I want to take a few minutes to talk about a new toy I recently bought. It’s a miniature wireless bluetooth keyboard that works with iPad, iPhone, Android cellphones and tablets, Windows Mobile, Symbian, and other devices that allow input from a bluetooth device. I came across this little guy on one of those daily deal sites and decided to pick one up to see what it was about. The form factor is amazing. It’s a little smaller than my Droid Razr and a lot lighter. It has a keyboard with almost every key you can imagine. The only keys it doesn’t have are F1 – F12. However, it does provide a function “Fn” key that allows you to access other keys such as volume controls and playback controls (play, pause, stop, fastforward, rewind).
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Back in February, I bought my fiancee a new treadmill. The thing was extremely nice and worked great for about a week. Then, we started having problems with the treadmill tripping the circuit breaker. Every time we would reset the breaker, it would trip again as soon as we turned on the treadmill. Being that we live in a house that is barely 2 years old, I thought the wiring in the house was sufficient. However, we put the treadmill in one of our guest bedrooms which only had a 15 amp circuit for the entire room. I know 15 amps aren’t much, but other than the lights, the treadmill is the only other thing on that breaker when in use.
At first, my biggest worry was that the treadmill was defective. Instead of jumping to conclusions and going through all the trouble of sending the treadmill back, I did a little bit of research and found plenty of others having the same issue with similar and even identical treadmills. As a “fix”, many of the people I read reviews from said that simply swapping out their 15 amp breaker for a 20 amp resolved the issue. Personally, I wasn’t too pleased with this option as I’ve known others to do this in the past. For fear of causing a fire, I chose to look for another “solution”.
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Every time I visit my grandmother, she always bombards me with questions about what different things are. Every day, she’ll see something on TV or hear something, but not know what it is exactly. For things that peak her curiosity, she’ll jot them down in a note pad and ask the next person that walks thru her door. For example, I stopped by her house about a month ago to do her taxes for her. As soon as I got there, out came her note pad and the questions began. I like to believe that I’m a fairly smart guy. But, she did have a few things on her list that really stumped me. Lucky for me, I had my kick-ass Motorola Droid Razr smartphone which I pulled out, hopped on the local 4G network, and Googled the remained of her questions. Even though my grandmother has a computer, she doesn’t know how or want to learn how to use it for gathering information on something. She also has a cellphone, but it doesn’t have a data plan. So, I felt like she needed an alternative for getting answers no matter where she was. That’s when I came across the Wikireader by Pandigital.
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I know that the 2 remaining Research In Motion customers are going to be pissed when they read this article. But, I’m writing it anyways. Yes, it is true. I have finally retired my Blackberry and moved over to the Droid side of the force. Being a (very very very) long time Blackberry user, it was a sad day when I decided I’d had enough. Even though the rest of the world had already accepted that RIM was on a downward spiral, I kept my faith in the company and their products. But recently, it seems like RIM wants to go out of business. First it was the premature release of their Blackberry Playbook (which was an over priced and under sized piece of crap). Then RIM suffered several world-wide network outages. And recently, RIM executives were the cause of international flights being grounded because they had a few too many drinks. All of that aside, I felt like the Blackberry products I once loved were gradually degrading. My last Blackberry was nice at first, but over time it seemed to literally fall apart. Even though I take great care of things I own (including my cellphone), my last Blackberry broke to a point that I couldn’t bare to use it any more. That’s when I decided to take the leap and purchase a new Droid device.
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A few times now, my favorite daily deals site Woot.com has had this little gizmo called the enTourage Pocket eDGe Dual eReader Tablet. It’s basically an eReader attached to a tablet. At first glance, this little guy didn’t look like anything I would be interested in having for myself. However, I did think it would make a good Christmas gift for my grandmother. So, for about $79, I went ahead and ordered one. After a week of waiting, it finally arrived. Here are my thoughts about it.
