“Gadgets” collection
Explore a curated selection of personal technology and innovative gadgets designed to improve daily productivity and entertainment. This collection features detailed evaluations of portable electronics, charging solutions, and versatile tools that provide genuine real-world utility.
HTD Tech Briefs
View all →January 24, 2007
New WordPress release (version 2.1) and other stuff
Once again, it's been a while since I posted. I've been deep in "geek-dom" mainly related to Cell Phone. My wife's old Blackberry (7100t) died so I got a Blackberry 8700c off of eBay and she is now up and running on that! It's a great device actually. My biggest issues was a little trick that I forgot to do…
Read more →January 10, 2007
Apple Front Row, Griffin AirclickUSB and Griffin Proxi – Triple Play
Back in mid-November, 2006, I wrote up how to get Apple's Front Row to work on older macs using a program and instructions outlined on AndrewEscobar.com. The only disadvantage to the "hack" was that it didn't magically have a remote control materialize out of the air after installation. The way that I left it on my previous post, I wanted…
Read more →
November 15, 2006
Blackberry 7100t sync issues resolved
My wife has as Blackberry 7100t and the other day, it just "stopped" synching with the Desktop Manager (4.1). Basically, it would connect and then just hang when trying to do a weekly update. I got on the usual forums (pinstack, blackberryforums, howardforums) and did some futile searching. However I did find that there was recently a new release of…
Read more →November 6, 2006
Way behind on my posts
Just been way to busy. Here are some highlights of things that I have done: Update my activeCollab site to the latest Release Candidate Fixed my wife's computer (issues with RAM upgrade and Windows XP) Helped a friend get reconnected on their wireless network Helped another friend get their Powerbook on their wireless network as well as got them off…
Read more →September 27, 2006
Voice call hangups after 4 minutes on Tmobile MDA/HTC Wizard
I figured that I would post this little bit of mobile phone tweaking for any users who may be searching for a solution to the following issue. Ever since I upgraded my Tmobile MDA to the "latest and greatest" rom (v 2.26), I have been plagued with dropping calls after 4 minutes. It was definitely a bug that I had…
Read more →November 9, 2005
The blame game
Macs rule! Simple, elegant and the stuff just works. Prime example: new digital camera. After our old digital camera died and we purchased a new one, we, of course, wanted to see how well it worked. The test: take a picture and get it off the camera and on to a computer. For the Mac: a matter of minutes with…
Read more →November 5, 2005
Sidekickin’
So, my cellphone, the Sidekick has a new life! This is first, a great gadget! Cell phone, web browsing, instant messenger, camera, PIM...even has games. Well, there has been a lot of anticipation of an upgrade to the OS which brings some nice new enhancements. The biggest one is the ability to run javascript... There has been some discusson on…
Read more →
