Ultralingua today announced the release of Grammatica 6.0 for Mac OS
X, a significant update to the grammar and spell checker co-published
with Meta-Agent Software...
Waterfield Bags launched a SleeveCase designed specifically for the
Mac Mini within weeks of the official Apple announcement. In its
default configuration as I received it, the SleeveCase is merely what
it claims to be, a case into which a Mac Mini will fit. However,
Waterfield offers a configuration with a detachable shoulder strap.
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"The cornerstone of most open source application serving is the
ubiquitous LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP/Python/Perl) stack. Yet it's
not always as easy as you'd expect to get all the elements of the
stack properly installed and working together. Enter XAMPP..."
The iPod Camera Connector finally lets you download and immediately
view your pictures on an iPod photo. Handy though it is, it will tax
your iPod’s battery.
DVForge releases another inspired product hampered by quality-control
issues.
Review of
Wac by
Coffee MonsterThe coffee at Wac is good. Not so sure about the
food.
Great environment - both tables and couches, to
suit your mood.
My take
Can you feel teh magic percolating?
That's good coffee! How's Mr Kim?
ATI TV Wonder USB 2.0 (PAL) review
ATI TV Wonder USB 2.0 (PAL) review
09/17/2004 06:39 AMPHP-Con Review
PHP-Con Review
10/29/2002 09:39 AM"review"
"review"
05/29/2004 05:56 PMThe First Review
The First Review
03/14/2005 05:36 PM
Digital Web is running a big triple-issue today, with a book
review and author interviews.
BBC review needs less what-if and more
what-now
BBC review needs less what-if and more
what-now
12/03/2003 01:24 PMnewmediazero Dec 3 2003 12:04PM ET
Nvu review
Nvu review
09/15/2004 04:04 AM"review in the NY Times"
"review in the NY Times"
06/20/2004 04:17 PMReview DRAMS 4.0
Review DRAMS 4.0
10/31/2003 02:47 AMWebmasterBase Oct 31 2003 2:23AM ET
Review: NewsFire 1.0
Review: NewsFire 1.0
03/30/2005 05:42 PMNewsFire 1.0 is an excellent application. It’s a great value
compared to other RSS readers in its category and should only continue
to improve.
Welcome to Technology Review
Welcome to Technology Review
12/26/2004 06:49 PMWhat’s Next for Google .. Technology
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Review of the Rio Chiba
Review of the Rio Chiba
10/31/2003 10:32 AMThe Register review of the Chiba, Rio's new compact MP3 player, which
comes with only 256MB of internal memory but fortunately has a slot
for SD memory cards if you want to add extra capacity to it. Read...
Solaris 9 x86 Review
Solaris 9 x86 Review
12/13/2003 11:34 AMPanasonic R3 Review
Panasonic R3 Review
08/03/2004 10:50 AM
One of the great things working at Gizmodo has allowed me to
do is to get my hands on a whole range of gadgetry that I probably
wouldn't have been able to play around with otherwise. Since I work
from home, each ring of the doorbell means there's probably something
new coming, so it's a little like Christmas, except when I return the
gifts nobody gets pissy. But despite the joy of opening up all the
gadgets and trying them out, most of them -- especially the laptops --
end up being disappointing, and I'm rarely too upset to send them back
to the vendor and manufacturer.
Not so with the Panasonic R3, a machine so well put-together that I
actually considered buying one for my own personal use, and if it
didn't cost twice that of my budget (importers are selling it for
around $2800 for a fully-spec'd out unit), I probably would have. What
makes the R3 the hands-down best sub-notebook I've ever used? Well,
for starters, it actually usable.
RIP, Whole Earth Review
RIP, Whole Earth Review
01/24/2004 03:36 AMWhole Earth magazine has gone bust (they owe me money!) (and they
changed my life!) (and their editorial board insisted on utterly
stupid edits to the story they owe me money for!) (and they really did
change my life!) (boy, those were stupid edits!). This is bad news.
Whole Earth magazine -- spawn of the amazing Whole Earth Catalogs,
source of the WELL, first to mention in print the Gaia Hypothesis, the
Internet, Virtual Reality, the Singularity and Burning Man (or at
least so the legend goes), the place where folks like Stewart Brand,
Kevin Kelly and Howard Rheingold found their voices, and where a whole
generation of young commune-kid geeks like myself learned to dream
weird -- is no more.
Link
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Thanks, Alex!)
Gmail review
Gmail review
04/11/2004 05:14 PMI don't know if it's due to the increased pressure on spammers or
what, but since I put the post up Friday night begging for spam I've
only gotten one spam email. It showed up about 5 hours after the post
was up and I haven't gotten anything since. It didn't flag it as spam,
which I assume is a feature Google will be developing more as time
goes on (or perhaps auto-recognition of spam isn't turned on yet). A
lot of friends have imported spam to see if gmail would auto-flag it
and no one seems to have tripped any spam filters yet. Oh, the spam
was also in Chinese, which gmail didn't do such a hot job displaying,
but I'm sure they're still working the unicode bugs out in the
beta.
update: apparently the spam filters are turned on
and working well, because checking my empty spam folder this sunday
afternoon, I found three Nigerian 419 scams, automatically filtered
into the spam folder. Cool!
