I’ve been following this story for a couple of days with a very confused look on my face.  When I first heard of it, I was almost convinced that it was a mistake. When I realized it wasn’t, I was certain that there was some kind of misunderstanding that would be worked out between the involved parties over the "next few days," and everything would get worked out.

Seems like I’m wrong; and that really just ticks me off.

I consider Scott Jordan to be a close, personal friend.  He’s a small business owner (plus!), he’s an entrepreneur (plus!), his products are awesome and his business is really starting to take off (plus-PLUS!!). I really love to see small businesses like that succeed as its people like Scott that make America not only great, but make it work.  Without people like Scott, and business like ScotteVest, the country and its economy would be in a WORLD of hurt.

I also LOVE gadgets and anything to do with them.  To say that I love gadget enabled clothing is an understatement.  In truth, its stuff like this that curls my toes. I see the new products he has planned and I have a difficult time keeping the drool off of my computer keyboard.

So, what’s the issue? Very simple:

$768M dollars in baggage fees.

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I had an emergency job last night in which I followed my GPS rather than a previously planned route thinking I was safer with the GPS.  Instead of the straight path…I went on a very winding one which took me to the Addison Tunnel (A toll road).  I got to the toll booth which was green for the one that was full service / makes change at around 8:30pm and I had to decide what to do because I was facing the big stop light and no one was at the booth.  The change machine there happened to be out of order with a big sign taped to it.  With no cash, what was I going to do?  After waiting for about 5-8 mins. trying to decide what to do, I finally ran the toll booth in which case bells went off and everything.  So much for that.  After a bit of research this morning, I found out how to avoid such predicaments.  Read on to find out how!

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It might just be me, but I have so many gadgets, purchased over time, that as I move on to other devices and scenarios in my life, I sometimes forget I have some really useful tools still available.

Case in point. With the improvement in battery life of the current crop of phones, not getting thru a day on one charge has been minimized. My HTC Tilt 2 so rarely threatens needing to be plugged in before bed time, I have stopped thinking about when it might. I keep a great external battery in my car for emergencies, the really sweet Tekkeon Power-All, but it is just big enough that I don’t relish carrying it unnecessarily. Yesterday, after a rare day of much Wi-fi, Bluetooth and extended call usage, and my car was elsewhere, I was on an important call and got the dreaded “low battery” warning. I really needed to be able to finish this call. It dawned on me, like one of those “well duh!”, I also have the Proporta USB Turbo Charger 3400 in my bag. I plugged it in an had enough juice to save my bacon and get me home. This little gem is so convenient to carry, I forgot why I do AND how valuable it is.

So if you are looking for convenience and inter-device support in the charging arena, I’d recommend checking out the Proporta 3400. Here’s some specs and features:

This ridiculously handy product allows you to recharge your mobile devices on the move again and again. Simply plug any USB/micro USB powered gadget (including your Apple iPhone 3G/3G S, Apple iPod, BlackBerry, most digital cameras, GPS units and mobile phones) into the USB TurboCharger’s standard USB port and it’ll keep even the most power hungry device juiced up and ready to go. An LED display shows the level of charge, and this lightweight and stylish battery is so small that you’ll hardly even notice you’ve got it with you.

• Charge anywhere, recharge anything – over and over

• Comes with retractable cable and range of interchangeable connector heads including 1 x DS Lite, 1 x iPod, 1 x Nokia, 1 x Sony Ericsson, 1 x Micro USB and 1 x Mini USB.

• LED display shows level of charge.

• Capacity : 3400 mAh, Input: 5V DC500 mA, Output: 5.5V 700mA

• Impressive 3400 mAh storage – enough to recharge your devices several times.

• Dimensions (in cm) : 9.8 x 6 x 1.6

Available for $46.95, for another $10 a “world pack” is available that comes with connections for more devices and travel convertors.

Visit the Porporta Site for this and other mobile friendly accessories.

For the longest time, I’ve wanted to be able to log into multiple GMail accounts using the same web browser.  Since GMail is my primary email, and I use it for one of my consulting jobs, it was always a pain to have to log out of one account to get into another.

Sure, I could have used two browsers, bobbing back and forth between the two, but that would have been a huge resource waste.  Plus, when a person makes up their mind that something should work a certain way, they kind of want it that way!  That was the case with me anyways.

Long story short, Google has finally implemented support for multiple account logins, and a small dream of mine has come true.  Setting this up is relatively easy.

After logging into your primary account, click on Settings in upper right corner.  Then click on the Accounts and Import label in the Settings tab.

Next scroll down the list of options until the Change Account Settings label appears.  You will need to choose the Google Account Settings option.

You’ll then want to enable the option to use multiple accounts.  Google will cautiously warn you that there are limitations.  They even go to the extent of making you check the boxes beside several of the disclaimers they provide.  Read them and click if you agree to live with the functionality sacrificed by using multiple accounts.

At this point, if you click on the arrow beside your email address in the upper right corner, you will be provided with an option to sign into a second account.  Clicking it opens in a new tab of Firefox for me.  This may vary depending upon your current browser’s configuration options.

And there you have it – multiple GMail logins while using the same browser.  Just one more way you can make that thing called the internet work for you.

Looks like Apple Central has tweaked the new iOS once again. They have released update 4.0.2 which applies to all iToys: iPod, iTouch, iPhone, iPad, including 2G, 3G, 3GS, and 4.

HOWEVER, it appears there is now a block to the jailbreakme.com pdf workaround. So, for you current Desperados, and those thinking you might want to become one, you may want to sit this dance out. Apparently if you partake, there will be no way of returning to your wicked ways.