Epinions Recent Reviews for webpod

Netscape 6 Preview Release 3: Netscape 6 Final: Excellent but Not Perfect

Wed, 15 Nov 2000 06:11:23 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author webpod - UPDATE:

11/15/00 6pEST: If you currently use Netscape 4 heavily, you might want to keep that version for a while (don't uninstall it yet), until you're fully comfortable with NS6. (FYI, NS6 does NOT remove NS4 during upgrade - nice) At least on my...

Surfree: Surfree - non-annoying, reliable access can be FREE!

Fri, 14 Jul 2000 02:37:52 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author webpod - Update (11/15/00) - Surfbar had to be discontinued to regain lost revenue, I suppose. No more potentially FREE service from SurFree ;-(. But it still offers competitive monthly fee of 14.95 and free 1st month. And you can still grab $50 commission for...

FREE(WWWeb) = FAILURE?

Fri, 14 Jul 2000 02:18:19 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author webpod - Nowadays, web-related things bearing the FREE keyword pretty much predicts its own FAILURE. Just like MyTalk (http://webpod.epinions.com/cmsw-EmailChat-All-myTalk - the free email-by-phone service) which folded recently, Smart World...

Paypal: Credit card accepted at my house!

Thu, 15 Jun 2000 03:56:35 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author webpod - NOTE: This epinion was originally posted under Gifts>Confinity (original company name for PayPal.com, software developer for Palm device) on Jan 31 '00, but seems more proper to fit under this category (online payment). Though PayPal can also...

Visitalk: Visitalk: Add voice to that message...

Tue, 13 Jun 2000 01:55:05 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author webpod - What's Visitalk?

It's another FREE Voice-over-IP (VoIP) enhancement service, a very popular one indeed as a result of of aggressive and continuing consumer-rewarded campaign for the past few months. Its...

myTalk: myTalk turns us all down!

Mon, 22 May 2000 19:23:44 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author webpod - General Magic's myTalk (scaled-down version of paid offering, Portico) used to be my favorite "coolest net service" along with uReach (a more comprehensive unified service, see http://webpod.epinions.com/cmsw-uReach)...

Pays You & Me !!

Sat, 15 Apr 2000 04:00:10 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author webpod - Online payment and billing, both of C2B & C2C models are hot! We've seen X.com (complete with checking and mutual funds account; raised $100-million in its latest round of funding) and Paypal (recently merged with X.com) in the past, and many other...

Miramar PC MACLAN (PC): PC MacLAN and DAVE - connecting Mac and Windows...

Fri, 14 Apr 2000 03:41:14 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author webpod - Miramar Systems "PC MacLAN for Windows" and Thursby "DAVE for Mac" or "TSStalk for Win9x/NT" are the only Win-Mac file sharing programs for home users or small companies that I know and are perhaps, the only available...

Netscape 6 Preview Release 1: AOL's Superb Next-Generation browser - Netscape 6 PR1

Thu, 6 Apr 2000 06:39:44 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author webpod - The long-awaited preview release (somewhat different from beta or Release Candidate) of browser suite Netscape 6 (a skip from 4.75), is finally made available yesterday (April 5, 2000 - two days after Microsoft has been ruled guilty by a court or law,...

WinProxy – a TRANSPARENT proxy server; for 1-way cable too!

Sat, 1 Apr 2000 15:35:49 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author webpod - WinProxy - a TRANSPARENT proxy server; for 1-way cable too!

WinProxy 3 brings quite a number of new features and improvements compared to its predecessor, version 2. These includes “Network Address Translation” (NAT)...

PayPal's rewards to be slashed by half...

Sat, 11 Mar 2000 18:40:52 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author webpod - Lots of people have already explained on what PayPal is, so, I'm not gonna spend time giving you general information... For those information, just visit the service's website or check-out the following links:-

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Breast Pump: TVad too similar to beyond.com's

Sat, 11 Mar 2000 02:32:56 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author webpod - OFF TOPIC: Wow! Bravo on epinions.com team on significant face-lift. It basically addresses some of the issues that I was going to suggest to them or writing another opinion on, ie. choice of revealing identity on each rating, and putting them below...

TrueSync: TrueSync is very helpful (if it works...)

