Canon ImageCLASS MF 4150 Our Rating:

The Canon ImageCLASS MF 4150 MultiFunction printer simply is one of the best values in its category.  A medley of awesome features not expected on a device of this price range also serve as very pleasant surprises.  Offering duplex printing, automatic document feeding, and a miniature bypass tray so you don’t have to remove your standard paper to print envelopes or index cards, the MF 4150 is a must-have for any home or small office.

We’ve been testing out this machine for nearly a month and it has yet to jam or malfunction.  The print quality is superb and pages print quickly with a surprisingly minimal warmup time.  The controls are very easy to use for making copies or sending faxes, both physically on the printer as well as in its software.

In conclusion, we have yet to see a reason why anyone would not want to buy this printer.  So, if you’re thinking about heading out to the store to grab one of these, our best advice would be to hurry up!

Linksys WRE54G Wireless-G Repeater Our Rating:

Want better wireless signal in your house? This is exactly what you need. This device homes in on your wireless signal from your router, and then boosts it, extending the range of your wireless network.

The product itself is a small box that can either be mounted right on the outlet, or used with a provided cord and mounted on the wall, or simply set on a surface. Once mounted, all you have to do is aim the antenna straight up. Then you just hold down the auto-configure button, and it will configure itself to repeat the strongest wireless signal it can find that is not secured. If your network is secure, you must connect it to your network or use the software on the provided CD.

This is where we dock a star from the rating. The software didn’t work right at all for us. It is supposed to give you the ability to further configure your product, and to confirm that it is connected to the correct network. It also is needed to connect to a non-secure network. However, every access point scan we did failed, yet we could auto-configure to multiple networks. This was tested on Windows XP and Windows Vista. Furthermore, the software is not Mac compatible.

Once connected to your wireless network, this product significantly increases your signal strength. It increased our signal by over 300%, and we can get an almost perfect signal from one end of our house to the other – before this, we could not get signal at all in the basement, or in many areas of the house. In addition, the internet speed is retained great throughout the house. We recommend getting one of these if your wireless network range needs a boost, or you just want a more reliable wireless signal.

Apple Remote Our Rating:

The Apple remote is a necessity for your Macbook or Macbook Pro, iMac,or Apple TV. With this tiny remote, you can have the ability to control your computer and applications on your Apple computer.

The Apple remote features only 6 buttons: volume control up and down, skip left and right, play/pause, and menu. In a media application, this remote controls all of the normal functions in that application, making it simple to control your music or movies from right in front of your computer to all the way across the room.

The menu button pulls up the Front Row application on Apple computers. This gives you access to movies, music, videos, podcasts, and photos in an appealing interface, all navigated with the remote. In the Front Row, you can also access features such as the top 10 music videos or top 10 songs in the iTunes store, movie previews, and more.

Not only is it a media controller, but a presentation controller. It can also be used in other applications. Additionally, it can play media applications in a Windows Boot Camp partition.

The remote has a long range, and has a long battery life. It also is very light and small, yet large enough to not lose it easily. It works great, and is essential to get the most out of your Apple computer experience.

Mad Catz Microcon Gamecube Controller Our Rating:

Here’s a tiny controller! As the name implies, the Microcon controller is micro-sized. We found that this was actually really comfortable to use.

To give a frame of reference, the controller is slightly more than half the size of a normal Gamecube controller. It fits just perfectly in your hands. All of the buttons press very firmly. Additionally, the rubber grips on the side and on the joystick are amazing. They make it so much more comfortable to hold and easier to play with. It is so simple to use because of it’s small size that you can actually just roll your thumb to press any of the buttons on the left side!

The controller features a macro button, almost ironically because the name. This allows you to program a key input so when you hit the “M” button that parallels “Z”, it will pres the programmed buttons. It works only with the normal buttons and not they joysticks or shoulder buttons, has 2 speeds of input, and can take up to 15 button presses. This is useful for games that use special button presses, such as fighting games.

One issue we had with the controller is that the joystick seemed to loosen up. This occasionally makes it play improperly with games. It is really sensitive because of it’s small size, so if the joystick is a little bit off center when powering on, or the neutral position has a large range, it can affect how games play quite a bit. It won’t matter in a fast paced game where you’re constantly moving around, but for steady games or menus, using it can be tricky sometimes.