01/28/2012 | Logitech tries a very different approach to travel mice.
The world of mice could often be described charitably as stagnant: it's an endless sea of ergonomic shapes that assume you're sitting at a desk and have lots of room in your bag. Logitech's Cube is about as different as you ...
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12/01/2011 | USB hubs make your life easier.
A useful holiday present to resolve an ongoing frustration is a multi-port hub. Whether as a stocking stuffer, Chanukah present, or another holiday gift, these useful devices make your life easier. They can be used daily or w ...
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11/28/2011 | If you print your own photos, make sure colors are accurate.
Color calibration is the art of tweaking your monitor so that the colors represented on screen better match real life and your printer output. Mac system software includes a calibration tool in the Displays System Preference, ...
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11/21/2011 | Scan, FAX, copy, print on almost any paper.
Epson meets the needs of small businesses with a variety of printers in their Workforce line. The model I tested, the Workforce 840, includes scanner, FAX, automatic document feeder, two paper trays, and wireless capability. ...
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11/18/2011 | Iomega Mac Companion hard drive complements iMacs
Many of Iomega's Mac-oriented storage products merely ship pre-formatted for HFS+, but the new Mac Companion has been entirely designed with Apple's computers in mind. The housing is shaped to match the footprint of an iMac o ...
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11/17/2011 | Quiet fanless hard drive enclosure to expand your storage needs.
As you may know, when you need additional hard drive space, it is sometimes cheaper to buy the drive you want, and put it in an external case, purchased elsewhere. The Akitio SK-3501 Super-S3 is an external case for 3.5" hard ...
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11/15/2011 | Great sound from a portable iOS device dock.
If you seek a sound dock for your iOS device, the Philips Fidelio 7700 Docking Speaker is an attractive and compact dock that also plays music from 7,000 Internet radio stations. It features Bluetooth and charges your iPad, i ...
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11/12/2011 | Indoor helicopter to control with iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.
If you seek an entertaining and reasonably priced iOS device for the holiday season, consider an indoor helicopter. The Griffin HELO TC is a small, battery powered, remote control helicopter. You fly it with the help of an ap ...
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10/30/2011 | Belkin fills a major demand for tablets in the kitchen.
The urge to use an iPad, a Galaxy Tab, or another tablet in the kitchen is undeniable: it's a live recipe book or a way to check if the ingredients you want are on sale. Belkin has acknowledged, though, that no one wants to ...
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10/26/2011 | Handbrake converts video from one format to another.
HandBrake is an open source video conversion program. It can read from DVDs, video files, and other video sources. It also produces video files in a wide variety of formats. As an example, I own one of my kid’s favorite movie ...
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10/25/2011 | Earbuds with earpiece made for an active lifestyle.
The Empire Brands Wicked Audio line targets their headphones to those with an active lifestyle. If you need earbuds made to stay in, no matter whether you’re skating, skiing, or racing, their Wicked Helix line is a good fit ...
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10/17/2011 | Solid Bluetooth compatible speaker for Mac or iOS devices.
For the past few months, I've been using the FoxLv2 Bluetooth speaker from SoundMatters for listening to music and as a speakerphone with my iPhone 3G. The portable FoxL is a small speaker system, 5.6" wide, 2.2" high, and 1. ...
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10/17/2011 | Apple gives the iPhone a more human touch.
Design
It's the look of the iPhone 4S that has drawn the most flak: many were initially disappointed just because it looks like its ancestor, even if there's a lot of change on the inside. If you've read our original iPho ...
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10/14/2011 | Level8 focus on eight points, including protection and durability.
Level8 derives its name from its focus on eight points, notably protection, durability and warranty. Their products are designed exclusively for the MacBook, MacBook Pro, and iPad. The backpack I tested and the iPad sleeve sh ...
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10/12/2011 | A robust text editor that can perform many coding functions.
Bare Bones Software recently released version 10 of BBEdit their oddly misnamed ”Bare Bones“ text editor, BBEdit. I call BBEdit misnamed because it is chock-full of useful features that make working with text files easy. Ther ...
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09/16/2011 | Samsung harnesses 4G LTE with the Galaxy Tab 10.1
Several months ago we took a close look at the Galaxy Tab 10.1, which represents Samsung's answer to the iPad 2. The device offered some of the best features among Android-based tablets, but without any particularly stellar c ...
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