaller netbook (synced and carrying all of your data!) when on the go. The Winner will also get a customized ClintonFitch.com! Timbuk2 bag to carry their loot! … Continue reading on Gear Diary …

In some ways it is hard to believe that Good Old Games is already a year old, and in other ways it feels like they’ve been around forever. Good Old Games has quickly become a sensation, selling classic games as DRM-free digital downloads guaranteed to work in Windows XP or Vista – all for $5 – 10! To celebrate their first anniversary, they are offering the very same special that launched the service – buy one Interplay game, get another one free. Interplay was one of the first two publishers to join the site (the other was Codemasters), and is responsible for classics such as Fallout 1 & 2 among many others. “Looking back at the first year Continue reading on Gear Diary …

As if the $250 price wasn’t reason enough, Sony has just announced yet another reason to puzzle over exactly why someone should buy their upcoming PSP Go: a special edition Gran Turismo PSP-3000 for $199! The package includes a Mystic Silver PSP, a UMD copy of the upcoming Gran Turismo game, a voucher to download a white Chevrolet Corvette ZR1, a 2GB Memory Stick, a PSN voucher to download a movie (title TBA), and yet another voucher to download 10 free songs from Sony Music Pass. If that sounds like a good deal, it is!… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

Our friends across the pond at Proporta are well known for accessories for various cellphones, netbooks  and laptops.  Now they have decided to try their hand at selling devices; their first is the new Archos 5 Internet Media Tablet.  The Android Based Archos 5 can record TV shows, has 120 GB of storage, plays movies in HD (720p) or DVD quality, and it comes with a Proporta Alu-Leather Case when you order from Proporta. It is available for a promotional price of £299.99 or $489.45 from the Proporta web site… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

Take a stroll down memory lane. Memory lane of the internet that is. The Telegraph U.K. has published a look at 20 popular web sites and how they actually appeared when they very first launched. From Facebook, to Dell, Ebay, YouTube and more. Things were a whole lot simpler back then.  ;) Check out all 20 sites here Continue reading on Gear Diary …

What is the world coming to!  Not even precious Apple stores are safe from crime.  :) I caught this story on my local news last night and now it seems its getting national attention. A couple of thieves decided to break into an Apple store last night. They smashed the familiar glass front of the Apple retail store in Evesham, NJ, and they made quick work of gathering up 14 iPhones, 24 Mac Book Pros and 9 iPod Touches.  Seems they grabbed all the demo units they could carry. Wonder if we’ll see some cheap iPhones show up on Ebay very soon… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

I love when old media gets its technology reporting right, as the NYTimes did in their article on A&T and the iPhone yesterday. The article says it all in the second line of the piece- “It’s a data guzzler.” How much so? Well think of it this way: the iPhone is sucking so hard on AT&T’s data pipeline that the entire system gets slowed to a crawl. The end result is that ALL devices on the system slow down, drop calls, or just connect in an evermore glitchy manner. Sound familiar?? There are a few key points in the article which, while nothing new, pull it all together in a way that makes it easier than ever to think maybe AT&T wasn’t being a total idiot when preventing applications like Slingplayer from using the 3G pipeline. The standout points…… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

I’m a big fan of the iPhone application biteSMS.  It makes text messaging so much easier. I showed you the application in detail in a recent post here. With a recent update biteSM has become even better now adding the ability to quick compose SMS messages right from the lock screen. You can create, send and respond to SMS messages from virtually anywhere on the iPhone. Check out biteSMS, a “must-have” application for anyone with a jailbroken iPhone, here Continue reading on Gear Diary …

Direct TV users will soon be able to watch every single NFL game right on their mobile phones, live. iPhone included. NFL Sunday Ticket subscribers can add the Superfan feature to their accounts. Supercast Mobile, which is included with Superfan feature, includes all the great features of the Supercast computer application. So you can now enjoy live streaming video, highlights, scores and stats wherever you happen to be. SUPERCAST Mobile will be available for the iPhone, Palm Pre, and select Windows Mobile and BlackBerry devices. NFL Sunday Ticket Super Fan is available for $100 here Continue reading on Gear Diary …

There is no doubt that HTC is leading the pack when it comes to Android hardware; today marks their latest release, the Sprint Hero. Highlights for this CDMA hadset include a 5. 0 megapixel camera with video recording capabilities that is “enhanced with HTC Footprints an application experience that provides the ability to take notes and audio clips of that favorite restaurant or special place while identifying its specific location using the included GPS.” Everyone who has ever complained about their device not having one will want to note that the Hero has a 3.5mm headphone jack.  There’s no built-in keyboard, so it’s not my dream device…yet, anyway. The HTC Hero is the first device to include HTC Sense, an intuitive experience designed to put people at the center. HTC Sense allows the device to be completely customized encouraging the user to put what is most important to them at their fingertips. A seven panel home screen features the ability to change scenes from work, home, travel ect… thus providing the most important information at the right time. Being built on the Android platform, the HTC Hero offers rich mobile internet capabilities with built-in Google mobile services, including Google Search, [...]

I’ve got a Logitech Squeezebox Boom that is an absolute pleasure to use. It’s one of those products that seems interesting but maybe not necessary, until you actually get one and start using it. That’s when you get spoiled…quickly. I use mine to listen to Sirius Radio inside the house, but I also use it for exploring internet radio and streaming music from my laptop. The sound on mine is pretty amazing, and it looks great sitting under our 55″ flatscreen TV with all the other shiny black components. Logitech has just announced two new Squeezebox WiFi music player models, and the new features are pretty impressive. The new Squeezebox Radio is a compact (5.12″ x 8.66″ x 5.04″) and portable model that can fit nearly anywhere and adds a new social networking aspect, wherein “Facebook users can share music recommendations and see their friends’ recommendations right on the display and Flickr users can show a slideshow.”… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

One of the banes of being a hardcore PC gamer is the constant hardware upgrade treadmill. Last year a new startup company promised to change that! OnLive technology promised the ability to run the latest adn greatest games over a high-speed internet connection using a modest computer on the client side. The innovation is on server-side processing of all the challenging graphical information. Now OnLive is preparing to enter beta testing and has opened up a site as discussed on their official blog.… Continue reading on Gear Diary …