theGeekPirate - ProductWiki

theGeekPirate updated 8 products

theGeekPirate — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:46:45 -0400

1. updated The Internet - July 30, 2008 at 5:46 pm

agreed: "Just as much 'good stuff' as there is 'bad stuff'"
agreed: "It can be difficult to verify the accuracy of information presented."
agreed: "Series of Tubes"
agreed: "Not just for geeks anymore (even though geeks rule!)"
agreed: "Enormous Amounts of Material"

2. updated MySpace - July 30, 2008 at 5:46 pm

disagreed: "Bad user interface (Users can modify the site's background, layout, etc.)"
disagreed: "Difficult to permanently delete account"
disagreed: "Difficult to permanently delete account"
agreed: "Difficult to permanently delete account"

3. updated RuneScape - July 30, 2008 at 5:45 pm

disagreed: "Bad graphics compared to other mmorpg's"
disagreed: "edited the wilderness"
agreed: "$5 a Month to get All of the Games Content"
agreed: "Constantly Being Updated"

4. updated World Of Warcraft - July 30, 2008 at 5:41 pm

agreed: "Voice emotes and dances unique to your choice of race"
agreed: "Excellent customer service in the game and on the phone"
agreed: "Huge playerbase (amount of people playing)"
agreed: "Make your own adventure (not stuck on one storyline)"
agreed: "Excellent, interesting, and unique storylines"
disagreed: "Excellent, interesting, and unique storylines"
agreed: "Great interface"
agreed: "Customizable interface with addon mods"
agreed: "Monthly subscription fee (about $15)"
agreed: "Different versions are tied to their regions, i.e. an American version of the game cannot play on European Servers and vice versa."
disagreed: "Frequent Updates (interface mod incompatibility)"
agreed: "A lot of obnoxious people (most people have used this game as an entry point into the MMO scene)"
agreed: "Your friends might make fun of you (but who cares? its a great game)"

5. updated Opera - July 30, 2008 at 5:23 pm

agreed: "Integrated IRC client"
agreed: "Session management"
agreed: "Uses less memory than Firefox or Internet Explorer"
agreed: "Integrated mouse gestures support"
agreed: "Full W3C Standards support"
agreed: "Download manager"
agreed: "Built-in e-mail client"
agreed: "Bookmark syncronization"
agreed: "Ad filter"
agreed: "Widgets"
agreed: "Builtin popup blocker"
agreed: ""Speed dial" favourite page thumbnails"
agreed: "Integrated spell checker (with presence of GNU Aspell)"
agreed: "Tabbed browsing with more than 100 open tabs"
agreed: "Automatic update"
agreed: "Less CPU usage than Firefox"
disagreed: "Not supported by all sites"
agreed: "Passes ACID web standards test"
agreed: "Fast rendering"

6. updated Everex gPC TC2502 - July 30, 2008 at 5:18 pm

disagreed: "Consumption of Desktop Space"

7. updated Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" - July 30, 2008 at 5:17 pm

agreed: "Not all commercial software has Linux versions or ports"
disagreed: "Missing drivers for most new hardware."
agreed: "Very easy to install new open source applications."
agreed: "Excellent usability"
agreed: "Available in desktop and server versions"
agreed: "Simple installation through Wubi."
agreed: "Available as a "Live" CD to try it out before installing"
agreed: "Freely distributed"

8. updated Western Digital Caviar Green (WD10EACS) - July 30, 2008 at 5:15 pm

disagreed: "1 TB can be hard to backup."

theGeekPirate commented on Western Digital Caviar Green (WD10EACS)

theGeekPirate — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:16:35 -0400

July 30, 2008 at 5:16 pm

"Just because it's big, doesn't mean it's _hard_ to backup, it just takes a while! You pay for the space, and obviously the bigger it is, the longer it takes to backup. It's not really a con, since you expect it to take longer..."

theGeekPirate updated 9 products

theGeekPirate — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:42:04 -0400

1. updated ProductWiki.com - June 26, 2008 at 7:42 pm

tapped as "love it"
tapped as "have it"

2. updated OpenOffice - June 26, 2008 at 7:42 pm

tapped as "have it"
tapped as "love it"

3. updated SeeqPod - June 26, 2008 at 7:41 pm

tapped as "have it"
tapped as "love it"

4. updated Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" - June 26, 2008 at 7:41 pm

tapped as "have it"
tapped as "love it"

5. updated Opera - June 26, 2008 at 7:41 pm

tapped as "have it"
tapped as "love it"

6. updated Audacity - June 26, 2008 at 7:41 pm

tapped as "love it"
untapped as "love_it"
tapped as "have it"
tapped as "love it"

7. updated GIMP - June 26, 2008 at 7:41 pm

tapped as "have it"
tapped as "love it"

8. updated VLC media player - June 26, 2008 at 7:41 pm

untapped as "want_it"
tapped as "want it"
tapped as "love it"
untapped as "love_it"
tapped as "love it"
tapped as "have it"

9. updated Firefox - June 26, 2008 at 7:40 pm

tapped as "love it"
tapped as "have it"
agreed: "Extensive functional add-ons (extensions) and plug-ins"
agreed: "After a crash can "Restore session" which reopens all tabs"
agreed: "Tabbed browsing"
agreed: "Open-source project"
agreed: "Fewer security exploits directed at Firefox vs. IE"
agreed: "Page loading can be significantly faster than IE, especially when using speed-enhancing plugins."
agreed: "In page searching and highlighting is powerful and straightforward. Just slash and type, or F3 refind: easy!"
agreed: "Improved memory usage in v3"
agreed: "Faster browsing in v3"
agreed: ""Awesome bar" learns and adapts according to the frequency and recency of pages you visit"
agreed: "Websites designed with proprietary IE/Active X code may not render correctly"
agreed: "Firefox V2 crashes semi-regularly and uses a lot of computing resources"
disagreed: "Memory usage and load time are significantly slower than IE."
disagreed: "Memory usage and load time are significantly slower than IE."
disagreed: "Memory usage and load time are significantly slower than IE."
disagreed: "Memory usage and load time are significantly slower than IE."
disagreed: "Memory usage and load time are significantly slower than IE."
disagreed: "Memory usage and load time are significantly slower than IE."
disagreed: "Memory usage and load time are significantly slower than IE."

theGeekPirate updated SeeqPod

theGeekPirate — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:20:00 -0400

June 5, 2008 at 2:20 pm

agreed: "Firefox extension available"