Author name: Doug Felteau

Since it’s Memorial Day weekend, the grilling season is just beginning for some. For me, it’s a year-round sport!

While I prefer to use gas for convenience, charcoal is still the preferred method to cook by grillmasters greater than I. If you want to be a grill purists and use charcoal, the Weber Ranch Charcoal Kettle is the grill for you. This isn’t your dad’s $50 charcoal grill, but if you are serious about grilling the $1k price tag won’t deter you from purchasing this beauty. The ginormous grill measures a whopping three feet across and with it’s high-domed lid, I’ve been told you can smoke an entire hog snout to tail! Mmmmm…. pork.

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Gizmos for Geeks features a daily article called “Gizmo of the Day” where the Geeks locate available products that are new and hopefully interesting. By scouring our favorite geek stores, attending trade shows, pouring through emails, reading manufacturer’s new product feeds, magazines and press releases, we choose the “Gizmo of the Day”. In a sense, we provide free advertising for various products to over 40,000 unique visitors a month (hence the reason we get so many “pick me” emails from various PR people about the products they represent!). Basically, we try to provide good karma for cool products and cool companies.

Apparently, Onkyo really does not like free advertising or positive press.

I received a cease and desist certified letter demanding that the “Infringer” (that’s me!) cease and desist from displaying Onkyo IP as well as several other items which really did not pertain to us. You have got to love good old form letters from clueless lawyers! All of this because on March 26th, 2006, we chose one of Onkyo’s products as the “Gizmo of the Day”!

There are several issues that really bother me besides the lack of common sense by Onkyo and their lawyers in killing off good press.

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SEATTLE — WinHEC 2006 — May 23, 2006 — Buffalo Inc., a global leader in the design, development, and manufacturing of wired and wireless networking, storage, multimedia, and memory solutions, and Mediabolic, a leading developer of entertainment networking software, today announced that they have teamed up to develop an innovative connected entertainment device designed to work with the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system. The two companies have jointly implemented “Windows Rally Technologies” on an upcoming version of the Buffalo LinkTheater Network Media Player, which will enable consumers to unlock and stream digital media from their Windows Vista PCs to other rooms in the house. The new technology implementation will define a new class of digital home products that will be easy to configure and manage, delivering the best experience for consumers.

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Miami, Florida MAY 19, 2006 – Niles Audio Corporation, The First Name in Custom Installation®, announces the official release of its revolutionary whole-house distributed audio system dubbed IntelliControl® ICS (Integrated Control Solutions). The IntelliControl ICS system accommodates all the popular digital sources and delivers detailed information to and from its keypad, touchscreen and handheld remote controllers. The result? Sirius® satellite radio in the kitchen, iPod® in the kids’ rooms and AM/FM radio in multiple rooms—simultaneously—and at the touch of a button!

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