(image courtesy Styletap) My first PDA was a Palm M100. My first smartphone was a Treo 650. I loved Palm OS. But I didn’t hesitate to move on when iOS and Android pushed the envelope in the smartphone world, and personally I don’t miss any Palm apps. Now, there are plenty of people who did, and Styletap tried to reach them with their Palm OS emulator, which was jailbreak-only on the iPhone. But it’s been YEARS since a Palm OS device was produced, and now WebOS is open source. So does the world REALLY need a way to keep Palm OS apps alive? Apparently, Styletap thinks so, and they’re offering a way to wrap them in… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

The periodic table of the elements is a great visual tool that allows you to quickly discover elements by means of a two-dimensional look-up method that encompasses multiple aspects. That visual tool has been used for many things … and has now been put to use as a work of interactive art by Jon Link and Mick Bunnage of Modern Toss. It is, quite simply, a fully cross-referenced guide to British swearing. Here is a look at the modern uses of the periodic table that refers to the Modern Toss table: Artists and designers fascinated by the periodic table have used it primarily as a visual signifier and celebration of form. Jon Continue reading on Gear Diary …

Welcome back to another weekend of insane game deals for you to ‘gobble’ up! 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 the deals are! I am focusing my lists more on the deals of 75% off or more to keep things manageable … but still have some that are >50% off – but that is my lower limit! I am continuing my ‘top 5 weekend deals’ section where I grab my favorite 5 deals of the week and provide direct links! For these games I select based on how good the game is as well as how sweet the deal – but each week there are great games at fantastic discounts! And as always thanks to the crew at Deals4Downloads for their help finding everything. TOP 5 WEEKEND DEALS! World of Warcraft Battle Chest for $5.00, Save 75% – from Blizzard Store Dungeon Siege III for $4.95, Save 83% – from Amazon Killing Floor for $4.99, Save 75% – from Steam [...]

This popular mystery/puzzler series continues as the latest installment, only available on the Nintendo DS, has engaging action and a high replay value along with a bonus role-playing game London Life.

I have already talked about the EA Daily Deals, but now we know what they are planning to offer for the next week! Here is the full list by day! Saturday, 12/10: Flight Control for iPhone, Free Sunday, 12/11: Dead Space for iPad, 50% off ($4.99) Monday, 12/12: Mirror’s Edge for iPad, Free Tuesday, 12/13: Scrabble for iPhone, $0.99 Wednesday, 12/14: TETRIS for iPhone, 30% off select in-game content Thursday, 12/15: Flight Control HD, Free Friday, 12/16: Mirror’s Edge for iPhone, Free Saturday, 12/17: Scrabble for iPad, 50% off ($4.99) Sunday, 12/18: TETRIS for iPad, 60% off ($2.99) Apparently in spite… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

Judie and Dan have two videos up on the BENQ GP2 Contest. They are funny and fun and… they can win YOU our loyal readers money so… PLEASE take a second to follow the links and VOTE! Here is the original post with all he information. And you can so here…  and vote… for both of the videos we have uploaded so far! Continue reading on Gear Diary …

Video games get to boast for the most as the gamer network Raptr releases their eight category winners list of “Most Played Awards of 2011″.

If you read Michael’s post about our early reactions to Infinity Blade II, you’ll know that I was really excited to get this game.  I loved Infinity Blade I, and couldn’t wait to get the sequel.  One of the things I love about both IB, and other games that use the Unreal Engine game driver, is that they don’t utilize “virtual controls”.  That is, rather than having a “virtual” joystick and buttons on your device screen in an attempt to emulate a PS2 or other handheld device, Unreal Engine games use taps and swipes for the gameplay.  This both frees up screen real estate for the game itself–pretty important on the iPhone or iPod… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

During this busy Holiday season with so many great deals, it is easy to make an error as you check out – especially on pages with multi-select options. For example, you can choose the correct size of a shirt and then mess up as you look at a variety of colors and don’t re-check the size before your sale is complete. Ultimately what happens after the mistake depends on how you handle it and the customer service of the company – but it is always important to remember that YOU made the mistake and bear the responsibility. Over the Thanksgiving holiday I wrote about a great deal at DianeDuane.com for the entire Young… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

To celebrate the Google Chrome app release of their games Pocket Legends and Star Legends, Spacetime Studios is giving way three Google Chromebooks. Here are the rules: To be automatically entered you must be a resident of the United States or Canada, and log in to either Pocket Legends or Star Legends using the Chrome Browser with a registered Spacetime Account between 12 Noon CST Friday, Dec 9th and 11:59 PM CST on Sunday, Dec. 11th and enter the game world with a character. Here are links where you can log in and play on Chrome: Click Here to Play Pocket Legends on Chrome Click Here to Play Star Continue reading on Gear Diary …

  Judie (and I) now have two videos up on the BENQ GP2 Contest. They are funny and fun and… they can win you money so… vote people. Here is the original post with all he information. And you can so here…  and vote… for both of the videos we have uploaded so far! Continue reading on Gear Diary …

One of the things that I like best about the iPhone 4S and Siri is that now I can do hands-free stuff on my iPhone without endangering my driving.  If I want to know the temperature, I just tap the button on my headset, Siri pings me, and I ask.  Or if I need to know my appointments for the day.  Or whatever.  Having Siri available via my Bluetooth headset is a real boon. And Cardo wants to make that boon available to you motorcyclists out there.  Their new Bluetooth headset not only gives you in-helmet Bluetooth goodness, but also allows you to communicate to other riders in your group at distances of up… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

Well … ok, maybe not! But thanks to the mad image juxtaposition skills of Dan Cohen, it looks that way. And really, just HOW surprised would you have been if it WAS true? Let’s be serious – Angry Birds has ‘jumped the shark’ … in reality it did so in 2010. It is a cute 15-minute time waster with enough content to be highly replayable. But when you think about it … it really isn’t much beyond a well executed touch-based singular game mechanic. Try this – play it on the PSP or on a PC. Guess what? It is crap. Without an iOS or Android device the game is not… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

We end the week with a Gear Deal on the 21.5″ Dell S2230MX Ultra-slim 1080p LCD Monitor. This is, “the thinnest Dell LCD monitor ever and features mega-dynamic contrast ratio of 8,000,000:1 (typical), 1920 x 1080 resolution, VGA and DVI-D (HDCP) connectivity, bundled DVI-HDMI dongle, 2ms response time EPEAT Silver rating and more.” Normally $219.99, our Gear Sponsor has found a coupon for $70 off. That brings the final price down to just $149.99 and it will even ship for free. Get the deal here, Gear Deal: Dell’s Ultra-slim 21.5″ 1080p LCD Monitor Via LogicBuy Continue reading on Gear Diary …

HP has put up a press release regarding the fate of WebOS.  WebOS has been given to the open source community. HP will engage the open source community to help define the charter of the open source project under a set of operating principles: The goal of the project is to accelerate the open development of the webOS platform HP will be an active participant and investor in the project Good, transparent and inclusive governance to avoid fragmentation Software will be provided as a pure open source project This is probably the best thing that HP could have done with this.  Once everything is finalized, it will then be… Continue reading on Gear Diary …