Epinions Recent Reviews for flyingdutchman

Centurion Software Steganos 3 Security Suite: Nearly sufficient, but not quite...

Mon, 4 Nov 2002 21:05:15 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author flyingdutchman - Note: The version reviewed here is Steganos Security Suite V4.13, which has replaced V3. Epinions does not know this - yet.

Steganos Security Suite is a product aimed at those computer users who want to keep their confidential data just...

Lost & Found: Reclaim your lost data instead of crying over it!

Wed, 25 Oct 2000 21:24:23 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author flyingdutchman - An ancient proverb says:

"The question is not if your hard drive will fail, but when..."

Recently, I've personally verified this truth. A repeated series of power outages had been wreaking havoc on my system...

Macromedia Fireworks: Efficient Web Graphics

Thu, 5 Oct 2000 21:49:21 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author flyingdutchman - Designing graphics for use on websites can be a quite lengthy and frustrating matter. Often one has to use a variety of specific editors to achieve the desired results, and it isn't easy keeping track of tens, or hundreds, of graphic files while doing...

SpinRite 5.0: Scandisk on Steroids?

Sun, 1 Oct 2000 17:15:04 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author flyingdutchman - As I was having a few hard drive problems lately, probably due to repeating power outages - I don't have an UPS - I had the opportunity to check out one of the most useful pieces of magnetic storage media maintenance software.

The creator of...

NoteTab Light: Text Editor or Swiss Army Knife?

Fri, 31 Mar 2000 23:47:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author flyingdutchman - Having recently reviewed a simple no-frills freeware notepad replacement (Notepad+), I will now pass right to the other end of the text editor spectrum: NoteTab. This text editor by Switzerland-based Fookes Software comes in three versions, Light,...

"Flamenco" Fireworks

Tue, 28 Mar 2000 21:46:56 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author flyingdutchman - If you happen to have something with guitars, you may well be familiar with John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola and Paco De Lucia. For those who aren't, let it suffice to say that these three have earned their place in the Guitar Hall Of Fame - three times over...

RogSoft Notepad+: A Notepad Replacement for Type-A Personalities

Sat, 25 Mar 2000 16:14:05 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author flyingdutchman - Windows' notepad is a plain text editor, but not very much of it really, and everyone who's used it knows why. Its 64k file size limit, and its total lack of any advanced features make it unsuitable for any serious use. On top of that, it's just plain...

A Poet From Montreal...

Fri, 10 Mar 2000 21:04:51 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author flyingdutchman - Leonard Cohen's older work definitely is another of my "tender spots"... I heard it ever since I was a kid, my parents had a few albums taped. Nearly thirty years later, it hasn't let go of me and it probably never will. While I think Cohen's...

Silence In The Studio...!

Sat, 4 Mar 2000 21:31:55 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author flyingdutchman - Silence In The Studio..!

I've always had a special fondness for this album - among the early PF albums, it's been my all time favorite. In its time (1970) it was quite a revolutionary album, and it sure is a merit of the particular cultural...

Highly Concentrated Sound - Use With Caution.

Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:26:17 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author flyingdutchman - For nearly thirty years now, King Crimson have had a solid reputation for releasing very particular, often quite innovative music. The album "Beat", subject of this review, is no exception.

Otherwise known as "the blue one",...

Pitrinec Perfect Keyboard 3.0 Pro: Sometimes a program actually will make life easier...

Fri, 25 Feb 2000 21:22:31 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author flyingdutchman - Macro recorders can be very useful tools to enhance productivity while working with a computer. Basically, these programs will allow you to record a number of keyboard and/or mouse actions, which can be subsequently executed just by pressing a few keys...

Raw or Polished? That's the question...

Wed, 23 Feb 2000 20:56:59 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author flyingdutchman - The Story

An almost desert road, round midnight. Me and a colleague, returning home with the van after what we call a remote job, 70 mile ride. The drone of the engine, Jimi's "Red House" and a tasty-tricky-cigarette :) for...

