Posts Tagged ‘ gizmos ’

Novelty vs. Usefulness

I have always been of the opinion that corporate gifts should be useful, something the recipient can use everyday until it wears out or breaks, or better yet something that, with adequate care, will not break at all. This is always preferred by most recipients, myself included. Promotional items must always have a practical reason [...]



Uninterruptible Power

No, this is not a post about the Manila Electric Company, although I do have something to say about the latest Juday fiasco in my other blog Press this Button. It’s not a post about GMA’s purported plans of staying on till past 2010 (and we’re not surprised about that either).
No this is about the [...]



Times are a-changing

It’s not new but it’s mine (to use anyway) and after a bit more patience the external Samsung SyncMaster 743NX finally arrived. The laptop is a hand-me-down IBM Thinkpad T43 still with the blue Access IBM button, not like the newfangled, rather bulky but more advanced Lenovo versions.
I’ve always preferred the T series though, with [...]



Stuff for when you’re on the go

One of the niftier things I’ve encountered recently is the Retractable USB Charge Cable, which has versions for the more popular brands of mobile phones and handsets. That’s the one you see on the left (in its retracted state) in the picture above. That’s my tried and tested (meaning old) Sony Ericsson P910i in the [...]