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  • 03.31.08
    21 Movie Disappoints reviews | (0)
    Maybe it was because of my high expectations, or the fact that I've been looking forward to it for a month, but I found 21, the movie chronicling the exploits of the infamous MIT Blackjack team, to be utterly underwhelming. It's not often that I'll make the effort to go a see a movie on opening night. I don't handle crowds very well and prefer to hit a week night showing to avoid the noise. I made an exception on 21 because I was just so excited. First the good parts: Kevin Spacey was amazing as always, as was the only ...
  • 03.25.08
    Yahoo Portal Redesigned for Search? reviews | (1)
    This morning we awoke to a brand new, redesigned Yahoo homepage featuring a centered logo. Rather than having the Yahoo location on the left with a Search box on the right, the Logo is centered and the Search box is underneath it. Mashable has a good side-by-side comparison for you to check out. The puzzling thing about this shuffling is that it actually moves the start of Yahoo's portal content down. This means that less of the portal links will be displayed "above the fold," where users will see them on first glance. The design isn't more attractive in my opinion ...
  • 03.21.08
    Navizon Enables Fire Eagle Location Updates reviews | (7)
    After hearing a rumor that Navizon has created an uplink for the Yahoo Fire Eagle platform, I just had to check it out. I've poked around and confirmed that Mexens, the company behind Navizon, has in fact created a method for you to pass your location to Fire Eagle. Navizon is the cell phone application that I use to update the Stalking Dave Map and my Google Gadget. You can use Navizon on your Windows Mobile Pocket PC, iPhone, Symbian or Java phone to track your location based on cell triangulation, Wifi, or GPS. All you have to do is ...
  • 03.18.08
    Fring Free Mobile IM and VOIP Gets Reviewed reviews | (1)
    Fring is designed to turn your mobile phone into a VOIP-enabled handset that managed contacts based on your IM contacts. At it's core, it provides a full free windows mobile im client. Then they used this framework to allow contact management and VOIP or SIP functionality. Overall their interface is smooth and they manage the various IM protocols better than just about anything that I've seen. They also manage the data connection on my Pocket PC very well. However there are two problems that would prevent me from using Fring extensively. Continue Reading...
  • 03.12.08
    Skyfire Windows Mobile Browser Gets Reviewed reviews | (0)
    The Skyfire Mobile Browser aims to enable Windows Mobile users to surf rich media websites that require Javascript or even Flash. They do this using a server as a proxy to load the site and allows you to view it on your phone. This is important, because they do collect information on your surfing habits. Honestly, I'd prefer they aggregate my data to support their costs than charge me a subscription. Skyfire is currently in private Beta, so there's really no telling whether it will remain a free Windows Mobile web browser like Opera Mobile. After taking a little extra time ...