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Fare thee well, lovely ToyBox readers: My Top 10 favorite posts

We have enjoyed you blogs. We wish the best for you.NT.RE: Fare thee well, lovely ToyBox readers: My Top 10 favorite postsGood luck in your adventures! I enjoyed the deals of the day.RE: Fare thee well, lovely ToyBox readers: My Top 10 favorite postsThanks for your Toybox posts. Wish...

Tags: lovely ToyBox reader, Toybox, ToyBox reader, favorite post, Top 10

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Fare thee well, lovely ToyBox readers: My Top 10 favorite posts

The dreary weather couldn't be better for writing a sad goodbye to my faithful ToyBox readers. The time has come for me to pack up and move on out of the ZDNet family. The last nine months spent as your Gadget Gal have been wonderful, but I have to pass...

Tags: CD, RIM BlackBerry, ToyBox, Handhelds, Hardware, Jennifer Bergen

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Toybox Ten: 10 full-featured laptops for less than $750

Toybox Ten: 10 full-featured laptops for less than $750It's a laptop.If you need a terabyte get a server with Raid 1 or better.Ok here you go.A 1TB Hard Drive laptop, decent specs, 18 inch screen.http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220538Sometimes it is hard find what you want, now if you need something cheaper then I...

Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, full-featured laptop, Toybox

Discussion threads 2009-07-01

Poll: What do you want to see on The Toybox?

Poll: What do you want to see on The Toybox?Just a thought I think that it would be nice if you did a little of each. In depth is good, quick coverage works, and telling us about new or lesser heard of companies/tech is great.Product comparisonsI consider...

Tags: Smart phones, Digital music, Digital media, Toybox

Discussion threads 2009-03-26

Digital Experience! NYC 2008

ZDNet editor Andrew Nusca attends Pepcom's 2008 Digital Experience! event in New York City. by Andrew Nusca

Tags: New York City, Editor, Andrew Nusca, tech action, product photos, toybox

Image galleries 2008-11-17

Holiday Spectacular! NYC 2008

The 2008 Pepcom's Holiday Spectacular! came to New York City with plenty of gadgets to gawk at. This year, representatives showed from: HP, Altec Lansing, Kingston, Pentax, Aliph, Seagate, Samsung, Canon, Sony, Nikon, Sanyo, Asus, Western Digital, Buffalo, Lenovo, RIM and more. by Andrew Nusca

Tags: Andrew Nusca, product photos, Pepcom, Holiday Spectacular, Toybox

Image galleries 2008-09-24

Panasonic Blu-ray Home Theater Preview

ZDNet got a demonstration of Panasonic's new DMP-BD35 and DMP-BD55 Blu-ray players, which debuted at CEDIA 2008, as well as the company's SA-BX500 receiver. Here's a photo play-by-play of the presentation. Go back to the original article: The Toybox: Panasonic Blu-ray Home Theater Preview by Andrew Nusca

Tags: Panasonic, Blu-ray, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca, product photos, home theater, toybox

Image galleries 2008-09-24

The ToyBox presents: Top 10 Summer Gadgets 2008

The editors of The ToyBox blog list the Top 10 gadgets you should have in your own gadget toybox this summer. by Andrew Nusca

Tags: Gadget, Blogging, Internet, Andrew Nusca, product photos, toybox, summer

Image galleries 2008-09-24

The Toybox is open

If you're one of the 17 loyal readers of Hits and Hype, the old column I used to have on ZDNet (in the pre-blog world of the early 21st century), welcome back! If not, errr, just a plain old welcome, I guess. There seemed to be no...

Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, Mobile, Blog, Camera, Toybox, Blogging, Smart Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Josh Taylor

Blog posts 2008-01-04

The ToyBox 2 (Windows)

The ToyBox is an application that provides the means to keep an inventory of your dolls and toys. Simple and easy to use, it keeps up with all your dolls and toys including where you keep them, initial cost, current value, from whom and when they were purchased, serial numbers,...

