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How many remotes do you have?

May 20th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Gadgets, Videos, YouTube, accessories

I’m a BzzAgent, and as part of the BzzAgent program, I take part in word-of-mouth campaigns about products they send me to try and give my honest opinion on. The most recent one that I’ve enjoyed a lot is the Logitech Harmony One universal remote control. I have 3 remotes in the living room, not to mention two PS3 controllers. Now that the Logitech Harmony One can control all my devices (even my ghetto Durabrand Wal-mart audio receiver I got hand-me-down), I only have one, and it’s very neat.

See what other people have tried to do to get all of their devices in sync (this video is hilarious):

(Video Removed due to YouTube’s thumbnail server killing my blog’s load time.)

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New Venture: ‘Tech Jaws’ Technology News Site

As I’ve been hinting at the last few days, and those of you following me on Twitter already know, I’m working with Frank J on a new tech news web site, Tech Jaws. It’s got an aggressive tone with a focus on the bleeding-edge of technology reviews, news, and tips.

This morning I posted an article reviewing the Logitech Harmony One universal remote control. This remote is simply awesome! Head on over to Tech Jaws and check out my review - complete with screenshots of the software and photos of the remote itself.

Also, feel free to comment - and when you do, mention you came there from my blog!

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Coming Soon: Logitech Harmony One Full Review

Hey everyone. Just a heads up - I received my Logitech Harmony One universal remote control - and it is completely awesome. The long and short of it is I like it a lot - it found devices no other universal remote has ever found for me before, and it even has provisional support for my Playstation 3 if I can buy the IR-bluetooth adapter.

As I wrote earlier this morning, I’m going out of town this weekend, but I’ll be working on my review and should have something Monday morning to share with all of you.

The reason this is exciting to me is that this will be the first review of a technology gadget that’s been sent to me for free to review. I’ve done reviews of things I already owned before, but this certainly makes me feel good about the reviewing and posting I’ve been doing here so far.

Thanks to my readers - it’s you guys who give me the numbers to show people I’m worth advertising with / sponsoring / sending cool free stuff to review. Don’t forget - if you like my blog and find it interesting, share the URL with your friends and family, add me to your blog roll, and subscribe to my RSS feed!

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Prepare for Disaster Recovery: Rebit Data Back-Up

If you think you’re exempt from the cataclysmic eventuality of computer hard drive failure, think again. Hard drives are only meant to last for a few years, tops! Maybe you’re one of those people that feels the best back-up solution is to burn everything to a CD, or e-mail your important files to yourself.

The problem comes when you do experience a failure, and you are fortunate enough to be able to afford a new hard drive to put in, and then you have to spend hours and hours putting things back where they used to be. Did you remember to back-up your web browser bookmarks? Did you remember to back-up your e-mails? Did you remember to back-up those important family photos?

Take a little stress out of your life and purchase a hassle-free all-inclusive back-up solution like a Rebit USB hard drive backup device. Plug it in and it will automatically back-up all of your important data, Windows, applications, e-mails, music, documents, you name it. It will do periodic backups to make sure you have the latest versions of all your files in case of an emergency.

The beauty of backing up everything, is that when recovery time comes (God forbid) you’ll be back up in record time. Or, you could spend hours and hours and get a migraine from sitting in front of the screen dragging and copying files and switching out CDs or DVDs or downloading your files that you e-mailed to yourself.

Sponsored by Rebit

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What Tech Are You Packing?

Every tried-and-true geek has their own particular “rig” or powerhouse machine of which they’re proud. While I recently sold my Mac Mini for some spare cash and am currently “rigless,” I’ve had some pretty sweet setups in the past. Since I don’t have my own, I’ll go ahead and give the low-down on the specs of the machine I’m writing this from, and some of my other technology.

  • Gateway M465 laptop - 2 Ghz Intel Centrino 2 Duo, 1gb of RAM, 80 gb hard drive, dvd burner, bluetooth, wireless-G connectivity.
  • 19″ Widescreen DVI/VGA I-Inc monitor (it was on sale at Tiger Direct)
  • SiliconGraphics USB keyboard
  • Microsoft Wireless laptop mouse (I like the smaller mouse)
  • Phillips 2.1 sound system
  • 5th Gen iPod Video 30gb
  • Generic external 120gb hard drive
  • Canon Pixma 1800 Photo Printer
  • LG VX9900 (Verizon enV) phone (bluetooth for transferring pictures)

The most important thing for me about my setup is the small footprint, because I try to keep everything within the confines of my small computer desk at home, and the laptop belongs to my employer so it has to be easily removable and portable.

If you want to show off your rig, post your specs in the comments so other readers can “Oooh” and “Aaah” over your awesome system.

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