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Wake up the kids! Its time for the most anticipated Product Review by a Small Time Blogger with Big Time Connections and Dreams of Greatness of all time, the review of the Nokia N900. That’s right. I got mine a couple weeks back and I can tell you right up front…

Wait! If I do that, you won’t read the review. You’ll find that your choice was validated or not and then go your merry way, assured that I, Tyler Regas, Blogger of Extraordinary Talent, told you so. Well, I’m not going to do that. I’m going to write a god’s honest review of a very, very… device-y device. Yeah. So Click on through after this very large image of the Nokia N900 and enjoy.

Continue reading Review: Nokia N900 – The Hardware

I’m not a big fan of Twitter. I don’t use it obsessively and I don’t really see what the big fuss is all about. Don’t think that I “don’t get it”. I do, and if you think you get it and I’m just an old dork, you may be surprised about what I get. Its an updated version of web-based Instant Messaging which has an arbitrary input limit of 140 characters. There’s nothing new about this. The so-called revolutionary Web 2.0 tools have made the same tired, old, stupid ideas new again to a generation who has no clue about classic BBS’, FIDOnet, CompuServe, 9600 baud modems, and The Loop, and old SoCal-area ISP to which I dialed in with my Apple PowerBook 145b running a highly modified version of System 7.5.5 (my OS fit in 2.5MBs of RAM with Open Transport activated and the multimedia goodies, kids), Global Village external modem, an ancient 3x speed, top loading, SCSI connected CD-ROM drive.

Yeah. Blazing speed, to be sure. Even back then, my rig was not the hottest game in town, but it was more than good enough to stay in the game. Web pages were statically produced pages of text and tables were generally hated. The best browser for the Mac was Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, though Netscape wasn’t bad and later iCab was quite good (don’t even talk about CyberDog to me). But this isn’t a memoir. This is a review of Twitterrific version 3.2.1 for Mac OS X, but I believe the scale and scope of this little retrospective is helpful. It reminds us of simpler days when less was the norm and we really didn’t expect much to blossom from the internet. That’s kind of where Twitterrific sits for me. It feels like an old tool which has continued to hang on and thrive, despite the fact that there’s really nothing to it.

Continue reading Review: Twitterrific 3.2.1 for Mac OS X

Almost a year and a half ago I reviewed MacDrive 7, and ever since then its been one of the most read articles on The Dojo. Not a month goes by that its not one of the top reviews. That means two things to me. One, that a lot of Mac users are also using Boot Camp, Parallels, or Fusion for their (ugh) Windows needs, and two, that its a tool which has a serious audience. I was pleased to hear, as I was working on two Windows 7 books, that MediaFour was working on MacDrive 8. Here, then, is the review for MacDrive 8 which was recently released.

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I’m noting this for posterity… I’ve set up a MozyHome Unlimited account and it is starting now. I just set up my first backup set and its working through it now. My complete backup, sans my large iTunes library which is already handled by Time Machine, is 97GBs. That’s a load of stuff and according to [...]