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It is always a good idea to wait about a week or so before committing to an opinion after one of Steve Jobs’ MacWorld keynotes, just to give the Reality Distortion Field time to dissipate.
It’s easy to get totally sucked in, and come away thinking that a computer shaped like a cube is going to […]

Last summer, as gas prices climbed up past $3.50 a gallon here in California, I was increasingly frustrated with my 70-mile-a-day commute, made worse by the fact that LA traffic not only was costing me more than $10 a day in gas, but I was also at least 3 hours a day behind the wheel […]

Christmas brought a couple new camera gadgets into the Geekfoolery household. We’ve just returned from a 2400-mile road trip where we’ve put  these devices through their paces. Here now a quick review:
Eye-Fi: The Eye-Fi card appears to be a standard-issue 2GB SD memory card, but the secret is the built-in WiFi transmitter. The Eye-Fi’s gadget […]

Today, Mr. Alex invites a dear old friend as a guest blogger for the 12 Geeks of Christmas series. Jean Thomas is based in Boston, and has endured the annual gift exchange with Mr. Alex for more years than anyone should have to endure. Here we discuss the aspect of what a non-geek thinks when […]

There is no shortage of lists of gadgets that geeks want to receive for Christmas (or to be more inclusive, Chrismahannakwanzakuh). Gizmos for Geeks, Geekfoolery’s parent site, is just one of many that review and highlight the many shiny electronic objects that we geeks desire, which in the interest of time, can be summarized as […]

Amazon announced their Kindle eBook reader this week, joining Sony’s Reader in the relatively uncrowded market for electronic book devices. Sony’s latest is a slicker 2.0 version of its first offering from a couple years ago. Kindle is Amazon’s baby, what I assume they are hoping will be a killer app, the iPod of the […]