The iPod mini, along with a slew of iPod third party add-ons, has taken the world by storm. If you haven’t seen the trademark white earbud headphones around, you obviously have not left your home in quite some time. Even the President has gotten into the act with his own iPod (not a mini though).
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Remember when everyone operated a portal and offered a free e-mail account with a web interface? Yahoo, Netscape, Excite, Lycos, etc. The storage wasn’t anything spectacular by today’s standards – typically less than 10MB, but since then storage on these free e-mail accounts really hasn’t grown in step with the drop in prices of storage hardware. The number of freely available webmail services has also dwindled, and while there are still quite a number, most are certainly not backed by the kind of money behind the original set of dot.com companies. Enter Google. First they displaced the leading search engines to the point where their company name has evolved into a verb, and now with Gmail, they just may do the same with webmail.
I’m sure you’ve already seen a few reviews of Google’s Gmail since it first made its appearance in the summer of 2004, however, I’m a believer in different perspectives, and this review also doesn’t look at Gmail in isolation, but compares it to 2 other high-volume free webmail services: Yahoo! Mail and Microsoft’s Hotmail.
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There’s nothing worse than having your cell phone die especially when camping, boating or hiking. The Sidewinder is called an Emergency Cell Phone Charger because without electricity you can actually charge up your cell phone with a little elbow grease in a fishing reel type of action.
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Review: Sidewinder (Emergency Cell Phone Charger)Read More »
How many remotes does it take for you to control all of your entertainment devices? Even with ‘universal’ remotes, I still had to use some of my ‘native’ remotes for one function or another, and ended up using three different remotes to control five different devices. This seems to be a common problem in entertainment rooms, the other problem being the difficulty of using the remotes. Harmony has conquered both problems.
Welcome to the wife and mother-in-law friendly remote!
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By Luis Sosa
LD Writer
The Japanese believe in the power of minimalism.
If the world made sense the Mac mini would come from Sony, a Japanese company. Instead, however, it is a product made by Apple Computers out of Cupertino, Ca.
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Mac Mini LIVEdigitally Review: They say less is More. I say less is Perfect!Read More »
So there I was… in the dead of winter without having a clue where my SUV was parked. I was tired, cold and scared. Then I remember I was reviewing a C-Car! I pulled the C-Car car finding keychain out of my pocket, dialed the device to the car and walked in the direction of the arrow. A few seconds later I arrived at my car safe and sound!
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Laserpod, the first product offering from Plugg, uses the latest in laser, LED and crystal optics to create ever-changing organic lightforms. The product, which has been described as the modern equivalent to the lava lamp, was designed in Great Britain by light artist Chris Levine and world-renowned photographer Mario Testino. Using laser light refracting through a rotating Swarovski crystal and blue LEDs for ambient color lighting also being projected through the crystal, incredible lighting effects are created. The unit is now being sold in the US for an introductory price of $99.
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“Are X10-controlled lights or appliances in one area of your house having trouble receiving signals from X10 transmitters in another area of the house? This common problem is easily correctable with Smarthome’s SignaLinc phase couplers (also called signal bridges).”
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Simplicity. It’s sometimes the hallmark of a great product. It doesn’t have to be over-engineered to be thoroughly effective. The DiscHub (http://www.thedischub.com/) is a perfect example of this. It was built to do one thing and do it well.
The DiscHub is a stylish placeholder for those stray CDs and DVDs that lie cluttered on your desk or entertainment center gathering dust and getting scratched. The second I found out about this product, I knew I needed one (or more!). As much as I attempt to be organized, and replace things after I use them, I get caught up like everyone else in ‘busy’ mode and the clean-up never happens.
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The SignaLinc Plug-In Coupler-Repeater helps eliminate X10 problems that are caused by having multiple phases in the electrical system.
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