All Entries in the "Reviews" Category
30 Days With Aperture 3
A month ago, Apple released Aperture 3. I downloaded a copy, requested a 30 day trail serial number, and took it for a spin. Aperture 3 brings a host of improvements I had been waiting for – most notably Faces and Places from iPhoto, as well as a revamped keyword/tagging system and a [...]
Transmit vs ExpanDrive
While comparing two very successful applications Mac OS X, it comes to mind that there are often more than one ‘correct’ solution to any given problem. Today’s comparison is between two FTP clients – often used for putting files on web servers, accessing some software download sites, or getting files into and out of [...]
Review: XBMC or Plex – Which Media Server To Use?
So, you just got a new laptop, and your old, trusty Intel Macbook is now gathering dust. You’ve been thinking about getting rid of it, here is a better suggestion: turn it into a media server for your home theater.
It already has a DVD drive, and it likely came with an Apple Remote. The [...]
Review: Monster Heartbeats by Lady Gaga
When I started writing about the Lady Gaga Heartbeat earphone I could not help myself from thinking about Lady Gaga. I found striking similarities between the Heartbeats earphones and Lady Gaga herself. From what I know of Monster’s design process and how they work with artists it’s evident that Lady Gaga had great influence on [...]
Review: LG X130 netbook
I thought the days of netbooks with Windows XP installed are numbered, at least selling new ones anymore with the old Windows on them. But the other day the LG X130 arrived in our office so of course we had to take a look at it.
It’s a typical netbook with a 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor, [...]
Review: Xbox 360 wireless racing wheel
Though I am an avid gamer, I was never interested in racing games. I did not see the point of going around in circles ad infinitum if I could be saving the world in some other game instead. However, Forza 3 did an exceptionally good job in spiking my interest in the genre. The real [...]
Easy way to share contact information with Bump app for iPhone
A couple of my friends and work colleagues have iPhones, and had independently asked me if I’d setup Bump for sharing my contact information. It took me a second to figure out what they were talking about – a iPhone/Android app from Bump Technologies. Bump does have the best URL of all time [...]
Review: Speck TuckPack
In choosing a bag for your valuable notebook today you have a very wide choice. Speck makes some of the more stylish bags and if you’re looking for something slim their TuckPack might just be the pick for you.
It’s basically just a bit bigger than a sleeve, which is great because it’s slim and won’t [...]
Review: Dark Void
For the last week or so I’ve played through Dark Void on Xbox 360 (also available for PS3 and Windows). In the game, the main character, Will, is a pilot and he’s flying Ava to some unknown destination and while passing through the Bermuda Triangle they crash and find themselves in a parallel universe where “The [...]
Zombieville: zombie slaughter game for iPhone
I’ve downloaded a lot of games for my iPhone but I’ve played none of them more than Zombieville USA. Especially on my recent CES trip I spent many hours in airports and on planes killing zombies with guns, chainsaws, lasers and ninja swords. If it sounds bloody and violent it is but it is deceptively [...]
CrashPlan: multi-platform cloud backup
Backups are one of the most important elements of IT life. Ask anyone who has lost data to a failed hard drive, a stolen laptop, or a botched system upgrade. During the last two weeks, I have been evaluating CrashPlan, a multi-platform backup system with two very interesting features: unlimited, encrypted cloud backup [...]
First look: M-Audio MicroTrack II mobile audio recorder
To make our podcasting a bit more flexible we bought an M-Audio MicroTrack II today. It’ll give us high-quality audio almost anywhere we go and with two microphones. There are simpler (and cheaper) ways we could record but with the MicroTrack we can plug in two microphones and record each as a channel in a [...]
Mix like a DJ on your Mac with Djay
If you are a music fan (who isn’t?) you might have dreamed about mixing some tunes and added new grooves to your favorite tracks. Macs are famous for their music production tools and you don’t need to be a professional DJ to create cool stuff.
There are a lot of DJing and music production tools (GarageBand, [...]
Quick look: Call of duty: Modern warfare 2 on XBox
Yes, you read correctly, XBox.
Microsoft has been kind enough to lend us an XBox 360 Elite with a bunch of games including the recently released Call of duty: Modern warfare 2 (Call of Duty 6). It’s really for an upcoming article for The National but I thought I’d share some of my thoughts on this [...]
Snow Leopard and its Exchange support
One of Snow Leopard’s biggest corporate appealing feature was its straight out of the box Exchange support. iCal, Address Book & Mail App all worked directly with Exchange 2007 server (sorry, Exchange 2003 only supported via IMAP). While it is not as fast as Outlook 2003/2007 on Windows, the ability to work directly from Mac [...]
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