Office Reviews

This device provides great audio. It does a much better job than an FM transmitter.

I use this kit with a SONY cassette adapter, for my 4th Gen. iPod, and it works great. A few comments on this kit:

* I get a full charge on my fully-drained iPod battery in about 1 hour.
* If you plan on using a cassette adapter, then connect it to the cassette adapter plug on the kit, rather than directly on your iPod. It is a convenient way of shortening cables, and routing less cables to your iPod.
* I experienced distorted music play-back when I set the kit's volume control on a high setting. I found that it's best to keep the kit volume control at a medium (or less) setting, with an iPod medium-high (or less) volume setting, and use the car's stereo for over-all volume control.

My car stereo has RCA cables in the back so I was able to plug my iPod into the AUX port using a standard RCA to 2.5mm pin cable.

The problem was that that cable does not charge my iPod, of course.

So I tried almost every single car charger out there and every single one created noise on the audio channel.

Then I called Belkin and asked about this product. They told me that they put in an amplifier to handle that problem, so I bought the device.

They are right, this is the first charger that allows me to charge my iPod and pass the audio signal to my car stereo with almost no noise. Maybe an audiophile could hear the noise, but it sounds like CD quality to me.

The only problem is that if I unplug the charger, it shuts down the amplifier and the audio signal. This is the only reason that I am giving it 4 stars. It would have been 5 stars if the charger had an amplifier to cut down noise (as it does), and a pass through channel for when the charger is unplugged.

I just bought a new 2006 Civic and like all new Hondas, it has a line input on the stereo. I have been using this Auto Kit for 2 months and I love it. It makes my 1 hour commute somthing I look forward to. When you hook up the ipod with the large connector on the bottom with the Auto Kit, the sound is so much more clear and free of distortion over using the headphone out. I have been a professional audio engineer for 25 years, so I know good sound. The review I read helped me choose, so I hope this will help someone else.

Well was kinda of skeptical about ordering component cables, well figured the rca cables i was using was doing a fine job. well thats all they where doing , was a fine job, once i hooked up these cables to my dvd player i saw a big difference, picture was much cleaner looking all the way around. kinda glad i did some research on component to rca video cables now.

These work very well with connecting my Sony DVD player to Panasonic Plasma. Picture quality is good, as expected. Amazon had a good price and delivered them free of charge in a reasonable amount of time. My only concern is that the plastic covering/shielding on the ends of the cables is a little thick, and because my DVD player's outputs are very close to each other, the cables barely fit.

These heavy shielded cables are ideal for my video editing studio and thus far have performed very well. Unfortunately, between my high-quality cabling and my HDTV, I can more clearly see how crappy my SD video footage really is...

I am a serious tablet user as I have a Motion Computing 1400 Tablet PC Slate (Great computer). I use the program "Journal Notes" for meeting minutes. What makes Journal Notes so useful is that you can lasso or select handwritten notes and move them to where you want on the page. This allows one to keep their notes neat and then ready to print right after the meeting rather than going back to your desk and spending another hour translating all the side scribble. So I thought by buying a Wacom Tablet this would help turn some of our laptops into tablets.
1. The pad is made of plastic and my "motion computing" screen is made of glass so the pen on the wacom does not slide across as smoothly.
2. The motion is delayed ever so slightly where my handwriting comes out a little less neat, almost crooked. On a tablet PC, my handwritting is real time and an exact copy.
3. This is the big issue: The disconnect of looking at a screen in front of me while writing below. I started to get motion sickness. My brain has to locate two places, one on my screen and then one on the tablet. Maybe after using the tablet as the other reviewers had written, it takes time to get use. But I gave up.
When you come from a Tablet PC and go backwards, it is hard when you know better exist.
4. Evernote will allow you to take notes similar to Journal Note but the interface is ackward. The note starts in the middle of the page. To start another page you have to start a new note. You are only given the free version 1.1. To get the more advanced where it changes your handwriting to text you have to pay. Journal Notes opens up like binder paper and you push the side arrow to continue on to the next page.
5. Just Write Office: This is a program that places a tool bar above a program. It acts as an overlay and creates a image such as a (bmp, jpeg etc). Again when you use a tablet pc, Microsoft office allows you to download a Tablet plug-in to do an even better job and it's saved with the Word Document.

Overall, if one works with high powered graphics and photoshop this works better than a mouse. But think about the investment. This cost $200. I would rather spend this on the real thing. HP tablets $1300+, Toshiba $1500. You won't get the disconnect because you draw directly on the screen while looking at the object.

For any one who uses photoshop, macromedia flash or any kind of animation program, i highly recommend this item. It has a sensitivity on it where you can adjust how hard or how soft to press. you have great control with this tablet, and i LOVE it! perfect for anyone who is new to photoshop or other animation/photo-editing programs. i give it 10 stars! i have to say though, i recommend the 6x8 or the 9x12. the 4x5 is too small. you have to remember that the size of the tablet fits to ur computer screen. hope you enjoy the product, cuz i absolutely love it! i use it as a mouse too. i dont even bother with mouses anymore!

