Electronic Arts foresees robust holiday sales of its game portfolio, especially for the forthcoming “Star Wars: The Old Republic.” EA has spent more than $100 million developing the high-profile title, which is expected to compete with Activision Blizzard’s “World of Warcraft” online game.
Logitech® Harmony® One Advanced Universal Remote , is the must-have remote to simplify your entertainment. Get one and enjoy one-touch control of all your entertainment devices and a clutter-free coffee table. It’s the only remote you may ever need.
That’s what the Logitech website says, now what I really think!
I have used this Harmony One remote since the 2009 CES Show, and let me tell you it works at home just like it did at the show. First I replaced six remotes, it easily controls all my gadgets from my HDTV, Dish Satellite, DVD, and more.
Key Features:
Lighting the way
A full-color touch screen, backlit buttons and an ergonomic design make it easy to get to your show—even in the dark.
The magic touch
Your Harmony advanced universal remote turns on the right devices, in the right order—with one touch. 
You can say goodbye to coffee table clutter—one Harmony remote controls up to 15 video, audio, and gaming components.
If you are doing some early Mother’s Day shopping, here are a few products that will bring a smile to her face.
Kidz Gear Headphones for Kids. Finally there is a headphone that fits a kid with the quality of their parent’s consumer electronics. But be warned limit your kids use of any headphones, after all over using any headphone or ear piece can over time damage anyone’s hearing. Other wise this product is top quality for the price. www.gearforkidz.com
Price: $19.99
PHOTO PRINTING MADE EASY
Printing photos online or at home is old news but how you do them is not.
Below two of the dozen ways you can print your photos into photo albums in an easy and fun way.
Online
The perfect gift to include in your Mother’s Day Gift articles and show – a photo book or photo gift from RocketLife.com www.rocketlife.com. RocketLife.com lets you create artistic photobooks or other photo gifts from photos for your mom to show her you really care. Photos are automatically laid out in seconds in a beautiful design, so you don’t have to spend hours organizing your photo albums.
Unibind PhotoBook Creator lets you make your own photobooks at home. 12 new PhotoBook colors and styles are available for Unibind PhotoBook Creator to make professional hardcover photobooks and presentations in seconds.http://www.myphotobookcreator.com/
Price: $99 for PhotoBook Creator, Additional PhotoBooks: $10/book
The OWC Mercury On-The-Go 320GB 7200RPM portable storage drive is the highest capacity 7200RPM portable bus-powered storage solution on the market. It is blazing fast with 3.5” desktop hard drive performance in a 2.5” solution. At 320GB, it provides a 60% higher capacity than any other 7200RPM 2.5” drive. www.macsales.com
Price: $239.99
GigaTribe lets you easily share entire file folders of photos, videos, music, and other files with your “tribe” of friends, family, and coworkers quickly and securely in a private, completely encrypted peer to peer (P2P) environment for free. There is no need for any additional steps, no uploading, no size limitations, and no security threat. www.gigatribe.com
Price: Free with Ultimate Version for $29.95/year
I am an old school video game player, who misses his Atari 2600 system from the 80’s. I loved playing Asteroids or Pacman, but until now I had to use my keyboard/mouse on my PC to play the games. Now the wait is over, the gang at Legacy Entertainment made a classic controller that looks exactly like an Atari joystick, but it’s for Windows 98SE to Vista / Apple Mac OS X / Linux, and connects via Standard USB with no drivers required, just plug-n-play, up to 4 Joysticks to a single computer.
It should work with almost any game Emulator like MAME, Daphne, Stella, Atari ST, Amiga, C64 and others. Dig this, it will work with classic Atari system games like Atari Arcade Hits, Midway Arcade Treasures, Taito Legends, Dragon’s Lair 20th Anniversary and so many more.
So if you want some cool 80’s fun when graphics did not rule the games, but game play did, then get the Atari joystick. Only $14.99, http://www.legacyengineer.com/store.html. Want more classic game systems or games go to atari2600.com, were I found the largest online source for classic video games, systems and accessories.
by Roy Bassave – The Tekzar Guru
The old familiar brand name that made famous the classic cathedral-shaped wooden radio of the 1930s, and the very futuristic (1950s) Predicta television receivers is still here, well sort of. Philco started in 1926, and then became Philco-Ford 1961 and then being acquired by Philips in 1981. Philips licenses the name for private brands and retro style consumer electronics.
1958 Philco Predicta Television, the kind my Dad serviced in Cuba, cira 1958.
The Philco TB100HH9 DTV Digital-to-Analog Converter (Philips, Funai, $40, the same amount as the government’s coupon toward your purchase of one), is an entry-level model. It comes with RCA audio/video outputs, offers trilingual (English, French, and Spanish) on-screen setup, supports V-Chip parental controls and and closed captioning, is EnergyStar compliant, plus a remote control. Not bad for the price, and ease of installation. The step-up model, the Philco TB150HH9 DTV Digital-to-Analog Converter, adds a digital audio output via coaxial audio and a cool smart antenna control to optimize reception. No need for rabbit ears anymore. Philco is not the only brand to make digital converter boxes, For me the name brings back something familiar in this world of so many changes.
About Philco: My dad Raul Bassave, who passed away this past July at the age of 94, worked with Philco from 1947-1977, he was for sure “The original Gadget Guru,” who tested products at home for Philco months before they ever came to the market. His reports/reviews went back to Philco, similar to what I do for the public. I was so lucky, that I grew up seeing electronic products in early stages, proposed products and final production ones. This was years before CES started in 1967 in New York.
by Roy Bassave – The Tekzar Guru
11/02/2008