Harper Reed of skinnyCorp gives a rundown of web hosting companies he’s had success with. He gives my personal favorite, WebFaction, an absolutely glowing review, and also has nice things to say about Mosso, MediaTemple, FDCservers, and Rackspace Visit site »
Clint Ecker has a nice review on Ars of my buddy James Bennett’s new book, Practical Django Projects. Visit site »
Harry slurps Cloverfield, J.J. Abrhams’ new flick, to an astonishing degree. I’m not sure what to make of that, but I do want to see it. At this pointm, I’m pretty convinced it’s going to be entertaining. I’m not so convinced it’s going to be brilliant, as Knowles says — but whatever. Entertaining is good enough for me. Visit site »
Roman Leinwather gives our book a really stellar review. Thanks so much, Lewro! Visit site »
Roger reviews Web Standards Creativity, which I contributed a chapter to. Visit site »
David Pogue of the New York Times turn out a mini-musical for this latest video podcast episode. I personally find Pogue’s cheesy videos to be really charming — yes, they’re hokey, but they’re also fun and informative. It’s also the sort of thing you won’t find in other mediums — a real Internet original. Visit site »
The reviews are now pouring in, and they all say the same thing: iPhone rocks, as long as you spend most of your time on WiFi, don’t miss the lack of instant messaging or MMS, and give the virtual keyboard a week or so of getting used to.
God I’m going to be pissed if I can’t get one of these bad boys on Friday. Visit site »
Mossberg, in his video review: “The keyboard issue on the iPhone is a non-issue” He says, after five days, he was just as fast or faster than he types on the Treo he’s been using for years.
Like Pogue, he decries the pathetic speed of EDGE, and calls WiFi the iPhone’s saving grace. Visit site »
Pogue’s video review of the iPhone is cute and funny. If you like gadgets and you don’t subscribe to his podcast, get on it already. Good stuff. Visit site »
The New York Times’ David Pogue gets his review out first, and it’s generally very positive. He notes that the network is slow as shit (duh, it’s EDGE), and that the keyboard does take some getting used to (but says that it works quite well once you learn to trust it), and it stupidly doesn’t have MMS (which, frankly, is going to be a huge dissapointment to buyers who don’t realize it’s not there, given that every cheap-ass phone on the market has it and a ton of people use it every day), but glows and glows about basically every other aspect of the device.
But even in version 1.0, the iPhone is still the most sophisticated, outlook-changing piece of electronics to come along in years. It does so many things so well, and so pleasurably, that you tend to forgive its foibles. In other words, maybe all the iPhone hype isn’t hype at all. As the ball player Dizzy Dean once said, “It ain’t bragging if you done it.” Visit site »
Nathan Smith wrote a very positive review of Pro CSS Techniques over at Godbit.com. Thanks so much, Nathan! Visit site »
Overall, it sounds like Vista is a good, solid upgrade to Windows XP, but when CNET (who hates Apple) says, “Compared with Mac OS X 10.4, Windows Vista feels clunky and not very intuitive,” you know us Mac fans won’t be getting jealous of Vista users anytime soon. Visit site »
Thanks for the great review, Nate. Glad you liked it! :) Visit site »
Another review of Pro CSS Techniques, this one quite glowing. Thanks so much for taking the time to do this, Damon! Visit site »
@The Onion. You know this is gonna be good. Visit site »
Dan’s verdict: “One of the greatest gaming experiences of all time.” Visit site »
Dan’s review of the Wii that showed up in our office the other day (see my Flickr stream for photos). Verdict? It rocks. Visit site »
One of the most glowing movie reviews I’ve ever read, and for a movie that was supposed to be bad. This makes SoaP sound like a real hoot. I can’t wait to see it. Visit site »
Roger over at fourfivesix reviews The GTD Book. I’ve put off reading this thing basically because some of the people in the GTD cult kind of scare the hell out of me, but I’m beginning to think it’s time I read the sucker. Visit site »