Rebekah Demos Dotties by Incipio
Rebekah Demos the Virtues of Incipio's Dotties for Her iTouch.
Read MoreOur New Toy and Game Section
By the Staff at Digital Family Advisor...
With all the hoopla over 3D TV and iPad’s and Internet TVs and noise cancelling headphones, you would be surprised that conventional toys and games account for more consumer dollars than fancy electronics this time of year. Our fifth annual toys and games guide features some of the oldies but goodies family games and truly hot tween products as well as very affordable hot devices, if you can get to the store or online fast enough.
It’s The Revenge of the Computer Geeks as Roku Becomes a True Convergence hit.Our Favorite Holiday Choices In Every Category
By Richard M. Sherwin… For twenty years I have been watching computer companies try to make strides into the mainstream consumer electronics industry. Microsoft spent hundreds of millions of their gazillion dollars to launch Windows Media Center standalone products. They actually had to buy back 1000s of units from CE stores sales were so poor. […]
Read MoreNot Into Intuit Anymore; And here’s Why!
By Livia Bergovoy… We’ve been using Quicken since the good ole’ DOS days — before the venerable mouse. We still reflexively strike at keyboard shortcuts and some still work. But mostly, the fingers need to hover away from the keyboard to the mouse to get the job done (inefficient). What we miss the most is […]
Read MoreMonitor Your Heart with the Mio Breeze Heart Rate Watch and Lose Weight
By Katharine Czechowski… If you don’t know your exercise heart rate you could be wasting your time on that treadmill and come January 1st, after the feasting fun of the holidays are over, bikini season is only months away. Studies have shown that people who workout within their target heart rate range, which is normally […]
Read MoreHonestech’s VHS to DVD Kit
By Livia Bergovoy… If you are of a certain generation, you might still have a slew of VHS tapes stacked (neatly?) somewhere in corners or judiciously stowed in humidity controlled storage containers. Whatever that generation might boomingly be called… Whateverrrr. …Never mind. Recorded on VHS and digital video cassettes are some of our holiday and vacation memories; Secret […]
Read MoreStylishly Tie Up Odds and Ends with Gear Ties
By Katharine Czechowski… Designed for the nerdy, the burly and the everyday, the people from Gear Tie LLC turn the ordinary twist tie into an extraordinary utilitarian innovation. The Gear Tie is a no fuss reusable rubber twist tie that perfectly combines the necessity of the twist tie with the efficiency of a bungee cord […]
Read MoreMarketing Matters: Let’s Have a Dialogue About Dialog
By Jan Jaben-Eilon… One of my biggest pet peeves recently received validation from my husband, who teaches at a state university. Reading essay responses on exams, he complains about the lack of writing skills of his students, freshmen through seniors. I’ve contended for years that American youth will never be proficient in spelling, or proper […]
Read MoreMetroFi 220vi Earphones
By Katharine Czechowski… If this is your first encounter with noise isolating headphones, listen up. The Ultimate Ears MetroFi 220vi earphones are a great option for first time users, multi-taskers and the more than casual music enthusiasts. Ultimate Ears by Logitech is well-known in the Music Industry as the “manufacturer of fine listening devices” which […]
Read Morere bit’s Save Me Backup Software: Ridiculously Simple – NOT!
By Livia Bergovoy… The packaging says “ridiculously simple” and it’s exactly what it is NOT! First try: After going through much of the installation (green DVD) and keying in the long cumbersome access key, got the message that my system needs a large enough gigabyte storage device (about 100) to backup to. So we put […]
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