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Reviews of products and services that I have used.

ie9 review

Wow. I actually like Internet Explorer 9. It’s still in beta, but it feels finished. Mind you, I don’t think I’ll give up Google’s Chrome or Mozilla’s Firefox anytime soon, but IE9 is worlds apart from the earlier versions of Internet Explorer, which I found effectively unusable (way too slow and ridiculously, even comically obtrusive). [...]

Review of the Disc-Go-Pod PLUS

Review of the Disc-Go-Pod PLUS. For the price (currently $500), it may not do what you want.

Review of lala.com

If you’ve never heard of lala.com, here’s the quick run-down: a bunch of really smart people, with lots of seed money, have set up a system whereby you can trade CDs with other people for a dollar or so. It’s basically an intermediary for CD trading. To simplify further, to trade CDs that you have, [...]

Nikon F100

I dabbled in photography in college and even took a few classes as electives. I enjoyed them, but my teacher (Dr. Mary Hammond) was very old-school, and never let us use any of the various technologies available to us. She said all you needed was a Pentax K1000, a good lens, and lots of film [...]

vBulletin vs Invision

What is the best forum software?

Google Toolbar for Firefox Bug

Situation: I’m typing in an input field and want to enter a special character, for example to type in “café”. I hit Alt + 130 to enter the “é” character. For some reason, the “é” character shows up in the Firefox Google search box, not in the text box, then the page directs to a [...]

Google Christmas Present

Well, last year some of us Google customers/publishers received the radio that would change colors while you played it. But this year, it’s the geek traveler’s toolkit. I like this year’s gift more, as I’ll be more likely to use it througout the year. I received some good goodies from Google, including: a 128 MB [...]

Touchless Car Wash Isn’t

Touchless car wash scratches cars.