Gear Diary’s own Dan Cohen has let you all know, many times, that he has found the iPad to be a great go-to device for a huge portion of his daily living. He uses it to take notes, write stuff, read magazines, and I don’t know what-all. But what if you’re a movie-maker kind of [...]
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Become King of the Social Media Jungle with the Latest Idiot’s Guides
I have to say that I’ve always found the success of the “for Dummies” and “Idiot’s Guides” to be kind of amazing. I mean, I’m a technical writer; we go to a lot of trouble to give our readers all the information they need without condescending to them. To see a wildly successful book series [...]
Mobile Fun Is Having a Contest for an HTC One X
Even thought I’m an iPhone/iPad guy, that doesn’t mean I don’t like other phones and manufacturers. Quite the contrary, in fact; my favorite PDA of all time was the late, lamented Tapwave Zodiac (I got my tech blogging feet wet with the Zodiac fan site Tapland, in fact), and I quite enjoyed my time using [...]
Clipix Is Your Digital Container Store Tool
My house is a mess. A lot of this has to do with the fact that we have two teenagers, two dogs, and four cats, but it’s also because we stink at organizing. For a period, we even tried to hire an organizing maven to help us with the problem and, while she was a [...]
Is the Airship Dream Really Dead, or Only Sleeping?
Image courtesy of The Atlantic magazine In my post the other day on Clockwork Couture, I noted that their new space is going to include a friggin’ Zeppelin. And you might wonder (if you noticed, that is; I’m sure you have other things to worry about in life!): why are Zeppelins and airships such a [...]
New Android Malware Is Spreading Via Infected Websites
Most of the news items I bring to y’all are about new products. But every once in a while, there’s the web site equivalent of a PSA (that’s “public service announcement”, to those of you who didn’t have girlfriends who worked at radio stations in college–hi, Sara!) to tell you about something that we think [...]
Cool Your Cans o’ Drink with The Beast
“Hulk smash!” Okay, okay; you aren’t the Hulk, but given that we’re deep in the middle of all things Avengers right now, don’t you wish to have the strength of the Hulk once in a while? A little bit, maybe? To knock that obnoxious driver in front of you out of the way? Or maybe [...]
AI Type Release Fold-n-Split Android Virtual Tablet Keyboard
How are you on virtual keyboards? Do you like ‘em, and think they’re okay as they are? Can you not stand them, and fire up your Bluetooth keyboard first thing (this is where I fall, me).? Or do you think they’re fine, but wish they were configurable, giving you the opportunity to make them a [...]
20% Off Custom Bags at Timbuk2 Bags
In the market for a new bag? There’s a bucketload of choices out there, for sure. But I’d bet that you’d like the chance to actually design your own bag, choose your own exterior and interior colors, what kind of flaps you want, and all of that, right? Not only that, but how about [...]
“Sherlock” Season 2 Comes to the US This Sunday!
Your typical Sherlock Holmes fan is a strange breed–loving stories written nearly a century and a half ago, at the height of the British Empire, set in Victorian London. You can find Holmes fans who love the Basil Rathbone films, and those that hate them; those that think the Downey/Jude Law/Guy Ritchie were awesome, and [...]
Michael Crichton Back-catalog Available May 14
Image courtesy of Obit Carly Z makes fun of me a lot because I want all my stuff in electronic format right now. If I am struck by a whim to watch a TV show or download a movie or read a book, I want the eVersion now! I am like the Veruca Salt of [...]
How I Fell for a Muscle Car
This is the story of how a sensible, middle-aged guy fell from sensible car grace. Have mercy on me. Let me be honest right up front here: I am most assuredly not a “muscle car” fan. I was a nerd/geek/dork in high school (in spite of doing two sports–do you think being in Drama and [...]
Feed Your Steampunk Jones at Clockwork Couture
Image Courtesy of “Why Steampunk Still Matters“ I can almost say that I’ve been a fan of Steampunk before such a genre even existed. (For those of you in the dark, “Steampunk”–a portmanteau of “Cyberpunk” and [bien sur!] “Steam”–is a fiction genre that plants itself in the early industrial “steam-powered” age–usually England–either as an alternate [...]
Acorn TV Now Available on Roku
One of the frustrating things for me–as I’ve gone on about at length to my Gear Diary pals–is the difficulty in accessing non-American content. ”Top Gear”, “Sherlock”, and so on come trickling in to the U.S. weeks and months (half a year for “Sherlock”, dammit!) behind their initial broadcasts in the U.K. In a world [...]
USBFever Releases iDevice Alcohol Tester
Just when I think to myself, “Okay, self; they’ve come up with pretty much every iPhone app variation you can think of,” someone comes along to prove me wrong, wrong, totally wrong. This week it happens to be those busy bees as USBFever who, along with all the other stuff they put out for the [...]
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