Most of the time my work area resembles my brain – overflowing with useless information and only slightly coherent. While I’m convinced my brain is beyond hope, technology is making it so my work area doesn’t have to be.
If your desk looks anything like the picture below, here are 15 gadgets that’ll make your life a bit less cluttered.
The Geeks received an invitation to test Anonymizer, Inc.’s new consumer-based online privacy and identity protection service called Anonymizer Universal which was released in June. Anonymizer Universal creates a secure and encrypted VPN tunnel between the user and The Anonymizer Network to prevent interception of identifiable information, or “packet sniffing.” The technology protects the user by replacing their personal IP Address with an anonymous IP Address daily. One of the differentiators from other anonymizer’s that are browser-based, Anonymizer Universal works for all Internet activity including accessing the web, obtaining email, streaming music, instant messaging and playing online games.
In addition to traditional Windows and Mac Operating Systems, Anonymizer Universal also protects a user’s mobile Internet activities. For example Apple iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch devices use a “Connect/Disconnect” interface that runs silently in the background to establish and tear down the VPN session. The service only requires a simple download, and can be up and running immediately. Anonymizer Universal’s retail price is $79.99 (U.S.) per year, and is available via the company’s website (www.anonymizer.com) and select Anonymizer Authorized Resellers which provides a license good for one computer and one mobile Apple device.
This video was created to demonstrate the service:
Read the review after the jump…
Not only is jailbreaking your iPhone now perfectly legal, there are other exemptions to the DMCA act that the Library of Congress has just issued.
They include:
You may be wondering why there is even a need for such otherwise common-sense guidelines. It just goes to show how short-sighted the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyrights Act) turned out to be.
Unfortunately, these exemptions expire in a few years and are not permanent laws. It certainly makes trying to be an upstanding citizen a difficult process, especially as so many law-enforcement groups follow the ‘innocence is no excuse’ rule of thumb.
No longer do you have to forget that confounded charging cable for your phone or MP3 player. flipSYNC goes where you go, well as long as you take your keys, because it folds up nicely to fit on your keychain.
There are 2 flipSYNC models: a 3 connector model (model# USBMM) with 1 micro USB, 1 mini USB and a standard USB type A connector; and a 2 connector version (model# IPUSBM) for iPhones and iPods.
Buy now!
Price: $15.99 for iPhones. $17.99 for general USB devices.
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)
Hey there GfG’ers – we’ve got yet another giveaway for you. This one is super useful especially for you road-warrior and/or heavy gadget users.
Here’s another emergency USB charger, this one powered by 2 AA batteries. Not a bad deal for under $10, and it includes a tiny built-in LED light for grins.
However, I can’t say I love the idea of using batteries. I’d rather have it either use a rechargeable battery or even better, be solar rechargeable (like the iTech SolarCharger).
Buy now!
Price: $8.50
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)
Saddleback Leather sent the Geeks a large iPad sleeve gadget pouch in tobacco brown for review. Saddleback Leather also carries a small gadget pouch for iPhones, Blackberrys, Cameras or iPad Power Supplies, a medium gadget pouch for Kindles and other Power Supplies and a host of other leather bags and pouches from travel cases and briefcases to backpacks and wallets. The iPad sleeve or large gadget pouch comes in tobacco brown (lighter brown), carbon black, dark coffee brown and chestnut (rich brown) and sells for $55.
By the way, check out the review and if you’re interested in obtaining a free Saddleback Leather iPad sleeve, head over to the Gizmos for Geeks Facebook page and leave us a comment on the wall!
My wife recently was deep cleaning and ran across a few tape cassettes that she remembered she really liked and asked if I could convert or digitize the tapes to MP3s for use in iTunes and on her iPhone. I figured it wasn’t a big deal so I told her I could before I thought through the process (that’s fairly typical for me). In any case, converting tapes to MP3s using a Mac ended up being simple enough. After the jump, you can read my step-by-step how-to on converting cassette tapes to MP3 on a Mac.
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Jeremy Salvador created a new iPhone DSLR blog to document the steps he is taking to create a DSLR iPhone and posted the following video from Vid-Atlantic all show with an iPhone 4 with OWLE Bubo and EnCinema 35mm Adapter using the Canon EF 50mm f1.8 SLR lens.
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Here is where a little Google magic may make Apple’s iPhone/iPad division worry a bit, if not a lot. Google Labs is rolling out a new tool called App Inventor, which is an Android app development tool that does not require any coding.
Let me say that again – you can build applicaitons for your Android phone without knowing how to program. If you can drag and drop, you can ‘program’ apps!
App Inventor is invite-only right now, but you can watch the demo video here as well as see some of the other sample apps on the site.
