Archive for the ‘Gadgets’ Category

Posted in Gadgets at 12:14 am March 18, 2008

My Logitech Harmony 720 Harmony basically stopped working a few months ago. Thanks to Costco's awesome return policy and my compulsive box-keeping, I was able to return it for a refund. It was annoying living without a universal remote to control all my home entertainment devices, so there was no doubt that I would get [...]

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Posted in Gadgets at 6:29 pm September 4, 2007

My Sprint Mogul phone came with a pretty decent headset with stereo buds for both ears. The drawback was the wiring and with twice the buds, there was at least twice the tanglement so that it was a hassle using the headset.
I eventually broke down and shelled out the money for a bluetooth headset, Jabra [...]

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Posted in Gadgets at 12:30 am August 10, 2007

I've been going through a lot of crap lately, so this bit of news brought much needed joy to my gadget geek heart.
First, I got an email from DirecTV titled "Great News for DIRECTV/TiVo Customers", and the message certainly lived up to the subject:
Great news for DIRECTV/TiVo customers—new features are on the way!
We know you [...]

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Posted in Gadgets, Wii at 11:54 pm August 7, 2007

OMG, I was checking out my Wii feed in my iGoogle and read Wii USB Ports Now Compatible With Keyboard! I had to try it out for myself.
I have a wireless Logitech keyboard for my desktop. It was more of a hassle to get everything disconnected and then reconnected than it was to actually use [...]

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Posted in Gadgets, Tips at 11:29 am July 19, 2007

These days (maybe before but I didn't know), Sprint can transfer contact information from an old phone to a new phone, regardless of brand. I knew before they could transfer within brands but it was news that they could do it across brands.
In my case, I had contacts on my Sanyo phone and in Outlook [...]

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Posted in Gadgets at 8:50 am

I am posting a modified version of what I posted at PPC 6700 Backlight keeps coming on.
My PPC 6800 Mogul would randomly turn on minutes or hours after I turn it off and put it down. It does it multiple times. Fortunately, it turns itself off soon after. This happens when it is on battery [...]

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Posted in Gadgets, Tips at 9:40 pm July 17, 2007

I was excited to get my Bluetooth adapter so that I could sync my Mogul phone wirelessly via Bluetooth to my laptop running Windows XP. That excitement turned to sheer frustration as I was unable to set up a partnership and thus unable to use ActiveSync through Bluetooth.
Sometimes the Bluetooth software manager would ask for [...]

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