A friend of mine, who was an intern at Adobe for awhile, recommended that I buy a Wacom tablet for my Photoshop. It takes a little getting used to, but once you do you wonder how you ever got along without it. In order to learn to use the Graphire tablet I went back to Photoshop in a Book and revisited some of the lessons I had previously studied. The Pen Tool was a particular nemesis of mine, so I tackled that lesson using the tablet. I struggled awhile but eventually conquered it and now I feel a whole lot more confident. The tablet is really very intuitive and I sometimes find myself absentmindedly using it for applications other than Photoshop when I don't mean to. I just pick up the pen and start clicking away, using it like a mouse. Too bad I'm such a slow learner, or I'd have been using it two years ago! And if I can use it, so can you.

This item works excellent with XP, you get an excellent signal with excellent software. The ugly antenna the person before is talking about is a 5 db antenna, while other manufactors only give you a cheap 2 db antenna. That is why the reception on this item is so good. Also who cares about the antenna, when it is behind the computer and you cant see it, but you can see the excellent reception. You are not buying it for looks, but for the performance. The software does not work with 98, even though the ratings says it does.

This is one very powerful and easy piece of equipment that you should be able to have up and running in under 10 minutes. I installed it on a relatively new (6 months old) Dell XP desktop. Like they say in the instructions, load the CD BEFORE you try to install the card. Follow the instuctions on the screen and you should be all set. I have an ATT 2WIRE wireless DSL router with an Apple Airport attached for increased range. This card detected both of the wireless routers and asked which one I would like to link up to. Since I was closer to the Airport I chose that one, clicked on it, and I was up and running in seconds. I don't really download a lot of big video files, but what I do download seems to open as quick, if not quicker, than when I was hardwired to the router. Web pages open as quickly also. Sure I installed it on a desktop that isn't going anywhere, but hey - one less wire under my feet.... Now if I could just get my stupid Dell to find and share my printer with my Mac...but that's another story.

I had initially purchased the dlink wireless USB adapter and had daily struggles with getting it to work properly (the PC would not recognize the device or say that the driver was not installed - likely due to the fact that I am running XP SP2). After many fruitless hours spent w/Dlink tech support, I went out and bought the linksys adapter. The installation was a snap - ever though this was my first time taking the cover off and installing something internally! The whole installation process took 15 minutes and the software detected my network right away- awesome! Signal strength is very good, my access point (Fios) is in the basement, and this PC is on the second floor of my house - receiving a very strong signal.

I bought the Garmin because I had read here and elsewhere that Garmin had good products and good support. The device advertised all the features I wanted, so I went for it and have been extremely happy with it. I have encountered one bug, but it has an easy workaround, so no big deal. When you are in the find screen and type the same character twice too quickly, the system powers off. You just have to wait a second or so before entering the same letter. lad...der instead of ladder, just a small pause.

It has plenty of storage space, and it holds all of the maps I need, mostly North East PA. You can't get the whole US on the device, so you use the MapSource software which is included with the device and put the data on the unit that you want. The quest 2 apparenly comes preloaded with the entire US, so you might consider that if you travel often or have an issue with hooking the Quest 1 to your computer and downloading different map sets as you traverse the country. You will pay about $100.00 more for the Quest 2.

The unit comes with a car kit. The power adapter has a built in speaker so you can get your driving directions in both audible and visual form. Be aware that if you out walking around, you won't get the audio instructions because you have to plug the Quest into the car mount cradle which in turn is hardwired to the speaker built into the cigarette power adapter.

When you are routing to a location, you may find that the unit takes a little longer to calculate the correct series of turns if you miss a turn. For example, I was riding my Harley Fatboy in downtown Wilkes-Barre, and missed a turn. By the time the unit recalculated the route, I has already passed the next turn that it had determined I needed to take to get back on track. If you miss a turn, slow down or pull over and give it the 20 seconds or so it needs to figure out how to get you back on track.

Power consumption seems fine, no issues there at all. Batteries are built in, so no need to replace AA's all the time. The downside is if you are out in the woods or something and cant get to a power outlet or to your cigarette adapter, both of which can be used to power up. Apparently, you get about 20 hours of run time, I've never used it for 20 hours straight so I can't vouch for it, but the internal rechargable batteries are a nice option for me.

Nice color display, good battery life, easy to use, easy to find places. I am geographically challenged, and this thing takes me everywhere I want to go, effortlessly.

ONE OF THE BEST GIFTS I'VE RECEIVED! -- JUST GOT BACK FROM A TRIP AND WAS REALLY IMPRESSED!

