Eric Lundquist

Seagate’s External SATA Drives – Speed Meets Capacity As long as you’ve got SATA ports on your PC, of course by Daniel P. Dern (dern@pair.com) Vendor: Seagate Technology LLC Product Name: Seagate 500GB eSATA external hard drive Price (MSRP): $359.00 Availability: Now Product URL: http://www.seagate.com/products/retail/esata/ Tech Requirements: Windows 2000 or higher; MacOS X or higher […]

SunRocket’s LaunchKit Makes Adding VoIP Easy Simple Gizmo Works With POTS Gear by Daniel P. Dern (dern@pair.com) Vendor: Sunrocket, Inc. Product Name: Internet Phone Service Launch Kit Price (MSRP): Kit $39.95; VoIP service starting at $9.95/month Availability: Now Product URL: https://www.sunrocket.com/sign_up/signup.do?tcd=webfycx Tech Requirements: Broadband; POTS phone; PC (for set-up) Third-party VoIP — Voice over IP […]

Zone Alarm Takes Cyber-Security Into Non-Cyber World Add Real-World Identity Protection While Protecting Your PC by Daniel P. Dern (dern@pair.com) Vendor: Zone Labs LLC (part of Check Point Software Technologies) Product Name: Zone Alarm Internet Security Suite v6.5 Price (MSRP): single user $69.95; 3-user family pack $99.95, Availability: Now Product URL: www.zonealarm.com Tech Requirements: Windows […]

CyberDefender Launches Free Early Detection Center Suite Everything-But-Firewall PC Protection, Still In Beta by Daniel P. Dern (dern@pair.com) Vendor: CyberDefender Corporation Product Name: CyberDefenderFREE 2.0, free with small adlets CyberDefender Early Defense Center, $11.99/year ad-free Availability: Beta now; product release target mid-November Product URL: http://www.cyberdefender.com CyberDefender Corporation, which recently acquired several savvy senior folks from […]

Find stuff on mobile media with Gaviri PocketSearch This 5MB search engine goes where you go by Daniel P. Dern (dern@pair.com) Vendor: Gaviri Technologies Inc. Product Name: Gaviri Pocket Search Price (MSRP): $19.95 per instance, bulk licenses available Availability: Now, including as U3/Smart application Product URL: Tech Requirements: Program can reside on mobile media (USB […]

Let Your Phone Grab an Hour Of New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Etc. For Your Morning Commute by Daniel P. Dern (dern@pair.com) Vendor: Audible.com Product Name: Audible Air Price (MSRP): included in Audible Gold ($14.95/month) or Platinum ($22.95/month) service, plus any wireless costs Availability: Now, for selected smartphones; software for more models coming Product […]

Become Strives To Improve On-Line Shopping Also Finds Pre/Post-Purchase Research Info by Daniel P. Dern (dern@pair.com) Vendor: Become. Inc. Product Name: Become Shopping Price (MSRP): Free Web-based Shopping/Research Availability: Now Product URL: www.Become.com Tech Requirements, if any (e.g. XP, Windows Mobile) Web browser, may work better with Javascript, cookies Shopping for products online can be […]

Use your iPod in weather, water with H2O Audio’s iPod housings Patented control lets you click through the casing by Daniel P. Dern (dern@pair.com) Vendor: H2O Audio Product Name: Advanced Waterproof Housing for 80GB iPod (video), MSRP $89.95; available now Outdoor for nano, MSRP $39.95; available early December 2006 Product URL: http://www.h2oaudio.com/ Outdoor: Want to […]

Diagnose Why Your Car’s “Check Engine” Light Is On A Useful Device — If It Works by Daniel P. Dern (dern@pair.com) Vendor: CarMD Corporation Product Name: CarMD Price (MSRP): $89.99 Availability: Now Product URL: www.carmd.com Tech Requirements: Windows 98 or later for PC software The “Check Engine” light on car dashboards makes Windows Blue Screen […]

DLink 2-Bay Enclosure Lets You Build A NAS And Features Easy-install Disks For Network Storage by Daniel P. Dern (dern@pair.com) Vendor: D-Link Systems Inc. Product Name: 2-Bay Network Storage Enclosure (DNS-323) Price (MSRP): $229.99 Availability: Now. Product URL: For consumers with multimedia content they want to store, use and share — and who want to […]