If you watch any of the debate shows on television, and I certainly try not to, you are confronted by two or more people arguing about a topic that somehow magically breaks down to two opposing viewpoints. Person A argues for viewpoint A, person B argues for viewpoint B, and the journalist sitting between [...]
No PDA is an island and Danger’s Sidekick is no exception. After a year of use, I have decided to stop using my color Sidekick. Danger and T-Mobile’s decision to keep the platform closed has crippled this otherwise great hardware design too much for me to put up with it anymore. The [...]
Living in any city, you are bombarded by an array of sounds from cars and people and alarms, often bleeding into your usually thin apartment walls. My year in Spanish Harlem brought it’s fair share of noises, but one in particular was a curiosity for me as well as a regular irritation. My [...]
Note: This is a review of Pages 1 which ships with iWork ‘05. iWork ‘06 has since shipped with Pages 2. A review of this new version will arrive in the days ahead.
Pages is a 1.0 program with 2.0 clothes on. A survey of a its features shows that it has all [...]
The Frigidaire Flair Forums
The Frigidaire Flair Forums have been moved to Google Groups. There you can buy and sell ovens and parts, get advice on your ovens and share you stories.
Manuals
There are two manuals available.
Frigidaire Owner’s Manual for All Models
A scanned copy of the Frigidaire Owner’s Manual for All Models, published in 1961 is [...]
I got my TivoToGo update a few days ago and played with it over the weekend. I loaded up the TivoToGo software on a Windows XP laptop in the house and gave it a test run. It was easy to set up, to see a list of the programs currently on the Tivo, [...]
The Mac Mini is clearly the biggest thing Apple released at MacWorld today, but not just because it has broken the price barrier in owning a mac.
There’s something more insidious here. Yes, it’s greatest impact will be on enabling switchers to take the leap from one platform to another at a near consumer electronics [...]
Does the iPod Shuffle miss the point of an iPod?
iPods give you incredible control over your music. The iPod Shuffle takes this control away since you can’t really choose what you want to listen to. Going from from a message of “You’re in Control” to “Life is Random” isn’t very compelling to me.
As [...]
I went and saw a preview screening of the film Hotel Rwanda yesterday and I would like to urge everyone to go see it. The performances and the film as a whole are very powerful and definitely worth seeing. Don Cheadle will most certainly get an Academy nomination. My only major complaint [...]
I previously noted that the Dyson line of vacuums didn’t fair too well against the competition in January’s Consumer Reports, but that they hadn’t yet rated the DC14 because they didn’t get a unit in time for the issue. Well, February’s Consumer Reports is here and their verdict is in: they rated it [...]
