I actually received Proporta’s Ted Baker Charging Kit by mistake when asking Proporta for the Gadget Bag.  I offered to review it for them, and they accepted! :D  So, what makes this charging kit special?  Let’s take a look.

According to Wikipedia, Ted Baker is a clothing store in the UK; they are known for applying twists to their products.  I have never been to the UK, but on the Ted Baker website I learned that they are a designer clothing company, and the wikipedia entry reveals that they have been coming to this side of the pond as well.  Ted Baker was also featured in the upcoming James Bond Casino Royale film; let’s see if this charging kit is stylish enough for the intrepid James Bond to carry. Continue Reading

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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So, I guess it has been a while since I tried to work with any of the video I shot with my Sony camcorder.  A few weeks ago, I decided to capture and edit some video from my son’s school concert.  After about a half hour of fruitless searching, I realized a critical fact.  My Toshiba Satellite laptop does not have an IEEE1394 Firewire port.  Of course, this is a critical feature if you want to work with video.  Without a Firewire port, there is no way to connect the camcorder to your computer.  Now, I know I have done this before, and my laptop is over a year old.  So, like I said, it has been a while.  I was frustrated and upset until Judie reminded me to check out Apiotek, purveyors of all manner of Express card adaptors.  Sure enough, the good folks at Apiotek had exactly what the doctor ordered.  The Combo Express Adaptor includes a USB 2.0 port and two (not one, but two) IEEE1394 Firewire ports.  Perfect!  Let’s take a closer look.

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