Reviews

by TDavid @ 3:10 am PST

Here’s a collection of the graded reviews that have been published on MakeYouGoHmm, sorted by topic and grade:

A+ Among the best or the best
A Excellent
A- Almost excellent, maybe one or two very minor things wrong

B+ Very good, but some problems keep it from excellence
B Good
B- Good but with a few issues

C+ Slightly above average
C Average
C- A little below average

D+ Not good
D Disappointing, many concerns
D- Really disappointing

F Doesn’t get any worse than this

The link indicates the product, service, site, etc that was reviewed. There have been 400+ reviews posted to date, approximately 10% of all posts made at Hmm are reviews. Unless specifically noted inside the review body items reviewed were purchased, rented and/or personally evaluated by the writer and remain actual visitor or customer experiences.

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Gadgets
A Mr. Freeze (How to make 35 pounds of ice every day by your desk)
A Bought a new digital camera: Kodak z760
A Use your Tablet PC as a TV remote and TV with Slingbox
A- HP w2408 24 inch LCD monitor makes portrait or landscape HD a breeze
A- Review: Samsung SPH-A600 Camera Cell Phone
B- Brother MFC-240C scanning
B- Fossil Abacus AU4002 (my wife’s SPOT watch has arrived)
C+ Creative Live! Cam Video IM Pro
C- Review: Sirius Stiletto 100
D Linksys CIT2000 Skype USB Phone (Vonage out, Skype back IN/OUT)

Gaming
A Review: Guitar Heros II rocks!
A- Review: The first MMOCG? Reel Deal Vegas
*A- Review: A Lux Delux v5.5 Risk undertaking
B- Donkey Konga a hit … or miss?
C+ Got a PS3, now what?
C- Madcatz Xbox 360 Gamestick too flaccid
C- Review: Big Games Midway arcade

Events / Conferences / Places
A Northern Voice (v1.0 2005) afterthoughts and review
C+ Trying to get into that Concert Groove

Services
*A Wirefly swats the competition
B Amazon MP3 Downloads gets closer to the online music service of our dreams
B Soapbox [renamed Soapadoo] can import your blog reviews automatically
B- Free ad-supported version of Pandora available
B Gasbuddy (Find cheaper gas prices in your area)
B- Review: Amphetadesk
C+ Blogcharm (Review: becoming BlogCharmed)
*C+ ReviewMe offers $25,000 to bloggers in exchange for honest reviews
*C Sproose tries to mix man and machine for better search results
*C Review: Search Engine Marketing Glossary
C Driving me Crazyegg
C Time your projects while online with web based SlimTimer
C Placeshift your music collection with Vibe Streamer
C Review: A bit clumsy and awkward hovering with Cooliris
C- For business remote backup Data Deposit Box, maybe
C- If Only Podtech.net would get ScobleShow a video editor
*C- Anybody can update local US business directory using iBegin Source
*D+ Review: Manually Dealighted automatically undelighted
D+ Debate voting mashup ConviceMe.net
D Microsoft launches SE-unfriendly Windows Live Wire
D Rough Underbelly more style than substance
D Review: Buymusic.com
D Whinering about Gmail Web Clips and RSS
*F iBackbrokenup iBackup

Software
A Store your books, CDs, movies and games with Delicious Library (Mac only)
A Review: Exploring Second Life and remembering There
A Review: Amplify toolbar with Mount St Helens demo
A Review: Rhapsody online music service — the best model to distribute music legally?
A Review: DirecTV Gametracker
*B+ Help managing and organizing employee development using ManagerAssistant 3.0
B Review: SiteAdvisor checks site safety through browser plugin
B Review: Bye bye cable TV, hello Vongo
B Review: VirtualDrive
B MSN Toolbar on a Tablet: yay or nay?
B ~~Music Rebellion offers music download pricing by popularity~~
B Napster 2.0 (Napster returns from the dark side: version 2.0 review)
*B- Taking a look at DRM-free online movie service EZTakes
*B- AVS Video Converter review [AVS4You]
C+ First look at FilmLoop beta 0.4 [7 screenshots]
*C- Review: Handy Recovery v3.0
D Tunatic (Use your microphone to try identifying what song is playing)
D Ink on your pics with Microsoft Max
F Real Player 10 Beta - not unreal
F Former badboy hacker Mitnick now pitching subpar security product [review: ID Vault ]

Misc / Other
B+ Bought a new 2007 PT Cruiser
C+ - Garlic Jim’s Pizza gourmet marketing angle
*D- Crock of Flucidity
*D- Barking up the Lapdawg website tree

Books
C Review: My Prison without Bars by Pete Rose

Movies / TV
A Review: United 93
A Review: Wraith culling via Stargate Atlantis Season 1 (TV series)
A Review: Serenity soars
A Review: Bruce Almighty
A- Predicting The Simpsons Movie will pass Shrek 2 in worldwide gross receipts
A Boston and Borat
B Review: no wimpy Snakes on a Plane
B Saw III the torture fest cuts to Saw IV
B- Mission Impossible 3 (Mariners bangers need to start banging)
B Ok, now Derailed was a twisting ride
B Review: Doom excites … for 15 minutes
B Review: Flightplan
B Review: Star Wars III Revenge of the Sith
B Review: ALIEN vs. PREDATOR - proof that an R rating is difficult these days
B Review: Spy Kids 3D
C+ Spider-man 3 gets a C+
C+ Ranking the Rocky flicks including Rocky Balboa
C Review: Poseidon Adventure (TV 2005) - terroism instead ot tidal waves
C Family just got back from seeing Ghost Rider
C Review: A Sound of Thunder
C+ Review: House of Wax - Paris Hilton Waxed … or not?
C+ Fever Pitch (Review: Barrymore, Fallon hit and miss)
C Hostage (2005) starring Bruce Willis
C Review: Charlie’s Angels Full Throttle
D+ All aboard Snakes on a Train
D Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
D- Darn it, Dragon Wars is disappointing
F Review: T3 Rise of The Machines — Downfall of the Series

Music (CDs)
A- 60s and 70s cover song fans check out Shaw Blades Influence
B Review: Quiet Riot Guilty Pleasures (2001)
B Ozzy Osbourne Prince of Darkness set (Review: Ozzy Osbourne circa 2005 a gas tank on ‘E’)
C Journey Generations escaped me
C Bonham In The Name Of My Father - The ZepSet
C Review: Pat Benatar: Go

* reviews denoted by an asterisk were paid reviews via ReviewMe, a service this website is no longer using as of November 1, 2007.

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