BBEdit 8 - Review

BBEdit 8 - Review 03/28/2005 12:33 PM
David Weeks: "BBEdit is designed to edit text; it focuses solely on letting you write and edit your words with speed and power. BBEdit is not a word processor. It doesn't allow fancy page or character formatting, nor does it handle graphics. But it has packed with more useful features for text editing and manipulation than any other Macintosh application I know."

Inspiron XPS review

Inspiron XPS review 02/17/2004 11:54 AM
PC Magazine review of the Inspiron XPS, Dell's new high-end laptop designed specifically for gaming. Read...

Funny review

Funny review 11/13/2003 12:23 PM
I don’t link to every review of NetNewsWire—but Chris Seibold’s review is funny.

Everyone knows what a RSS feed is, well maybe not everyone. If you don't know what an RSS feed is send me your home address and I'll personally come kick you to death for being so out of touch. I'm joking, my knees feel like gravel in a Ziplock bag, I couldn't kick an ant to death.

Axim X3i review

Axim X3i review 02/16/2004 01:23 PM
PocketNow.com review of the Axim X3i, the wireless version of their Axim X3 line of Pocket PCs. Read [Via Pocket PC Thoughts]...

i-Tee Case Review

i-Tee Case Review 04/12/2004 06:06 PM

ActiveWin: Far Cry PC - Review

ActiveWin: Far Cry PC - Review 04/15/2004 11:48 AM
I have posted up my review of the UBI Soft/Cry Tek first person shooter - Far Cry released last month on the PC. Here is a snippet from the review:

Far Cry is a first person shooter. The first thing to mention is that the game has excellent AI, I can’t say that a game has had as good AI as this since Half Life, and that was released years ago. To give you an idea of the difference this game has compared to others, if you are creeping through the jungle, you can do so without the enemy knowing where you are without actually seeing you, the enemy rely on where they last saw you or where you have been heard. This is even better when you can throw rocks to put the enemy off of your tracks and have them running and looking in a different direction altogether.

Gmail review

Gmail review 04/11/2004 05:14 PM

I 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.

"National Review"

"National Review" 02/19/2004 03:22 PM

EDUCAUSE REVIEW

EDUCAUSE REVIEW 03/22/2005 03:45 PM
EDUCAUSE Review has published an article by me: "How is Open Source Special". Thanks to Pieter Hartsook for all the help....

Review: FTPEditor Pro 3.1

Review: FTPEditor Pro 3.1 03/14/2005 05:04 PM
Small 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

"We don't need them to review our
books."

"We don't need them to review our
books." 11/17/2003 08:09 AM

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Review: FeedForAll 1.0

Review: FeedForAll 1.0 03/14/2005 05:04 PM
RSS technology is really taking off. As the demand has increased, web developers have discovered that they need to add RSS feeds to their sites. In the past, this was usually done manually or through the use of Perl scripts, but now you can choose a software program to do the job. FeedForAll is one of these. By Lee Underwood. 0302

Review: The Five Obstructions

Review: The Five Obstructions 08/02/2004 08:30 AM
The Five Obstructions (also known as De Fem benspænd) A documentary about a filmmaker, Jørgen Leth, who re-visits his seminal 1967 work, The Perfect Human and is instructed by his former student, Lars von Trier to remake the film five times, each time with a different set of restrictions (or obstructions).

Review: Wordpress 1.5

Review: Wordpress 1.5 03/17/2005 03:42 AM
There 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.
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