Entries Tagged as 'review'
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 [...]
Review: Live Free or Die Hard
Ok, I saw it. I’ve had a couple of posts on it leading up to the opening and I caught Live Free or Die Hard last night. The short review is that while it’s no Die Hard (but what could be?), it was quite good. I’ve seen complaints about how “unrealistic” it is - but [...]
Mini review: Arcade Reality v1.2
So you know I totally dug Arcade Reality. So it was with great psychedness that I received an email from the creator that he’d incorporated one of the changes I thought would be cool - that is, the ability to take a picture of something and use that as the badguys. Well, I asked and [...]
I’m not a Safari switcher
So I hadn’t used safari for any significant period of time in the last year or so, but with Safari 3 all out and buzzing and Robb saying it was a better user experience I figured I’d give it another shot. DL’d the new version and ran it as my main browser (not for some [...]
Review: Old Man’s War by John Scalzi
Ok, so I’m behind the times, I just read the book. That’s life. Turns out, the book is really quite a good read. I wasn’t sure what to expect and to be honest I was a little skeptical - the premise seemed a touch crazy. Interstellar war is now waged by geriatrics from Earth who [...]
No Free Lunches - ISP edition
While it may not be true that there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch, it has been my experience that there are extremely few free lunches to be had. In the tech world this is especially so - everything is tradeoffs, I’ve never seen a silver bullet that didn’t come with it’s own [...]
Review: Spider-Man 3
Now I enjoyed the first two movies a lot (although, I may be in the minority in that I liked the first one more than the second) so I walked into the third fairly optimistic. Although, I’d heard all the rumors that the cost of this movie (including marketing) was half a billion dollars, which [...]
