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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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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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Review: EgoBook – a Glossy Hardcopy Version of Your Facebook Profile

EgoBook sample

Addicted to Facebook? Can’t get enough? Perhaps wondering what happens to all of those interactions and photos and comments if one day Facebook goes away? Or would just like a more ‘permanent’ version of it all? You’re in luck. A 3rd-party developer has created a Facebook app called EgoBook that creates a real hard-copy book [...]

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Review: Angry Birds Squeezable Soft Toy With Sounds

Angry Birds Stuffed Toy with Sounds

When I got the invitation to try out the Angry Birds soft toy with authentic sounds, I just had to say yes. This soft toy about 4″ across fits comfortably in an adult hand, and my 1-year-old loved holding it with both of hers. Although she doesn’t know what the Angry Birds app/video game is, [...]

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Review: NightWave Sleep Assistant

NightWave Sleep Assistant

Here’s another product that joins the growing ranks of sleep aid gadgets. The NightWave Sleep Assistant is a small box smaller than a deck of cards that produces an upward-projected blue light that fades in and out at a certain frequency and is meant to calm your breathing, thoughts and help you fall asleep faster. [...]

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Review: Nighty Night! HD iPad Bedtime App for Kids

Nighty Night! HD iPad app

As the dad of a one-year old who seriously dislikes going to bed, I thought I would take this bestselling app for a spin. Nighty Night! HD is essentially an interactive bedtime book for toddlers aged 1-4. The app built especially for the Apple iPad helps kids learn about your run-of-the-mill farm animals as well [...]

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Motorola Xoom vs Apple iPad 2 – A Spec-by-Spec Breakdown

Motorola Xoom and Apple iPad 2

The tablet war rages on and it is still not completely clear who will be the eventual victor (perhaps no single vendor at all). Will it be Apple (and their new iPad 2) or Motorola and the Xoom, their new tablet running Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) or perhaps another up-and-comer? Of course, many have already anointed [...]

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Review: Canon EOS 60D Digital SLR Camera

Canon EOS 60D 18 MP CMOS Digital SLR Camera with 3.0-Inch LCD

Released in August 2010, the Canon 60D digital SLR camera became an immediate favorite among both entry-level and advanced photographers. Both in design and features, it is definitely a step up from the 50D. I was able to test this camera and overall, I was very impressed with both its performance and its feel. Let’s [...]

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