I can say that after using gmail for a few days I finally get what
everyone is raving about. On first glance there's nothing impressive
there. To see what it is capable of doing well, you have to
use it: get a few email discussions going with folks and the
more you use it the more obvious the benefits become. I bet you could
say the same thing about blogging. Show a blog or the Blogger.com app
to someone that has never seen it or heard of blogging. I'm sure
they'd dismiss it as nothing special, one page being some sort of
boring public diary, while the app itself is just a giant form and a
button marked "post and publish", whatever that means.
Gmail is pretty incredible about tracking discussions. I've tried
several email packages that offer threading and gmail's is simpler and
more straightforward. It automatically trims replies and shows email
threads as top-down discussions, so it's easy to keep track of where
people are in a discussion. Replying to email is really easy, you just
start typing in the textarea below a message and it automatically
starts a response.
Gmail relies on the universal inbox with good searching and flags.
A lot of email power users I know have no filters of any kind,
prefering everything to drop into the inbox with custom quick searches
to find stuff and generous use of the flag message command. It takes a
little getting used to if you've been using filters for a long
time.
Everyone's raving about the keyboard shortcuts, but I haven't
gotten to use them much. I assume that's a power user feature I'll
pick up eventually. So far I've been impressed by email address
auto-completion. That's something I've never seen in a web app before
and it's quite a time-saver. As I get more familiar with it, I hope to
be able to navigate all my mail with simple keystrokes.
I think Google's really got something amazing here. It's a useful
app that feels almost like desktop software, the storage means you
never have to delete anything, and the simple flags and searching in a
threaded inbox is both a power users and new users dream setup. As
this develops along, I just might convert over to it from pop and imap
based accounts.
Review: Kid Pix Deluxe 3X
Review: Kid Pix Deluxe 3X
03/30/2005 05:42 PMBroderbund’s Kid Pix Deluxe 3X has been—brought to Mac OS
X by the folks at Software MacKiev—is a re-imagining of the
once-popular kids’ creativity software, now integrated with
Apple’s iLife applications.
Silicone Under Review
Silicone Under Review
04/13/2005 04:21 AMRed Herring Apr 13 2005 8:32AM GMT
Review: iPhoto 5
Review: iPhoto 5
03/30/2005 05:15 PMReviewing iPhoto 5 and Picasa 2, Walt Mossberg writes for the Wall
Street Journal, “Both programs are packed with good features and
have been significantly upgraded in their new versions. But iPhoto is
the better of the two — mainly because, unlike Picasa and most
other competitors, it totally frees users from understanding the
computer’s file-and-folder system.” [Mar 30, 2005]
i-Tee Case Review
i-Tee Case Review
04/12/2004 06:06 PMReview: FTPEditor Pro 3.1
Review: FTPEditor Pro 3.1
03/14/2005 05:04 PMSmall edits of web pages can be a cumbersome task, especially if you
have to correct a grammar or spelling mistake. Usually, you have to
open the file in an editing program, correct the mistake, save the
file and upload it. Now, there's a way to bypass much of this work
using FTPEditor. By Lee Underwood. 0223
Review: iLife ’04
Review: iLife ’04
01/16/2004 11:02 AMAssessing iLife ’04, David Pogue writes in the New York Times, “Each
program in the updated suite (except iTunes) offers about a dozen
enhancements. For example, the new iMovie offers video trimming with
an ‘undo’ feature right in the storyboard strip. The iDVD program
introduces 20 new professional-looking templates for your DVD menu
screens, and can now fit two hours of amazing-looking video onto a
disc. For iPhoto 4, the chief improvement is speed, enough to handle
25,000 photos per collection without bogging down. But iLife ’04 (for
the Mac OS X operating system) also includes a new program called
GarageBand. It’s designed to let people with even the feeblest musical
talent, or even musical interest, create professional-sounding digital
recordings.” [Jan 15]
Ed Baig's review
Ed Baig's review
04/01/2005 03:40 AMUsatoday.com - Thu Mar 31, 08:46 am GMT
Review: PDFpen 2.0.1
Review: PDFpen 2.0.1
03/30/2005 05:43 PMThis utility offers a variety of tools to let you easily create, use,
and interact with PDF documents and forms, at a reasonable price.
Review: Wordpress 1.5
Review: Wordpress 1.5
03/17/2005 03:42 AMThere are almost as many blogging tools out there as there are
bloggers. In addition to closed source vendors such as Movable Type
and Blogger, big players are entering the field, including Microsoft
with its MSN Spaces offering and the lesser-known .Text ASP.net
toolkit. But even among both these, and the vast array of open source
blogging tools, Wordpress rises above the others for being open source
as it should be done.
New Review of 'We the Media'
New Review of 'We the Media'
08/17/2004 11:09 AMAuthor and journalist
J.D. Lasica gives the
book a
kind
review at Mindjack, a site about culture in the Digital Age.
Review: The Sims 2 (PC)
Review: The Sims 2 (PC)
09/11/2004 10:09 PMOverclockers Club Sep 12 2004 2:37AM GMT
Review: AG Neovo M-17
Review: AG Neovo M-17
03/30/2005 05:43 PMThe USB ports on the front of the AG Neovo M-17 are a nice touch, but
the noisy speakers and color-uniformity problems at the top and bottom
of the screen make it difficult to recommend.
NeroLINUX 2 Review
NeroLINUX 2 Review
04/15/2005 12:54 PMSF-201 Alu Gehäuse Review
SF-201 Alu Gehäuse Review
03/21/2003 10:19 AMGrok Description matches for Review: Grammatica 6.1
GrokA matches for Review: Grammatica 6.1
Review: Grammatica 6.1
