Joy of Gadgets

The folks at In Store Solutions have sent me a rather interesting piece of gear for review: the Yamaha PSG-01S, which is a USB speakerphone that is compatible with Skype. When plugged into the computer with the USB cable, the operating system treats it similar to a USB headset and is recognized instantly as an [...]

Yes, this headset from In Store Solutions is that good. It’s also surprisingly affordable at just under $23 shipped to your door from the Skype store! I’d be buying one right now if I didn’t get a review unit.
As a long time user of Skype, I’ve used many a headset over the years. You want [...]

No, not a snowflake snowflake, the Snowflake from Blue Microphones!
This little USB microphone is about the size of a deck of card, when folded up. When you separate the white plastic from the aluminum base with the microphone–they pull apart easily–you can either put the microphone on top of your monitor–it hooks on an LCD [...]

Happy Mothers Day to all you mothers out there!
This past week has been a busy week for posts, it seems like. I even managed a post on my internal Nokia blog this week.
The post list this week:

How Operators Dialed Long Distance Calls (From voip.com/blog)
Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV (From Digital Music–The Future)
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While a lot of the guys that blog about Nokia are heading off to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, I am going to Ottawa. Since I don’t work for that part of Nokia, I wasn’t invited to MWC. Instead, I get to go learn about a new product we are releasing in the Network [...]

This was one of those weeks were I felt “needed”–a lot. It made for a stressful week. Ended the work week on a high note, though, which is always a bonus.
Meanwhile, here’s this week’s rundown of what I’ve written:

Receiver Initiated Authentication: The Holy Grail Of Spam Filtering? (From I got Spam?!)
Charge a USB Device By [...]