Category Archives: Reviews

Review: Edgeio – Listings from the Edge?

By Bish | Published: 01/03/2006 – 20:11 | Posted in Reviews, Web, Web2.0 | Comments (1)

I have been fortunate enough to be playing around with Michael Arrington and Keith Teare’s Edgeio for the last few days and I have to admit I quite like the service. I am rather sceptical about a service that is boldly taking on big players like EBay and Craigslist though they may just gain enough momentum to make this worth while.

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A First Person Distraction!

By Bish | Published: 21/02/2006 – 20:19 | Posted in Gaming, Personal, Quick, Reviews | Comments (0)

The lack of posts I can put down to a number of reasons, primarily the fact that I have been busy with various websites over the last few weeks and am struggling to manage my time. Ok, really that is only part of the reason, the other is that i have just decided to hook myself back into the PC gaming market and my true gaming love, first person shooters (FPS).

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Review: Campfire – Real Time Web Based Chat

By Bish | Published: 16/02/2006 – 21:13 | Posted in Reviews, Software, Web | Comments (1)

37 signals officially launched Campire today, a real-time chat service that can add further productivity to your business or support for your products. After the last month of testing Campfire joins a stable of other great 37 signals web based services such as Basecamp and Backpack.

Offering a number of different pricing plans to suit your needs there is a free 30 day trial available that offers up to 4 chatters and 10 MB of space. It appears that they are sensibly limiting sign ups to 500 a day to monitor performance, although I was fortunate enough to try this while spaces were available.

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Internet Explorer 7: FireFox Writer’s Thoughts

By Bish | Published: 04/02/2006 – 23:23 | Posted in Quick, Reviews, Web | Comments (0)

Asa Dotzler has a pretty detailed write up on the merits of IE7 and the initial problems that have been found. Covering the new layout, features like tabbed browsing, searching and subscriptions, it’s a pretty detailed review and initial impressions. Its worth mentioning that this is from one of the original people behind Firefox though, so it is written from a Firefox zealot’s perspective!

I personally haven’t had a good enough chance to make the most of the preview yet so can’t make an informed comment though this is an interesting read. 

Quick Review: Performancing 1.1 Firefox Extension

By Bish | Published: 24/01/2006 – 22:51 | Posted in News, Personal, Reviews, Software | Comments (1)

Nick Wilson and Jed Brown have released their latest version of the Performancing Firefox Extension. 1.1 is a bigger and better version of their Blog editor that integrates with Firefox to help us blog more effieciently.Aimed squarely at the same userbase Flock (see earlier review) is aiming at, Performancing now has support for most of the major blogging solutions such as Wordpress, Drupal and Live Journal. Integrating tags and your categories, the extension allows you to blog quickly on the topics that get your attention. Performancing sits comfortably at the bottom of Firefox incorparating many of the settings that you find in your admin panels in a window that is both easily height adjustable and collapsible at the press of the F8 key.

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