Do you ever wish for the day when you can take your personal computing environment with you wherever you go, without having to physically carry your desktop or notebook computer around? Well, that day still isn’t here. However, you can take your key programs and data with you wherever you go, and they’ll fit in your pocket. At least you can do this if you carry a U3 smart drive. To learn how well these drive works, read this article by Contributing Editor Bill Mann.

Are you one of those people who likes to buy all the accessories and goodies for a gadget? If so, we’ve got the product for you: the Palm Treo TripKit. Is it worth the $199 price? You’ll have to read this article to find out.

This month, we had the opportunity to interview Heather Skinner, an executive at Kingston Technology, the world’s largest independent memory manufacturer. Heather was kind enough to help us understand a fascinating new technology called U3.

For whatever reasons (and they’re twisted), we didn’t manage to kill this article. So, it’s in this spirit of newly discovered brotherhood (and grits, did we mention the grits?) that we bring you our review of red state vs. blue state software for your PDA. To be fair, we’ve discovered we really love grits, and, frankly, there’s been no really good hate mail for months. And, with all the warmth made possible by a sunny Florida summer, we bring you Red vs. Blue, state edition.

It’s a holiday weekend here in the U.S. We all know what that means: extra work doing family tech support. Mom and Dad, Grandma and Aunt Lucy have all saved up their dumbest and most annoying tech support problems, just waiting for you to arrive and fix them. But, in the spirit of the Memorial Day, we’ll take pity on all our readers who are in the trenches of the tech support war. For a short time, we’ll waive our usual site-license fee and sign up your company, group, school, or organization en mass to Computing Unplugged at no charge.

The Boostaroo Revolution is a tiny, mini-amplifier designed to boost your headphone’s volume. The manufacturer makes a number of claims regarding this $60 box. First, it claims it will boost the overall sound volume, helping you hear your favorite audio device better on airplanes, buses, and in other noisy environments. Does it work? You’ll have to read this article to find out.

Hang onto your hats, boys and girls. We’ve got one heck of a ride for you. So much has happened this week in the world of gadgets that you’re going to need to keep your tray tables up and your seat belts locked to hang on through our whirlwind tour.

We continue our battle of the phones with a review of a multimedia-equipped cellular phone, the Samsung A920 from Sprint. Over the past few months, we’ve reviewed the newest and hottest smartphones: the Palm Treo 700w, the Sprint PPC-6700, Verizon’s variation on the theme, the XV6700, and compared them all to the venerable Treo 650. This month, we’ll be looking at a few new devices, starting with the Samsung A920 phone profiled in this article, graciously provided to us by Sprint.

If you’ve ever wanted to fly RC planes and helicopters, but were afraid of crashing your very expensive toys, you should check out RealFlight G3. In this in-depth review, we examine whether or not this program can get you in the air.

Senior Technical Editor Mick Moignard tells the story of the little Motorola RAZR that couldn’t. Why did his friend have both an old Nokia and the hot new RAZR, and why was the RAZR unusable? You’ll have to read this particularly fun take on Life in These Digital Times.