Epinions Recent Reviews for lap0530

A Monitor Worth Looking At

Fri, 2 Jan 2004 13:10:56 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author lap0530 - Having debuted in the United States in 2000, SVA-USA is hardly a household name. However, retail partnerships with the likes of Office Depot, Costco, Tweeter, and RCWilley have allowed the mass distribution of SVA's televisions, LCD monitors, and DVD...

Hewlett Packard PhotoSmart PSC2410 Thermal Inkjet Printer: Picture Perfect All in One

Tue, 25 Nov 2003 14:32:17 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author lap0530 - I've Been Waiting Too Long I have been waiting for nearly three years to purchase an all-in-one multifunction device. My wish list included flatbed scanning, color and black and white copying, color printing, and photo quality prints. My needs...

Sharp, Very Sharp

Thu, 18 Sep 2003 23:07:59 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author lap0530 - How things have changed over the years! As a graduate student in the 1970s, I purchased a handheld calculator with an accumulating memory and square root key for my statistics courses. That calculator set me back about $80. Today, such a calculator can be...

Palm-Powered Proficiency at a Popular Price

Mon, 23 Dec 2002 12:29:35 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author lap0530 - The Sony CLIÉ™ PEG-SL10 is a Palm-Powered™ (Palm OS v.4.1) PDA with a 320 x 320 backlit monochrome screen. In contrast to the monochrome iPAQ’s (see my review), the CLIÉ’s screen provides high resolution, excellent visibility, and...

Compaq iPAQ Pocket PC H3150 Personal Organizer: The Poor Man's iPAQ

Sat, 25 Aug 2001 16:09:40 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author lap0530 - For less than $200, one can purchase a Compaq iPAQ 3150. This machine boasts 16MB of RAM, 16MB of flash ROM, a Strong ARM 32-bit 206 MHz processor, and a 320x240 monochrome touchscreen. The iPAQ 3150 runs the Microsoft Pocket OS. The unit is 5.11" x...

Look, Ma! No Hands!

Sat, 21 Jul 2001 11:11:14 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author lap0530 - This is something of an experiment. I am not typing this article. Instead, I am speaking into a microphone. Theoretically, my computer, using voice recognition software, will understand the words I speak and turn those words into text. I have been...

Simple Solution to a Complex Problem

Mon, 2 Apr 2001 13:36:33 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author lap0530 - eProject (http://www.eproject.com) provides both a free and a paid version of its online collaboration software. This review focuses on the free version, which I am currently using along with several members of a project team. Our team has found that the...

FaxWave: Free Faxes by E-mail

Fri, 2 Feb 2001 00:32:37 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author lap0530 - I thought I had found the perfect free web-based unified fax, voicemail, and e-mail client in uReach. However, uReach recently announced that the voicemail and fax services would no longer be free of charge as of February. This development left me...

Lexmark Color JetPrinter Z32 Inkjet Printer: Pretty Price For A Proficient Printer

Mon, 8 Jan 2001 14:37:13 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author lap0530 - Lexmark Z32

Attracted by the $89 price tag at Wal-Mart, I purchased the Lexmark™ Z32 Color Jetprinter™ for my son to use at college. The printer’s light weight (nine pounds in the box) and its small footprint (6.7"H x 17.6"W x...

RealFTP.com: Get Real, Would You?

Thu, 28 Dec 2000 05:03:52 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author lap0530 - Update: 4/7/2001. RealFTP is back in operation, and is still free. However, the service now imposes pop-up ads on members' web pages. Unfortunately, the JavaScript that spawns the advertisements does not implement cleanly, and the result is that...

Blogger: Web Updates the Blogger Way

Mon, 11 Dec 2000 02:50:55 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author lap0530 - Blogging is the latest craze to hit the Internet. Blogs are everywhere. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated!

What Blogs Are

Blog is short for weblog, a sort of instant message to the Internet. Blog owners can post...

Adobe Acrobat Reader: Documents Fly Through the Web With the Greatest of Ease

Mon, 4 Dec 2000 00:50:58 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author lap0530 - An Electronic Document Standard

To appreciate the need for Acrobat Reader, one first must understand the Portable Document File (PDF) technology of Adobe Systems. According to Adobe:

“Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF) is...

TopCities: You Need 50 Megs, and What Do You Get?

