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Julie Strietelmeier

Editor In Chief

[Columbus, Indiana]

I was born a gadget freak. This is a fact that can be proven by looking at a note written by a teacher on the bottom of one of my grade school report cards. "...Julie continues to bring little toys and things to school to trade with the boys..." Lucky for me, my parents never condemned my love of tech. My Dad actually encouraged it, by allowing me to dismantle old household devices in order to retrieve the magnets from their motors. As for computers, I started out with a Texas Instruments TI/994a computer, then several Commodore 64's, an Atari ST, various home built Windows boxes and currently a 24" Apple iMac. My PDA and phone usage is in constant flux. I get bored easily and can never get enough new devices to try.

Contact

Home Page: http://the-gadgeteer.com/juliesgear.html

Diary

Here's the deal... I have been an AT&T customer for several years now. I switched from Verizon because I wanted to be able to easily swap phones for review purposes. I was able to do that because AT&T is a GSM carrier and all that you need is that little bitty SIM card. Just pop it into a GSM phone and presto, it's your new phone. With Verizon, it's not quite as simple. You would need to call customer service, give them the IMEI number on your phone so that they could switch your service to it...

Articles

Macworld Expo 2008 - 01/22/2008

Trip report for Macworld 2008

Gadgeteer Spotlight on John Starkweather of Microsoft - 01/21/2008

Interview with industry insiders

Gadgeteer Spotlight on John Hindaly of Vaja - 11/06/2007

Interview with industry insiders

Gadgeteer Spotlight on Brando Ng of Brando's Workshop - 10/01/2007

Interview with industry insiders

Gadgeteer Spotlight on Peter Rojas and Ryan Block of Engadget.com - 07/30/2007

Interview with industry insiders

Gadgeteer Spotlight on Michael Hess of RoadWired.com - 07/06/2007