Epinions Recent Reviews for trohricht

The perfect travel camera?

Mon, 5 Dec 2005 12:22:53 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author trohricht - Anyone who wants proof that competition leads to innovation and better value for the consumer, need look no further than the digital camera market and “long zoom” prosumer models. Canon, Konica-Minolta, Panasonic, and Sony have all been releasing...

Perfect Shareware: Even a BRIEF Google search will reveal this to be a scam.

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:48:19 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author trohricht - I can not believe this scam is still running! My experience with Perfect Shareware dates back several years. I was not gullible enough to actually use the service or reveal my credit card number to an obvious fraud artist (and for those of you who...

Great bang for the buck, but not without issues

Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:27:30 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author trohricht - Let's face it, the days of the CRT monitor are numbered. They're heavy, they guzzle electricity, they spew radiation, they flicker, they fall out of adjustment over time, they age and lose their brilliance. In short, CRTs are old technology, and...

Maybe we really are alone?

Sat, 15 May 2004 14:35:01 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author trohricht - Ever been curious about how life evolved on planet Earth? Rare Earth provides a highly accessible window into this topic and many others, and it makes for a fascinating read even if it falls ever-so-slightly short of it's goal: to convince the...

Fellowes Fully Adjustable Keyboard Manager (93841) Keyboard: Yet another "adequate" product from Fellowes

Wed, 10 Mar 2004 23:01:36 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author trohricht - Fellowes desk accessories have a way of multiplying in the workspace. It all starts with a simple wrist rest, and before you know it you've got monitor risers, printer stands, swing arms, paper trays ... in fact I now have enough Fellowes products...

2004 Pontiac Montana: Yikes. Is this what minivan drivers put up with daily?

Mon, 2 Feb 2004 15:04:25 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author trohricht - Somewhere at Pontiac corporate headquarters, there is a policy - whether written or tacitly understood - that says aluminum wheels, body cladding, and a tachometer are all that's required for a vehicle to be, as the commercials say, "built for drivers."...

Grown-up racer at an unbeatable price

Tue, 6 Jan 2004 18:46:26 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author trohricht - When my last car, a 1993 Mazda MX-6 with 226000 kilometers on the clock, started presenting me with regular repair bills for three hundred, five hundred, or nine hundred dollars, I knew it was time to move on. Rather than carefully considering my...

Blaupunkt BPV660 AM/FM/CD: great upgrade deck.

Thu, 1 May 2003 22:40:45 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author trohricht - Somehow, the sun shines brighter, the wind feels better, and the road seems smoother when the right song is playing on your car stereo. Some cars come equipped with very nice sound systems right out of the factory. Some other cars come equipped with a...

Soviet-bloc industrial design meets Japanese electronics

Sat, 15 Mar 2003 01:45:08 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author trohricht - note For some bizarre reason, several weeks after it was written Epinions moved this review to the PDR-3310 section. It was originally written (and found) under PDR-3300, because that's the camera I own. I wrote to Epinions asking what's going...

Sigh ... oh Brother not again.

Mon, 10 Feb 2003 14:06:14 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author trohricht - If this brother really were a member of your family, he'd be the semi-alcoholic emotionally-unstable mullet-wearing sibling that nobody talks about at family gatherings. Everybody wants to like him, they really do, but he just says and does the...

Oh those lucky, lucky Quebec City residents.

Wed, 5 Feb 2003 13:52:54 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author trohricht - As much as I wish I'd had more than one day to ski St. Anne, this entire review is based on a single brilliantly sunny Tuesday. The place was uncrowded (lift lines varied from 5-minutes to ski-right-on) and there had been some decent natural snowfall in...

C'est magnifique!

Tue, 4 Feb 2003 19:13:26 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author trohricht - Sitting in the base lodge enjoying a hearty meal of chicken and grilled vegetables, I glanced out the window to see an ocean freighter steaming upriver, making steady progress against the ice floes and the bitter January wind. The mighty St. Lawrence...

