If you don't care if your monitor is calibrated and/or you do not care if your photograph prints match what you see on your monitor, save your time and energy—stop reading this review. On the other hand, if you already do calibrate your monitor and/or have been thinking that calibration is a good idea, check out the Pantone® huey™PRO. The one feature that makes the hueyPRO stand out is that it changes your monitor brightness as the room's brightness conditions change.

Think mouse pads are of trivial importance? Think about it a bit more. Most of us spend a lot of money on our computer systems. Arguably, it makes sense to spend a little more on a high-performance mouse pad in order to improve and optimize our human interface with the powerful and expensive hardware

Daystar's new XLR8 AnyDrive kit is an inexpensive but potentially invaluable enabler that allows you to connect any IDE or SATA drive your Mac or PC via USB 2.0. No drive enclosure need. Simply plug-in a bare drive and copy. The AnyDrive unit supports up to USB 2.0's nominal (alas rarely experienced) 480 MBits/sec throughput, for full size or half-size IDE and SATA drives

The beauty of a wireless mic is of course that it untethers you to roam freely as you dictate into iListen, voice chat online, record Podcasts, or talk on the phone using VOIP. I had never used a wireless mic with iListen before, and I took to it more than I had anticipated I would. It actually helps the creative juices to flow more freely when composing, I think. There is something constraining and inhibiting about being tethered to a wire, and I mean in more than the obvious literal sense. The xTag Wireless Microphone frees you from this

You may have done this: you've see something that you wanted to take a photo of but couldn't move far enough back to get the whole image in your camera. So you stand there, take a photo, rotate a bit and take another photo, and repeat as often as necessary to get the whole image. After all, when you get back home you can "stitch" the images back together to get the whole thing in one photo. Alas, when you try to assemble the images, parts of the image align just great, but someone is cut in half and the bottom left of the photo is aligned while the top left is in different time zone. Oh, what to do? Well, it's too late for that image, but when you want to do panoramas like a professional, you need the right equipment. That starts with the proper support for your camera, and that means you could use a Nodal Ninja 3.

An excellent and unique ergonomic mouse design gets even better

Leave it to Lexmark to bring you something like this. The company that manufactures and sells inkjet printers at such an inexpensive price that they may as well just give the printer away with the purchase of an ink cartridge has now introduced the X500n. Coming in at less than $500, the X500n offers color laser printing, scanning and copying with touch-button simplicity, and throws in ethernet because...well, why not? But, like many of the Lexmark inkjet all-in-ones, does the X500n become a jack of all trades, master of none?

So, what exactly is the point of the Myvu Made for iPod? If you're asking that question, you've never had to sit in an airplane, bus or the back seat of a car and hold up your iPod for a two hour movie. By letting you go hands-free, the Myvu allows you relax, lean back, and maybe even fall asleep if you want to. It also provides the illusion of a larger screen, and—more importantly—provides privacy. If, for some reason, you want to watch High School Musical, you can do so without fear of those around you pointing at you and laughing.

A superior clear case with belt clip

Attractive, avant garde styling, compact footprint, comfortable action, innovative features, and wireless convenience, but my enthusiasm is tempered by some key layout compromises

A funny thing happened at this past MacWorld; as I walked around the exhibit hall floor, I entered the Microsoft booth. There, they had a number of computers running Microsoft Office on Macs (no surprise there). But, as I looked around, I realized all of the keyboards in the Microsoft booth were PC keyboards. That is, there was no Command keys, only the Start keys and Control keys as used by those PC folks. I asked one of the sales reps why this was and she rolled her eyes and said something to the effect of, "That's what they send us to these shows with." I asked her with all of the hardware that Microsoft makes, do they make a Macintosh keyboards? She said they do. I thought it would be a good thing to check one of these out. Now, after using a wireless Microsoft Ergonomic Mac Keyboard for several weeks, I have to admit I like it, despite its quirks (and it has several).

The sound from the ety8 earphones is excellent. However, the dynamics of Bluetooth do add one extra consideration: do you want the features and benefits of Bluetooth at the cost of needing to charge your earphones (at all) and needing to charge your iPod more often?