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New iPad Accessory Roundup


 iLuv Pangborn Art Collection

Apple's new iPad was just unveiled last week and already there are a ton of accessories that will be hitting store shelves soon. We've rounded up a slew of cases, keyboards and more to help you deck out your new iPad in style…

iLuv Pangborn Art Collection (iCC838)- The iCC838 portfolio case features an exclusive collection of floral, landscape, and abstract artwork from famed designer Dominic Pangborn. The case offers multiple tilt positions for customizing viewing orientations in portrait or landscape mode. The Pangborn collection is specifically designed for the new iPad to take advantage of all ports, the headphone jack and volume control while in the case.

Price: $79.99
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Great Gifts Under $50


 Logitech Speaker for iPad

Time is ticking away…only a few days left to find the perfect holiday gift for your friends and family. Read on for our picks on some great gifts under $50…

Logitech Tablet Speaker for iPad
The Logitech Tablet Speaker gives your iPad (or other tablet) stereo sound quality no matter where you go. In addition to portability and convenience, this compact, clip-on, rechargeable speaker offers up to eight hours of battery life giving you enough juice to watch a full-length movie or jam out to several albums.

It securely attaches to your tablet via a rubberized clip and the 3.5 mm audio cable plugs into the headphone jack. It charges over USB too, so you never have to worry about replacing batteries.

Price: $29.99
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Back To School Tech Guide for College Students


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Right about now you're starting to wonder what kinds of electronics your college student is going to need. "Need" being the operative word here, as opposed to the many gadgets they merely want but claim to need. Retrevo has provided us with their "Back to School Tech Guide" to help you sift through the options so your students can be as productive as possible, and you can still afford gas to go visit them.

As far as Retrevo's editors are concerned, the perfect dorm room set up is a decent laptop with plenty of storage, a second larger display monitor that also functions as a television, and both a wireless mouse and keyboard. A good pair of headphones or speakers is also pretty necessary.

Must Have

1. Laptop/Netbook
The specs of what kind of laptop students need varies depending on what they will be doing - literature students who will be writing essays could get by with a netbook, while graphic artists will need something more robust but according to Retrevo's Product Life-cycle there are a few must-haves for everyone. Read more

Near-Herculean Sound in a Small Package

By Jeff Zbar
www.chiefhomeofficer.com


 Hercules XPS

It's the curse of MP3 fanatics, home office workers, and road warriors everywhere: All that music to enjoy or presentations to put on, and all you've got are a pair of earbuds or under-powered laptop speakers to play them through.

What if you had a portable speaker system that could lend some volume to your MP3 library, sound to your home-based workspace, or spunk to the audio of a PowerPoint presentation?

The Hercules XPS (Extended Personal Sound) 2.0 35 USB speaker kit (from around $20) delivers. Packaged in a handy and protective carry case just large enough to also hold the average iPod in a case of its own, the USB-powered speakers deliver a mobile audio solution designed to share the sound.

They're intended to be powered by the computer or laptop's USB port. To be sure, these aren't intended to wake the neighbors or draw the police. With total power topping out at 2.5/3 watts RMS, they didn't exactly fill the corporate HQ of Chief Home Officer.com. They were just enough to listen; hardly enough to annoy.Read more

Rockin' to Some Home Office and Garage Band Power Solutions

By Jeff Zbar
www.chiefhomeofficer.com


 Belkin Mini Surge Protector with USB Charger

When I'm not working in my home office, I'm in a garage band. Like many bands today, we use our iPods, iPhones and MP3 players to queue up songs we want to cover. We take the player into the garage, plug it into the PA or boom box, and listen to the tunes.

We'll play tunes from the player over the PA before a gig or between sets to get or keep fans in the mood.

I went to play some tunes to the other day and my iPod's battery indicator was in the red.

I searched the house for a charger, but my kids had them all hidden away who knows where (I had iPod cables, but no transformer that plugs into the wall). And my laptop was packed away, so I couldn't charge the iPod through the PC's USB.

Which left me with exactly squat as far as charging options for my iPod. Except for one: My Belkin Mini Surge Protector with USB Charger ($24.99).

The portable device features three AC outlets and two powered USB outlets. These are perfect for MP3 players and mobile phones (but, Belkin warns, the USB outlets are not USB hubs – meaning they will not connect two USB devices or transmit any data).Read more

Belkin Adds Apps to New Surf, Share, Play and Play Max Wireless Routers


 Belkin Play Max Wireless Router

Belkin has a new 802.11 wireless router line that lets you do more with your photos, music and video than ever before. The new Surf, Share, Play, and Play Max Wireless Routers let you play music, games, videos, share photos and print wirelessly from anywhere in your home, thanks to the handy applications.

