IRL: The stuff Engadget editors are using... in real life

Hi, guys! Welcome to IRL, a brand new feature where we talk about the gadgets, apps and toys we're using in real life. One of the reasons we started this column is that we don't necessarily stop evaluating products once we slap on a numbered rating and publish some 3,000 words worth of impressions. This is a dilemma all gadget reviewers wrestle with, really. It's one thing to test a product for a week and report back on benchmark results and battery life, but it's another thing entirely to live with it. Sometimes, there are things we didn't get to test. And if you play with something long enough, the Honeymoon always comes to an end. No exceptions.

We still see reviews as a snapshot in time -- our job, after all, is to size up the products folks might be thinking of buying today, and it's not fair to stay mum while we wait for companies to tweak products they had no business shipping half-baked in the first place. But we don't think the conversation should end with the review. You guys already get to sound off on the things you own in the "How would you change?" column. Consider this our turn.

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IRL: The stuff Engadget editors are using... in real life originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/08/25/amazon-registers-domains-re-kindle-the-rumours/

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Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/08/25/oxygen-audio-o-car-car-radio-built-for-the-iphone/

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id America Gasket Brushed Aluminum iPhone 4 Case Review

Vroom, Vroom….this case definitely makes me think of engines and gear-heads. The Gasket case from id America is unique in the iPhone case world. It is cut from a single piece of aircraft aluminum in the shape of a car engine’s head gasket. A cool idea in a flooded market. The Gasket case is compatible [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/08/27/id-america-gasket-brushed-aluminum-iphone-4-case-review/

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id America Gasket Brushed Aluminum iPhone 4 Case Review

Vroom, Vroom….this case definitely makes me think of engines and gear-heads. The Gasket case from id America is unique in the iPhone case world. It is cut from a single piece of aircraft aluminum in the shape of a car engine’s head gasket. A cool idea in a flooded market. The Gasket case is compatible [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/08/27/id-america-gasket-brushed-aluminum-iphone-4-case-review/

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Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/SXR4FLV3YAA/daily-desired-battle-the-darkness-with-this-badass-pocket+sized-torch

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Adblock Plus developer pokes holes in Mozilla's new add-on performance tests

Wladimir Palant, developer of the most popular add-on in the world, Adblock Plus, is also an active contributor to the Planet Mozilla blog community. Over the last few days, in response to Mozilla's new name and shame list of slow add-ons, Palant has been investigating whether Mozilla's testing methods are actually accurate.

Rather surprisingly, it turns out that Mozilla's numbers could be significantly wrong -- and if they're not wrong, the factors that Mozilla uses to tabulate an add-ons final score should definitely be made more transparent.

In the first set of tests, Palant shows that FlashGot's position in the top 10 is probably due to a fault in Mozilla's testing setup, and that add-ons can perform very differently depending on which operating system they're being tested on. In the second analysis, Palant uncovers an irregularity that doesn't seem to have an obvious cause -- but it could be due to an I/O bottleneck on Mozilla's test machines. Basically, even though performance testing of Read It Later is disabled because of a bug, it still (somehow!) manages to record a 14% slow-down on Windows 7.

Palant concludes both analyses by scolding Mozilla for going public with the performance data before its testing methods had been confirmed accurate. It definitely looks like Mozilla has been more than a little reckless, considering the importance of Firefox's add-on ecosystem.

Adblock Plus developer pokes holes in Mozilla's new add-on performance tests originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 08 Apr 2011 05:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nintendo Releases Game and Watch LCD Handheld ? Do you remember?

Nintendo releases 59 LCD based handheld electronic games. Created by game designer Gunpei Yokoi, these LCD screened games include a clock and an alarm. Ancestor to:  Nintendo 3DS In 1980 Nintendo released a handheld electronic game including a clock and alarm hence the name Game and Watch.  Between 1980 and 1991 Nintendo released 59 different [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/08/24/nintendo-releases-game-and-watch-lcd-handheld-do-you-remember/

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