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Gadgets

Sony adding new wing to Museum of Failed Formats over at Good Morning Silicon Valley has me smiling once again at the great post headlines GMSV always has. They’re talking about how various movie studios are going to stop selling movies on Sony’s stupid UMD format. The Sony PlayStation Portable is the only Sony product [...]

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Way back in July, I wrote my Siemens Gigasets & Inability To Create Ringtones post. I know I’m not the only one still upset that it’s so hard to convert ringtones into the mystery Siemens format, because I can see from my query logs how people are coming to the page, entering things like “psf [...]

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Russell Beattie had a post recently that made me laugh out loud, a virtual identical experience to the many I’ve had in trying to get my wife going with video conferencing, so I could talk with the kids while I’m on a trip. But on my last trip, life improved greatly for me on the [...]

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I’ve got a pretty smart cell phone. In fact, I have two smart phones, a Samsung SCH-i600 Windows Mobile Smartphone 2003 that I use with Verizon in the US and an Orange SPV C500 (AKA the Audiovox SMT 5600) Windows Mobile Smartphone 2003 Second Edition I use with Orange in the UK. I can sync [...]

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Just a beautiful day skiing in Vermont today. Sunny skies, freezing cold, but I’m bundled up nice and warm. Best of all, plenty of tunes to listen to. I love nothing more than to ski listening to music. But just when I was about to get off the lift and start my second run, my [...]

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This Christmas, my long struggle to get my wife an espresso machine finally came to an end. She’s now happily caffeinated via a Gaggia Titanium. I’m happy I no longer have to research the darn things! But if you’re after a machine, I wanted to point out a few places to check out. It all [...]

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So Paid Content turned me on to the fact that Sky is now offering customers the ability to download movies through the internet. Silicon.com’s got a story with some more details over here. My first thought, as I commented on Paid Content, was so what? Anyone with a Sky Plus box already can do stuff [...]

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Until about a year ago, I looked with scorn upon satellite navigation. Who needs it? But then we got upgraded to a rental car in Germany once with it built in, and I was a believer. A believer so much that I decided I needed to have a system for myself. I ended up going [...]

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I had some quality time this weekend with my Sony PlayStation Portable, because we took a long weekend off away from the house. I got my PSP about four or five months ago, mainly with the excuse that since it has a web browser, I’d need to have one to keep an eye out on [...]

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One of the reasons I bought our Siemens Gigaset S645, S440 and S44 handsets for the house was that — supposedly — you could download ringtones into them. Sadly, this has turned out to be far from easy. Our old phones were great. Using caller ID, they’d play different tunes based on if someone was [...]

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