Cool Usb Toys

You good old PC does not offer Bluetooth? really a well no worries this Tiny USB Dongle will help you out and for less the $3 it will not break the bank either.

We all know Bluetooth USB adapters and often they big ugly and useless, but not this one. It is small and useful. It is compliant with Bluetooth V2.0 and V1.2 and about 3 times faster then the old Bluetooth V1.2 adapters.

Go check out this Tiny Bluetooth USB Adapter Dongle and see how small it really is!

Doctor Who fans now can own there own Dalek or Tardis Cell Phone Alert Charm. Just keep the Charm close to your cell and it will light up when you phone is receiving a call. Great in meetings when you ringer need to be off and great just to impress the others.

Go check out the Doctor Who Cell Phone Charm.

What is cooler then a Dart Vader or Storm Trooper Charm for you Cell phone (GSM  800 – 1600 MHZ only) that starts flashing when you phone rings? Now you can have this little charm on your desk while your phone is in your pocket on silent and you will know when someone tries to reach you.

Of course you can hang the charm on your phone or any where you like just to know when you are getting calls.

Go check out this ultra cool Star Wars Gadget.

If you like me have ears that are not Apple compatible then you know how difficult it can be to try to use there headphones with build in microphone. For me the Apple headphones just don’t fit and for that reason I still use the ancient Sony once I got with my portable CD player a long long long time ago.

But I would like to use the mic so that I don’t have to hold my iPhone when I am trying to work.

So now there is a solution for that, SmartTalk offers a little cable that you can stick between you iPhone (or other device) and your favorite headphones and by doing so you add a iPhone compatible microphone to your good old headphones.

And that is not all the SmartTalk adapter can pickup calls or send the to voice mail or your can use it to play, pause or skip music so you see this little adapter can change your life like the iPhone did once.

Go check out the SmartTalk iPhone Headphone/Mic Adapter and see how you can enjoy your iPhone even more.

Do you like Star Trek? If so then this Communicator from the first series is a must have for you.

And it is not just a cool looking toy it actually works to. You can use the build in microphone and earphone for Skype, MSN, AIM, iChat and so on.

And when you are not using it for VOIP you can use the 21 build in sound effects to impress your friends.

A real Star Trek Fan or friend of a fan will now click the link to the Star Trek Communicator

As an iPhone 3G owner I thought form the day I got my phone that it would be great if I could use the WiFi to call with for instance Skype. As you may remember I use MagicJack to make my phone calls through the computer and for less then 20 dollars a year I can call anyone in the US and Canada and get great international long distance rates as well.

And then I found a post somewhere that you can get Magicjack working through SIP and that made me trying to find a Sip application for the iPhone and that was easy there is an application called SipPhone (review will follow) that you can use to call through WiFi. Then of course I needed to get it working and this is how I did it and it was not as easy as I thought but with lots of help I was able to get it working.

First of all you need to find you SIP information from your MagicJack plug and YES that means that you need to have MagicJack before you can use it on your iPhone.

There are lots of ways out there to find the SIP information but I used the program MJ Utility Suite (i used version 1.6). With this program it is easy just click the button to get the SIP info and you get what you need. Probably you need to edit the configuration a bit to point the right spots but when it is right you will get something like this:

Login Information
ProxyUserName = E**********01
ProxyUserPassword = ABCDEFGHIJ

UDP Ports
SIPUDPDefaultPort = 0
SIPUDPPortRangeStart = 65535
SIPUDPPortRangeEnd = 49152

Other SIP Data
SIPCallerID = E**********01
UserDomain = talk4free.com
ProxyName =
ProxyIP = 67.91.177.70
User-Agent = MagicJack/1.80.466c (SJ Labs)

So now you are almost ready to go. But you need to find out what city your proxy uses and you do that as followed. Look at the ProxyIP (mine was 67.91.177.70 as you can see above) then go to this WIKIbook for MJ Support and there you can see what proxy belongs to the IP address.

Now we have everything you need to make SipPhone work with MagicJack. So download the SipPhone application from the itunes store and start it and put the following settings:

On main screen under Accounts, select edit, select add new SIP accounts.

Domain: talk4free.com
Username: E**********01       <<<<<< PUT IN YOUR INFO
Password: ********************    <<<<<<< PUT IN YOUR PASSWORD (case sensitive)

Select Advance

Auth User: E**********01       <<<<<<<<<<< PUT IN YOUR INFO
Proxy Server: proxy1.yourcity.talk4free.com:5070        <<<<< PUT IN THE PROXY CITY (mine was Detroit)
Registration Timeout: 3600

Go back to main screen and select Settings on bottom right.

