Longtime Gear Diary sponsor Skooba Design is offering a deal: buy one of their red, white, or blue Neo-Skin iPad/Netbook sleeves, and get a second one for free. (Red, white, and blue; fourth of July — you got that, right?) The Skooba Neo-Skin has an MSRP of $19.95, and in these lean times everyone needs [...]
Archive | June, 2010
Buy a Flying Car…for the Price of a Small House!
(image courtesy CNN) If the jetpack I told you about isn’t really your speed, what about a flying car? It’s called the Transition Roadable Aircraft, and it will run you around $194,000 (plus your pilot’s license!) What’s amazing is that this isn’t really a traditional “flying car”, at least not in the DeLorean sense. Instead, [...]
RIP Fictionwise?
Looks like Fictionwise is becoming more obsolete by the day. During the spring they discontinued their membership program in the face of the agency pricing changes. Now it looks like “micropay rebates”, the last bastion of their old system, is being discontinued. Micropay rebates were essentially an incentive program to shop at Fictionwise on an [...]
The M-Edge Flip Jacket for Apple iPad Is Simple and Effective Protection
If you’ve got an iPad, some of the first things you probably considered after purchasing it were how to protect the screen from scratches and how to protect the device from bumps and dings. Here at Gear Diary we are having fun exploring all the options, and this latest — the M-Edge Flip Jacket for Apple [...]
Tom Bihn Ristretto Bag for Apple iPad – Review
I carry my iPad with me pretty much everywhere I go these days. That means I need a good case… and a good bag. Tom Bihn was kind enough to send me one of their Ristretto bags. The Ristretto was originally designed for carrying netbooks but it works perfectly as an iPad bag. As soon [...]
Video Review: Moshi Moshi 03 Lets You Go Hands Free In Style
Back in April I told you about the Native Union Moshi Moshi 01. The sleek and sophisticated handsfree unit allow the users to make and receive mobile calls while experiencing the ease of comfort of a landline base. Native Union is out with the next release in the Moshi Moshi line. The Moshi Moshi [...]
Instaviz For iPhone/Touch/iPad Review and Giveaway
How many times have you had to plan a project whether at work or home and best illustrated using a flow chart? I know many times I have mapped out my plans in this form on a scratch piece of paper. Instaviz makes this mind mapping possible on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad using [...]
G5 Offers Two New Games for iOS 4 and the iPhone 4
Yup, the iPhone 4 and iOS 4.0 have only been out a few days (and just today, if you didn’t pre-order), but you can bet your favorite pair of glittery socks that the app developers haven’t been sitting on their hands since the 4.0 SDK became available. And as part of the major iPhone 4/iOS [...]
Buy a Kindle At the Airport!
Amazon is going to take over the world someday…one airport at a time. In addition to online and your local Target, you can now pick up a Kindle at select airports! Now you won’t be stuck browsing mass market paperbacks and old “People” magazines if your flight gets delayed! This has the potential to be [...]
DopplerPad iPhone App Used in Production of New “Outer Spaces” EP
One of the big news items for the release of the iPhone 4 was the availability of iMovie, so that you amateur filmmakers can create and edit your own short films. (And it is cool; an Apple employee yesterday was showing me a film he had made with it.) But that doesn’t mean the audiophile [...]
Gear Deal- Dell Ultrasharp 21.5″ 1080p IPS LCD Monitor w/ DisplayPort
At home I use a 27 inch iMac. I love the huge display. Having that amount of “screen real estate” makes it possible for me to have numerous windows open at the same time. That in turn allows me to work in a more fluid manner than might otherwise. With the iMac I can have [...]
Ooma Releases Ooma Mobile for iPhone- Neat Idea… but It Will Cost You
Ooma, the company that makes the stand alone VOiP phone system that lets you buy the hardware once and then make and receive free calls for the life of the unit, has finally released the iPhone app we first told you about in January. The app lets you “put Ooma in your pocket and take [...]
Watch 30 Years of Apple in 2 Minutes
From the YouTube files comes this video every Apple fan boy will love, and even perhaps some non fanboys too. An Apple a day…Take a look at the design and progression of Apple computers from the Apple II to the current models. This video shows the computers I’ve kept for one reason or another morphing [...]
Chrome Soyuz Laptop Bag Review: Dare to be Different
Last week I reviewed the Chrome Vega Utility Bag. I’ve become a fan of it due to its versatility and functionality. I can not tell you the number of times I’ve purchased an expensive gear bag because I thought it “looked” cool only to find it didn’t hold all of my gear, or made retrieving [...]
USBFever’s Weekly New Launches Include Fancy Mouse Arm Rest
For years I’ve insisted that the reason I don’t have carpal tunnel problems in my mousing wrist is because I carefully adjust the height of my chair armrest, and rest my forearm on the arm-rest, decreasing the chances of a bent wrist. Well now someone at Belkin has obviously decided to give me a hand [...]
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