The perfect motorcycle companion. I bought my Quest a few months ago and then purchased the RAM mounting hardware for both my Honda Interceptor and Yamaha Royal Star. I used to take rides in the country and get lost. No more. Now I take rides and when I'm ready to come home, I push a button. The feature I like best is the ability to avoid specific kinds of roads. For example, I'll take a ride out west on the highway and then when returning, I'll program the unit to avoid highways. It will then take me home on back roads. This was also useful when in traffic. I just avoid the highway and it takes me on back roads until I bypass the traffic.

Other pros - it's so small I can easily remove it from the bike and slip it into my pocket. It's water resistant, so don't worry about if it rains. The lithium battery lasts 20 hours. The color screen is vivid even in direct sunlight. The 115MB of memory offers beyond plenty of ground to cover - far more than I'll need. Software is super easy to use. Why buy the Tom Tom Rider for so much more???

I've never had a problem with these discs. I have always used Memorex since the 4x days and they have never failed me.

I have been using Memorex Blank DVDs for years, DVD+R, DVD-R, and DVD+RW, and have yet to have burned a coaster that wasn't either my fault or that of my burning software. I have no problems viewing DVDs that I have authored in any DVD player.

I am using a Dell 1.5ghz machine running Windows 2000 Pro, with a Plextor PX-712A DVD burner. Initially, I was using Roxio for burning, but it is junk and doesn't play well with other software on my hard drive, so I switched to Nero 7, with which I have had no problems.

Listen to Michael Brumley, he knows his stuff. This DVD burning isn't as cut and dried as some would like you to believe. However, just because you get a bad burn doesn't mean it is the discs. There is a whole bunch of stuff going on in your computer that can affect the burn.

I have a Dell 1.2 ghz, with a Lite-On 8x drive, running Nero 6 OEM. Pretty generic, but these Memorex 8x and now 16x discs burn just fine. In fact, I have burnt about 6-800 of these discs and have had very few fall-outs. Not enough to justify buying the "better" quality discs.

Now for the caveat: I did have one spate of problems, caused by a not so well behaved antivirus program. I tossed out the antivirus program and went over to Avast!(it's free, check with Microsoft). Problem solved even though I run Winamp and a logging environmental sampling program while burning discs.

We burn hundreds of discs for a hospital lecture series. They are being played on all sorts of equipment, including some pretty banged up junk. So far I have not received one complaint about the discs only suggestions about the content.

Michael Brumley is right! Before you spend big bucks on some "better" disc, pop up your task manager in XP and see if there is some runaway task that needs some discipline. Also, if you must run "better" discs then do a surface test in Nero. I bet the "better" disc will look very close to failure if the Memorex failed.

I've had this trackball for about six months. Worked great until last week, when it started not working at all. Now I have to push the "connect" button every 5 minutes to get it to work. Pretty typical for Logitech trackballs in my experience. I've had two or three of the trackballs with cords and they crapped out after a few months, too. I won't be buying another.

For feel, and button layout Logitech gets 5 stars on this one. The reason for the drop in stars is 2 fold. First this trackball does not play nice with PS2 KVM switches. It you don't understand what that means then don't worry about my complaint and get the product. The issue the trackman has w/ my KVM is that it does not recognize the type of mouse so the buttons are not customizable, they are all usable but you cannot change them around. The second complaint about the product is that it is hard/impossible to change the wireless channel on it. I was in an office with someone using another wireless logitech product and we were having problems because we were on the same channel. I tried to change my channel following the directions provided by logitech but I did not have any luck, the other person had to change their channel. If you are looking for a wireless trackball that won't be around anyone else and will be connected directly into the computer you are using, this one is great.

I love trackballs and have been buying Logitech trackballs since they went optical, as mechanical trackballs always "grunge up". I went from an older Logitech trackball to this one because it has 8 buttons, and with the newer versions of MouseWare they are incredibly configurable.

Someone complained about having to clean it once a day, which makes me wonder about his environment. I clean mine every month or so and it takes no time at all.

The one negative is that because this model was released in 2002 it doesn't use the newer 2.4ghz frequency, and thus the receiver module can't be tucked away as is the case with newer designs. If I get the trackball more than about 2.5 feet from the receiver, performance gets iffy. And the receiver needs to sit on top of the desk as the signal doesn't travel well through metal.

I wish Logitech would update this mouse or introduce a new one with the newer technologies. Still, if you compare this one to any other trackball, it's still a wonderful deal for the money.

Someone mentioned having a problem with using this mouse through a KVM switch. I've used it both through both PS/2 and USB switches and not had a problem, so that may be a function of his particular switch.

These discs are horrible. I bought a spindle of fifty and only had 2 successful burns. If you read about memorex dual layer discs in newsgroups of dvd copying websites everyone in the forum complains about how bad they are. I'll never burn to memorex ever again. Avoid at all costs!

I burned a home movie made with iMovie, then burned with iDVD on a Dual G5 PowerMac. No problem. Worked fine.

I have a Sony DRU-810A Dual Layer burner and I have purchased 4 of these Memorex Disk packages and i have not had a single failure. It may have something to do with the type of burner you have.