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The iPod Touch 2G is an awesome time killer when playing games, surfing the Web (Wi-Fi needed), or just listening to music. How many times has your iPod Touch 2G run out of juice forcing you to pause your game, movie, or Web surfing? Mophie knows that you are frustrated, and that is the reason why they developed the Juice Pack for the iPod Touch. The Juice Pack from mophie is a battery extender and a non-slip rubberized case in one with an MSRP of $99.

My first impression is that this is a quality product. I like the four LED lights that display the amount of "juice" the battery is holding too.

After all, ThinkTank employees are all photographers, and the company is agile enough to produce what the customer wants. The products from ThinkTank are well built, and common sense people operate the company. If it makes sense, then it is a good idea that most likely will be implemented.

The Pixel Sunscreen 2.0 from ThinkTank is a sun shade not only for photographers, but any laptop owner. The MSRP of $69 for this product is well priced, and can be purchased directly from ThinkTank, or through retailers who sell ThinkTank products. It easily collapses for storage, and is the perfect accessory for anyone sitting outside with their laptop.

The ThinkCentre Business Desktops from Lenovo that businesses use now have lower cost options. Thanks to Lenovo paying attention to their business clients needs. There are two new, smaller, lower cost options now available. The ThinkCentre A58 and the ThinkCentre M58e satisfy the customers demands for smaller desktops with seamless function of their larger counterparts.

Dilip Bhatia, executive director, global desktop marketing for Lenovo recently said, “Customers are feeling the pinch of the challenging economic times, and are demanding PCs that give them the most value for their dollar” and this is why Lenovo introduced these two new desktops. Read more

The digital music player that rings in your pocket is also the library, the shop and the platform to manage all your music. There must be complete silence in Espoo, Finland where Nokia is located. I say this because everyone there must be enjoying their music players with ear buds in their ears. Today, Nokia has released the 5730 XpressMusic, the 5330 XpressMusic and the Nokia 5030. Nokia is delivering these devices to the public so that they can bring people’s music to life with feature-rich phones that provide easy access to the music they love.

Nokia has sold 425 million devices with a digital music player, and 700 million devices with an FM radio. There are just over 300 million Americans and when looking at these numbers, I would say that Nokia is doing something right. The Nokia Music Store allows you to easily organize and transfer songs between a PC, burn CD’s, as well as stream and download from the Nokia Music Store. Mexico was the latest country to launch the Nokia Music Store, and Portugal, Norway and South Africa will be providing the Nokia Music Store to customers soon. Read more

The Verbatim Micro USB is a sealed drive. It can resist water, dust physical shock, electrostatic discharge, and whatever life can throw at it. The Micro drive comes in three sizes, 2GB (orange), 4GB (green) and 8GB (purple). The Store 'n' Go Micro USB Drives also include password security features. The drive is partitioned in a way with public and private zones. This way you can hand someone the device to copy files from the drive knowing your private files are safe from prying eyes. The device can be used for Windows Vista users who want to use the Windows ReadyBoost to increase performance on their machine.

They are available now at the Verbatim website for $19.99 for the 2GB drive, $29.99 for the 4GB drive and $49.99 for the 8GB drive. The complete package includes the Store 'n' Go USB Drive, pre-loaded password security software and a Quick Start Guide and a mini lanyard for convenient carrying.

The new camcorders on the market that shoot 16:9 ratio 1080p footage are nice. Real nice when you see the quality content you can produce. Most of these cameras have editing software built right in, and you can edit your footage right there on the spot. I highly recommend that you have a quality memory card in your camcorder. There is not a better memory card company and memory card manufacturer than Kingston Technology Company. Their SDHC video cards are available in 60 minute (4GB) MSRP $20, 120 minute (8GB) MSRP $36, and 240 minute (16GB) MSRP $76 capacities.

Visit their site to learn more: www.kingston.com.

Convergence is what stood out at me while attending PMA 2009. Here I am attending an awesome trade show about all things photography. Sony Ericsson is there showing off their new phones! Phones? Four of them specifically; C702 Cyber-shot phone, C902 Cyber-shot phone, C905 Cyber-shot phone and the C510 Cyber-shot phone. These camera phones were not only smaller than most point and shoot cameras at the trade show, but feature rich to boot!

C702 Cyber-shot phone is a 3.2 megapixel camera phone that is both dust and splash resistant. The camera function has Face Detection, Geo Tagging and Google Maps. The GPS is for location-based services and comes in Speed Black, and Cool Cyan colors. Read more

By increasing the capacity of the CF Elite Pro Card to 32GB the Debbie Digital’s of the world will ensure their images look good every single time. This is important for all professional photographers, and those aspiring to be professionals. This 32GB CompactFlash Elite Pro Flash memory card is the best in its class. It will not limit the productivity of the most advanced digital camera equipment in the market.

What makes Kingston Technology Company stand out from the crowd is the people behind the brand. This CompactFlash Elite Pro card is specifically called part #: CF/32GB-S2 and has a suggested price of $154 and is backed by a lifetime warranty and a 24/7 live technical support team. For more information please visit them at www.kingston.com/flash and to find out where to buy their products visit www.kingston.com/wheretobuy.

This is just the beginning of printing from the handheld device we still call a phone. With Apple dominating the marketplace, a lot of people now refer to their phone as an iPhone. I actually still call the current BlackBerry I am using a "phone." While attending PMA 2009 I was able to see that HP not only has an HP iPrint Photo iPhone Application, but I saw the same app in the Sony Ericsson phone to be released soon.

It is the easiest application to use, but I don’t like the fact that it is for photos only. I am constantly trying to read documents on a phone, and would prefer to go to the closest HP printer on a wireless network and print the document. As there is always a signature needed for something that needs to be faxed back to the sender.

I am sure this application will print documents soon. With the 10,000 iPhone applications, Google G1 Applications, and the BlackBerry applications there is soon to be a phone that can print a document.

The HP iPrint Photo can easily print 4 x 6-inch photos from an iPhone or iPod touch to an HP inkjet printer on a wireless network. The application is free and available today.

I have a point and shoot camera, a DSLR, a BlackBerry, a digital frame and an MP3 player that all take different memory cards. There are also multiple cards per device, and it becomes challenging to find the right cable to sync each device to my computer. This is exactly why the memory card reader was developed. SanDisk is one company who integrates design with function, and why I like the ImageMate All-In-One Memory Card Reader from SanDisk.

The latest ImageMate readers streamline the process of transferring digital content by including a transfer button. This magic button will launch user-defined applications or Web sites. Now you can post your content to your site of choice faster than you have previously been updating your blog, or YouTube videos. The ImageMate All-In-One is currently available for $29.99 and the MSRP for the Multi-Card reader is $19.99.