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Damned Long Weekend

When you have kids things just generally take longer. Sadly, technology doesn’t really make it any easier. You might be surprised to discover that I am not a PIM freak. In fact, I try to use PIMs as little as possible and I’m pretty successful with that effort. I’ve never found a PIM which liked me. There are plenty of them out there, too. I just can’t find one that works with what I like, nor is there likely to ever be one. I’m a nerd first and a journalist second. I get loads of gear all the time. Just check out my reviews, which really only represents about a third of what I get. Considering that the majority of the gear I get is mobility enabling, I should be able to find something which suits me and my needs.

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Yamaha Sports Electronic Geetar System

The great thing about being a nerd is that you look everywhere to find out about new kit. In this case, I was watching a recent episode of Beyond Tomorrow on the Science Channel and they showed off this little gadget. This is the Yamaha EZ-AG Digital Guitar. Its not a real guitar, mind you, though [...]

Dell Studio Lappies Not Crappy At All

If you were looking at these 15″ and 17″ backhinged, widescreen lappies sporting an integrated webcam and thinking, “Damn! Dell just undercut Apple big time!“, you’d be mostly right. Sadly the 15″ model ships with a 1280×800 display while the 17″ gets 1440×900, and both get connected to 256MBs of dedicated VRAM, except the lowly 15″ [...]

Honlai Pimps QingBar iPod Projector

I’m not sure when this will become available in the US or for how much, but its kinda cool. Honlai has shown their new QingBar iPod projector dock and its looking pretty neat. Keep in mind, however, that it maxes out at 10-15 Lumens, a 200:1 contrast ratio, and 640×480 fixed resolution. That’s not so bad, [...]

OpenMoko Getting Fired Up

OpenMoko, the spin-off from FIC, is getting geared up to start making their move into the consumer space with their Neo open source handset. Their PR people have sent me details regarding 5 groups who will be taking deliveries of handsets. They are Pulster, Golden Delicious Computers and TRIsoft located in Germany, Bearstech in France and [...]