Summer is here, which means it is time for the FOURTH week of yet another GamersGate Summer Sale! The front page claims ’457 offers’, but when I checked this morning the list totaled more than 600 sale items! Here are just a few of the things on sale – all of which are at least 75% off! Sniper: Ghost Warrior (PC), $4.99*, SAVE: 75% Red Shark (PC), $0.27*, SAVE: 97% Earthrise (PC), $6.98*, SAVE: 77% Hotel (PC), $6.95*, SAVE: 77% Alliance – Future Combat (PC), $0.54*, SAVE: 97% Breaking The Rules – The Roman Tournament (PC), $2.99*, SAVE: 79% Royal Envoy Collectors Edition (PC), $4.99*, SAVE Continue reading on Gear Diary …

A few years ago Elana trained as a chef at the Natural Gourmet Cooking School. One of the most important lessons she learned had to do with food sanitation. (She’s a nut about it which is a good thing. She also once commented that “If you knew what went on in some restaurant kitchens you would never eat out again.”) It is important to keep kitchen surfaces as clean as possible and that means, in part, using paper towels to ensure that all surfaces touched by raw food are sprayed and cleaned on a regular basis. To ensure this happen, on any given day you might see five or ten sheets of paper towel already torn… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

We’ve seen a large number of different types of styli released for the iPad and other touchscreen devices. Some look like traditional pens while others, such as Griffin’s Crayon-looking ColorStudio HD stylus, take a more unique approach. Now Ten One Designs has released the Pogo Sketch Plus, a stylus designed for artists.   As the news release explains, Ten One Design, creators of the first capacitive touch-screen stylus for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, has announced its newest artistic tool – the Pogo Sketch Pro. This sleek paintbrush-like capacitive touchscreen stylus combines a natural, ergonomic grip Continue reading on Gear Diary …

I love this series of commercials. (And I like Orbit gum quite a bit too.) I also like this new screen cleaning system from Qmadix since my iPad screen needs all the help it can get. The new Smudge-Free Dry-Foam Cleaning Kit is a completely safe and eco-friendly way to clean any personal electronic device or accessory. The included DuraBan-treated micro-fiber cloths are anti-microbial, meaning they will continue to kill more than 99% of germs and bacteria after use. They can even be washed up to 50 times without losing their anti-microbial properties. The system safely cleans mobile and household electronics, leaves no residue or streaks behind and has a clean scent. The micro-fiber… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

We were recently discussing how many of us still hit up the Amazon Appstore and check out the free daily app. Most of us check things out fairly regularly, but the frequency of actually GETTING anything seems to have dropped. Well, for me anyway, that changed today – Frogger is the free app of the day! From Video Game History: Frogger is an arcade game developed by Konami and licensed by Sega/Gremlin. The game was released in 1981 and has become a popular and classic game. There have remakes and sequels to Frogger. The player takes control of Frogger and must get him past the cars and trucks. Jump Continue reading on Gear Diary …

I have to admit that many items I review do not receive much thought after I post their story, but after spending a short time with this new FishEyes Rod and Reel With Underwater Video Camera I realized here was an item with much broader usage. Sure, this is a unique product that every father needs to bring along on a fishing trip with the kids to enhance their experience while you do your best Bill Dance or Jimmy Houston impression, but I began seeing other opportunities for FishEyes. While it really only looks in one direction (down) as I lowered the camera into the water I thought to myself this would be a great device… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

I have made a rather big deal about the release of Deus Ex: Human Revolution this week, and in the few hours I have had to play it so far – it is clear we finally have a true follow-up to one of the greatest video games of all time. As I have gone to an ‘all digital’ gaming world, I had pre-ordered it through Green Man Gaming, and since the game is SteamWorks based I was able to add the game to my Steam account and have it fully pre-loaded when it was released! For those who bought the game as a physical copy at retail or through an online retailer… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

