Review: StarTech DisplayPort KVM Switch
Watching the Winter Olympics reminds one of the stamina required to perform at a high level for long events. In reviewing the StarTech DisplayPort KVM switch, I feel like I just completed a marathon,...
View ArticleCar Dock Now Available For Google Nexus One
(Image Courtesy of Google) Google has already released a spare battery and a desktop dock, which we reviewed, for the Nexus One. There was talk when the Nexus One was released of rumors of both the...
View ArticleReview of the Google Nexus One Car Dock Kit
I was very excited when I found out that the Google Nexus One Car Dock was available. As I mentioned during my review of the desktop dock, I thought that it was very well designed. In fact, I liked it...
View ArticleSo How DO You Actually Load Your Own Documents onto the iPad?
Having been one of the people in my social circle to have an iPad, I have been answering a lot of questions for others who don’t have an iPad, or that can’t be answered by playing with one directly....
View ArticleHow To View PDF Files on an iPad
When Apple announced the iPad, I immediately imagined that it would be a superior way to read PDF books in a tablet-style format. On the Apple iPad Specs page, there is a single mention of PDF support...
View ArticleBooks on the iPad: Comparing the Printed Page to ePub and PDFs
PDF. ePub. Kindle. iBooks. eBooks. Nook. eInk. Web Browser. Laptop. Audiobooks. For over 10 years, I have been trying to move to an all-electronic workflow for reading and consuming books, especially...
View Article1Password for Windows Beta Now Available
(Image courtesy of Agile Web Solutions) With more people creating a variety of online accounts and putting more information online and with the increase in the number of hacks trying to get into...
View ArticleAdd Custom Words to iPhone Dictionary
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious? Antidisestablishmentarianism? Okay, so maybe you don’t use those words every day, but what about other words that you do? And they aren’t in your iOS device...
View ArticleReview: T-Mobile G2 – Is it better than the Nexus One?
The T-Mobile G2 is the first true successor to the phone that started it all, the T-Mobile G1, over two years ago. I have been carrying two Android devices (a Google Nexus One, and a T-Mobile myTouch...
View ArticleAndroid Market Blues – Are Carrier App Restrictions Beating You Down?
Ah… Android. The allure of a completely open system. You’re in control, unlike on iOS devices. Right? Right? Sometimes, not so much. Turns out, AT&T Android-touting users, for example, can only...
View ArticleThe Bowsers & Wilkins P5 Mobile Hi-Fi Headphones Review
Work in a loud cubicle environment? Want to focus when you’re working at a coffee house? Are you an audiophile with discerning tastes? While Bose has long been known for their noise cancellation...
View ArticleApple’s iPad 2′s Camera Placement and Software Features Show Apple Still...
(image courtesy of Apple) Apple’s iPad 2 adds new hardware, including a front and back camera. What is interesting is the difference in where and how their front facing camera works, compared with...
View ArticleT-Mobile Expands 4G Network and Speeds and 4G Product Lineup
(Image courtesy of T-Mobile) T-Mobile keeps on reminding us rabidly loyal fans why we love their network so much. In addition to announcing the T-Mobile G2x with Google, they announced a partnership...
View ArticleT-Mobile G2x with Google Android Phone Features Dual-Core Tegra 4G Speeds and...
T-Mobile just announced a very sweet Android phone that has features that are making a few of us here at Gear Diary stand up and take notice. What makes it such an attractive phone? Read on for...
View ArticleAmazon Appstore: Is Choice Good for Android Users?
Competition is always a good thing, right? I mean, the iPhone was the first true innovation in the smartphone market for years. And along came Android, which accelerated healthy competition and made...
View ArticleAmazon Now Offering Wireless Delivery of Audible Audiobooks Via WiFi
When Amazon bought Audible.com in 2008, I wasn’t sure what the impact would be for Audible as a company, and for me as a loyal customer since 2001. I hoped that Amazon would just bring more scale to...
View ArticleAmazon Announces New Cloud Drive and Cloud Player Products With 5GB Free Storage
Amazon has had its own music store offering, Amazon MP3, for several years. It has been well-received, in part due to its cheaper pricing compared to the Apple iTunes Music Store. But Amazon has...
View ArticleiOS App Review: Ecamm Printopia for Mac Brings AirPrint Capability to iOS...
When Apple announced AirPrint for iOS devices, I could almost see Steve Jobs’ point about the “post-PC era”. Being able to print from your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch (newer devices with iOS 4.2 or...
View ArticleAmazon Free App Reminder Does What It Says – Amazon Android App Store
Ever since it was launched, we have extolled the virtues of the Amazon Android App Store, as well as pointed out a few issues with it. Like it or not, Amazon’s Android App Store has been well-received...
View ArticleWacom Inkling Digital Sketch Pen Is New Spin on Digital Analog Technology
(Image courtesy of Wacom) While the iPad has become synonymous with the term “tablet”, there has been other digital tablet technology, such as the Tablet PC and the Livescribe Pulse Pen which came out...
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