All Entries in the "Reviews" Category
App Review: Zinio News Reader for iPad
While the initial fan fare of the iPad begins to ware off, the revolutionary device will now be judged more on content, rather than hardware. As an early adopter to the iPad, I very well intended to read lots of news on it, particularly magazines but content was the main issue. Were publishers going to [...]
Game Review: Hysteria Project
I have had my eyes on this game for a while now since its release, but after reading some mixed reviews I did not wish to spend $1.99 on a potentially disastrous game. A while ago it was listed for free for one day on AppShopper, and grabbed myself a copy to give it a [...]
App review: Seesmic for iPhone
The awesome people at Seesmic finally got around to launching their iPhone application last week.
I’ve been a fan of Seesmic from rather early days. To me, they edged out TweetDeck as the Desktop Twitter client to have at the time, having launched support for multiple accounts and integrating Facebook support before anyone else did. Since then I’ve moved on [...]
Buffalo MiniStation Lite: golden in looks, not in performance
You’d be hard pressed to find a better looking external hard drive than Buffalo’s MiniStation Lite. I tried the 500GB and although it’s very average in terms of performance it gets full marks in terms of looks.
I can’t really afford to buy any gold but I guess I could afford a hard drive that looks [...]
The Rocket That Is MarsEdit
MarsEdit, by Red Sweater Software, is a slick, feature-rich blogging application. It covers the entire workflow for blogging – drafting, editing, previewing – all in a simple, friendly interface. It handles offline editing with ease. It auto-discovers blog types, which makes setup a snap (assuming you are running on one of the [...]
Just Mobile Xtand Go for iPhone 3G/3GS
I first saw Just Mobile’s Xtand Go at CES. Now, I’ve had the Xtand Go for iPhone 3G/3GS installed in my Jeep for a while and I thought it was about time that I’d say something about it. Don’t look at this as a review necessarily but hopefully it’ll tell you whether you should get [...]
HTC HD2: the beauty and the beast
I think this is hands-down the review that’s taken the longest for me to get to a finished state and it’s not ever a review really more of a story of the journey I’ve taken with HTC HD2.
We first received the HTC HD2 in the Shufflegazine office back in December. That was just before I [...]
Samsung SCX-4623FN multifunction laser printer
The Samsung SCX-4623FN is a multifunction monochrome (black and white) laser printer that can also scan, copy and fax.
I know what you’re thinking – “oh, sexy, a black and white laser.”
You wouldn’t be too wrong either because this isn’t a machine you’d get very excited about. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be interested in [...]
Video: Speck iPad cases and skins, and Monster screen cleaning products
In this episode Paul Castle (@daddybird) and Mamdoh Nass (@fangpyre) try out some products from Speck and Monster Cable. More specifically they’re looking at the iClean screen cleaner from Monster Cable and from Speck it’s the CandyShell, the Fitted and the PixelSleeve Plus, all for Apple iPad. They also try out Speck’s ShieldView screen protectors.
WordPress iPhone App Review
I do a lot of very quick writing for this blog and others while waiting for friends to show up at a coffee shop or while waiting for dinner to get delivered. Most of this writing is done on my iPhone – I will get a sudden burst of inspiration for a topic or [...]
Better Password Management with 1Password
Have you ever had a problem trying to remember what passwords you have used for what websites, or ever worried that you are using the same password over and over again? It’s a trap that a lot of us fall into – we have dozens of online identities, from Facebook to Twitter to the [...]
Stitching panoramas in Hugin
Before Apple shipped QuickTime VR in 1994, shooting panoramic photos required very specialized gear – either very rare lenses like the Nikon 13mm f/5.6 which has a 118 degree field of view, or dedicated panoramic camera systems. QTVR made panoramas accessible, and a multitude of authoring tools were quickly released on the world. [...]
Quirky Power Curl – Review
Your standard PC laptop comes with a clunky black power adapter. Some are fortunate to have an element of cord management stuck to them. Apple’s standard white adapter stands out a bit with its cord management prongs but still leaves much to be desired. Heat wise though, even Apple’s product is on same level with [...]
Hands-on with Infinitec’s IUM Infinite USB Memory stick
After the unveiling of the IUM (Infinite USB Memory) stick by Dubai-based Infinitec on March 1st I’ve been fortunate enough to be able to use one of the IUMs. Don’t consider this a review as the IUM is still a pre-production unit so the usual disclaimer about specifications and design might change before it’s actually [...]
Aperture 3 Followup
I finally took the plunge and upgraded my Aperture 2 library to Aperture 3, which I mentioned I would only do once I was comfortable with the new version, and had satisfactory backups in place. I had read some rumblings that Aperture 3 was slow as compared to Aperture 2, but I never saw [...]
