I love starting the week with a super Gear Deal and this is a Super Gear Deal! BUT, and this is important, this deal is good for today only. OCZ’s Agility 3 2.5″ 90GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive is normally $150. With this deal you can get it for $99.99. Plus, it will ship for free and there is no tax in most states. If you have never seen the speed that comes with a solid state drive this is a great way to get started. And while 90GB isn’t a huge amount of storage capacity, with cloud storage increasingly cheap there’s never been a better time to swap out a traditional… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

We want to thank all of you who commented on the review for Case Mate Tough Cases featuring Realtree designs. I have continued to use the deer design and love it. We hope to continue to broaden the amount of outdoors gear to make sure everyone has the best gadgets when they hunt, fish, hike and camp. Suggestions and requests are always welcome! The two winners were chosen at random, one by my 7 year old and the other by my 4 year old. And the winners are…… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

OK – thanks to all that entered to win one of the TWO FULL GAME CODES for the XBOX360 version of the original Darkness game! Now that the contest is over, I have randomized the valid entries thanks to Random.org and … The winners are ….. Isiah 59 Doug You have 24 hours to send your email contact information to contests@geardiary.com and your game code will be sent via email. Thanks again to the great folks at 2k Games, the developers of The Darkness and everyone who entered. Be sure to head to ‘Embrace the Darkness’ Continue reading on Gear Diary …

The Back to the Future games for the iPad did a great job of delivering the experience of the movie and the original PC game from TellTale. Now this weekend you can grab the first Episode for FREE! That is $7 less than the regular price! Here is the description: Marty McFly & Doc Brown return in a brand new Back to the Future adventure! In Episode 1, Marty McFly is just getting re-acquainted with the 1980′s when the DeLorean Time Machine he saw destroyed by a speeding train materializes before him. He finds out that Doc Brown is trapped somewhere in the past and that he must travel back in Continue reading on Gear Diary …

Today’s New Gear Daily Deal brings us Dell’s Dual UltraSharp 21.5″ Widescreen Monitors and a stand to hold them. Better still, you’ll save a bundle on this bundle. Here’s what Dell has to say about the monitors. Experience a revolutionary industry’s highest-quality and the most advanced technology performance with the Dell™ UltraSharp U2212HM 21.5-inch Widescreen Flat Panel Monitor. Enjoy vivid and crystal clear images with its full high definition resolution of 1920 x 1080. With a high dynamic contrast ratio of 2 million:1 and a fast 8 ms gray-to-gray response time helps enable you to see crisp, razor-sharp and ghost-free images. And here’s what they say about the Monitor Desk Stand: The Dual LCD Monitor Horizontal Continue reading on Gear Diary …

Welcome back to another weekend of game deals for you to enjoy! Things seem to be cranking up again on the deals, headlined by the awesome 75% off sale on the Jedi Knight collection at Steam. Take my advice, skip Jar Jar in 3D and spend the weekend with Kyle Katarn and Mara Jade! As a reminder, I have refocused on only those sites I feel bring great deals AND great customer experience to the table, including Amazon, Beamdog, Desura, DotEmu, GamersGate, Mac App Store and Steam. I have two ‘featured’ games from Get Games because they activate on Steam, so you avoid their silly install limits. Also, I am more tightly focusing on deals of 75% off or more, with occasional 50% sales, but in addition will also be trimming back to fewer than 25 deals per site to keep the list under control. I am continuing my ‘top weekend deals’ section where I grab my favorite 5 or so 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 [...]

