The folks over at USB Fever are now offering a 2-in-one car/home charger for USB devices. The nice thing about this one is that it offers swappable adapters for the U.S./Japan, U.K., Australia/China, and Europe, as well as a standard 12v/24v car lighter connection able to charge 2 USB devices at once.

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In recent months I’ve been looking at getting a new car.  Actually, at first, I was looking at used cars, but, eventually, I ended up looking at new hatchbacks.  I was replacing a sports car and the point of the exercise was to get a vehicle that would save me gas, and be a little more utilitarian without totally giving up the fun factor.  After doing tons of research on the Internet, I ended up buying a special edition of the 2008 Scion xB - the Gold Rush Mica Release 5.0.

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If you have a laptop built in the last couple of years, then odds are good that you’ve experienced the heat, maybe even the burn, of having the laptop sit on your lap. Many of the newest laptops get extremely hot, even with internal fans trying to keep the heat down.  LapLogic is offering a cooling solution called the Laplogic Aerogel Extreme that is made with Aerogel (from a company called Aspen) that promises to offer you a more pleasant, cooler, computing experience.

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You may remember a while back that Judie ran a story on a nifty way to make and share mixtapes online called Muxtape.

Well now, according to a story over at iphonealley.com, Muxtape is now compatible with the Safari browser on the iPhone. Now the reach of this cool website has gone just a little farther!

As part of the Gear Diary team, part of what I try to do is wander the Internet looking for useful things to share. Lately, I’ve noticed a disturbing trend on the Internet - people presenting their personal opinions as if what they say is fact.

Let’s be clear - stating an opinion on the net is nothing new. Hey, I’m doing that right now! What seems to be happening with increasing frequency though, is that someone will make a statement online, others will pick it up and spread it, and before you know it people are repeating the original opinion as if it’s a hard fact; when, in fact it was really just someone’s opinion.

Rumor and opinion suddenly become fact, and it’s just wrong. Worse - it seems to be happening more and more.

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Tributaries, makers of high-end audio-visual equipment, have put out their latest power management product, the T12. This power strip offers a massive 12 outlets! Now assuming you aren’t drawing so much power that you are blowing circuit breakers, this power-strip has one extremely helpful feature: 8 of the outlets have the ability to rotate 90 degrees to make managing those goofy AC adapter blocks by allowing to to stagger them or rotate them out of the way of their neighbors. Very handy when you have a motley collection of electronic equipment to deal with!

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I like handheld games. I spend a good bit of time playing games on my Windows Mobile handheld and on my Nintendo DS. There have never been, for me, enough good games written for the Windows mobile platform. For all the potential there, the selections have too frequently been knockoffs of each other.

A while back, I bought and played the original Bejeweled, and although I enjoyed it, it didn’t exactly “wow” me. It’s gameplay was basically that of match 3-or-more to remove objects. The variation, however, is that more pieces fall into place, and there are special objects that perform more effective removals. The gameplay was a little choppy, but still playable. So, while Bejeweled was a fun, and certainly popular game, I wasn’t overly impressed.

Now now some time goes by and I’m presented with the opportunity to try out the new Bejeweled 2. I started it up expecting a small variation on the original. What I got was a much improved display, smoother gameplay, and more play options.

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I’ve been shopping for a used car. I know exactly what I want. The problem is getting it.

The vehicle I want isn’t common in my area, so I turned to the Internet to find one. What’s I’m finding, however, is that outside of buying via ebay, the shopping experience varies widely.

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I’m a big fan of ebooks. Unfortunately, they haven’t really lived up to their potential yet. As a fan - I’ve been watching the release of the Kindle closely. In some ways, it feels like it has to succeed if ebooks have any chance of becoming more than a niche market. I really want to buy a Kindle, but I need decent backlighting and I’d prefer a color screen first. The fact that’s it’s based on Sprint service is unfortunate since their coverage in my part of the world is terrible, but all that aside, the Kindle has always struck me as a cool idea that I hope is successful.

So today I browse over to the Amazon.com website and I’m greeted not to the usual Amazon.com opening page, but rather one that contains a big apology from Jeff Bezos to people who’ve been patiently waiting for shipment of their Kindle.

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This past weekend I took on a new project, or really two projects – upgrading the RAM and hard drive in my 17” Macbook Pro, then taking the “old” hard drive and putting it into a 13” Macbook belonging to my other half. After researching a lot of information online (I love Google searches), I made some decisions about how to proceed with the updates, gathered the pieces, and started into the process.

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