Category: Review

Google+. The social network that wants to be cool but isn’t.

27 Dec, 2011

Who doesn’t love the idea of Goolge+? It’s a social network, from Google, that ties into your Google life. It’s got a pretty easy to use interface, does a great job at grouping friends, has video and audio chat built-in and can automatically upload every picture you take from your Android phone into the system. […]

To the CloudApp with that screenshot and return me a link.

3 Nov, 2011

If you’re on a Mac, Cloud is a great free app. To use it, you just drag a document onto the application icon in the menu bar and it gets uploaded to the internet. It then copies the link to the file so you can just paste it into an email or use it wherever. […]

Backblaze continues to backup my computer.

22 Oct, 2011

It’s been nearly three years since I signed up for Backblaze and it’s been backing up my computer ever since. I have it set to back up once a day and it currently has backed up 112,452 files at 82,287 MB. That’s over 80 Gigs! All this for less than $5 a month. Luckily I […]

Scream 4 – Cheesy but worth the rent.

16 Oct, 2011

The year was 1996 and I was in high school when Scream came out. I wasn’t a big fan of horror movies, but I somehow saw this one. Then there was Scream 2 and Scream 3. Each move a not quite as good as the one before it but at least the characters stayed the same and […]

One hell of flashlight for about $20 bucks.

4 Aug, 2011

I’ve been meaning to get a new flashlight for some time now and I finally went on to Amazon and got one. It arrived today and it’s amazing. The Dorcy CyberLight has 5 hour runtime, can survive an 8 foot fall and shines 500 ft! It even comes with batteries. I took it outside and […]

The fastest browser on my Mac is Firefox 5.

3 Jul, 2011

I tested four browsers with the SunSpider tests and it turns out that Firefox 5 was faster than Chrome, Safari and Opera. This was quite surprising to me as it beat out Chrome but quite a bit. It’s also interesting how far behind Safari is. Opera 10.5 – 534.0ms +/- 1.4% Chrome 12 – 524.6ms […]

Just watched Battle for LA. Lots of shooting little story.

19 Jun, 2011

I like a good action movie, but this was a bit over done. Where was my story? Shoot. Kill. Repeat. That’s pretty much what it was. And why do aliens, who can build spaceships and other cool stuff, always have one week spot that we can find and hit every time with a basic machine gun?

Turn your iPad or iPhone into a weather radio.

17 Jun, 2011

I’ve been looking to get a new weather radio and I found a really good, and cheap, one that happens to be an iOS app. NOAA Weather Radio is an iPhone and iPad app that lets you listen to over 160 weather radio stations from all around the country and even a few in Canada. […]

Google Music vs Amazon Cloud Player – A quick review.

3 Jun, 2011

I’ve been testing out both Google Music and Amazon Cloud Player and have to say that they are both nice services. Below are my pros and cons of each service after some initial testing. Price: Google Music – Free (for now) Amazon Cloud Player – First 5 gigs are free, after that it’ll cost. Tip Uploading: Google […]

SwiftKey is my choice for an Android keyboard replacement.

14 Mar, 2011

About a month ago I started looking for a keyboard replacement for my HTC Incredible. I tried a few different apps and have decided that SwiftKey works best for me. What I like about SwiftKey is it tries to predict what I’m writing. It suggests the next logical word in my sentences and it does […]