Ringtone: Classic
Prefix for contacts: leave blank
Outbound proxy: leave blank
RTP Port: 4000
SIP Stun: OFF
SIP Stun Server: leave blank
CODEC: Auto

After you do all this go to Dialer and you should see the cellular and SIP buttons turn green. Make calls!!!

So now you are ready and you can use MagicJack on your iPhone. Be carefull and do not use Magicjack at home and on your iPhone at the same time!

I am just gave it a small test till now and it is great to be able to call in a grocery store with you iPhone using there wireless internet (free hotspot)

Tomorrow I will give you my experience with SipPhone so come back and read about that.

Some of us like to use things like Skype or love to chat on any other IM program.

Or maybe you are a gamer that wants the best headset out there.

With the Genius HS-04V you can have it. This headset offers authentic base sound with vibration. So you get the real sound experience through your headset.

The vibration is powered by a AAA battery or through the USB port.

Go check the Genius HS-04V Stereo Headset out and see how much fun having one would be.

OK you got and nice brand new iPhone 3G great toy and Apple did a great job creating it BUT the battery life can be a little bit to short for some of us and that is why there is the Portable Power Dock.

You can just click the Portable Power Dock under your iPhone 3G (only works with the 3G version) and it will extend you battery life and it protects your iPhone to and it even has a build in speaker to give you more vollume when listing to your tunes.

And it even has a hole in the back so that you can keep using your camera to.

Go check this power solution out atThinkGeek.

Looking for a bluetooth headset?

Just stop looking because you found it the Zivio Bluetooth Headset is the way you want to go first of all it is extremely good looking and stylish but more importantly it works so much better then most Bluetooth headset on the market because of the boom a retractable boom will bring the microphone where it suppose to be close to your mouth so now people can actual understand what you say without having to talk to loud so that everybody on the street can hear you.

The Zivio Headset shows that it is not just a Headset it is one that comes with everything you need.

Like:

• 9 different ear pieces
• A/C adapter
• 2 different length USB charging cables
• 2 ear loops

And with a standby time of more then 200 hours and a talk time of 10 hours it probably out runs your cell phone any day so it is always ready to use. And don’t forget the boom on the Zivio Bluetooth Headset only has to be out when you are talking the rest of the time it can just hide in the earpiece.

Go check out all the facts about this wonder of communication the Zivio Bluetooth Headset.

I am most times on the go so why get an expensive home phone system when you don’t really use it that much. For a while I used Skype and other VOIP systems but then I ran in to MagicJack.

MagicJack is a VOIP system that lets you make calls in the US and Canada for free OK not completely free but almost. You need to buy a starting kit for 40 dollars. The starter kit contains a USB plug kinda thing (see the picture) and it pays for 1 year in calling to USA and Canada that will cost you 20 dollars a year (so almost free if you use it enough).

The USB plug is you phone system. One side has an USB connector and the other side a plug for a phone.
now when you plug the USB plug in to your Windows or MAC computer the software will start and you can start calling through you own phone that you connect to your MagicJack.

If you use MagicJack on a Windows computer then you can also just use a headset that is connected to your computer. And the Windows software has some other features like a address book.

So what did I think of MagicJack?

First of all MagicJack works great I am using it for more then 4 months now with no real problems calling people. On little problem can arise if like me you live in Canada. MagicJack offers an “local” phone number so that you can receive calls as well. But it does not offer this for Canada so I got an American phone number. And that is where a little problem start. For instance if you call DHL’s free phone nr then the route you to the US DHL instead of the Canadian  one. There are more problems like this so keep that in mind if you get the option English and Spanish instead of English and French then you are probably on a US call center instead of a Canadian one.

Besides that calling in the US and Canada didn’t give me any problems.

That was calling in person. I also use a Telxon scanner for my job and that needs a phone line to send data to head office. MagicJack says in there info online that these kind of things don’t work. But they do ok often you need to retry a couple of times but till now I am able to send my files out when I need to.

Support. Once I needed support because one phonenr did just not work at all while it worked on my cell phone. Support at MagicJack is funny because the service is cheap they don’t offer phone support but they do offer a chat service and then you just chat with someone on you computer. The person that helped me knew what she was doing and was able to locate my problem quickly but it took overnight to get it fixed.

You can also use MagicJack for international calls. To do this you need to buy airtime first and then you can just call international. I call Europe one in a while and pa 2 cents a minute for that. The call quality for international calls is not always good but still better then some other VOIP systems just keep it in mind.

My conclusion is that I will keep using MagicJack it works great for my use and gives me the opertunity to make dirt cheap phone calls. It is a shame that I need a computer to do this but I can live with that.