Epinions Recent Reviews for SwedishChef

Good for Everything, Not Great for Anything

Thu, 10 Feb 2000 12:35:04 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author SwedishChef - I bought the All-in-Wonder Pro to turn an old Pentium 200/64 system into something that wouldn't annoy me just to look at. AND I wanted to have a television/DVD player next to my bed. These things have been accomplished.

The All-in-One does...

Kozmo Online Store: Scary. Beautiful, but Scary.

Thu, 10 Feb 2000 12:10:40 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author SwedishChef - There's something insane and just fundamentally scary about how good this company is. Several weeks ago, Washington D.C. shut down as a violent nor'easter dropped fifteen inches of snow across the MidAtlantic. The only cars I saw on the road belonged to...

The Best-Kept Secret

Thu, 13 Jan 2000 18:54:25 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author SwedishChef - I have bounced from free ISP to free ISP, and Juno is now my home and my favorite.

Whether you care about or want the free email access they offer, Juno's free ISP service is dead-on and reliable. I had been using Altavista FreeAccess for some...

Attractive but Problematic

Wed, 8 Dec 1999 20:04:05 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author SwedishChef - Too good to be true? Or maybe not that good, and not that true...

I downloaded and installed Worldspy.net on the advice of my fellow epinionites and was initially enthralled with my discovery: a free dial-up ISP with local access (at least to...

Layout for Dummies

Wed, 1 Dec 1999 21:25:12 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author SwedishChef - Adobe is a smart corporation. They market to the executives and the large corporations that will buy the full versions of expensive products and will not want to have to learn anything too complicated. This is why PageMaker is design for dummies. It...

For die-hards, a disappointment

Wed, 1 Dec 1999 18:03:49 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author SwedishChef - If you've never played the two original Civ games, then Civ:CTP might entertain you for a while. But if you know the originals, you will be disappointed by the new, Sid Meier-less sequel.

Civilization II is clearly one of the best strategy...

Archived Computer Hardware Reviews: BJC-4300: Durable and Easy

Wed, 1 Dec 1999 17:42:37 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author SwedishChef - It may not create the best color photos in the world, but the Canon BJC-4300 is a solid, easy-to-use, cheap-to-maintain bubble jet printer. It's certainly not for graphic designers or people looking to print out photo-quality images off the web or off of...

Great Film, Wholly Unmarketable

Wed, 1 Dec 1999 17:29:18 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author SwedishChef - Three Kings is one of the best films to come out of Hollywood this year, but I think in general it will alienate a mainstream audience so much that at the box office and even on the top 10 lists it will come up short. My cynicism about the Hollywood...

Not Bad. There are Better.

Wed, 1 Dec 1999 16:20:46 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author SwedishChef - When I first came to Epinions, I was on Altavista Freeaccess. Now, I'm on Worldnet. It's not that Altavista is bad for a free ISP. Strictly speaking, there's no such thing as a bad free ISP... as long as they're free, it's still good. But the problem...

Someone Has to Disagree

Wed, 1 Dec 1999 15:16:02 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author SwedishChef - As I write this 32 people have already recommended this printer. Someone needs to disagree with them. Although the output that my Lexmark Inkjet gives me, when it works, is very nice, the technical problems I have had with it and the expense of operating...

Microsoft Golf 1999 Edition: Solid, Substantially Addictive

Wed, 1 Dec 1999 14:52:58 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author SwedishChef - Does Microsoft Golf 1999 have anything that the other PC golf games out there don't? Probably not. Does that make it a bad purchase? I doubt it. Thought the game clearly isn't superior to any of the other golf options out there, as a means of wasting...

QuarkXPress: It's Good to be King

Wed, 1 Dec 1999 04:21:04 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author SwedishChef - In the realm of print publication and print design, no better application exists than QuarkXPress. It does everything without being so bloated that it becomes slow. It is small and effective and virtually a necessity for any designer or publication. Even...

A Legacy Is Not Enough

Wed, 1 Dec 1999 04:01:24 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author SwedishChef - Just because the Bond franchise has produced some quality films in the past doesn't give Hollywood the right to produce bad films and market them by association. If anything, producers should be wary to guard and protect what was once a hallowed...

Sprint Mobile Phone Service in Washington/Baltimore: There Should Be Laws Against This

Wed, 1 Dec 1999 03:36:04 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author SwedishChef - The phone works. The service does not.

Although I am thankful for "free" long distance and voicemail, the "free and clear" plan is neither free nor clear. When it was first introduced, the rates that Sprint put out for...

A Nap Before Christmas

Wed, 1 Dec 1999 03:18:47 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author SwedishChef - There's something just not very good about Tim Burton's latest effort. Maybe I was just expecting more; the previews gave it an air of intelligence that I anticipated, and rumors of script-doctoring by Tom Stoppard made me brim with excitement. But the...

The Best. Period.

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 21:48:46 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author SwedishChef - This is arguably the best CD in my collection. I am a converted rock music listener. I started off with REM, Dave Matthews, U2, and then went back in time and discovered Joni Mitchell, Rolling Stones, the Who, Pink Floyd, etc.

I still love all...

Driven and Fantastic.

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 16:26:26 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author SwedishChef - Michael Mann's breakthrough film, Heat, gave him a reputation as a solid filmmaker with a fantastic sense of camera. His newest effort, The Insider, solidifies him as one of the best working Directors in Hollywood. Although clearly the stories he tells...

Nary an Original Moment

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 16:12:09 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author SwedishChef - Did you like Terminator 2? Bladerunner? Speed? Devil's Advocate? The Usual Suspects?

Well, End of Days is not quite as good as any of them. But it certainly tries. Arnold's latest efforts weaves together elements from all of those films, and more,...