Tags: Inventory, Doll, Lazy Bayou, ToyBox, Microsoft Windows, Manufacturing, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-10-31

Additional Resources

News to know: Apple; Alex; Microhoo; Droid; FCC

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Another strong quarter for Apple; credit strong iPhone, Mac sales Jason D. O'Grady: Apple announces most profitable...

Tags: FCC, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Advertisement, Information Technology, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, E-books, Federal Government, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Government, Web Services, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Gunnar Optiks Legend eyeglasses reduce eye fatigue; $79

This is not a review, it's a press releaseNot a single line of your review provides anything beyond basic product statistics and parroting of this company's fakey-sounding terminology, for example the "polymer in a 'neoscopic' geometry." Ooh. That must mean something important. Consider my critique as a proprietary "multi-angular tatterization"....

Tags: Monitors & displays, ToyBox blog, Gunnar Optiks Legend

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

The new Dell: innovation, not just standards, to attract business customers

Dell is unveiling a new Latitude business notebook computer today but it's a bit different from what Dell - at least the old Dell - used to represent. When Dell first hit the scene, it made a name for itself by focusing on standardized technology and the business model that...

Tags: Innovation, Dell Computer Corp., Standards, Dell Latitude, Microsoft Windows 7, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Operating Systems, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-29

Snow Leopard launch seems to have been a smooth one

PICNICAfter many years supporting various systems, I am positive that theroot of the majority of issues can be described with the acronym PICNIC...Been running Snow Leopard since last Friday with absolutely no problems - even my HP PhotoSmart printer works really well!Then maybe we should...Then maybe we should ship your...

Tags: Web browsers, Printers, E-mail, E-mail servers, Snow Leopard, CS2, Mozilla Firefox, Firefox 3.5.2

Discussion threads 2009-09-02

Programming note: Welcome Andrew Nusca to our blog

As you may have noticed we've had a bit of a graphic swap at the top of the blog. Tom Steinert-Threlkeld has been swapped for Andrew Nusca. Tom will continue on Between the Lines as a guest contributor from time to time, but his new role as...

Tags: Blog, Andrew Nusca, Programming, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld, Blogging, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-03

Apple.com: Then, now, and how it should have been in '83

We really love gadgets here on The Toybox, especially when we see how far they've come. There's a really great gallery of Apple.com homepages going all the way back to 1996 that I couldn't help but share here on the blog: ...

Tags: Apple Inc., Web Site Development, Blogging, Web Technology, Recruitment & Selection, Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-07-20

News to know: Facebook privacy, Windows 7, Kindle, Firefox 3.5

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Facebook's privacy settings: users get more control as wall gets torn down Ed Bott: Microsoft to offer Family Pack...

Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Mozilla Firefox, Andrew Nusca, Privacy, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Middleware, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-07-02

Toybox Ten: 10 full-featured laptops for less than $750

Prices for notebooks are lower than ever before, yet a dizzying amount of options -- netbooks notwithstanding -- are available for your next machine. Which laptop will give you enough bang-for-your-buck? Here are 10 fully-featured systems under $750. by Andrew Nusca

Tags: Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-07-01

Apple to introduce $99 or $149 iPhone on Monday, analysts say

Apple to introduce $99 or $149 iPhone on Monday, analysts sayBreaking News!!!Wow!!!So Apple are considering releasing a cheaper iPhone at maybe $99 or $149 AND they will most likely update the current iPhone with some new features.Talk about getting the scoop there AndrewJust remember people... you heard it here first...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Cellular phones, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., phone

Discussion threads 2009-06-05

Chemical mind hacking: legit, or corporate cheating?

There is an absolutely fantastic article by Margaret Talbot in this week's New Yorker about the use of "neuroenhancers" -- that is, neuroenhancing drugs such as Adderall, Ritalin and Provigil that are typically prescribed for ADHD and dementia -- to effectively "hack" the brain and coax more productivity from it....

Tags: Drug, Talbot, Hacking, Productivity, Smart Phones, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-04-22