Nice tire for the money

Sun, 11 Aug 2002 20:28:39 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author trohricht - First things first: I am not going to pretend that I tested this tire against five or six others under identical conditions etc. etc. Like 99% of the people out there, my only point of reference is what the car (1993 Mazda MX-6) felt like with the old...

Gathering of Developers Tropico: Somebody hide this CD from me. I have no self-control.

Thu, 4 Oct 2001 13:09:22 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author trohricht - You know who you are … some people can’t resist strategy games. Sure blasting away at critters in the latest shooter game is fun and a good way to blow off stress, but for pure entertainment value you need a massive game “map” and hundreds of variables...

Canon BJC-5100: Not built for the long haul.

Mon, 6 Aug 2001 17:35:11 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author trohricht - I’m starting to wonder if Canon is the Yugo of the printer world. So far I’ve found Canon inkjets to be noisy, slow, and only built to last about half as long as the competition. Granted, I do tend to push the limits of my printers, often spitting out...

FO-765 plain paper fax: Functional but wasteful.

Wed, 4 Apr 2001 18:19:49 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author trohricht - Sometimes, things get wasted when it can't be helped. Other times, things get wasted for no reason at all except poor design or carelessness. The Sharp FO-765 falls into the latter category when it comes to imaging film, and after burning through the...

eBay: Folks, be careful will ya?

Sun, 18 Mar 2001 22:48:58 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author trohricht - I just saw it happen again ... and the poor saps who got taken for several hundred dollars should have seen it coming. They were practically begging to get burned.

I like eBay a lot. Even if I'm not buying or selling anything there, I like to...

Just like the other digits, your thumb likes to party.

Tue, 27 Feb 2001 15:06:35 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author trohricht - The opposable thumb: it's what sets us apart from the other primates. In assembling their list of potential markets for the Trackman Marble Wheel, it's obvious Logitech decided the spider monkeys and crab-eating macaques would have to choose another...

Despite all the negative Epinions, this product is working well for me.

Sat, 10 Feb 2001 17:40:54 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author trohricht - After reading the myriad negative opinions on this product, I felt it was my duty to chip in with my story: the Fellowes Monitor Arm provided exactly the solution I was hoping it would, and nothing has crashed catastrophically to my desk in the month+...

Surprise! We charge hidden fees.

Wed, 7 Feb 2001 23:00:14 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author trohricht - This opinion is based on three separate shipments made from various suppliers in the US to myself in Toronto, Canada. Each time, something a little bit different happened. Unfortunately two of those three surprises were less than pleasant.

The...

Disciples demo: Worth the download if you enjoy strategy.

Sat, 20 Jan 2001 16:17:30 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author trohricht - Just to be clear, I'm not rating the full version of disciples here, just the downloadable demo. For somebody on a slow internet connection, it can be a bit of a decision whether to even download a 36MB demo file. Rather than repeat a lot of what has...

Lidan Download Accelerator: Does what it's supposed to, plus one surprising thing too.

Sat, 20 Jan 2001 13:08:54 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author trohricht - Download Accelerator Plus 4.0 is supposed to speed up downloads, and it does this very well - extremely well in some cases. But unless you are careful about how you set the software to work with your system, it can play a little trick on you that would...

Image quality beyond the bargain price.

Wed, 3 Jan 2001 01:21:09 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author trohricht - This unit was originally purchased as a short-term replacement for another monitor (ViewSonic P775) in for warranty repairs. After spending several days as the primary monitor for a graphic design workstation, the display proved to be good enough for use...

P775 Professional Series: Not perfect, but workstation-worthy

Tue, 2 Jan 2001 12:29:51 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author trohricht - Note see update below the main body of this review for more on the P775.

As a graphic designer, the monitor(s) in my studio tend to be on for 50 hours per week or more. This is the story of three sometimes-hard years with the ViewSonic...

Monsoon MM-1000 Flat panel system : Sweet sound

Fri, 29 Dec 2000 20:14:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author trohricht - These are the top-of-the-line for Monsoon. I keep intending to turn the volume back down on these speakers "right after this song ends" but it rarely seems to happen that way. They sound that good ...

After suffering through two years with the...