Epinions Recent Reviews for scientist232

Nokia 3595: First, it's a phone

Sat, 3 Jul 2004 18:53:39 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author scientist232 - Life is complicated enough; I like my devices uncomplicated. Barring that I like them sufficiently simple in appearance and intuitive in functionality as to make me think they’re uncomplicated enough for me to master. I don’t have the patience to...

Organize your life without going broke

Sat, 3 Jul 2004 18:48:27 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author scientist232 - I’ve been an active advocate of Palm handhelds since the m100 came out several years ago. I liked the size and functionality of that model but soon found that the 2 MB memory was just too small for all the features the computer itself could handle...

Fundamentally a chick flick

Fri, 2 Jul 2004 21:56:01 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author scientist232 - My teenage son and I went to see Spider-Man II on the day it opened looking for an evening of escapist "Superhero courageously kicks evildoers behinds, gets the girl, feels momentary angst, gets ambiguous with girl and lets her go, walks away...

It's a good value, all the way around

Thu, 18 Jul 2002 14:42:45 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author scientist232 - I've been designing web sites on my old 486 PC running at 433 MHz (a real screamer just a few years back). I wanted to get into video production without spending any bodily appendages and found the Sony VAIO PCV-RX540 on an auction site, factory...

They set the standard--others fall short.

Fri, 7 Sep 2001 17:44:37 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author scientist232 - I have to admit it--I rode the wave of freebies that the dot.com boom delivered (the truism that if it's too good to be true, it's too good to be true notwithstanding). My review of First Internet Bank of Indiana was glowing and I meant every word, at...

Quicksheet: I was wrong; THIS one's way better

Mon, 18 Jun 2001 18:39:16 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author scientist232 - A while back I wrote an Epinion recommending another Palm OS spreadsheet (TinySheet) and, in what I've come to believe was an attempt to convince myself not to spend the additional $10.00 that Quicksheet costs, I compared the two while only having...

Tinysheet: Excel’s kid brother (of a different mother)

Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:41:47 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author scientist232 - I’m still in the “Wow! It can do that?” stage of acclimating myself to using a handheld computer. My Palm m100 only has 2Mb of RAM memory so anything on which I choose to spend that memory better serve a purpose to a greater extent than the next...

Palm m100 Personal Organizer: My brains in a peanut butter sandwich

Tue, 14 Nov 2000 11:55:34 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author scientist232 - Time has not been kind to my memory—my ability to remember dates and times, my recall of peoples phone numbers and where streets are located (unless I go there every week). The quantity of data I used to be able to store in my own gray cells just...

Yodlee: All the facts: quick and portable

Wed, 8 Nov 2000 15:56:51 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author scientist232 - The concept of online account aggregation has been roundly praised and derided by those on their respective sides of the issue. I think it’s a great idea—provided sufficient security measures are in place. I’ve used OnMoney.com and became spoiled by...

NeoPlanet: Call me a lemming no more!

Tue, 31 Oct 2000 12:50:16 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author scientist232 - For as long as I can remember—I’m afraid to say—I’ve been a glassy-eyed lemming of “the Microsoft way.” Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook were all site-licensed at my job and we have been able to use these programs on our home computers (for maximum...

Bad news for the snow--good news for you

Fri, 27 Oct 2000 17:06:19 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author scientist232 - I bought this snow blower as a Christmas gift for my wife last year (I’m a hopeless romantic) and she actually liked it. Her old faithful Toro (baby Toro is more like it) was breathing its last and she’d tuned it and tweaked it until it was clearly a...

And then there was one.

Fri, 27 Oct 2000 12:35:26 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author scientist232 - First there were two fine—and separate—financial services organizations: X.com, the online bank and mutual fund company, and PayPal, the online auction payment service. Both began in the last year or so and offered generous bonuses just for signing up...

Intense—if you lived it.

