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iLuv iSP100

Posted 10/22/2009 at 10:06am | by Susie Ochs

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An iPod speaker is a great investment if you want to rock out with friends--unless you and your friends prefer to dance around with headphones on, like those silhouetted party people in Apple’s print ads. iLuv’s iSP100 is portable, compact, and takes regular AAA batteries, so there’s no need to tote along an AC adapter or charger. But the anemic sound it produces might have you reconsidering that “let’s all just put our headphones on and dance around” idea.

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magicJack Internet Phone System

Posted 09/17/2009 at 2:21am | by jamor

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We’ve seen the “just plug it in” pitches on late-night TV, the cheesy website, and the spotty instructions, none of which exactly inspire confidence in the magicJack. But still, the allure of nearly free phone calls all over the country (or to Canada, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) is strong. Plus since it’s VOIP, your number can travel with you. Believe it or not, magicJack turns out to be pretty magical.

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Belkin Dual Auto Charger and Wireless Input iPWR SuperPack

Posted 08/21/2009 at 10:07am | by Susie Ochs

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If you actually use your iPhone’s best features--the 3G network, push notifications, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Location Services, all those bells and whistles that make it so awesome--you’ve probably noticed your battery needs recharging every day or two at least. We never leave home without the cable and AC adapter that came with our iPhone, so we’re in luck as long as we can find a power outlet or USB port to plug in to. But wandering beyond walls and away from computers requires some extra gadgetry to keep our iPhone charged, namely Belkin’s Dual Auto Charger for the car and the iPWR SuperPack backup battery for everywhere else.

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Elgato Video Capture

Posted 08/13/2009 at 11:08am | by Arvind Srinivasan

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If you were a kid (or had a kid) any time between the mid-1980s and the turn of the century, chances are you have a bunch of old videotapes with incriminating footage on them. Chances are also good that your mother (or someone like her) has probably bothered you on more than one occasion about converting those aforementioned tapes—because really, who uses a VCR anymore? Using Elgato’s Video Capture, you can turn any analog source into 640x480 digital video files, for playback on your Mac, iPod touch, or iPhone.

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Native Instruments Guitar Rig Mobile

Posted 07/30/2009 at 1:59pm | by jamor

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There’s nothing quite like the glow of tubes burning hot in a heavy, smoky tube amplifier for making an electric guitar sing and scream. But when you want the sweet sound of six-string Nirvana to go, Native Instruments’ slick new Guitar Rig Mobile offers a cool combination of a tiny hardware interface and the stripped-down power of their potent Guitar Rig software studio for just around a hundred bucks--and it’s got plenty of big audio bang to fuel your rock ’n’ roll dreams.

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Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500M

Posted 07/29/2009 at 10:37am | by Arvind Srinivasan

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Maybe Fujitsu’s design team felt nostalgic for their now-dead printer division, because there’s no way around it--the S1500M looks like a printer (or at least a scanner with an identity crisis). That’s not a bad thing, mind you.

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Fast Finger Keyboard

Posted 07/20/2009 at 1:42am | by Susie Ochs

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If you type with two or fewer fingers--the slow, stilted, pause-heavy “hunt and peck” method--maybe standard QWERTY keyboards just aren’t your style.

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Amazon Kindle

Posted 07/16/2009 at 2:36am | by jamor

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Steve Jobs once famously dismissed Amazon’s original Kindle, bluntly saying, “People don’t read anymore.” Steve, we hate to say it, but we disagree. Despite the miracle of the iTunes Store, where pop-culture connoisseurs enjoy instant gratification for their junk food entertainment cravings, the literati persist. And they want instant gratification too.

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Rogue Amoeba Airfoil

Posted 07/07/2009 at 9:00am | by Ray Aguilera

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We’re suckers for apps that focus on simplicity and usefulness rather than whiz-bang features that look cool in demos but have very little practical utility. Rogue Amoeba’s Airfoil is one of those apps that we couldn’t help but take a liking to right off the bat.

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Wacom Intuos4

Posted 07/02/2009 at 1:30am | by Roberto Baldwin

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Tablets are often thought to be just for graphic designers who’ve eschewed the mouse for something “more organic.” They wave their hands over the magical device and create art out of nothing. What most Mac people don’t realize is that the tablet isn’t just a designer’s tool. It’s useful for nearly anyone who puts in serious time in front of a computer. With its wealth of customization options, Wacom’s Intuos4 becomes a useful input device for a variety of applications, and its sensitivity makes it a great tablet for the traditional audience of graphics pros. Wacom’s new line of Intuos4 tablets has raised the bar in the tablet game.

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