Archive for April, 2010

To cut to the chase, the 32GB iPod Touch 3rd Generation is amazing. I use it every day, and people are always asking me if they can borrow it because it’s just that cool. In my review, I’m going to break it down for you into the essential categories.

Quality: I think saying the sound quality is top notch would be an understatement. Just compare it to a Sony MP3 player and there’s no doubt you’ll hear the difference, the iPod’s sound is just amazingly clear. The video player is awesome, too, as the quality is almost as good as if you were to watch on a TV. You can zoom in when watching widescreen films, if you don’t like widescreen, and the quality isn’t affected, at least to any amount the human eye can recognize. The battery WILL last for 3+ hours at a time with the screen turned on, if you turned the brightness down, and usually you can still see when the brightness is down.

Durability: I can’t speak much for this, because I have a case for mine, which might account for why it didn’t break when I dropped it onto the linoleum floors at my school. However, the quality was never affected and I didn’t notice anything when this happened, so it doesn’t break just from the shock of impact.

Utility: I use it for everything. I listen to music, watch movies, check my Facebook, read Twitter, check my e-mail, surf the web, catch up on YouTube… just about anything you can do a computer, you can do on an iPod, too.

Appearance/Design: It looks amazing. My only comments here is that the back gets dirty easily and the screen gets covered in fingerprints VERY easily (not noticable when it’s turned on, but looks bad when it’s off). However, both of these faults are easily remedied with a case and screen cover. It’s perfect for exercising with, assuming you have pockets. On the topic of pockets, it fits perfectly in my pockets, and I wear jeans with REALLY small pockets, so that means a lot.

General complaints:
-Lack of camera. This would have been a really nice addition, espe
Stars and Stripes Gourmet

Artemis Fowl is a 12-year-old millionaire, a genius, and a criminal mastermind. The story begins in Vietnam where Artemis and his servant Butler track down a fairy who has the Fairy Bible. Artemis plans to use the book to capture a fairy and charge a ransom of 2 tons of gold in exchange for the fairy’s safety. Unfortunately for Captain Holly Short an ace office of the LEPrecon unit, was in the wrong place at the wrong time and was captured by Artemis and Butler, while trying to renew her fairy powers. But Artemis going to learn that these fairies aren’t the same as the bedtime story fairies, their lethal and dangerous and won’t give up on one of comrades without a fight. So when Commander Root (head of LEPrecon unit) and Foaly (a centaur in head the LEPrecon transportation and surveillance network) notice Holly is missing they find evidence that Artemis Fowl is behide the kidnapping and has Holly under the watchful of Juliet (Butler’s little sister). But Commander Root had a situation, he had to save Holly within 24 hour or Lieutenant Cudgeon would blue rise (a bio-bomb that kills all living tissue in an area) the Fowl Manor in the time-freeze field. Captain Trouble and his retrieval squad were the first victims to be defeated by Butler while he was wearing one of their helmets that could see them they were invisible. During the conflict outside, Holly put Juliet in a trance, renewed her powers, and escaped from her captivity cell. Sense Root knew Artemis was thinking the LEPrecon unit was going to follow the book’s rules he took prisoner Mulch Diggums (drawf) to break in Fowl Manor. Mulch got inside the manor took a copy of Artemis’s Fairy Bible and got out as an escaped prisoner. Just as Root was about to pay the ransom, Lieutenant Cudgeon put a full grown bull troll in the manor. Butler took the troll on and lost, Holly got hurt also but healed Butler with her powers, then Butler deated the troll with a lance in a suit of armor and threw it back in the hover trol
Opening Our Hearts Transforming

I was not impressed with the book. Yes, it is intriguing and well-written. But the “wisdom” is what I would expect an articulate, well-versed liberal arts professor to say. So much of it is what we want to hear, what we want to believe. I felt like Neale created a God that placates people, tells them what they want to hear, tells of the wisdom of this age. I have read and studied several religious texts, from the Bible, the Koran, the Torah, etc. In my studies I came to know that the Bible holds the truth of God – but this is a realization for all of us to have individually with God. I actually picked up CwG before I came to believe in the Bible – and I put it down after I read it thinking that the book was filled with man’s wisdom. I had a course in college that taught the same thing. I was seeking God’s true wisdom and studied Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, etc.

This book is nothing new, and tells people what they want to hear – not the truth of things. I don’t think God was the one moving Neale’s pen, I believe it was Neale’s own thoughts and wisdom moving his pen.

So, you can choose to listen to God’s truth or Neale’s truth. But this book is clearly full of Neale’s truth. The book takes basic modern-day mysticism tenets and attributes them to God moving Neale’s pen so Neale can enlighten the world.
Pixie Lily Nursery Rhymes

Saved a ton on this HDMI Cable.
After reading reviews about the expensive ones and that there is really not a big difference among cables, I got this for my PS3. Everything works great, getting the 1080p to my plasma, and hearing the surround sound just fine…
Inspiration Issue Ideals Vol

Love this product.Very light, has up to 7 days memory.Will give you the info in steps,calories and miles.It will divide the steps in aerobic and regular steps.Would recommend.
Casio Men s Classic

I bought this Hoover out of frustration. With a new dog going through house training “issues”, I’ve been regularly renting a “Rug Doctor” to clean the 2 hallways that seem to get the most abuse. At about $25.00 per rental, it was getting crazy. The Hoover SteamVac (with a 3 year extended warranty) was about the cost of 6 rentals.

The SteamVac is lighter, more maneuverable, and easier to handle in general in typical home use. Fully filled, it’s lighter than some vacuum cleaners that I’ve used. This Hoover actually cleans better than the “Rug Doctor”! The rotating scrub brushes really seem to assist in the cleaning. The first time that I used it, there was dirtier water in the collection tank than when I used the “Rug Doctor”. It also seems to vacuum up more of the cleaning solution than the rental. In addition to getting more solution up, the carpet drys much quicker. The power spray permits you to target spots and problem areas very easily.

I haven’t had any of the leakage issues that some of the other reviewers have reported. It does NOT have the cleaner capacity of the pro cleaner, but it is very easy to empty the collection tank and refill the solution tank.

It’s only been used 3 times, but I would HIGHLY recommend it for home use to anyone. If you have very large areas to clean, the limited capacity of the tanks could be a concern.
Network Programming in C

I have a 35 lb corgi mixed with black and tan coonhound. He has a waterproof overcoat and a soft, seasonal undercoat that clogs vaccuums simply because there is soo much of it. I thought the large would be too big for him because he’s a small-medium sized dog but it was actually perfect. It worked so well–he looked like a completely different dog! Using this thing regularly will keep shedding down and make him a happier dog. You can actually see the difference in his coat, he is slimmer and smoother. I would recommend this to anyone with any pet!
Miallegro 3070 Two in

An excellent camera for my kind of use (not an avid photographer). Very compact and well made.
Fujifilm Finepix F440 4

I looked through the description to not find what OS it worked for. Mice are Mice…right? Wrong? It doesn’t work on Vista. For $8 it’s a good buy but they should have put the OS it works on in the description. Now I need to pawn it off on someone who can use it.
Gear Head Optical Wireless

The Carpet cleaner works great but even more immpresive was the sevice from Amazon. I received my SteamVac the day after I ordered it!
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