Welcome back to another weekend of insane game deals! I am sure I’m getting jaded – it seems with each week I am unimpressed by the list of hundreds of games at 50% off or more and have a hard time grabbing five favorites … but when I dig in I still realize how awesome [...]
Archive | September, 2011
iPad 2 Case Review: ZENUS iPad 2 Leather Case ‘Prestige’ HandCraft Stitch Pouch Series
We got our hands on two different cases for the iPad 2 from a company called ZENUS. We had not seen their offerings previously but were immediately impressed by the sheer number and variety of cases they have available. The first of the two cases we’ll look at is the ZENUS iPad 2 Leather Case [...]
Giving the Honeywell HEPAClean 3-in-1 Advanced Air Cleaning System a Try During This Allergy Season
Have you ever taken a good look at the space just in front of you when the morning sun shines directly in your windows? If you have pets or live anywhere other than in a hermetically sealed envelope, you are probably used to seeing fine floating particles that are nearly unidentifiable … but if you [...]
WaterField Designs Heats Things Up with New Cases for the Kindle Fire
When a new device comes out it is almost inevitable that one of the first companies we will hear from is WaterField Designs. They make some of the most protective sleeves and cases around. Better still, their products — while not the most inexpensive — are always made from quality materials, have fantastic build-quality, and [...]
Pop Goes the Music Diary: How Hot is Dubstep? Cereal Commercial Hot!
If you haven’t heard of the musical sub-genre ‘dubstep’, or artists like Deadmau5, Tiesto, Skrillex, and so on … I have a suggestion: GET WITH IT!!! Seriously, this no-words-needed, drum & bass inspired techno dance show electronic style of music is all the rage with kids, to the point where I was only slightly surprised [...]
Gear Diary at 5: Grand Prize Contest Begins… NOW!!!!!
Gear Diary is exactly 5 years old TODAY. To celebrate we figured that it was about time we revealed the full grand prize package in our fifth anniversary giveaway contest series, as well as the ways in which you can enter. So here we go … We’ve already told you that we’ll be giving away [...]
A Relevant Thought About ‘Free’
This week we learned that Samsung will be the latest Android licensee paying huge royalties to Microsoft, and a general sense that the final nails in the ‘Android is free’ coffin have been hammered. We also heard the uproar about the Spotify-Facebook linkage, and even though Spotify now has a ‘private listening mode’ they still [...]
Off to Austin for the Big Android BBQ!
Today I’ll be meeting Thomas, Francis and a few other friends in Austin to attend the second annual Big Android BBQ. Francis and I went last year, and I got to enjoy watching him — and dozens of other Android users — act like total star-struck fans as they met some of their Android-hacking idols. [...]
Random Cool Videos: What Your Kids Are Watching On YouTube Today
The title is misleading, since you really never know … but here are three things my kids can’t see to leave alone this week – which I suppose is better than Nyan Cat yet again! First, we have an amazing show of ‘chicken beatboxing’ … which is beatboxing, but with chicken sounds! Yeah … just [...]
Gear Diary at 5: Skooba Design has Got You Covered!
Are you still toting your Laptop around without any protection? That will never do! To help you safeguard your expensive portable computers, we have a selection of Skooba Design Skooba Skins! What’s a Skooba Skin? Quite simply put, it is a slim laptop sleeve that converts to a tote with the “flip of a flap”, allowing you [...]
Gear Deal: Dell Alienware m11x 11.6″ Gaming Laptop
No two ways about it, the 11.6″ Dell Alienware m11x Gaming Laptop looks cool! It sports a Core i7-640UM ULV processor with 1GB GeForce GT 335M discrete GPU. It includes 4GB RAM, 320GB Hard Drive, 1.3-Megapixel Webcam, 802.11n WiFi, 320GB Hard Drive, and Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit OS. Normally $1,114, this Gear Deal is [...]
Gear Games Deal: Good Old Games Giving Away Broken Sword FREE for 48 Hours!
Well, as I mentioned last week Good Old Games was having a ‘race to 6 million’, which would conclude with one lucky person winning the entire Good Old Games collection … and everyone else getting Broken Sword for FREE! The offer is good only until Saturday at noon GMT (8AM EDT) – so hurry to [...]
iPad 2 Case Review: ZENUS iPad 2 Leather Case with Stand ‘Prestige’ Crocodile Sportism Series
This is the second of two iPad 2 cases from ZENUS that we are reviewing. This time out we are looking at the ZENUS iPad 2 Leather Case with Stand ‘Prestige’ Crocodile Sportism Series, a pearl white folio-style case made of leather that is embossed in a manner that makes it look like crocodile skin. [...]
Random Cool Video: The Imperial March Played on Floppy Disk Drives
Anyone old enough to remember how floppy disk drives had some very characteristic sounds will instant appreciate this video – the Imperial March from Star Wars played on two floppy disks. According to Silent’s official site: How does it work? It’s nothing new and it’s very simple. The sound comes from a magnetic head moved [...]
eBook Deal: The Hunger Games Trilogy for $4.38 for Kindle or Nook!
One of the best loved young adult series in recent years is the Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. Now also a hotly anticipated movie, the books have been extremely popular … and now Amazon.com has the trilogy bundle on an amazing deal for just $4.38! UPDATE: The deal seems to have abruptly ended. Hopefully [...]
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