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I have had my Livescribe Pulse for about 2 months now and thought I would let you know my opinion of using this product from a developers perspective.

Thoughts and ideas flow through my head every minute so its great to get them down on paper. The problem is finding information I have written on a pad weeks later is a real pain.

So Livescribe is a perfect fit for my notes, I can write all my notes on the pad and sync to Livescribe desktop and then I can name the pages and search for text though all my notebooks.

I can even upload my notes with a simple click on Livescribe Desktop to share with others.

Then there’s the audio I can use in development meetings. So while I’m making notes in a meeting the pen is recording audio. If I here something I want to review for later I can click the bookmark button on my pad.

Once the meeting is finished I can upload the audio and captured notes to the desktop. At any time I can review my note and clicking on words will play the audio recorded at the time I was writing.

As you can probably see from my post I just love this pen, not just because I’m a geek, it’s so useful every day.

  I’m a bit fussy when it comes to the type of sound I like to hear coming out of my iPod. I have tried a number of In-ear headphones, even the Shure E3C which I was very disappointed with.

I thought for some time it was the E3C’s position in my ear but after numerous searches on the web and tests I found the range of these £80 buds very disappointing.

Recently I purchased the Sony MDR-EX71SL and was totally amazed by the range of these £30 in-ear phones.

There are 3 sizes of earbuds to choose from to give you the best fit and produce a good base.

There is a short cord which can be extended with an additional 1m cord. The frequency range is 6-23,000Hz.

I am really pleased with these and would recommend them.