Archive for the ‘Reviews’ Category
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Using the new service Hellotree.com, you can quickly and easily create a family tree. Now I know what some of you might be thinking - booooooring. Well as it happens I agree. But I have to tell you - my mom, grandmother and aunt absolutely love this service. They've created ...
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Another possible name for this post could be "SmartToolkit review with a tour of its features and lots of screenshots", because that's essentially what it is. Though I've only had a Smartphone for about a month and a half now, SmartToolkit is by far the best piece of (free) software ...
Posted in Reviews, Windows Mobile | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
John Boxall and Igor Faletski of Handi Mobility (a local British Columbia company) are about to release Live Vote - a free SMS voting system similar to the one used in "American Idol".
Live Vote was recently demonstrated at DemoCampVancouver, and was well received. I requested a beta invite a ...
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Saturday, September 29th, 2007
I've been using Joost on and off for about 4 months now. More off than on. It's not that I didn't like the app - it was pretty slick and quite solid for an early beta. It's that there wasn't a heck of a lot to watch. At some point ...
Posted in Other, Reviews | 12 Comments »
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Delicious Library has been out for a while. I know this. I've had their site bookmarked for months, and during my last 'bookmark cleanup', I decided it was time to finally time to download and install it. The following article is part tutorial, part overview, and has lots of screenshots. ...
Posted in Mac, Reviews | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Mailplane is a stand-alone Gmail client for OS X. Besides including all of the great features of Gmail, Mailplane adds extras such as built-in drag-and-drop attachments, quick import from iPhoto and iTunes, Growl notifications when you get new messages and much more.
Update: All 5 of my invites have been given ...
Posted in Email, Mac, Reviews | 7 Comments »
Thursday, September 20th, 2007
Update: all 3 invites gone. I'll update again if/when I have more.
I havehad 3 invites to the beta service Jango. My initial thoughts on Jango are very positive. It has the social aspect of Last.FM and the streaming and 'suggest similar artists' features of Pandora. Big plus - it ...
Posted in Other, Reviews | 6 Comments »
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
If you're a fan of the 'Netvibes style" home page, and find yourself spending more and more time on Facebook, 360Gadget might be your new favorite Facebook app. The recently launched 360Gadget allows you to subscribe to RSS feeds, quickly access your POP mail account, search the web, watch YouTube ...
Posted in Other, Reviews | 2 Comments »
Friday, August 10th, 2007
ShellEnhancer is a great little (free) program that significantly improves (if nothing else) the Windows user interface. Continue reading for an overview of some of its features...
Posted in Reviews, Windows | 1 Comment »
Thursday, July 19th, 2007
Hi digg visitors. I have recently moved from shared hosting to dedicated hosting, and it would appear that I picked a server that doesn't have enough memory and a fast enough CPU. I'll be upgrading later this weekend. Sorry for the inconvience, I assure you this is frustrating me more ...
Posted in Reviews, Windows | 28 Comments »
Saturday, July 14th, 2007
Have you Googled your name lately? Not entirely happy with the results? This review/overview/tutorial will help you change how you're represented online.
There are a lot of reasons you may want to alter what comes up when people search for your name. Most likely, you're about to enter the workforce ...
Posted in Other, Reviews | 14 Comments »
Sunday, July 1st, 2007
Update: OK the 10 invites are gone. As soon as I get some more I'll offer them up here again.
If you're looking for someone to test it on/with, my user is: rossmckillop
Thanks to a kind user at Mashable, I now have a Pownce account. Though I gave away my ...
Posted in Mac, Reviews, Windows | 13 Comments »
Friday, June 8th, 2007
Note: the following is not a paid review. I was approached by the folks at Answers That Work to review The Ultimate Troubleshooter. I did accept a licensed copy of the software in order to complete the following review.
What: ATW claims "The Ultimate Troubleshooter is PC healthcare, PC repair, PC ...
Posted in Reviews, Windows | 7 Comments »
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
TweakVI is an application that allows you to tweak, optimize and/or change hundreds of the 'hidden' features of Windows Vista. It comes in 3 flavors - Basic (free), Premium ($29.99 USD) and Ultimate ($39.99 USD). This review/tutorial will focus on the free version. Keep reading to see some of the ...
Posted in Internet Explorer, Reviews, Windows | No Comments »
Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Now that almost everyone knows what RSS is, I figured I'd review a few of the ways you can read RSS feeds. With a heavy emphasis on cross-platform and/or open source, here are 20 (albeit somewhat brief) reviews of the free RSS readers available. Links to download, screenshots and system ...
Posted in Linux, Mac, Reviews, Windows, iPod/iPhone | 31 Comments »