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Being a geek can sometimes become pretty expensive. Different devices offer differing amounts of geek fun for the buck. Every car and pickup manufactured from 1996 forward has what is known as an OBD2 port. OBD is short for on board diagnostics. The OBD2 port was originally mandated as part of emission control efforts. There are plenty of consumer-oriented OBD2
Griffin Technology has announced that its highly anticipated PowerMate Bluetooth is now available. The PowerMate Bluetooth is a wireless controller with a sleek look. It can replicate key commands and system events in virtually any application. The new PowerMate Bluetooth has the recognizable blue glowing base (as did the PowerMate that was first introduced in 2001). PowerMate Bluetooth uses Bluetooth
Over the past year, I've noticed more and more people wearing activity tracking devices and here in Northern Ireland I tend to see Fitbits rather than anything else. Fitbit has been advertising on TV lately too with "It's All Fit" and I'm sure that there will be a good number of Zips, Flexes and Charges under the Christmas tree come
Tonight's 1000th episode is so important to me for you to listen, or watch that I am limiting the show notes for this episode only. I have a message for the Ohana and for Podcasters alike. There are so very few of us that have reached this milestone, the monologue in tonight's show is more important than the tech news
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Having been born in 1955 I grew up through the plastic craze of the 1960’s. Plastic was new and fascinating. Plastic designer products of the 1960’s helped us believe that we were living in the future. And so that brings us to products such as the Fingerhut plastic seat covers as well as plastic furniture covers. At the height of
Kingston have long been a brand of choice for gaming professionals, expecially when overclocking the HyperX range of memory modules to within a megahertz of their life. Not content with the inside of the PC, Kingston has put the performance brand on the outside with the HyperX Cloud headset. Sensibly they've not tried to start from scratch but partnered with
With Christmas upon us things are as busy as ever here in preparing for the holidays and the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show.. MY PV aka Solar System got turned on and I am now sticking it to the man as my meter rotates backwards from my personal power plant on my roof. See the video of the meter starting to
Google is about to close Google News Spain. This change will only affect that one particular version of Google News. The reason has to do with a new Spanish law that will go into affect in January of 2015. Google will also be removing Spanish media outlets from Google News. The new law requires Google to pay for using publisher's
You've probably seen tweets from authors who are trying to get their book in front of the eyes of their Twitter followers. Soon, some authors will be able to use Twitter to do more than that. Hachette is about to start selling some of its books through Twitter. How will this work? Hachette is partnering with Gumroad (a company that
Has been a crazy week away, I get you all caught up and of course share with you my PV aka Solar install. I also do a dive on the Sony Blackmail / Hack and how the ante has been raised by email threats to the employees. I also talk about where I am weight wise.. Their is a great
In Hawaii we pay the some of the highest electricity costs in the nation. My average electricity bill for the past 4 years has been around $400 a month at .36 cents per Kilowatt with a monthly usage of about 1100 Kilowatts. Today we had 32 photovoltaic panels installed that will zero my electricity bill minus a $19.95 monthly connections
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