Dan's Tool and Toy Reviews

My Lego iPhone 3G Dock

I have had an iPhone since about 3 months after the original 2G model came out. in fact both my wife and I had the 2G model and currently have the 3G’s. We sold one of the 2G’s and gave the other one away to a family member. Although it was not intentional I happened to keep the docs that came with the...

SugarSync Syncing Problem and Solution

I have been using SugarSync for almost a year now and have synced up to 6 different computers (or instances of computers) at a time. These computers varied between Macs and PCs. Currently I am only syncing between an iMac and a MacBook. The Problem About a month ago I setup SugarSync to sync a new folder...

Toshiba Satellite Laptop with Canon Printer at Best Buy – Black Friday Temptation Returns

As mentioned last week I was not going to camp out this year in front of Best Buy for their Black Friday specials. The main reason for this was that they did not have any deals like the Toshiba laptop deal they did last year. Well that just changed – they have an even better deal then they did last...

No Black Friday Camping for Me This Year :-(

Yep, I am a Black Friday camper. I camped out at Best Buy last year and scored some really good deals. I sold the laptop I bought for almost $200. In looking over the ads this year I have to say that I am really disappointed with the offerings. The laptop I bought last year for $250 was a Toshiba so I had...

Nissan Versa – I Bought an Economy Car

I know, I know. I just posted 2 weeks ago how I was not going to spend the money on an economy car. As a recap the main reason for not getting a car with better gas mileage was that I could not get anything with less then 50K mikes on it for the $8k that my Xterra was worth. I was going round and round in my...

Doing the Mozy – Online Backup That Is

I am one of those procrastinating people like most. Because of that I  have lacked a backup of my important files. The most important thing on my computer are actually all the photos of the my kids. Since we hardly ever print the photos out if my hard drive got hosed we would loose a ton of...