Epinions Recent Reviews for mute

Engrossing.

Wed, 24 Oct 2001 17:47:39 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mute -

So, I don't usually get into computer or console RPGs. I think they're difficult to translate to computer screens. I tried to play the various Final Fantasy games, and they failed to engage me. Anachronox, though, sucked me right in and didn't...

HeadRoom AirHead: Small, cheap, and good.

Wed, 24 Oct 2001 17:21:14 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mute -

I never really considered the need for headphone amps-- but then, before this, I also never owned a decent set of headphones. I've been using these with my Sennheiser HD580's, and it sounds amazing, and now I see the point.

A while back,...

Best Portable CD Player

Tue, 23 Oct 2001 17:54:17 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mute - This is the best portable CD player you can get.

In fact, it's so good that you should combine it with a really great set of headphones. I listen to it with a pair of Sennheiser HD580's, and man, it's pristine. Beautiful, clean sound, and it's...

Inexpensive and smooth.

Tue, 12 Dec 2000 18:07:16 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mute -

All right, so I've been playing bass for all of three months now. I picked the Ibanez on the weight of the recommendation of the manager of Daddy's Junky Music in Shrewsbury, who actually plays bass himself. Obviously I'm not very experienced with...

Innogear MiniJam: It's here! And worth the wait!

Mon, 9 Oct 2000 15:12:16 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mute - After two long, long months of waiting, my InnoGear MiniJam arrived today. I've spent the last few hours playing with it, loading my songs into it (including some troublesome tracks that some players and encoders have had trouble dealing with) and...

Netgear DS108: Tiny working hub.

Fri, 18 Aug 2000 10:00:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mute - Okay, so it's a hub. I've got the 4-port version kicking around my desk somewhere, sitting between a bunch of computers and the building's switch, and it works. It's tiny, but it still has useful lights for each port and overall monitoring. No...

Tiny and comfortable-- ideal for note-taking

Mon, 14 Aug 2000 17:48:45 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mute -

So, I've had a Visor for a while, and I'd been avoiding using it for extended text-entry, since doing lots of writing is kind of tiring. It's great for jotting notes, but not necessarily for, say, taking notes during classes or presentations.
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Neat factor high. Picture quality iffy.

Wed, 9 Aug 2000 19:16:15 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mute -

I just spent the last week wandering around Vermont, taking pictures of things with my Visor and eyemodule. For that, wow. It's very neat. This is a mighty cool module-- a tiny camera attached to the Visor I would have been carrying around anyway...

MacAst (Mac): Bloaty and poor for network play.

Fri, 28 Jul 2000 23:10:30 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author mute -

To heck with pretty skins and translucent windows and unfoldy things-- I just want the player to play freakin' MP3s, and MacAst often won't.

I am a big fan of being able to play streaming MP3 files from a network server. I've got a...

Audion (Mac): The best for the Mac, but not amazing.

Fri, 28 Jul 2000 23:04:18 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mute -

Okay, I have a single real purpose for MP3 players-- playing icecast-type streams from the network. I only occasionally play files from a local hard drive, and that's usually only to check them out before uploading them to my local custom streaming...

The same album again, but weak.

Thu, 27 Jul 2000 21:56:40 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author mute -

So, Enigma has basically put out one album about four times, improving the sound and production values with each as styles and technology changes. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, as long as you happen to like the album, and I have so far. Good...

Creative conflict, and it shows.

Thu, 27 Jul 2000 21:42:17 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mute -

Rumor has it that there's a reason for the daggers on the cover. Eno and Cale didn't quite see eye-to-eye on this one, and I think it weakens the whole album as a result. There are a couple of good strong songs, including one of the most beautiful...

Weird Pop.

Thu, 27 Jul 2000 21:29:18 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mute -

This is one of Eno's three or four pop albums. He made this right around the time he left Roxy Music, at the height of the seventies, in the midst of glam and weirdness and people being strange all over the place, and it shows. His lyrics here are...

