Archive for the 'Reviews' Category
Famster… Upon Further Inspection
Tuesday, August 15th, 2006While cruising around Digg today I found an entry about a site called Famster. It looked to be a great site to get your family located online. The service looked really promising from the outside and after signing up I thought that it might be something that I’d share with the rest of [...]
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- Posted by Ryan at 3:01 pm
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First Look: Google Finance
Monday, March 20th, 2006Tonight I was introduced to Google Finance by Aaron. At a first glance it’s very “Google”. Not a lot of data, a simple design, and information that they’ve harvested from the Internet. But, if you take a closer look at a stock chart, you will be blown away. Or, well, at least I was.
The ticker [...]
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Review: Azura Asian Bistro
Saturday, January 14th, 2006This morning, after deciding that we didn’t want a typical breakfast, Jamie and I made a venture to Azura Asian Bistro at the bottom of First Hill. We’ve been getting flyers in the ValuPak for a couple weeks now and we decided that their lunch buffet ($9.90 on Sat & Sun 11a-3p) would be a [...]
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- Posted by Ryan at 5:55 pm
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Not a Part of the Flock
Friday, October 21st, 2005OK. Help me out here, I don’t get Flock.
So, it’s social bookmarking w/ del.icio.us, blogging with your favorite blogging program, pictures courtesy of Flickr, and searching of your search/page view history. But, how’s that better than what I already do with Firefox? I have the del.icio.us plugin for Firefox, I have a bookmark synchronizer, and [...]
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- Posted by Ryan at 8:25 pm
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5G iPod
Wednesday, October 12th, 2005Today Apple announced the release of the newest iPod in their hugely successful line of iPods. This iPod, in line with many rumors, is video enabled. Also, as in the past, Apple has released an update to iTunes to harness this new video functionality.
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- Posted by Ryan at 7:50 pm
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Google Talk Beta
Wednesday, August 24th, 2005Today Google Talk Beta went live. What it is, right now at least, is a Jabber server that you can use to talk to your friends, but without a lot of functionality outside of voice and text chat. In addition to the text chat it provides, it also has voice capability that is similar to [...]
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- Posted by Ryan at 8:49 pm
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Dave Matthews Band at the Gorge
Sunday, August 21st, 2005Last night Jamie, Kevin, Ash, and myself made the trek to Central Washington to see the Dave Matthews Band preform at the Gorge Amphitheatre. I had never been to the Gorge before to see a concert and in addition to that, the last time I saw DMB was when I was a Junior/Senior (I [...]
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- Posted by Ryan at 8:01 pm
- Filed Under: Concerts, Reviews