Mon, 27 Nov 2000 22:42:21 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author lap0530 - TopCities

TopCities (http://www.topcities.com) provides 50 MB of web space for free. This space can be used for uploading and storing files using the TopCities web-based file manager. However, the TopCities service is really geared to...

An Overdue Overview of Microsoft Office 2000 Professional

Mon, 13 Nov 2000 18:24:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author lap0530 - Introduction

I figured that with only six weeks left in the Year 2000, I should finally upgrade to Office 2000. The upgrade was supposed to occur this past spring, but I never got around to it. One reason was that I liked Office 97...

This is Just Absurd

Sun, 22 Oct 2000 14:54:15 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author lap0530 - Management of the Absurd

As a management consultant with more than twenty years of experience, I am faced with the unsettling reality that in my field everything works and nothing works. What I mean by that is virtually...

Tweak UI: Must I Be a Geek to Tweak?

Sat, 14 Oct 2000 15:53:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author lap0530 - Tweak UI 1.33

Tweak means to fine-tune or adjust--it also means to pinch sharply! In this review, the first meaning is adopted. Users of Microsoft Windows 95 and higher frequently complain that the interface is not highly customizable...

Hampton Inns: One Thousand Choices

Fri, 13 Oct 2000 20:48:55 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author lap0530 - Hampton Inns

I travel on business virtually every week, and Hampton Inns and the Hampton Inn & Suites have become my first choice for business travel lodging accommodations. There are a number of reasons for that choice, and in this...

AD-Aware: Be Aware of Spyware

Sun, 1 Oct 2000 21:38:51 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author lap0530 - Parasitic spyware programs pervade freeware, shareware, and program demo downloads. These programs frequently install themselves on the unsuspecting user’s hard drive without the explicit knowledge or consent of the user. Some of the spyware purveyors...

AdsOff!: Spray Those Pesky Banners and Pop-ups Away

Sun, 10 Sep 2000 11:40:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author lap0530 - AdsOff! 2.0

AdsOff! is a free-to-try browser accessory that blocks banner ads and pop-up windows. The makers of AdsOff! make some substantial claims:

• Accelerated page loading

• Customizable banner and pop-up ad...

Sophos Anti-Virus (PC): Sweep Your System and Network Clean

Fri, 1 Sep 2000 22:17:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author lap0530 - Sophos Anti-Virus

Thank goodness I didn't have to pay for this program--Sophos is very expensive--even in its most basic configuration running into several hundreds of dollars. My company uses Sophos Anti-Virus as our corporate...

Bradbury Software TopStyle: Style Sheets Made Simple

Fri, 18 Aug 2000 23:40:05 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author lap0530 - Bradbury Software TopStyle Lite

Note: This is a review of Bradsoft TopStyle Lite (v. 1.52), which is given away by the manufacturer as an introduction to the full ($50 retail) version. While the Lite version does not have all the...

iMesh: Finding and Sharing All Files

Sun, 6 Aug 2000 15:37:20 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author lap0530 - iMesh

Like the much ballyhooed and possibly soon to be extinct Napster, iMesh (http://www.imesh.com) allows users to search for MP3 files on the hard drives of other users and to download those files. Like Scour Exchange, iMesh goes...

Got Ten Minutes to Spare? Want to Learn HTML?

Sat, 29 Jul 2000 13:10:13 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author lap0530 - SAMS Teach Yourself HTML 4 in 10 Minutes (2nd Edition)

Of course the "10 Minutes" part is a marketing gimmick. You WON'T learn HTML 4.0 in ten minutes. However, you CAN learn quite a bit of HTML in a series of ten-minute...

Xara WebStyle: Simplifying Web Graphics

Sat, 24 Jun 2000 22:25:42 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author lap0530 - Xara WebStyle

Xara WebStyle is a focused program with a limited but highly effective use. With WebStyle, adding attractive customized buttons, backgrounds, bullets, headings, and other graphic enhancements to a web page is as simple as...

We're a Blended Family Once Again!

Sun, 11 Jun 2000 20:16:38 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author lap0530 - 6642 Oster® Cube Blender

It could have been worse. Much worse. I left town for a week-long business trip and left my check debit/ATM/MasterCard in the possession of my almost nineteen-year-old son, Jeremy. I gave him strict...