Reviews > Apps > VistaGlazz

VistaGlazz is a very neat little program that patches the windows vista theme files to allow unsigned themes to be applied. These can e found all over, such as at WinCustomize, and are neat if you're bored with aero glass. VistaGlazz is available from C|Net's Download.com for free.

Yesterday was my birthday, and I decided to try out Digsby, an all-In-One IM client. What's great about it is that it incorporates everything- Email, Social Networks, IM, even sending SMS messages to phones. It's amazingly customizable, and even lets you make widgets to put in a blog post...like this!

Reviews > Gadgets > Sansa

I recently got a new Sansa, from Sandisk, and I have to say, it's a very viable competitor to the iPod. It has a physical click wheel, like the g1 iPods, but less imposing. That glows blue, and the screen is made of a fairly scratch resistant surface, with a liquid-metal back that is almost impossible to scratch, but shows fingerprints surprisingly strongly. Very good quality, with fm radio/voice recording, as well as support for playlists and expansion (microSD.) The v1's are hackable, but the v2's have yet to be opened for rockbox or h3mod. Available in 2, 4, 6, or 8 gig.

My Birthday/ Canon S5

So, my birthday is on Saturday, and my dad gave me my present a week early: a brand-new Canon S5. If you haven't seen these guys yet yet, they're pretty sweet. 8 megapixels, a rotaing viewscreen, a multitude of on-camera features, movie recording, and SD Cards for memory. Oh yeah. So I'm trying it out and loving it. It's a pretty top-of-the-line consumer camera, for half the price of 'proffesional' cameras that are only a couple mp more, which at this size almost doesnt matter, unless you're doing a movie poster. It's a great camera, guys- check it out.

Reviews > Movies > Into the Wild

Into the Wild is a movie about Christopher McCandless, a young guy whose family is upper class, well off; but he wants something else. He donates his 24k dollars of Harvard money from his savings, all of it, to Oxfam, and then leaves his life to travel cross country towards his dream of living for a while alone in Alaska. On his way, he meets some strange characters, and has some wild times. Once he reaches alaska, he finds an abandoned bus which he nicknames "the magic bus" and lives in it, using it as a home base. He hunts and fishes, sometimes unsuccessfully, but once he decides to return to civilization, he can't cross the river to get back, so he stays...but after 100 days, his food is dwindling, and he eats some poisonous plants by accident and slowly starts to die. His body is found, months afterwards, along with is diaries and the incredible story of his journey, and everything he endured.

Reviews > Music > Even Flow

'Even Flow', written in 1992, is a song by Pearl Jam, and was a single featured on their debut album, 'Ten.' It was also put on their Greatest Hits album, but as a different version, and the second one doesn't sound quite right...anyway, it's a great song, and is featured on the Guitar Hero 3 tracklist as well. It is available from the iTunes store, as well as some other places.

Faceoff: GIMP vs. Photoshop CS3

And now a post I actuallly wrote in the past week...

Well, both GIMP and PS have basically the same features, but what's the difference? Well, for one, GIMP is free, open-source, and (for me at least) much easier to navigate and use. Photoshop is sill a more professional tool, with more technical terms and menus than GIMP, not to mention that price tag. I recommend GIMP, simply because the layout is more basic, but with some comfortable familiarity for Photoshop users, such as layout. The menus are different to navigate, and are actually less relient on sub-menus and more on visual and obvious tools. What do you think? Go ahead and tell us!