Just a reminder that the great folks at 2k Games have given us TWO FULL GAME CODES for the XBOX360 version of the original Darkness game! TO WIN: simply comment here confirming you have a XBOX360 with a XBOX Live account so you can use the code. That is it! The contest will run until TODAY Friday February 10th at 5PM, when winners will be picked from valid entries at random. As a reminder, here is the launch trailer for the newly released Darkness II (I’m playing it now … and it is awesome!) Head to Embrace the Darkness for more details! So Continue reading on Gear Diary …

Quick – what is the first requirement of having a Grammy Music sale? That is right – that music nominated for Grammy Awards is featured! So you should be able to look at the ‘best song’ or ‘best solo’ category and then find that song in the ‘On Sale’ list at Google Music … right? Well, that is KIND OF how things work at the Google Music Grammy sale – and before I nitpick, let me just say that there is a load of Grammy-nominated music available at great prices. For example, I grabbed ‘The Good Feeling’ big band recording by Christian McBride. I have it on my MoG collection, but at $3.99 it was an instant buy!… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

Today’s Gear Deal brings us the Sony MDR-NC500D Digital Noise Canceling Headphones at a nice discount. They feature noise canceling technology, noise reduction, a digital Equalizer, an internal Lithium-ion battery, and more. Normally $399, our Gear Sponsor has found a number of different ways you can save that, when all are applied, drops the price all the way down to just $229. You’ll find details and ordering information here on the deal site. Gear Deal: Sony MDR-NC500D Digital Noise Canceling Headphones via LogicBUY Continue reading on Gear Diary …

Bodyguardz offers some slick options for using and/or enhancing your various mobile products. Sure they offer their BodyGuardz UltraTough Clear Skins but they also offer a line of BodyGuardz armor skins (my favorites!), cases and even their own brand of earphones, the earjax. (I have a pair of the earwax that I bought on CyberMonday and they are great!) Well, Bodyguardz has been kind enough to provide two discount codes for use on their site and, this weekend, we’ll be giving them away.… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

‘Custom patterns, extra protection and a super-slim fit are what make this iPhone 4S case so “fab.”’ That’s how Speck describes their FabShell cases for the iPhone 4 and 4S and I have to agree. The cases are quite nice. Fabric patterns give a personalized look and feel and the extra texture helps you keep your grip on the otherwise slipper iPhone. You can check out all the FabShells here on Speck’s site. You can find the special holiday series here on the site. We thought we would give away the three review samples in the picture at the top of this post and here are the winners.… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

Today’s Gear Deal is something you don’t see every day. In fact, it is something you almost NEVER see! Today Only! you can save 10% on all Apple iPads and iPods. In addition, they will ship for free and, unless you live in California, New Jersey, Tenessee or Puerto Rico, there won’t even be tax. All this means, for example, that you can get a 16GB iPod Nano for $134.99, a 64GB iPod Touch for $359.99, a 64GB iPad 2 WiFi for $647.99 and a 64GB iPad 2 WiFi + 3G for just $746.99. Yes, all iPods and iPads are 10% off but this is for today only! Click here to visit the deal page… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

Friendly reminder that today is the last day to comment on the Case Mate Tough Case with Realtree designs review for your chance to win one of two cases. Just let us know what kind of other outdoors products you might like to see more information or reviews on. Winners for the cases will be announced soon! All you have to do is head here and leave a commend, two winners will be chosen at random! Continue reading on Gear Diary …

Today’s Gear Deal brings us Clickfree’s 2TB USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive (model no. CA3D20-6C). Normally $169.99, our Gear Sponsor found a discount coupon that drops the price all the way down to just $129.99 and it will even ship for free. Details and ordering information can be found here on the Deal Page. Gear Deal: Clickfree 2TB C6 USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive via LogicBUY Continue reading on Gear Diary …

Well, it could be “grandmother of PC games” for all I know.  My biology background didn’t include methodology for determining software sex identity and their gender bits look the same to me. XVision has released DONKEY.BAS for iOS 5.0+ mobile devices, based on one of the original IBM PC DOS games written by Bill Gates and Neil Konzen. Yes, that Bill Gates. The concept is simple:  The player is driving down the road in what appears to be a late 1940s race car, destination unknown.  Suddenly, up ahead, a donkey appears in your lane.  What to do!? Change lanes before it’s too late!  Read on to see my review of the game plus a chance for a reader to win a copy of the game!… Continue reading on Gear Diary …