The new routers come packed with the following apps:

  • Self Healing: Automatically detects and resolves network problems and runs routine maintenance scans to give you the clearest wireless channel. (Available on Surf, Share, Play, and Play Max)
  • Memory Safe: Automatically backs up photos and important files to your external hard drive. (Available on Share, Play, and Play Max)
  • Print Genie: Print wirelessly from any computer on the network from anywhere in your home. (Available on Share, Play, and Play Max)
  • Music Mover: Play MP3s from your music library on your home stereo wirelessly. Connect your external hard drive on which you store your music to the router—and move music from your computer to your stereo through devices like Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. (Available on Play and Play Max)
  • Music Labeler: Automatically identifies and labels your track with the correct title, artist, and genre. (Available on Play and Play Max)
  • Daily DJ: Get daily personalized playlists from your music library based on your mood. (Available on Play and Play Max)
  • Torrent Genie: Downloads large media files like movies, music, and games, even when your computer isn’t on. (Available on Play Max)
  • Bit Boost: Prioritizes traffic on your network for video, gaming, and VoIP, letting you easily select your most important data streams for seamless network traffic. (Available on Play Max)
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Belkin Updates Laptop Cooling Pad


 Belkin Laptop Cooling Pad

Keep your laptop cooler than ever before with Belkin's new and improved Cooling Pad. Due in stores this April, Belkin redesigned the Cooling Pad by repositioning the fan and adding an AirFlow Wing. That, along with its funky wave shape, optimizes circulation and lets hot air flow up and away from your laptop.

The fan on the Cooling Pad is USB-powered, so you won't have to deal with adapters or batteries. Plus, the Cooling Pad features a cable storage compartment at the base of the unit, so you can store the USB cable when not in use.

The Belkin Laptop Cooling Pad will be available in April 2010 in black and white for only $29.99. You can pre-order it now at Amazon.com.


 Belkin Laptop Cooling Pad

Belkin TuneCast Auto LIVE Now Available


 ClearScan LIVE App on iPhone

While most new cars have an auxiliary input that allows you to plug in your iPod and listen to music over your car speakers, there are those of us (myself included), that have an older model without that feature. So what do you do? Belkin has a handy device, the TuneCast Auto LIVE FM transmitter, which solves this problem for you. We first told you about this last summer, and now it is available.

TuneCast Auto LIVE lets you listen to your iPod or iPhone music through your car stereo, just plug it into your car's 12-volt lighter outlet. Together with the ClearScan LIVE App (available for free download via the iTunes store), you can find the best FM station using your iPhone GPS system and location-based user feedback. The ClearScan LIVE App also lets you control the FM transmission and music directly on your iPhone, so you don't have to use a different set of FM buttons. Read more

Belkin Intros Bluetooth Music Receiver


 Belkin Bluetooth Music Receiver

Belkin's new Bluetooth Music Receiver is a device that lets you listen to music from your iPhone or iPod touch wirelessly through your home stereo system.

Simply connect the receiver to your home stereo system (cables are included), pair your device to the receiver, and you're ready to listen to your music from up to 33 feet away. Up to six devices can be paired with the receiver.

Bluetooth Music Receiver (F8Z492) features:

  • Bluetooth v2.0 with EDR
  • Transmits up to 33 ft. away
  • Includes 3.5mm-to-RCA and 3.5mm-to-3.5mm cables
  • Compatible with all devices enabled with A2DP stereo Bluetooth, including the iPhone 3GS, 3G, and first generation, iPod touch 2nd generation

The Belkin Bluetooth Music Receiver is now available in the US for $49.99 and will be available in March 2010 in Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

Belkin Recalls Several TuneBase Products

October 26, 2009--Belkin International, Inc., just initiated a voluntary global product recall of its TuneBase Direct with Hands-Free, TuneBase FM with Hands-Free, and TuneBase FM with ClearScan (model numbers listed below).

Belkin has identified that a component of the TuneBase, the washer, may cause an electrical short circuit when plugged into a vehicle’s cigarette lighter adapter. The washer is a circular, black, plastic unit situated at the tip of the TuneBase’s cigarette lighter adapter. After a rigorous investigation, Belkin has determined that under certain conditions of heat, humidity, and prolonged periods of power-on (e.g., when the TuneBase is left plugged in overnight), some units with the washer have shown potential to smoke or pose a risk of fire. Read more

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