Khalid Hosein

Review: FoneStand Smartphone Stand

Fonestand Smartphone Stand

Here’s another one of those no-batteries-needed accessories for what is probably our most treasured of gadgets nowadays – our smartphones. The FoneStand is a black (or white) plastic stand for your iPhone, Android or other smartphone or even some tablets that lets you view them in either portrait or landscape mode at an angle.

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Win a Lifetime 50GB Dropbox Account!

In my Top Daily-Use Products post, I listed Dropbox and it would still make the list if I revised that list, and that’s not even including the premium version; the free version is that good. Tech deal-of-the-day site, AppSumo is running a giveaway where 10 lucky winners will get a lifetime 50GB account, which normally [...]

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Review: Brinno Electronic Peephole Viewer

brinno electronic peephole viewer

Here’s a gadget that you may never have heard of, but would probably fall into the “why didn’t I think of that” category. It’s an electronic replacement for the age-old peephole standard in so many front doors of houses across the world. No more do you have to plant your eye right up to that [...]

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My Top Must-Have Tech Products that I Use Daily

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Here’s my list of favorite, must-have, daily use Web and tech products (mainly software) inspired by Michael Arrington and his annual list over at Techcrunch. For some reason, this year, he hasn’t published a list (yet?). [Here's his list from Jan 1, 2010.] There are 19 products on this list most of which I feel [...]

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Review: Fingertip USB Optical Mouse

Fingertip USB Optical Mouse

So I got an interesting little gadget recently, what the vendor calls a fingertip USB mouse. Ok, so perhaps it’s not fingertip, but just finger. Take a look at the photo – that little black contraption has a piece of velcro wrapped around the user’s middle finger. So how does it work? Actually, does it [...]

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How to Download from Usenet

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If you’re like most people, you have no idea what Usenet is. You’d probably be surprised to learn that Usenet is more than 30 Years old and more popular than ever. On Usenet you can find everything from indie musicians who want to promote their bands to hobby photographers’ sharing some of their shots with [...]

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Ten Cool Things You Can Do With Twitter

Twitter has taken off in a larger way than perhaps even its founders ever imagined. Personally, when Twitter first appeared, I felt it had only limited appeal, at least in the way it was rolled out and marketed. Of course, Twitter has evolved and grown. And oh how it has grown. But did you know [...]

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Review: OBi VoIP Telephone Adapter and Voice Service Bridge

OBi100 VoIP Adapter

I’ve been trialing a new gadget last few weeks called an OBi. OBi is essentially a Internet VoIP bridge box similar to what you might get if you subscribed to Vonage. Why would you want to get an OBi? The number one reason is that you could then ditch your traditional phone (POTS) line, and [...]

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Book Review: Paul Allen’s Memoir: Idea Man

Book cover of Paul Allen's "Idea Man"

One of the co-founders of Microsoft along with Bill Gates, Paul Allen is one of the richest men in the United States and the world, and he recently wrote an autobiography called Idea Man. Over half the book is devoted to his early life and inevitably his time at Microsoft. The rest of the book [...]

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MiMedia’s New Cloud Storage Service – 7GB for Free

MiMedia Cloud Backup and Storage

Yet another consumer cloud storage provider, MiMedia, recently launched a new cloud-hosting plan that offers free 7 GB storage (presumably as a carrot to lure users into eventually signing up for their paid plans). Their next level up is a 250 GB option that costs $10 per month or $99 per year. They also have [...]

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