Fri, 20 Oct 2000 21:40:46 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author scientist232 - Trying to categorize Disney’s The Kid is like trying to pass a pickle through a cheese grater. On the one hand being a Disney film and being called The Kid sounds like it’s a children’s picture. It does have enough antics and hammy-handed stunts to...

Guest service is tops

Fri, 20 Oct 2000 21:31:10 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author scientist232 - Take 16 teenage ladies out of town for a few days to play softball in a state tournament and expect to get them fed, housed, entertained, away from boys and focused on their game and you’ve got a huge order. I help out with the local Little League and...

Tender, funny, a little weird

Fri, 20 Oct 2000 15:29:55 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author scientist232 - It was Man-Night at our house; my son and I go out to eat at the “restaurant” of his choice, then go see a movie and do guy stuff. The trailers had been funny showing clay figure chickens being propelled into a fence and then springing back AND Chicken...

Buzme: Ma Bell won’t like it—but you will!

Fri, 20 Oct 2000 13:23:17 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author scientist232 - This has to be considered a triumph of technology over tradition. Many of us have become spoiled by the convenience of voicemail and for a long time the phone company (Ma Bell) was the only game in town. Shell out $10-15.00 per month and phone doubles...

Juno Email: Juno says, “It’s MY way or the highway.”

Thu, 19 Oct 2000 17:56:42 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author scientist232 - Juno was my very first email client; it was free and they were small potatoes in those days. Additionally, either I didn’t know any better or there weren’t any other choices but either way Juno will continue to have some kind of irrational warm spot in...

AnalogX POW!: It’s so bonehead easy—why not take advantage

Thu, 19 Oct 2000 12:04:12 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author scientist232 - Imagine the perfect program. What would be its primary characteristics? Let’s see: free, easy to install, runs without being asked, consumes very little memory and performs a useful function. Is that too much to ask?

POW! may not solve the...

NetZero: I’m shocked—This one IS different.

Thu, 19 Oct 2000 00:19:29 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author scientist232 - Oh, boy! Here’s yet another free ISP!! What, no applause? I guess the rush of enthusiasm has worn a little thin for those of us who live and breathe for the thrill of getting things of value (or perceived value) for free when we know most people...

Free ISP with a bonus

Mon, 2 Oct 2000 12:05:47 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author scientist232 - MyPoints free internet access is yet another offering by 1st Up, a provider of ad-supported free internet service. This free ISP portal—like others—is brought to you on the backs of advertisers who hawk their wares through a small window that remains...

Vast Untapped Potential

Sat, 23 Sep 2000 17:32:44 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author scientist232 - It’s more significant to the national economy than the strategic oil reserve. It could represent hundreds of millions of dollars in retirement security for thousands of people. It is the properly employed ability of the American people to save and...

Clank! Grind! Crunch! chug, chug, chug

Fri, 22 Sep 2000 18:16:36 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author scientist232 - It must be that at one time U-Haul was the best; you don't get to be an enormous, ubiquitous franchise organization without doing something right. But that's history and somewhere along the way the wheels fell off, leaving an organization as tired and...

Atari 2600: Atari 2600: Pong meets Color and does stuff.

Sat, 16 Sep 2000 14:17:17 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author scientist232 - I got to use the Atari 2600 when it first came out. I was working part-time in the shoe department of a JC Penney store and they put this new game display adjacent to my area. I thought I’d died and gone to heaven; when business was slow—and it often...

An ad bar you can use—What a concept!

Sat, 16 Sep 2000 14:05:49 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author scientist232 - I’ve just about resigned myself to the fact that the most efficient trade-off for free internet service is the ISP with advertising. Heaven knows I’ve tried most of the bannerless ISPs (Freewwweb, WorldSpy et al.) until one by one they bit the dust...

Rest in Peace, WorldSpy

Sat, 16 Sep 2000 13:57:44 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author scientist232 - It was a good ride while it lasted; WorldSpy—for the unaware—was (past tense) one of the best free, dial-up ISPs in cyberspace. WorldSpy didn’t make you spill your life history in their lap, didn’t consume 12% of your screen with advertising that also...