ELP play Mussorgsky

Thu, 17 Feb 2000 22:04:49 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author flyingdutchman - "Pictures At An Exhibition" was composed around 1875 by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky. A fine example of musical impressionism, the suite was inspired by a visit to an exhibition in occasion of a dear friend's funeral... The work,...

This One's Never Gonna Die...

Sun, 13 Feb 2000 19:29:56 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author flyingdutchman - This review has been due for some time. Just didn't get down too it since I've been busy vamping up :-) my website a bit... But here it is.

"Harvest" has been one of the first records I bought with my hard-earned money when I was a...

The Merit Of Contamination

Sat, 12 Feb 2000 18:41:12 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author flyingdutchman - During the mid-eighties, quite a few contemporary musicians have become involved with what is now known as "World Music", a global melting pot of musical styles and cultures: recorded music from Africa, South America and the Middle East began...

Peter Gabriel for Beginners...

Thu, 10 Feb 2000 21:14:58 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author flyingdutchman - While Peter Gabriel's earlier albums (generally known as I, II, II, and IV) contain really outstanding material, and single releases even scored a few modest chart hits, the subsequent album "So" definitively confirmed PG's capabilities of...

Not for the faint-hearted...

Sat, 5 Feb 2000 13:27:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author flyingdutchman - I'd consider this album to be Peter Gabriel's most impressive release. "Passion" contains the music written by PG for the soundtrack of Martin Scorzese's "The Last Temptation Of Christ", and is named after the motion picture's working...

Life On The Road

Thu, 3 Feb 2000 13:08:58 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author flyingdutchman - A classic example of seventies mainstream rock, in my opinion this is Jackson Browne's best album. It was released in 1977 and through the years it's had considerable airplay so even if you're not familiar with the album probably you've heard a few...

Teleport Pro: "To Browse is Human, to Teleport is Devine"

Wed, 2 Feb 2000 21:46:40 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author flyingdutchman - Anyone who's been browsing through lots of documents on large (corporate) websites knows that it is not unusual to be online for hours while doing this. If you don't have flat rates for your phone and Internet connections, you might want to use your time...

Handbook for a Healing Art

Fri, 28 Jan 2000 21:28:23 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author flyingdutchman - "Contrary to myth, massage is a healing art and not an advanced sexual technique."

The above line, taken from the introduction, captures the scope of the book pretty well. The book covers the practice of massage as an act of physical...

A Work Of Art

Fri, 28 Jan 2000 19:22:09 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author flyingdutchman - When Peter Gabriel releases an album, if you know his music, then you think you'd know more or less what to expect. But this one bowled me over, right from the first track.

The subject matter of the album (from the liner notes):
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An Album That Bites!

Fri, 28 Jan 2000 19:05:40 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author flyingdutchman - My first introduction to Melissa Etheridge was a track on a compilation CD recorded "live in the studio" for a Dutch radio program. The track was "Bring Me Some Water", from her first release. Recorded "unplugged", acoustic...

Gabriel, Peter: Magician of Sound and Word

Thu, 27 Jan 2000 21:20:39 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author flyingdutchman - Music being a fundamental part of my everyday life, the musicians that I (deeply) respect are too numerous to mention, let alone to write reviews about all of them... But Peter Gabriel has been a long time favorite.

Back from the time when he was...

PowerQuest Partition Magic: Partition Magic 5.0: A Must-Have for Power Users

Wed, 26 Jan 2000 22:38:48 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author flyingdutchman - It's truly amazing how many people are running today's large hard disks as one single large partition. While Window's FAT32 file system will allow very large partitions, this certainly does not improve performance. And I'm not even talking about sitting...

IrfanView: IrfanView beats ACDSee!!!

Wed, 26 Jan 2000 17:47:40 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author flyingdutchman - Until about two weeks ago, I never heard about IrfanView. I happened upon it by chance while browsing a freeware site, and decided to give it a try. And I fell in love with this cute little program right away.

Until now, I've been using...