Archive for the ‘Reviews’ Category
A few more thoughts on Apple TV “Take 2″
Last night I got a chance to spend a little more time with the AppleTV “Take 2″, and there are a few things I want to point out.
1. There is no “watch it after it expires” for rentals – We’ve talked in the past about how Apple had a loop hole in the rentals where [...]
Review: mStand from Rain Design
If you’re like me, you spend a minimum of 8 hours a day working on your Mac. My primary machine is a Macbook Pro, and for the first several months of owning it, and using it as my primary machine, I suffered through typing on the keyboard and using the trackpad for mouse navigation for [...]
Review – iPhone Shield and EcoShield iPhone Cases from Agent 18
Agent 18 is a group “nerdy engineers” that are dedicated to digital device protection. They offer cases and other protection for iPods, iPhones, Zunes, PSPs, DS lites, and even Bags. Today I’m going to take a look at two of their offerings, the iPhone Shield and the planet-friendly EcoShield, also for iPhone.
Video Find: Mossberg reviews Leopard
I’ve begun to look forward to Walt Mossberg’s Apple reviews. He doesn’t come off as a fanboy (which no one at a paper as high up the latter as the Wall Street Journal ever should…on ANY subject, in my opinion), but he obviously appreciates Apple products.
Here’s his take on the “evolutionary – but not [...]
Buying Wal-Mart DRM-Free MP3s on your Mac – A Review
So, today Wal-Mart announced a couple of shockers.
1) They are selling MP3s – completely DRM-Free – from both EMI and Universal Music.
2) They’re encoded at 256Kbps.
3) They’re only $0.94 cents a song, or $9.22 an album.
So, these higher quality, cheaper songs, will play on any player, including your iPod – so [...]
VIDEO: Mossberg reviews iWork ‘08
Walt Mossberg has published a video review of iWork ‘08, and I have to agree with most of his assessment. I didn’t find the word count or other writer’s features of Pages that hard to find…but not being a Microsoft Office user, I might just not know what I’m missing…other than that, I think [...]
REVIEW: iWork ‘08 – Pages
In iWork ‘05, Pages was an application that I desperately wanted to use, but never had any use for. I don’t spend a lot of free time making brochures or newsletters for my family, so I didn’t have much of a reason to use it. It simply didn’t function as a normal word [...]
iPhone Review Round-Up w/ 2 Video Reviews
Major media outlets from all over are joining in on the iPhone promotion. I hesitate to call it hype anymore, because all of these reviews seem to say the same thing. The iPhone – apparently – lives up to the hype.
The Wall Street Journal Says:
“Our verdict is that, despite some flaws and feature [...]
Video Review: Think – by Freeverse
You can download Think for free, by clicking here.
Xtreme Mac Luna – Review
There are dozens, if not hundreds, of iPod dock equipped radios and alarm clocks. I look at a lot of them here, but not everything gets reviewed, primarily because a good portion of them aren’t worth writing about. The primary thing that these companies seem to forget when they construct these iPod playing [...]
