Entries Tagged as 'review'
Review: Amazon’s MP3 store
UDPATE: Just read this on DF but Amazon has obliged Radiohead and is only selling their albums, not individual songs. Nice! Go Amazon!
Huh, so Amazon just launched their MP3 store. I’ve been curious about how it’d be, Unbox - as awful and exclusionary as it is made me wonder how Amazon’s execution would be for [...]
Reviews: Chuck and Heroes Premier
So last night marked the beginning of tv premier week. First two up that I care about were Chuck and Heroes. Both of which I thought were, ok but disappointing. Some mild spoiling ahead, probably, so if you haven’t seen the shows and plan on it, read on at your own peril.
Chuck’s the story of [...]
Two good movies - Helvetica and Once
So I saw not one, but two good movies this weekend. It’s pretty rare that I see more than one movie in a given weekend, much less two good ones, so I thought I’d write a quick bit on them.
First I saw Helvetica, I’d been waiting for awhile to see this one - to [...]
Mini Book Review: Boy by Takeshi Kitano
When I read on Tokyo Mango that Beat Takeshi had written a book, it wasn’t very long before I Amazon Prime’d it down to my place, reading it two days later. (Yes, that’s right, I used Amazon Prime as a verb. Believe it.) Now, the Tokyo Mango piece, I think, was a little misleading in [...]
Now that I’ve got an iPhone (dumped my Treo)
I naturally have some opinions on the subject. This weekend was a gigantic gadget upgrade for me, having purchased (though not yet received) a new iMac (24″, 2.4Ghz), bought an iPhone and EVDO service and card (Sprint Sierra Wireless 595U). So, now that I’ve lived with my iPhone for a few days I got some [...]
Movie Review: Stardust
So I went to check out Stardust on friday - Neil Gaiman fanboy that I am. Been looking forward to the movie for awhile but the trailers were really uninteresting and made me worry for the movie. Fortunately, the worries weren’t founded. The executive summary is that I give this movie a 9 (barely, though [...]
Some thoughts about Amazon’s Flexible Payment System
UPDATE: Ran across the blog post announcing this bad boy. They say all the right things - except for the major issue of the UI pipeline - this service sounds incredibly compelling. I also found Don’s position on this on his SmugMug blog - my views seem pretty close to his, although he’s found a [...]
A few moments with an iPhone and a Helio Ocean
So, as my Treo 650 frustrates me more and more my thoughts turn towards my next phone. Inevitably this leads me to the iPhone, but a contender in my brain has always been the Helio Ocean. I mean, I kind of know I’m not going to get one because the non-starter for me (which may, [...]
Categories: iphone · review · smartphones
Who’s using Bloglines?
So, randomly, I decided to check out Bloglines. Randomly, because I don’t really use an online RSS reader - I use Firefox’s live rss feeds for my desktop and I have a reader app on my Treo that downloads my feeds periodically. I actually discovered Bloglines off that strange Blog Juice calculator that seems to [...]
Review: Versionate (v. Google Docs)
Read, yesterday, about the launch of Versionate, the latest from Y-combinator. From the publicity Versionate is sort of a combination of wiki, Google Docs and file storage. Unusually, this is a full launch, not beta, with free and various tiers of paid service. It seems like there’s now lots of web2.0 services taking on a [...]
