Archive | September, 2010

27 September 2010 ~ Comments Off

Segway Owner James Heselden Dies After Apparently Driving His Segway Over a Cliff

James Heselden who bought the New Hampshire based company that makes Segway personal transport devices in December has died after reportedly driving one of his own Segways off a cliff in Boston Spa, 140 miles north of London. At one time the Segway was hyped as the next big thing in public transportation. With some [...]

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23 September 2010 ~ Comments Off

It’s a Nikon Nikkor 24~70mm Zoom Lens – No Wait – It’s a Coffee Mug

Here’s a unique gift for the photography fan in your life. While it may resemble an expensive Nikon zoom camera lens – in reality it’s  a 300 ml insulated coffee mug. There’s no internal working parts – just 100% stainless steel (is there such a thing as stain steel?). At only $24.99 the cost is [...]

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22 September 2010 ~ Comments Off

Droid X Receiving Froyo 2.2 Update Now

At around 6am EST I noticed that the Froyo Update (aka Android 2.2) was available on my Verizon Droid X. This is about 6 hours ahead of the 12pm EST delivery date that Verizon had been promising. Some of the things users have found useful in Froyo 2.2: 1. New gallery app 2. Updated camera [...]

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18 September 2010 ~ Comments Off

HTC Desire Getting Froyo 2.2

According to a post (found here) on the T-Mobile UK forum the HTC Desire now has a Froyo 2.2 update available which will be sent OTA (over the air) directly to phones over the coming weeks. via Wikipedia – The HTC Desire has a 1 GHz Snapdragon processor and It includes an active-matrix OLED (AMOLED) [...]

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14 September 2010 ~ Comments Off

Droid X HDMI MultiMedia Desktop Charger – Quick Look

I purchased this Droid X HDMI Multi-Media Desktop Charger at the local Verizon Wireless store for about $38 after corporate discount. By my calculation that’s about $30 too much. The charging stand came with a power cable (my particular version did not have an HDMI cable though I think you can get one bundled if [...]

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