Thu, 9 Mar 2000 00:56:50 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author webpod - People need to be organized to become more efficient and productive in their daily routines, be it for work or personal activities. First comes pen & papers, packaged nicely in a leather/vinyl-wrapped book. Then, mini electronic gadgets and...

Bigalow: Funny, full of action

Fri, 3 Mar 2000 06:52:10 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author webpod - Hmm... Its trailer seems to portray Deuce Bigalow the movie as another sick comedy, full of toilet jokes that shouldn't have made it to theaters, but since I could use some good laughs on gigolo story last night, I went to watch it anyway for a buck...

AuctionWatch.com: AuctionWatch - start your search here!

Sun, 27 Feb 2000 06:32:13 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author webpod -

Some epinions on eBay-vs-Yahoo! Auctions mentioned superiority of eBay in quantity of auctioned items in progress compared to at a relatively new kid on the auction arena, Yahoo (and Amazon Auctions - grew fast though due to partnerships with...

AllAdvantage eats Free ISP programs! (short golden years)

Thu, 24 Feb 2000 21:24:29 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author webpod - UPDATE:

AllAdvantage is pretty much DEAD. It shuttered down on Feb 2001 and laid of hundreds of employees.

For a brief period, it was better than Free-ISPs programs, but, I guess you can't get something for nothing forever.
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Epinions.com: Epinions: It Feels Good… (James Brown)

Wed, 23 Feb 2000 22:08:51 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author webpod -

Over the past seven plus years, since my first "acquaintance" with the Internet, I’ve been maintaining a number of mailing lists of 50-100 members each, consisting of old friends (high school mates, college buddies etc.); Being the...

Ebates.com: Ebates – Your Paperless Instant Rebates (up to 50%!)

Wed, 2 Feb 2000 15:44:11 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author webpod -

I’ve been using ebates.com quite a while now, haven’t really got a paycheck from them, but there are purchases that are recorded on my account history, although some did lost mysteriously though, perhaps because I didn’t follow the required...

Epinions.com: Higher viewership should increase the payout, not reduce it!

Tue, 1 Feb 2000 14:25:13 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author webpod - This is a somewhat related comment to posting by user-Bgable entitled “So Far So Good”:

Bgabel says, "As of 1/24/2000, I've written a "mere" 16 epinions, but they have been read over 5000 times."

No wonder you're...

flyswat: Flyswat: Alexa & WhatIs/WebOpedia combined => SWEET add-on!

Mon, 31 Jan 2000 22:08:22 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author webpod - If you like Alexa, GuruNet or WebOpedia/WhatIs.com, you'll like Flyswat even better! Like Alexa, Flyswat is a great web-surfing buddy, recommending further jumping point each time you load a new web page. Like WhatIs.com, it highlights (underlines)...

uReach: Not just FREE email! An All-inOne Communication suite.

Sun, 30 Jan 2000 16:57:11 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author webpod - UPDATE (7/10/01): uReach premium service (ie. phone, fax, toll-free #, larger storage etc) is no longer free. Email is still free. However, uReach charges minimal monthly fee, and its per minute charge is quite competetive, ie ~10cpm, so, it's...

Winfire Browser Assistant: WinFire: Where have ALL my points gone?

Fri, 28 Jan 2000 20:40:00 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author webpod - The marketing strategy of Winfire, co-branding by so many companies, somewhat confuses end users. With so many brand of Winfire's so called "surf bar" desktop application out there, it's quite hard for users to choose. For instance, some...

Alexa: Alexa's USEFUL, but steals STABILITY, PERFORMANCE

Fri, 28 Jan 2000 20:06:10 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author webpod - ABOUT THE PRODUCT

This web-browser add-on functions an automated lookup helper, tipping you useful information about the website that your Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator loads. The information includes domain ownership & contact...

AllCommunity: All Bla Bla...

Tue, 25 Jan 2000 13:48:11 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author webpod - This is another AllAdvantage wannabe, but, hey, may even be even more ambitious since the beginning, planning to reward internet user on everything that they do, not just for web-surfing, but, after months of monitoring their progress, disappointment is...

This one beats other banks out there! - PLS READ COMMENTS

Thu, 20 Jan 2000 23:37:55 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author webpod - UPDATE (9/28/00): I sorta praised this bank when I first wrote this piece, but, after 9 months being a customer, I'm force to drop its rating down to 2*. It's still useful, but its customer service and offerings need to be improved. See my comment.....