USB Battery Charger Preserve your power with The USB Battery Charger. Even though there are more USB gadgets than you could shake a stick at, the USB battery Charger is actually quite useful.This handy little charger allows you to use the power from your PC (Desktop or Laptop) to charge and re-charge up to 4 X AA and AAA Ni-Cd, and the eco friendly Ni-MH type batteries. (Stating the obvious), as with all USB gadgets Just connect the USB cable to a computer or laptop and begin charging those batteries!Approximately the size of a PDA the battery charger is an ideal travel companion for your laptop and won’t take up loads of storage space. (Read the full post about ‘USB Battery Charger’…)

We all do embarrassing things when we are young, but at least for my generation they tended to stay in the past and away from the eyes of prospective employers, but for todays social networking generation I wonder how much of what seems like a good idea now may come back to haunt them in the future as more and more employers turn to social networking sites to find out more about potential employees. But as ever with the Internet a new business trend is emerging to resolve this problem. Companies like ReuptationDefender will charge £20 to provide a monthly report about every piece of information about you on the Internet. (Read the full post about ‘Tidy up your Online Profile’…)

  If you are looking for a MacBook Air sleeve after you get your shiny new toy, Belkin has several new designs that will be ready soon. There are 6 (coming soon) different sleeves for the Air, with prices going from $40 to $50. The design and color changes from sleeve to sleeve, while some are normal, others have a shoulder strap, or a band, or are made from different material, like Leather/Neoprene. [Product Page] Tags: cellphone, Ogg, game, gear (Read the full post about ‘MacBook Air Sleeves From Belkin’…)

The Flipstart pricing has been dropped, and almost to a point where it could be considered affordable. It was originally launched at a whopping $1999, initially it had a $500 price drop and when that price seemed to high to drive sales it was then cut in half, dropping all the way down to $699. It seems strange that an initial price of $1999 seemed logical now that they have it all the way down to $699, regardless, it now seems almost like a fair price. For those unfamiliar the Vulcan Flipstart is a “ultraportable PC” that has a small but full QWERTY keyboard with a 5.6-inch wide SVGA display and opens similar to a regular laptop. (Read the full post about ‘Vulcan Flipstart price slashed, now just $699′…)

As a Vista user, have you often though you ended up buying a BETA or even ALPHA copy of an OS? More and more Windows users are even going to so far as to downgrade back to XP. Well, it seems that Redmond is listening but they’re not doing what you’d expect them to do … instead, their reinventing the wheel. Again. Engadget has a story about how Microsoft has already very quietly Windows 7, the followup OS to Vista, to strategic development partners with the goal of going global in 2009. Originally, the heir to Vista’s throne wasn’t due to come out until late 2010. But the word on the street is that pre release candidates may be out for download as early as April or May of THIS year for alpha and beta testing with a release date sometime in the third quarter of the following year. (Read the full post about ‘Is Redmond punting Vista? Completely new Windows in `09′…)

A few months ago, we highlighted the coolness that is the Gisteq Photo Trackr, a pocket pocket sized GPSs device that allowed photographers to geo tag their pictures and plot them on any google map or flickr mashup. And although this device is awesome for hard core shutterbugs travelling the world on $40 dollars a day, users still had to synch the pictures up with software on a PC. The next step is here with the ATP Electronics GPS Photo Finder that bypasses all that. A one stop shop for geo tagging, the Photo Finder is still pocket sized, but has software built on board to automatically synch and write GPS location data into saved photo files directly. No lugging around the laptop, not third party software. (Read the full post about ‘New Geo Tagger makes picture taking alot easier’…)

Microsoft probably have a parking space permanently reserved outside the European Commission due to the amount of anti-competition investigations they have had thrown at them. So guess what? Yep, two more investigations are on the way, the first to look at whether Microsoft unfairly ties its Explorer Internet browser to its Windows operating system, the second will look at the interoperability of Microsoft software with rival products. This inquiry follows on from complaints made by Opera which we covered at the time, and the pan-European software-makers group European Committee for Interoperable Systems. (Read the full post about ‘Back to court for Microsoft’…)

InfoSync reviews the T-Mobile Shadow and writes, “The camera on the T-Mobile Shadow is average for a camera phone, a judgment that means disappointing and barely usable in non-phone speak. Colors were a bit saturated in our sample shots, and images were alternately grainy and blurry, depending on the amound of available light. Passable, perhaps, but not very good.” Read more about the T-Mobile Shadow. Tags: dap, gizmos, toys, AAC (Read the full post about ‘T-Mobile Shadow Review - InfoSync’…)

IT Reviews has a review of the Samsung F210 and writes, “Samsung has designed a good main screen for the phone part of the F210, with clear information for missed calls, incoming texts and suchlike…But the screen is simply too small to do a good job throughout. It measures 19mm wide and 33mm tall, and offers 128 x 220 pixels. There is a Web browser but the screen can’t show enough information for it to be of any use at all. Framing photos you want to take with the 2-megapixel camera is difficult as the on-screen image is very small.” Read more about the Samsung F210. (Read the full post about ‘Samsung F210 Review - IT reviews’…)

PICO RFID Security Hard Disk Enclosure. Drop a 2.5 inch hard disk into this puppy and you immediately get the benefit of RFID key security for your data. The enclosure comes with a complete encryption system which locks and scrambles your disk in 3 seconds when you wave the magic key in the right place. Perfect for paranoids who need to go to the bathroom now and then. The disk will also wipe itself clean with a ‘disk partition format’  if anyone tries to plug it into another computer without the key. It’s probably not enough for determined forensics, but better than nothing. $56.00 (without hard disk). (Read the full post about ‘PICO RFID Security Disk Enclosure - keep your data safe with a smart chip key’…)