The Smart Parts Ion is an electronic marker placed firmly in the budget price range.  It's one of the most popular markers on the market and pleases just about anyone.  I've been paintballing for about 3 years now and the Ion was my first marker, with very little maintenance it has been performing like new.  It has adjustable dwell, alowing you to find your optimum air ef...

I've been using Skype for aorund a year now, for various things.  Mostly to chat while I play games online, or just to have group conversations.  The ability to call landlines with it is very nice and you can purchase a year's worth of unlimited landline phone calls to the US and Canada for relatively cheap.  Lots of headsets you can buy are "Skype Approved," wh...

I purchased this camera about 2 years ago.  It's a 7.1 megapixel with a 2.5" LCD display and 3x optical zoom.  It comes with a 32 mb SD card which I replaced with a 2GB model.  You can purchase an underwater case for it, as well as a external flash, which cuts down on red eye considering how close the original flash is positioned to the lens.  The camera is fairly f...

Portal was recently released packaged in with the Orange Box and also available on it's own.  It's a first person puzzle game, where you use a gun of sorts to create portals to pass from one area to the next. You pass through a series of "test" chanbers, all getting progressively more diffucult and introducing a new game mechanic, such as portal jumping.  The primary...

I received a Kingston 1gb DataTraveler for free from buy.com by creating a new google checkout account and getting $10 off of my first purchase.  It had free shipping so I got a free 1gb flash drive.  It's about three inches long and 3/4 of an inch wide.  It's white with a loop on one end to attach to a string or necklace or what have you.  It comes with a clip on co...

"Hamlet" is a classic William Shakespeare novel.  It follows young Hamlet, who is out to seek revenge for the murder of his father, King Hamlet.  It's shorter than your average fiction novel, but contains all of the makings of a great story.  It has love,vengence, trickery and murder all rolled into one small classical package.  The writing style may be a bit h...

The Sandisk Sansa c150 is a 2gb mp3 player.  The player didn't like to sort my music collection when I just tried the drag and drop method, so I had to sync it with windows media player. It's very quiet out of the box, and I recemmond that you change the volume setting to "high." This wasn't really much of a problem and is my only real complaint.  ...

The Wii is Nintendo's newest console.  It features the montion sensitivity of the wiimote, providing a completely new way to play games.  The game selection is a bit limited though, but has been growing steadily.  It boasts the "Virtual console" where you can purchase old games from systems like the Sega Genesis or the Nintendo 64.  It has backwards compatabili...

The Nintendo DS is a handheld system, featuring a touch screen.  Many games utilize the touch screen, allowing easier movment in turn basted strategy games and creating a new control type for games that were never possibly before.  The game selection is very good, and the DS boasts some of the most interesting games to date.  The power of the handheld is comparable to the nintend...

Team Fortress 2 is coupled in with the "Orange Box" and available on it's own.  It's a strictly multiplayer game featuring the blu and red teams.  As far as I can tell, they're teams of construction workers fueding over something, but that's irrevalant.  The game features 9 classes, each with a distinctive personality and purpose.  The Scout is fast...