Hardware

Apple TV

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor January 17, 2012 Featured
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This is a review that I’ve planned to do for a long time. It seems like each time I get geared up to do this review, the manufacturer changes something about the product and sets me back to square one. Which means that I’m trying to do a review of a very good, unsung piece of hardware and software, and then they do something that just makes it better. Darn them!

This is a preview of Apple TV. Read the full post (1177 words, 5 images, estimated 4:42 mins reading time)

Tagged as: Apple, Apple TV

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EEE Pad Transformer

by Scott Roche September 26, 2011 Android
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I’ve been wanting a tablet for a long, looonnnnng time. To tell you the truth, apart from the coolness factor, I couldn’t tell you why, but I was told to get whatever I wanted for my birthday. My Mom had planned on throwing me a big party, and that hadn’t materialized. So, she gave me the money she would have spent. Now was my time to decide. So what did I chose and why? The former should be answered by the title of this review. The later is a much larger answer.

I could have gotten the bottom end of the iPad range with the money I had. I thought about it though, and the iPad is still a flawed device in my opinion. As sexy as it is, a lack of Flash support, internal SD card support, and dual cameras – in the model I would have gotten – are all major short-comings.

This is a preview of EEE Pad Transformer. Read the full post (966 words, 4 images, estimated 3:52 mins reading time)

Tagged as: Android, EEE Pad Transformer

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Tweakers

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor May 9, 2011 Hardware
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These days we have so many digital devices that play audio it isn’t funny. Smartphones, computers, MP3 players, even handheld games. Some of these devices have built in speakers to let you play audio, but most of them just come with earbuds, if they have anything at all. For the most part, those speakers are pretty low quality, and the earbuds aren’t really comfortable enough to wear for any length of time. You can get a decent pair of headphones, but those aren’t useful if you want to share your audio with friends. What you need is a decent pair of speakers that also happens to be small and portable. Something that goes with your mobile device.

This is a preview of Tweakers. Read the full post (803 words, 7 images, estimated 3:13 mins reading time)

Tagged as: Chill Pill, Tweakers

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Craptech: The Apple iPad Dock

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor January 17, 2011 Craptech

Normally, here at The Nifty Tech Blog, we try to bring you examples of the best and most useful technology available. If it doesn’t measure up to that yardstick, we just don’t mention it. Or we wait and watch it to see if it manages to rise above the pack and ask for our notice. But sometimes we run into a product that just utterly fails to provide any kind of utility. For those products, we created the category of Craptech. These are the products that are full of so much fail that everyone had best be warned not to waste their money on them. And the first one of these products that we are going to talk about is the Apple iPad Dock.

This is a preview of Craptech: The Apple iPad Dock. Read the full post (710 words, 6 images, estimated 2:50 mins reading time)

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ZOOM H1 Handy Recorder – A microphone shootout.

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor November 22, 2010 Featured

This is a review that has been a long time in coming. For some of you I’m sure it seems like it was too long. But we won’t review something on The Nifty Tech Blog until we have had a chance to work with it for at least a month, so if you’ve been waiting anxiously for this review since we posted the Zoom H1 Unboxing back at the beginning of September, we’re sorry for the wait. We’ve spent that time learning the Zoom H1 thoroughly and determining how it stacks up against other products. We hope that you’ll agree that the wait has been worth it.

This is a preview of ZOOM H1 Handy Recorder – A microphone shootout.. Read the full post (2971 words, 6 images, estimated 11:53 mins reading time)

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First Look: Zoom H1 Handy Recorder Unboxing

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor September 8, 2010 Hardware

One of the products that I’m looking at for a future review is the Zoom H1 Handy Recorder that was just released in August and sold out almost immediately! I finally got a hold of mine after having my pre-order shipped, canceled, and then back-ordered. So I figured that I’d do an unboxing video to demonstrate how easy the Zoom is to set up and get using out of the box. At least that was what they told me. Actually Zoom has a very good reputation for portable audio and the H2 and H4 models are very respectable portable recorders.

This is a preview of First Look: Zoom H1 Handy Recorder Unboxing. Read the full post (381 words, 1 image, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Tagged as: Unboxing Video, Zoom H1 Handy Recorder

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AirPort Extreme

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor July 19, 2010 Hardware

Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station (Simultaneous Dual-Band) (MC340LL/A)As mobile devices become more popular, the need for wireless networks increases in order to provide the most demanding apps with the bandwidth they require. And eventually, one begins to look at setting up your own home network. These days, many internet providers are filling this demand by providing uplink devices with built in wireless modems. For some it is an option, for others it is a premium service with an accompanying monthly fee. For some people, letting Comcast or Verizon or whomever set up their wireless network is good enough. But others want more control over the network, and who is allowed on it. In this review, I’d like to show this last group of people one of the easiest, fastest, and most robust ways to set up your own wireless network: The AirPort Extreme.

This is a preview of AirPort Extreme. Read the full post (2278 words, 14 images, estimated 9:07 mins reading time)

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ThermaPAK HeatShift Laptop Cooler

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor July 5, 2010 Hardware

Today’s review isn’t software. In fact, it doesn’t even use electricity, but there is a lot of technical research behind it, and it is designed to prolong the life of your legs, and your laptop. I’m talking about the ThermaPAK HeatShift Laptop Cooler, a laptop pad that cools your laptop through thermal conductivity instead of using USB power driven fans that will eventually clog with hair and dust and create a horrendous noise.

This is a preview of ThermaPAK HeatShift Laptop Cooler. Read the full post (1221 words, 3 images, estimated 4:53 mins reading time)

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Google Voice Update

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor June 24, 2010 Phones

Back in the original Google Voice review, I had mentioned that Google Voice was one of those Google projects that is eternally in Beta. Well, it seems that Google disagreed with me on that point. On Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010, Google announced on the Google Voice Blog, that Google Voice was coming out of Beta and is now available for new subscribers in the United States without the need for an invite!

This is a preview of Google Voice Update. Read the full post (142 words, 1 image, estimated 34 secs reading time)

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First Impressions: 7 days with the iPad

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor May 5, 2010 Hardware
Apple iPad 16GB, 32GB, 64GB Wi-Fi

I got my iPad on Monday, April 26th. Despite all the hype and the “reality distortion field” and the rabid flaming criticism, I wasn’t sure about the iPad, so I didn’t pre-order it. In fact, I remained firmly in the “I have to touch it first.” camp. From the accolades I had heard, I half expected that when I walked into my local Apple store and got to put hands upon one of the demo models, that I’d think it was the most wonderful technological device ever and I’d want to get one immediately. Well… that wasn’t what happened.

This is a preview of First Impressions: 7 days with the iPad. Read the full post (4255 words, 14 images, estimated 17:01 mins reading time)

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