If you want to carry your beer in the coolest way possible, Timbuk2’s new Dolores messenger bag has you covered.
Its sharp looks will catch eyes, but not many will suspect that you’re hiding a dozen beers in what otherwise appears to be a standard messenger bag.
Bonus: a red anodized bottle opener is attached to the side of the bag.
Looking for a way to connect 4 hard drives to your computer? Don’t want to shell out for a Drobo?
You can save a bit of cash by picking up the Onnto DataTale 4-Bay RAID System w/Quad Interface. Not only does it sport a slick enclosure, it also features USB 2.0, FireWire 400, FireWire 800, and eSATA connectivity.
Sure, you can get cheaper USB 2.0 or eSATA multi-bay drive enclosures, but this is the premium you pay for FireWire… you amy as well get something that looks good, in the process!
You already know the formula for being healthy: eat nutritious food and exercise more.
So why are you still out of shape?
A lot of people think if they work out they can eat whatever they want. Keep telling yourself that.
The easier side of the equation is eating better. You might skip a day (or a week, or a month) at the gym, but chances are you still eat every day. So why not make it count? Oh, that’s right: because eating healthy sucks, at least that’s what your taste buds tell you when you munch on a raw beet and kale, or try to chew on some wheatgrass.
To help yourself eat more fresh fruit, vegetables, and leafy greens, you need to get a masticating juicer. Unlike your normal centrifugal juicer which basically beats the produce into submission to get its nutritious juice out, a masticating juicer simulates “chewing” the food. This lets you get out both more juice and nutrients, and makes it possible to juice leafy greens and wheatgrass.
We recently picked up Omega’s J8005 Commercial Masticating Juicer. Along with Champion, Omega is the most respected name in masticating juicers. We tried the Champion 2000+ Commercial Juicer, but despite its rugged looks prefer the Omega: it simply gets more juice out the things we throw at it.
My mornings now start off with a shot of wheat grass (add some mint and lime to make it more palatable), late-morning snack consists of an all-fruit shake (using a conventional blender), while my afternoon snack is usually a blend of spinach or kale, carrots (including the green leaves and stem, they’re the most nutritious!), a beet, some celery, and whatever else I might feel like. I add a dash of fresh ginger root (yes, you can also juice that) for flavor.
And I feel so much better for doing so.
While you’re eating nutritiously, pick up Green for Life, a ten-dollar tome anyone serious about changing their eating habits should read.
Buy Omega J8005 Commercial Masticating Juicer for $259 via Amazon
A friend of mine asked what she should get in the way of a new iMac, so here’s what I told her:
The low-end models are the best deal. The only thing you should have to decide is if you want a 20-inch or 24-inch display. I tend to side with the larger display—it lets you be more productive—but in the case of iMacs, the display will always outlast the computer. This means in 5 years you’ll want something better and will be unable to take advantage of that gorgeous built-in screen with your new system… But they’re both pretty solid deals, the low-end 20″ iMac costing $1,199 at retail, and the 24″ iMac coming in at $1,499.
Buy 20″ iMac for $1,186.97 from Amazon or
Buy 20″ iMac for $1,149 from B&H
Buy 24″ iMac for $1,478.98 from Amazon or
Buy 24″ iMac for $1,1439 from B&H
Get 4GB of RAM. This is only if you go with the 20″ model, since the 24″ models all come with 4GB standard. NewEgg has the best deals on this stuff at around $60 shipped; choose from one of the following (they’re both great, but the prices/free shipping offers are always changing):
Buy 4GB (2×2GB) Mushkin Memory or
Buy 2GB Crucial Memory (you’ll need two)
Anything else? Not really. The new iMacs are a real chore to crack into, so I would advise you against installing a larger hard drive inside yourself. Instead, pick up a hard drive and external enclosure for a lot less than you could buying one off the shelf—and don’t go cheap and get just a USB 2.0 enclosure, take advantage of the iMac’s FireWire 800 port and spring for the extra speed.
Buy Hitatchi 1TB Hard Drive for $79.99 shipped
Rosewill Silver Aluminum USB 2.0/FireWire 400/800 Enclosure for $59.99 or
Rosewill Black Aluminum USB 2.0/FireWire 400/800 Enclosure for $69.99
May 15
Samsung’s 46″ LN46A850 LCD TV is our current pick for a mid-range TV for a few reasons:
But most of all, we like it because Fry’s is selling it for more than $1,000 off retail this week as part of its anniversary promotion, making it the best value for your money by a mile.
Buy for $1,398 with free shipping from Frys.com or Buy for $1,788 from Amazon if you hate saving money (or Fry’s)
If you want a wireless keyboard for your Mac, Apple’s own is great—assuming you don’t need a numeric keypad.
But if you crave that full-size keyboard, look no further than Logitech’s diNovo Keyboard Mac Edition.
With a retail price that matches Apple’s, Logitech delivers more keys for your buck in a package that’s almost as sexy as Apple’s and generally regarded as more comfortable.
The only annoying part is that Logitech insists on using its own 2.4GHz wireless receiver, which means you’ll be down a USB port to use this keyboard. It seems forever since Apple released a Mac without built-in Bluetooth, so why Logitech didn’t go that route for a keyboard billed as being specifically for the Mac is beyond us.
If you’re in the market for a dehumidifier, look no further than the DeLonghi DE400P. Not only does it carry the legendary DeLonghi name and looks, as well as an Energy Start approval, it’s also one of the few dehumidifiers on the market to sport a pump, meaning you’ll never have to splash a bucket full of water around again.
Enough said.
Buy for $269.95 from NewEgg with free shipping or
Buy for $308.94 from Amazon with free shipping
I know you think you’re making a difference with all those CFL lights you bought for your house, but if you really care about the environment there’s only one way to go: LED.
And if you’re going LED, you may as well do so in style with the Herman Miller Leaf lamp.
Leaf fuses cutting edge LED technology with a stunning design to match: no one has ever seen a lamp quite like this one before. It features touch controls, 10 blue-white (cool) LEDs and 10 yellow-white (warm) LEDs.
And it only uses at most 9 watts of energy and is good for 100,000+ hours.
I think I just heard mother nature orgasm.
A couple days ago we showed you a “pro” laptop stand from Logitech with 4 USB ports. If you don’t feel the black plastic compliments your sleek aluminum laptop, pick up Rain Design’s mStand instead.
Machined from a single piece of aluminum, the mStand compliments Apple’s laptops perfectly and includes ample room to store your keyboard, accessories, or papers underneath. There’s even a hole cut out to help with cable routing. Nice!
ShareBuds are almost a product that answers a question no one is asking… almost. They’re just two pairs of earphones fused together with a single mini-jack, so that two people can listen to the same audio source.
Why would you want to get this when you can just buy a headphone splitter for a fraction of the cost and use your existing earphones with them? Because it means you only need to keep track of one piece of kit instead of three.
It also means if you just carry around a splitter and your own earphones that your pal won’t be jam-less because they didn’t bring theirs.
But at the same time, it means when you want to rock out solo you have to tolerate the extra sonic doppelgangers.
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