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The Mobile Geek

One of the drawbacks of being a “gadget freak” is you end up having more “necessities” than normal when up and about. 1 And by “normal,” I mean your keys, phone, and wallet.

I bring my iPad more often than not – then there’s the MiFi for internet connectivity. And to prevent any of those devices dying on me in the middle of the day, I bring a portable battery pack along.

All that – for a regular day.

It gets even more complicated when on a trip out of town/country. Apart form those already mentioned, one has to consider the need to use other gadgets for tasks that would normally be done at the end of the day (computer/laptop). And let’s not forget real cameras, whenever on an interesting “trip.”

I also think my being a pack-rat comes with the territory of having so much shit to bring along, so I pretty much have to accept that for the most part, I’ll never be “traveling light” in the truest sense of the phrase. What I can be though, is efficient.

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⇡1 And by “normal,” I mean your keys, phone, and wallet.
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Christmas Loot

I was supposed to do the whole retail pornography session of the stuff I got myself for Christmas. I’d usually take pictures like crazy as soon as they got here… but I realized there was just too much work involved in taking pictures of that much stuff – so I decided to just link to relevant images/videos to explain what each of them does – that way I could also minimize the commentary on each item.

I’ll probably still take pics of them eventually – but not necessarily for this post. But since I no longer have to wait for them to arrive, I thought I’d just post about it anyways (since I’m woefully behind on blog updates) Read More

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Power

Cue music

No one man should have all that power

  • Power by Kanye West

You know you’re a serious gadget freak (yeah, I believe freak is the appropriate word now) if you end up needing portable power packs for the gadgets in your EDC (Every Day Carry)

Have you ever run out of juice on your cellphone and wished you had some way to charge them at that instant? Of course you have. And as you may have guessed, portable power packs 1 Otherwise known as powerbanks, portable batteries, external batteries, or whatever else phrase can describe a portable power source are “universal batteries” that can be used to power/charge [small] electronic devices.

These things are starting to be one of the necessities to us gadget freaks who have multiple electronic devices that need to be on all the time.

I just got my new powerbank the other day; the NewTrent IMP70D – which brings my total of powerbanks to 4. I thought doing a comparison would be helpful for readers that are interested in getting one of these nifty little things. I’ll be discussing the 3000mAh Opt PortaPower, the 6600mAh MiPow Power Tube 6600, the 6000mAh ZAGGsparq 2.0, and the 7000mAh New Trent IMP70D. Read More

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⇡1 Otherwise known as powerbanks, portable batteries, external batteries, or whatever else phrase can describe a portable power source
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Friday was MY DAY

Friday was a surprisingly “lucky” day for me.

Apart from being able to get a lot of work done with a very interesting project at work, I also was able to get my first check for this voiceover sideline thingie I’ve been doing for about a year now. (maybe less, but who keeps track, right?)

These were the “immediate results” of that day – but the story behind them is the more enjoyable part of it all.

Loot

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Pogoplug

Being a Drobo owner, one of our newsletters mentioned a promo where DataRobotics collaborated with PogoPlug, a cloud-storage service. While I’m perfectly happy with Dropbox, Pogoplug offers something that I find really useful. So I decided to give it a whirl.

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