Ok, I know what are thinking. Why even bother to review an iPod, everyone already has one! In the case of the latest iPod shuffle I just could not resist! By far one of the coolest gadgets to hit the market this year the new iPod Shuffle fixes all the wrongs done by the previous version of this tiny mp3 player. About the size of a book of matches, this tiny music machine gives all the power of an iPod but in a size that makes it easy just clip it on and go.
These days you can never get enough features in cell phones. It sure seems like each new handset on the market has something new that then becomes the must-have thing for the next several months. The LG Fusic stakes claim to being the first clamshell flip-phone with an FM transmitter built-in. This little feature lets you listen to MP3s on any FM radio provided you tune in to the frequency used by the Fusic. In additon to the FM transmitter you get a decent quality handset that also features stereo Bluetooth, a microSD card slot, changable faceplates, and high speed EVDO internet access. All things considered, this phone really has a ton of great features at a fair price.
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Over the past year many nifty sites such as digg.com, reddit.com, and del.icio.us all have become almost iconic in their ability to not only aggregate news but to also provide a way for the users to choose what news they like in the form of a ratings system. Unfortunately what has started as a great idea has now become the 800lb gorilla for web publishers in the form of the traffic these sites can generate. Just like the first internet bubble things are about to get ugly for these sites as they are quickly becoming victims of their own success. Although I could list many reasons why these sites face an uncertain future the three I list below are maybe the biggest problems facing social bookmarking so far.
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So Santa brought you a shiny new iPod with video for Christmas and now you want to know what kind of cool things you can do with it. Of course you can purchase tons of awesome video from the iTunes music store but that is only just the beginning of all the fun things you can do with your new iPod!
Like many of you, I also found an iPod video under the tree this Christmas and quickly began to sort out how to get video content onto the device. I have lots of video from the iTunes store, which easily downloaded with no problems, but I also have lots of DVDs and other video that I also wanted to download to the iPod. This task, along with several other suggestions prompted me to share three cool tips for your new iPod video.
As many sites around the net begin to look back on all the past stories from 2006 I decided to break from the pack and look at what I think will be the top attention getters for next year. Although there are many new gadgets and technologies making their way to consumers in 2007 I settled on these top five as being worth watching as we head into the new year.
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Macrumors (and many others) are reporting that the Apple iPhone might be delayed until post-Macworld due to manufacturing problems. Of course this is pure speculation but one very interesting tid-bit that was mentioned in the posts was the possibility that the iPhone will only support GSM/EDGE. Back in this post I made the same suggestions since when you examine the market you will quickly find that the GSM/EDGE technology is by far the most widespread and would offer Apple the largest possible target-able customer base for the iPhone. Unfortunately this will limit the speeds at which users of the device could download content from the network. My Blackberry uses the same technology and there are times when it can seem quite poky compared to the newer 3G technologies.
*Of course you can also read (on the same site) about how the iPhone is going to be released today… <sigh> So when it will actually arrive is anyone’s guess.
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So I was walking through Target the other day and saw this hand-vac and I just had to have it. It just looks so cool, and was a perfect solution to fix some of the Roomba’s shortcomings. At only $39 I figured I would give it a try since I really needed a small hand vac and hated how most of the traditional ones looked. Once I got home and tried it out I made a very interesting discovery, this little hand vac rocks. Seriously, it can get into all the little nooks and crannies that my Roomba can’t and this little vac has serious power.
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Wonderful. Now everyone is going to start a blog. 
Of course the announcement from CNN/Time Magazine that we have all been named “Person Of The Year” only confirms what many of us already know; the technology revolution we were promised in the late 90s as a result of the widespread adoption of the internet has finally happened. No longer is news or information of any kind found anyplace faster than through online resources such as blogs and other social web sites such as digg.com or reddit.com.
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Everyone hates having to deal with DRM enabled music and video but not many consider if the purchase is really a good investment over the long term. Realistically the music or video you purchase now uses a Digital Rights Management (DRM) system that may not be used several years down the road. If the service you used goes out of business can you continue to access your content? As each form of DRM is cracked, another type is then developed to replace it sometimes making older files obsolete. These situations can create a very compelling case for services which offer music and video downloads minus the DRM headaches, since these files will still be useful long after the services have gone the way of the dodo.
After reading yet another review of a cell phone that I won’t be able to own anytime soon I decided it was time to write up a list of 5 sexy phones you CAN buy right now. Yes, these phones are just as interesting as those sexy phones from overseas and can be purchased today (some even unlocked!). So if you think you know what cool is, or you just don’t think your current phone is going to bring sexy back then check out these 5 sexy phones you can actually own!
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Yea, I know what you are thinking….old news right? The Nook Color was released ages (or is that eons) ago in tech years so why would I even bother to review it now? Well, rest assured I have my reasons….and they not as nefarious as you might think! You see, recently Barnes and Noble made [...]
Let me just get right to the point and say that ditching the $75+ per month Cable TV service over one year ago and going solely with online video offerings was one of the best decisions I have ever made. Seriously. I don’t miss the crappy reality shows, nor do I miss the jamming of [...]
After my recent World of Warcraft security snafu I decided to take a few minutes to address some of the issues most folks have these days trying to keep information out of the hands of online thieves. I was very tempted to write something that basically told everyone to just give up on Windows and [...]
Running WoW on Windows? Protect yourself now with Anti-Spyware software! Over the last few months many users of the insanely popular MMORPG World of Warcraft have been reporting more and more incidences of game accounts being compromised at an alarming rate. Even closed accounts have not been spared, making these reports even more disturbing. The [...]
After almost two years running my original iRobot Roomba Discovery the poor little guy was starting to look a little worse for wear. iRobot advises that you should clean the brushes and such after no more than three full cleaning cycles, something my Roomba was not always subject to and the results were starting to [...]
Unless you have been under a rock recently you have likely heard of and maybe even implemented some type of virtualization solution. If you have already been down this road already then this post might not help but for those manager types out there who might be considering a virtualization solution in the near future [...]
Right on the heels of my BMW 328xi review comes this rare chance to sample something truly special. Yes, there is nirvana and no it’s not a rock band. For BMW enthusiasts it can be found in the drivers seat of the 2007 BMW 335i thanks to the technological tour-de-force that is BMW’s latest enterprising [...]
So what’s a BMW fan like myself doing reviewing a Mercedes? Well, like the old saying goes “know thy enemy” and as far as rivalries go, BMW and Mercedes are one of the most well known. Although Mercedes-Benz answer to the latest BMW 3-series is still several months away the current C-class is no slouch. [...]
Once in a while a car comes along that changes your perceptions on just what an automobile should be. For myself that car was a 2000 BMW 328i that I had the opportunity to own and enjoy for several years. The car impressed me so much I have been a BMW owner ever since. So [...]
I can’t believe eBay is still in business considering the huge number of scams that seem to pervade the site like flies on you-know-what. Just this past week I attempted to use eBay to auction off two notebook computers and quickly discovered that this was an impossible task thanks to all the scammers who now [...]