Epinions Recent Reviews for shivohum

A Gorgeous Cinematic Opera

Thu, 1 Jul 2004 03:24:53 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author shivohum - Fable. Fantasy. Fairy tale. Spiderman 2 is one fantastic movie with a moral. The comic book art sequence at the beginning arrests your attention -- somehow capturing the essence of its subjects in in spare but colorful imagery. This is the how the entire...

Glitzy but Insubstantial

Tue, 23 Dec 2003 21:22:36 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author shivohum - Before I watched RotK, I suspected that it had the potential to be vastly better than its two predecessors, which were good though not great movies. After all, it climaxes the saga, and epic battles play right to the special effects strengths of...

Senn 600 vs. Audio Technica W100

Sat, 3 May 2003 20:04:50 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author shivohum - I've had my Audio Technica W100 for a few weeks now, and my Sennheiser HD600 for a few months (though I owned another pair a year before that, and owned 580s for two years).

I've organized this review for maximum viewing pleasure. First come...

AKG K1000 Impressions, Comparative Reviews

Sat, 3 May 2003 19:56:02 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author shivohum - The first section of this review were my initial impressions upon the acquisition of this headphone.

The second section of this review is a comparison of the K1000 to the Alessandro-Grado Music Series Pro, another respected dynamic headphone...

Laborious

Sat, 21 Dec 2002 07:27:30 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author shivohum - Laborious. That’s the word that best describes this second installment of The Lord of the Rings movies. Endless tracts of filmed land and sky, reams and endless reams of computer-generated special effects, and a seemingly endless three hour length...

Yeehah!

Sun, 24 Jun 2001 03:07:10 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author shivohum - When I first saw the trailer for City Slickers come out several years ago, I for some inexplicable reason mentally classified the flick as a slapstick cowboys-vs.-city-people comedy. City people would do dumb things. Cowboys would laugh at them. Haw...

A Gross Oversimplification

Sat, 23 Jun 2001 00:16:35 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author shivohum - This opinion is going to analyze and critique the movie's plot; don't read on if you don't want spoilers.

In "The Verdict," Paul Newman's character, a lawyer by the name of Frank Galvin, is a drunk good-for-nothing. His partner hands him a...

Forte News&Mail Agent: The best newsreader, no questions asked

Fri, 19 Nov 1999 21:14:41 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author shivohum - Since Usenet is not as well-known as the Web, I'm separating this review into two parts: general Usenet/newsreader information, and Agent-specific information.

General Usenet/Newsreader information

As much as the web and e-mail are...

Comfortable Marvels

Mon, 25 Oct 1999 23:48:29 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author shivohum - There are three elements I looked at when choosing these headphones: audio quality, comfort, and their comparability to Grado headphones. I'll also comment on their comparison to the Etymotic ER-4S. For more information on all these headphones, visit...

Hotmail: Not Worth the Troubles

Tue, 28 Sep 1999 15:08:37 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author shivohum - The two basic problems with hotmail are security risks and spam. E-mail was not meant to be conducted over the web, so for technical reasons web e-mail is in general more vulnerable to hacking threats. Hotmail makes this worse because it is the biggest...

Opera: It's only for really slow, old computers

Tue, 28 Sep 1999 14:17:17 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author shivohum - Opera is a product that is small (only 1.29 MB for the Windows 95/98/NT English version) and works on slow computers (386 SX w/6 MB of RAM and above). Those are its good points.

Its bad points are many. Chiefly, Opera cannot and will not ever...

Features, Value, Best-in-Class

Tue, 28 Sep 1999 11:42:27 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author shivohum - You aren't going to find *more* in an office multifunction device than the R80. There are faster printers and better scanners, but for multi-functions the R80 is currently the King of the Hill. Just look at what it has:

* Color printer (rated...

Alexa: A Good Idea, But It Doesn't Work

Tue, 28 Sep 1999 10:46:59 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author shivohum - Alexa is a small piece of software that you download and that attaches to Internet Explorer 4.0 or above as a sidebar.

The idea behind Alexa was an excellent one--when you're on a website, with Alexa you could easily see related websites in...

An Inevitable Compromise

Sat, 25 Sep 1999 00:56:05 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author shivohum - I can tell you that there are e-mail clients that are faster, more reliable, far cheaper, more useful, more well-thought-out, and just overall better e-mail clients than Outlook 98. Pegaus e-mail (http://www.pegasus.usa.com/), which is absolutely free,...

HeadRoom AirHead: Cheap and Powerful

Wed, 22 Sep 1999 02:52:57 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author shivohum - I have a pair of Sennheiser HD 580's, which are impossible to run off portable CD players well. So the airhead ($179) is a great cheap solution to give them volume and better bass. For a high impedance headphone like the Sennheisers, an amp like the...

Microsurfer: Microsurfer Gives You T1 Websurfing Speed - without a T1

Wed, 22 Sep 1999 02:46:57 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author shivohum - Before you read any further, this software only works with IE 4 or 5.

If you're an avid surfer, like I am, you know that often you want to download several links from any one page. Take for example, if you went to CNN's site. There you might...

ThatWeb: Access any ISP e-mail account through the web!

Wed, 22 Sep 1999 02:25:51 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author shivohum - I am not associated with wwww.thatweb.com. www.thatweb.com is an extraordinary service that lets you enter your e-mail address and password to your ISP. It then takes this information and spontaneously creates a web-based interface to an account which...

Don't Buy a Dead Product

Wed, 22 Sep 1999 02:18:11 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author shivohum - Don't use Netscape. It is a dead product. It has been bought by AOL so that AOL can obtain access to the attention of those who visit Netscape's homepage (that source of eyeballs will eventually expire, as people only go there because it is the default...

An Incredible Workhorse

Tue, 14 Sep 1999 11:25:06 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author shivohum - When I was considering notebooks, I was torn between getting a big Dell Inspiron 7000, a Thinkpad, or a subnotebook.

The Dell was fast and had a large screen, but it was heavy and bulky. A subnotebook would have been extremely portable and...