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- Father's Day gifts for gadget freaks
- With Fathers' Day around the corner – and this being the first time I get to actually receive a gift in addition to giving one – here are five items that I think should be on every dad's short list. (If I didn't already own several of these, theywould all...
- Tags: Freak, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-06-11
- Father's Day gifts for gadget freaks
- The top five gifts I want the Father's Day Fairy to drop off at my place this Sunday. by Josh Taylor
- Tags: Freak, Josh Taylor, gadgets, gear, product photos
- Image galleries 2008-06-11
- iPhone 3G: The official rates from AT&T
- Now that the iPhone 3G announcement has finally come and gone, turns out the most common rumors were right -- big price drop, GPS, slightly thicker, Exchange-friendly out of the box, not immediately available -- others not so much (nope, no Product RED version....
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Minute, AT&T Corp., 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- The worst shopping experience on the web?
- When I was hunting down an extra battery for my Canon Vixia HF10 last month, a sponsored link caught my eye. Some place called "The Camera Professionals" was advertising the camcorder for $599, or $300 less than the cheapest price I had seen at the time. (Since then, the store...
- Tags: Web, Camcorder, Order, E-mail, Online Communications, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Canon's new Vixia HF10: The best (and first) camcorder I've ever owned
- About a month before my wife gave birth (which explains where I've been the past few weeks), I got a great piece of purchasing, errrr, parenting advice, from my friend Joe via IM: "though you prolly already have this covered, use this as an excuse to buy photo and...
- Tags: Camcorder, Video, Canon Inc., Video Quality, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Turn your PC into the ultimate DVD changer
- The good folks over at Lifehacker have a nifty step-by-step tutorial on how to easily rip your [non-HD] DVDs to your PC. While the back-up files provide nice insurance in case anything ever happens to your original discs, more compellingingly, they make it even easier never to leave your couch. Rip...
- Tags: Media Center PC, PC, Media Center PCs, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Sony PS3 getting BD-Live sooner rather than later
- When I referred to potential Blu-ray player shoppers having an easy choice to make last week - Sony PS3 or, ummm, a Sony PS3 - I mentioned it was the only Blu-ray player currently on the market that could be upgraded to the format's Profile 2 functionality. Profile 2, or...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Sony PlayStation 3, Blu-ray, Hd Dvd, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Blu-ray player prices spike - wow, who could have seen that one coming?
- I had put myself on a self-imposed exile of sorts on writing about high-def DVDs , but a post over at Tom's Hardware got me all riled up, so I'm lifting the ban. Turns out that since January 1 (right before the pre-CES announcement that Warner Brothers was leaving HD...
- Tags: Player, Blu-ray, Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Ethernet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Networking, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- The perfect hotel room strip
- Okay, apologies for the headline - thought I might get some of you looking for the latest Eliot Spitzer news. And I also want to acknowledge that with one more post about surge protectors, I think I run the risk of turning this into a surge protector-themed blog (and how...
- Tags: MP3 Player, Strip, USB, Media Players, Digital Music, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
- A new SLR from Sony, and the Times likes it… mostly
- After a one-week vacation, David Pogue is back in the Times' Thursday business section to [mostly] rave about Sony's new Alpha A300. The big news here is that the camera has a dual-sensor Live View feature, which basically means that what you see on the LCD screen is the exact...
- Tags: Sony Corp., SLR, Digital Camera, Camera, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- Recession buster: The perfect $25,000 consumer electronics device
- My initial reaction to hearing about SE2 Labs' ITC One all-in-one media room device was to think about that Robin Williams line about cocaine being god's way of telling you that you have too much money. If you actually have $25,000 to plop down for an all-in-one unit that incorporates...
- Tags: Electronics, Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, Game Players, Hd Dvd, Blu-Ray, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-03-04
- And now for a sexy notebook that businesses can actually use
- While Apple has received a not-unreasonable amount of buzz for its MacBook Air, even folks like the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg, who is typically quite the Apple fanman, were forced to acknowledge that while sexy, it wasn't necessarily practical for business use. Well, Lenovo's new ThinkPad...
- Tags: Lenovo Group Ltd., Blog, Folk, Notebooks, Blogging, Storage, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Internet, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- What format war? Just convert your HD DVDs to Blu-ray
- Our friends over at Wired have started a how-to wiki, explaining how to convert one's HD DVDs to Blu-ray - provided you have a Blu-ray burner on hand, and don't mind breaking a law or two (since you'll need to remove the DRM from your HD DVDs before you can...
- Tags: HD-DVD, Blu-ray, Option, Hd Dvd, DVD, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Security, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-02-21
- Ding, dong, HD DVD is dead
- Wow, that didn't take long. In just over six weeks HD DVD went from underdog to dead dog, with Toshiba making it official today - it will no longer "develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders." The announcement means that Universal, Paramount and DreamWorks Animation...
- Tags: HD-DVD Player, Player, HD-DVD, Blu-ray, Toshiba Corp., Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- One reason for HD DVD owners to forgive Netflix
- If a recent Netflix survey is a harbinger of things to come (or more accurately, a blog post about a recent Netflix survey is to be believed), Xbox 360 owners may be able to download TV shows and movies directly to their consoles. If this comes to pass, it will...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., HD-DVD, Survey, Hd Dvd, Marketing Research, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- Microsoft buys a mobile sidekick
- Microsoft finally found someone willing to take its money. The company announced today that it was buying Danger Inc. - better known as the creators of the T-Mobile Sidekick. (Danger had filed for an IPO in December, but given the market, it's not a shock they went the acquisition route...
- Tags: Mobile, T-Mobile Sidekick, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, IPO, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Software, Marketing, Financial Services, Hardware, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-02-11
- Disconnect of the day: $499 iPod meets economic slowdown
- Look, I would be the first to admit that the thought of a 32GB iPod Touch has me drooling, but the $499 price tag dries my mouth out faster than that saliva-sucking doohicky they have at the dentist's office. Then again, I had a hard enough time coughing up nearly...
- Tags: Apple iPod, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-02-06
- Verizon: Want our Triple Play? Sorry, can't have it
- As I wrote about last week, I just made the decision to switch our phone from Verizon to Time Warner Cable and TV services from Time Warner Cable to DIRECTV. My ideal solution would have been to sign up for Verizon's FIOS service for everything, but alas, FIOS TV service...
- Tags: Time Warner Inc., Phone, Verizon Communications Inc., DirecTV, Service, Telecom & Utilities, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- You had me at "Get the hell out of bed and turn off the friggin' alarm already"
- In what has to be the surest sign yet that companies will stop at nothing to come up with gifts that can be deemed "Valentine's Day-friendly," Nanda, creators of the Clocky mobile alarm clock, has announced a new raspberry-colored version of it's little objet de torture. (And of course, only...
- Tags: Blogging, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-02-01
- So long Time Warner Cable, hello DIRECTV
- With a move pending in two weeks, my wife and I had to confront a bunch of issues - renovating the new apartment, finding movers, and of course the most important one of all - deciding whether or not to stick with Time Warner Cable, or make the jump to...
- Tags: Time Warner Inc., Phone, DirecTV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-01-29
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