Posts Tagged With: reviews
· September 22, 2008 at 11:36 am · Personal
I was in need of a new chair, so I figured – why not order one of those SumoSacs? They do look pretty cool. So where does the problem come in? Well one week later and I have yet to hear anything about the order I put in. The way I see it, places like Amazon.com have spoiled me to good customer service. Over at SumoLounge.com (where I picked up my sack of sumo) the only support they have is via e-mail – which NOBODY has answered in over a week’s time.
Starting to wonder, where it all gets dumped to? Is there some poor sap somewhere looking at my e-mails and laughing – or maybe somebody has been sick?
So where is my SumoSac? Not a clue (hopefully somebody from Sumo Lounge might be reading this. Coming from somebody who does nothing but customer support day in and day out, makes me feel good that I’m delivering better support than these guys right now.
Come on, Sumo Lounge – prove me wrong!
· July 6, 2008 at 9:15 am · Web Hosting
We will be short on a podcast this week due to the 4th of July weekend madness that has passed us by, but between your cleanup of fireworks and dumping out the barbequed leftovers please take a minute to take this short 6 question survey about the Web Hosting Show.
Any and all feedback is appreciated and you know I am all about making you all happy so if there is something you like, hate or would love to hear about let me know.
Take the Web Hosting Show Podcast Survey!
If you have ever wanted to share your opinion to me about what I do this would be the time to do it. Also happy post 4th of July to all of you and thanks in advance!
· June 25, 2008 at 5:45 am · Personal
Over the past few days I have been playing a lot of the Wii’s Zapper games. The light gun attachment for the Wii is a lot of fun to use, and I wanted to make sure I got my money’s worth on the deal. Here are some of the best Wii Zapper compatible games I have bought thus far:
Link’s Crossbow Training
Yes! Finally Link gets his name in one of the Zelda games! Ok, this one I didn’t have much choice about due to the fact it came with the Zapper itself but I do have to say it is much more fun than I thought it would be. Having the anticipation that it would just be a demo title showing me "how to use" the Zapper it ended up being an entertaining "pick it up when you have nothing else to do" game.
Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles
I have been a fan of the Resident Evil series, even though this is my first actual game in the series to own. This game’s controls kind of makes you feel like the Zapper was a second thought (due to the fact you have to move your hand up on top to hit the "A" button a lot. Other than that it is another cool "on rails" shoot’em up that ends up being very entertaining.
Go through some of the historic places from past Resident Evil games and shoot a lot. That is this game in a nutshell.
Ghost Squad
Now I am not usually a big fan of the Army/Police first person shooter type games but for some reason this one looked as if it might be a lot of fun. I have not gotten to spend much time with it yet but from what I have played it looks great. There are also a lot of side routes you can take so one level never has to be the same twice. Another great thing about it is you change your weapon type up as you go to suit the situation. Tons of fun.
The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return
This title, as the name tells you right off the bat, gives you both House of the Dead 2 and 3 to play with your Zapper.
The voice acting in this game is so bad, it’s good. I’m a big fan of your campy horror movies though. I missed out both of these days the first time around but now I get to finally see what all the buzz was about. You would be amazed how gratifying blowing the head off a zombie really is.
Any More Games for the Wii Zapper?
From what I have seen, only other one I’m missing is some army/war game (Metal of Honor?) but that really isn’t my cup of tea. Know anymore Zapper ready games I should pick up for Wii?
· May 28, 2008 at 7:03 am · Personal
Been a few days since I had heard back from HP about my PC they have their hands on (and are hopefully fixing back up). Just as I was about to give them a phone call - I get an e-mail in giving me the same details I already knew about my order and at the bottom this new nugget of information:
Hewlett-Packard Receipt of Defective
Receipt Date of Defective Product: 05/27/2008
Expected Delivery Date: 06/05/2008
Now I know from the FedEx tracking code I have that the 27th is when they got my PC to their HQ. So does that mean I should be getting it back on the 5th of next month and it is going to take over a week to fix? Maybe I’ll still get lucky and they’ll ship it back by the end of the week.
I love my laptop, but really missing having my PC here too.
· March 6, 2008 at 6:47 am · Online Tools
We might not all work best in groups, but there is no doubt that a group can sometimes come up with more unique ideas and it does help to have somebody or something to bounce your ideas and work off of. Here are some unique tools for working together with others.
WebCanvas - This is a tool that will give you an infinite canvas to paint, draw or sketch out your ideas to others.
ReviewBasics - The catch phrase is "content review made easy". You upload your work, invite people to review and you can watch you feedback come rolling in.
(xy)write it! - With this you can create, share and export documents for free. It provides a simple way to share and collaborate on a document no matter your location on the globe.
Hopefully with these three you will at least have a new way to work on that project you have in mind or get your next big whatever your working on done. The Web makes it easy to use the power of many to get a single task done…
so why not take advantage of it?
· January 4, 2008 at 6:38 am · Desktop, Software Help
Need a better way to capture the images on your desktop? Now anybody using Windows for more than five minutes can tell you that this is what the “Print Screen” button is for, right? Well true - that does get the job done but some of us need a little more. Here are my best suggestions for desktop image capturing and web site image capturing.
…for the Desktop
MWSnap - this is a powerful free tool that puts your screen capturing ways on steroids. If Microsoft ever released a power toy for screen captures, I have a feeling this is what it would look like.
Here are five MWSnap features I like the most (in no specific order):
- 5 snapping modes
- Support for BMP, JPG, TIFF, PNG and GIF formats
- System-wide hotkeys
- Clipboard copy/paste
- Auto-start with Windows and minimizes to system tray
…for the Web
WebShot - By far, WebShot is the best web site screen capture freeware package you can get. You can capture full size or thumbnail screenshots in a number of different image formats. Wish the documentation was a little better, but it really isn’t that hard to figure out.
Here are some of the features WebShot provides that I really enjoy a lot:
- Automatic determination of page width and height that captures the whole page accurately. Does a great job every time.
- Browser size specification allows you to capture the whole page or part of it.
- Image encoding to JPG, GIF, PNG, and BMP with image quality control to save on disk space. Everybody should have a format to love.
There are a few other options out there too but these seem to far out weight their alternatives from head to toe. So next time you need to grab an screenshot of something on your desktop you should be more than prepaired to meet that chore head on with these freeware goodies.
