Logitech products - our favorites

Hi, my name is Ann Marie and I’m guest blogging today at Si’s IT tips. 

Discussion in our house today was whether to buy an iPad2 keyboard (for me the Apple lover) or an android keyboard (for my husband the Android aficionado). Our toys budget is $50 a month so someone had to wait a month, but the whole debate got us talking about our very favorite Logitech products.

Five Logitech products that have changed our lives:

Webcam: I don’t know why anyone has a landline anymore, or a cell phone for that matter. We call all our friends and family and business contacts all over the world on Skype, and for those of you who are still stuck to your phones, Skype is free, folks! We use our Logitech webcam so much that our toddler started calling it The Eye - as in “Hold Mr. Duck up to The Eye so Grandma can see him.” We bought Logitech webcams as gifts for all our friends and relatives too. It’s so much fun to see everybody! It’s an astonishingly powerful negotiating tool as well. If anyone sends you a snippy email, get them on the webcam and you’ll remember how great they are to work with.

Wireless mouse: When my husband and I got married, our first household purchase was a wireless mouse. I’m right-handed and he’s a leftie, and there is nothing more convenient than a mouse that you can just put where you want it without dragging around a cord. It’s also great if you’re two people working on a project together sharing one computer. Perfect little problem-solving product.

Laptop Cooling Pad: My husband put his laptop on my mother’s dining room table for a couple of hours and it got so hot it melted the lacquer on the wood. Ouch. Get yourself a cooling pad.

Speakers: So much fun to get the party going in the backyard or the kitchen with wireless speakers. So many fewer CDs to dust. So much more dancing all around the house.

Tablet keyboard for iPad or Android: Okay, I admit it, we bought both - one for my iPad and one for my husband’s Android phone. This tool can massively extend the potential of your iPad. If you’re just using it to surf the web in bed, get it out of the house so that you can type in the park, at Starbucks and while you’re waiting for your kid to finish his piano lesson.

Logitech is now offering webcams with Carl Zeiss lenses. If you aren’t familiar with Zeiss, they’re the German folks who make the finest optical lenses in the world for cameras, binoculars, glass sun-glass lenses, microscopes, planetariums and goodness knows what else.

Apologies for the blatant promotion, but Logitech accessories are hard to beat!