In order to hopefully enhance your reading pleasure, Good.iWare has put out Goodreader for the iPad, an app that allows you to handle very large PDF and TXT files, navigate manuals, large books, magazines, and renderings of 100 mb and more with “great speed.”  Goodreader also provides access to MobileMe iDisk, box.net, MyDisk.se, and many other file-storage servers for both downloading and uploading files.  If this is something that you’ve been needing, go to the iTunes store and check it out.  Goodreader is available for an MSRP of a mere $0.99. Good.iWare announces Continue reading on Gear Diary …

Lenovo has been pumping out some nice, new designs over the past month with more to come this year. Today’s Gear Deal however is right back to the company’s roots. It offers power, conservative design and a decent price… a price that is even better today thanks to our GearSponsor. The Lenovo ThinkPad T410 has, at it’s core either a Core i5 or Core i7 CPU. In other words the machine comes in two speeds… Fast and faster. It can handle up to 8GB DDR3 memory, ships with Windows 7 Professional, and runs for up to 18 hours battery life with optional 9-cell slice battery. Enhanced VoIP, eSATA and an optional NVIDIA NVS 3100m 256MB GDDR3… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

We all love buying new gear.  That’s why we’re here right?  But when is the last time you bought an amazing gadget and made a donation to a worthy charity at the same time? The Beats By Dr. Dre Solo HD Red headphones not only look and sound great (we’ll get to that in the review), but a portion of the profits from every pair of headphones sold goes directly to the Global Fund to fight AIDS in Africa. These headphones are made from a proprietary titanium coated driver technology ensures they preserve every “bit of the lush bass and vital details of your music.” They fold easily for… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

You are headed out for the day, and you want to bring your iPad with you. What you really want to do more than anything is throw it into your bag and not have to worry too much about it. The problem is the device is relatively delicate. Yeah, it is well-built and solid, but it is delicate nonetheless thanks to the large touch screen. That’s where Hard Candy’s Bubble Case comes in. Let’s take a look… From The Company- Bubbles on the Outside, Rubber on the Inside Hard Candy’s Continue reading on Gear Diary …

Camangi sent the updated Webstation back today, and there are some good improvements. It also looks like some things haven’t changed at all. Nevertheless, the Camangi Webstation is one of the only Android tablets that has managed to appear in the USA, so the question is: If you didn’t buy an iPad, and you’re holding out for something Android based, is the updated Camangi worth it? Let’s start with what didn’t happen. It didn’t get upgraded to a new version of Android, so it’s still stuck on 1.5. However, Camangi now claims that any future changes are user-upgradable. Hope the Webstation enjoyed its road trip!… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

We are all feeling the financial pinch!    Blue Plate Special is a weekly review of bargain apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Nothing over $.99. This week and next week are the craziest weeks of the spring for us as coaches.  I have four games and will work at two track meets and this year I add my son’s four t-ball games.  While I was on my weekly search for an app for the Blue Plate Special, I decided I wanted something fun and different.  The craziness of work made me not want to do something productive… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

450,000 iPads sold to date. Saturday accounts for 300,000 of them. Best Buy is out of stock. iBooks has seen 600,000 downloads and 3.5 million iPad apps have been downloaded. There are currently 3500 iPad apps. There are a total of 185,000 apps in the App Store. More stats… the iPhone has 64% of the mobile browser share. The next largest is Android at 19%. Developer preview for 4.0 is out today. It provides 1500 new APIs for accessing such things as the calendar, photo library, and images. The new OS will be out this summer. Among the big deals will be the ability for task apps to now access the calendar Key features- Multitasking!!!!!!! YEAH!!!!!!! And they Continue reading on Gear Diary …

Apple got off to a good great start with regard to the iPad section of the App Store last week. Apps like Pages and Keynote were as awesome as expected. Evernote, Dragon Dictation, Instapaper, Bento and even the Kindle app were updated to work on both the iPhone and iPad with the iPad versions often being far more than merely scaled-up versions of their smaller counterparts. Saturday night the Zinio iPad app was released. It was a great start and then… nothing. Seriously nothing. I haven’t seen anything new in the area new iPad-specific apps. I haven’t even seen any notifications regarding more apps that have been released in their universal binary versions. NOTHING… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

Update: Task #2 is now closed, and Task #3 is live. Good luck! Today marks the second day of our 32GB WiFi Apple iPad giveaway. As previously explained, we are doing a progressive contest, and by adding new applications or accessories to the prize package daily the grand prize package will get bigger and better! So as of today, the package consists of the iPad, valued at $599 plus tax, and we have added four Astraware titles – OddBlob, Solitaire, Sudoku as well as the soon to be released Casino. As you will recall, we are publishing a new post… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

Elana joked the other day that I have an SEV-only wardrobe these days. It isn’t far from the truth. Even when I’m not carrying gadgets with me I like wearing one of my SEV jackets. If asked to choose a favorite I would likely have to pick the Soft Shell that I reviewed a few months back. It is soft, comfortable and warm. And, as is the case with all SEV garments, hidden inside are a host of usable pockets. You can read the review here and then you can jump on over to the Scottevest website’s sale page where the Soft Shell is in sale for 20% off today only. That means the normally $175 jacket is… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

I love, love, love my iPad and have started bringing with me pretty much everywhere. That means it is more important than ever to protect it. Fortunately some of our favorite gadget bag and protection designers have been hard at work. Case in point– Tom Bihn has just announced a new iPad travel bag. The Co-Pilot… is a small, carry-on sized travel bag sized to fit the essentials – the items that you want close at hand and easily accessible during your flight. Better still is the fact that the iPad will fit inside it while it is protected in the Apple case or, I assume, a similarly sized protective… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

I’m a huge fan of Eye-Fi, the SD card with built-in wireless that lets you upload images and video without ever having to make a direct connection between your camera and your computer. I love knowing that whenever I take pictures they are immediately available in iPhoto on my iMac and in my Picasa account online. Early cards were slow and a bit buggy but the latest versions are fast and stable. Overall the weakest link in the system has been the Eye’Fi Manager software. It did the job but it was slow, had a poor UI and wasn’t enjoyable… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

Unlike its smaller sibling the iPhone the iPad gets awesome battery life. Still, you likely want to have an extra wall charger around and you definitely want a charger in the car. Problem is, the iPad takes a different wall and car charger than the iPhone and touch. Apple will be offering a wall charger accessory but it has not yet shipped. Fortunately Scosche has just announced both a wall and a car charger. The revive II will, in fact, do double duty. Both… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

No, not the yellow kind that you stick to the screen of someone’s monitor when they’re not there whenever you swing by for a confab.  This is the 21st Century!  We’re talking electronic sticky notes that go on your virtual screen on your iPad.  Come into the modern world! Electronic Pocket Limited has ported their sticky-note note-taker application to the iPad.  Based on their iPhone version, the new port “lets users take advantage of the iPad’s large screen to easily jot and organize handwritten sticky-style notes and memory joggers.”  Available for just a buck at the iTunes store.  If you need more info, check out their web site. Electric Pocket Limited has Continue reading on Gear Diary …

Powerhouse. Yes, if you had to describe today’s GearDeal in one word it wold be “powerhouse”. Why? Because the HP dv7t is, in a word, a powerhouse. It offers a 17″ HD+ LED BrightView LCD screen, a Core i7-720QM and a 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 320M graphics card. Add in a free upgrade to 4GB DDR3 RAM and 50% off a 500GB Hard Drive upgrade and you get a powerful machine that can go with you. Other features include Windows 7, a Webcam and Continue reading on Gear Diary …