Small moments strung together. Great beauty.

Thu, 27 Jul 2000 21:21:25 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mute - "Another Green World" is a collection of moods, tiny pieces of time and emotion strung together one after another like pearls. There are 14 tracks on the album, ranging from a minute and a half long to just under 4 minutes, and none of them are...

Best in the area.

Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:01:43 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mute -

I've eaten at most of the Indian restaurants between 128 and Amherst, and I've never found any as overall tasty as New Mother India. I've been been eating at NMI for years-- ever since I was hanging out at Brandeis fairly regularly, and NMI became...

The worst movie. The best MST.

Thu, 27 Jul 2000 12:45:50 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mute -

Aw, yeah. This is one of the high points of the series. Manos, The Hands of Fate, is one of the single most painful movies I've ever seen. Even with Joel and the Bots, you can still tell how tortuous a flick it is. Blurry footage in 3-minute...

Double your storage, mostly.

Wed, 26 Jul 2000 22:40:28 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mute -

Knowing how I tend to use these sorts of things, I ordered the 8MB module at the same time as my Visor. I was right, and now I'm wondering what I'll end up doing with the RAM module after I get the MP3 player...

I quickly discovered,...

Concept Kitchen writeRIGHT: Save your screen and make writing nicer.

Wed, 26 Jul 2000 22:27:41 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mute -

I was sort of skeptical about the WriteRight at first. I got them because they came in a package with some other things I thought would be more useful. Now, though I wouldn't use my Visor without one.

I hadn't really thought about it...

More stealth, more creepiness.

Wed, 26 Jul 2000 18:21:56 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mute - Mmmm, atmosphere...

Yeah, I enjoyed Thief II a lot. I loved Thief I, and played it about three times between Thief Gold and Thief II. Thief II is more of the good stuff, less of the annoying stuff, some new stuff, and a lot of real challenge,...

Deus Ex For Windows: Now THIS is how to write a game.

Wed, 26 Jul 2000 12:06:08 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mute - All righty. There's a lot to like about Deus Ex, and only a little not to like. And the things I didn't like are all pretty minor, considering how engrossing and involving the actual game is. Dang, this is a good one. It _almost_ makes me miss Looking...

Falls pretty short.

Sat, 22 Jul 2000 23:12:54 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author mute - Okay, so I decided to buy Daikatana because I was pretty sure that it would never get an unbiased review anywhere, what with the hype. If you're reading this review, I'm pretty sure you know what I mean.

So, I got the thing home, installed it,...

Whee, fun! (With some misgivings)

Wed, 14 Jun 2000 15:00:43 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mute - MDK was a mighty keen game. It had atmosphere and shootin' and all sorts of things. It had a weird, dark sense of humor. It had very pretty alien landscapes. It had reasonably intelligent enemies with lots of neat moves. And, most importantly, it played...

CAIS and Covad, and very happy with it.

Wed, 14 Jun 2000 14:29:19 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mute - Okay, so somewhere out there on epinions is a summary of my Flashcom experience. I'll be updating that soon with more horror stories. For now, though, I think I'll write about my new service.

I switched to CAIS (who are reselling Covad in the...

Heretic 2 for Windows: Not bad. Not great, but not bad, and cheap, too.

Wed, 19 Jan 2000 22:08:58 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mute -

Okay, I don't usually like third-person games. Tomb Raider, for example, tends to annoy me. I finally found one I enjoyed, and it's Heretic II. Not that I enjoyed it a _lot_, mind you, but it wasn't bad.

So, the plot here is your basic...

Linear. Short. And assumes you're an idiot.

Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:27:43 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author mute - Okay, so I really really wanted to like this one. I played the demo, and was in awe of the graphics-- it uses an extended version of the Unreal engine, and the interiors are some of the loveliest I've seen since Unreal. The detail is impeccable, the...