Nearly a year ago I reviewed Din’s Curse, praising it for offering loads of fun and tons of gameplay. I summed up as follows: Soldak has once again created a great RPG that encompasses many familiar things but brings us something new and challenging that lends itself to a fun and fresh gaming experience. The core of the game is wrapped around a dynamic world loaded with quests, and that in itself will be enough to keep you coming back for more. Now they are back with an expansion to Din’s Curse called ‘Demon War’. To put it simply, it takes everything from the original and makes it bigger and… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

By now you should own World of Goo on some platform, be it Mac, PC or iPad. But in case you don’t … now you have another shot to get it at a great discount from Big Fish Games! Here is the description: Beautiful and surprising, the millions of Goo Balls who live in the World of Goo are curious to explore – but they don’t know that they are in a game, or that they are extremely delicious. This is the FULL award winning game. Drag and drop living, squirming, talking, globs of goo to build structures, bridges, cannonballs, zeppelins, and giant tongues. Mysterious Levels – Each level is strange and Continue reading on Gear Diary …

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Sunbelt Software. All opinions are 100% mine. Viruses are a fact of life in our digital age. They have plagued and they continue to plague Windows computers, and we are starting to see them spread to other platforms. It is a fine balancing act to maintain: on the one hand you want to protect your computer from the unscrupulous programmers who want to do harm to you and your computers or, worse yet, grab your personal data. On the other hand, you don’t want to use some anti-virus software that is going to slow your computer to a crawl… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

The advances in digital sheet music over the years have been stunning, including sheet music that ‘plays’ like a piano roll as the timer scrolls across the screen. But this is something different about this great piece of ‘live’ sheet music – it literally appears on the page as the music flows, adding a dynamic sense of adventure to the familiar ‘So What’ from Miles Davis Kind of Blue. According to Dan Cohen (not OUR Dan Cohen): I wasn’t going to go looking for the drum notations (sorry Jimmy Cobb), but I did find the sheet music for Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderly, Bill Evans, Paul Chambers. So… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

Those crazy guys at Good Old Games are at it again! They are having what they call going ‘Back to Old School With a New Bunch of EA Classics’! Today they revealed two games, with six more slated for the next couple of weeks! Let’s take a look at the latest GoG additions, Dungeon Keeper 2 and Wing Commander 1+2! Here is the description for the awesome Dungeon Keeper 2 Discover your evil side as you build your own underground kingdom. Carve out a living, breathing world and attract a host of devilish creatures to swell the ranks of your dark hoards. Form an alliance with the Horned Reaper and expand Continue reading on Gear Diary …

While I do like iPods, I still love other MP3 players as well.  One of my favorites is the Sansa Fuze+ after the latest firmware update.  Sandisk also has made many other Sansas, and one of the Linux community’s favorite ones has been the Sansa Clip.  Just when I didn’t think the Clip could get any better, Sandisk brings out the Clip Zip, which adds some nice things to the Clip’s form factor. Stylish, Feature-Rich Player Delivers Affordable On-The-Go Music Experience   ·         Packed with features, including a larger color screen, compatibility with all major music formats, a stopwatch, an FM radio, voice recording capability and a microSDHC™ card slot for extra storage ·         Continue reading on Gear Diary …

Imagine if back in 2006 someone told you that RIM was offering a music plan for the Blackberry that would allow you to get 50 songs per month, share them with all of your friends who also have a Blackberry, unlimited and on-demand. And that it would have cost $5 a month! You would likely have lamented that you couldn’t also get them on your PC or iPod … but would otherwise been pretty thrilled and signed up immediately! This was the time before the iPhone, before Spotify and Slacker, and when RIM ruled the enterprise phone market. This was before RIM was bleeding market share … well, because of moves like… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

We are just rolling in Kindle offerings lately, and now Amazon is throwing even more deals at us! Their latest promotion is the “Kindle Daily Deal”, where they will promote one book at a steep discount for 24 hours. For example, today’s deal was $5.59 yesterday and is $1.39 (75% off) today! That’s less than I paid for coffee this morning! Today’s deal is “The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane”. From Amazon’s description: In The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Newbery award-winning author Kate DiCamillo takes readers on an extraordinary journey, from the depths of the ocean to the net of a fisherman, from the bedside of an ailing child to the bustling streets of Memphis Continue reading on Gear Diary …