Archive for July, 2007


Bank of America’s SiteKey System is Useless

Anyone who’s a Bank of America customer has probably gone through the process at one time or another. The site loads, you enter your username and state, and you hit “Sign In.” Waiting, waiting, waiting. Ok, next step: do you recognize this image? Huh, yeah, whatever; you enter your passcode and hit “Sign In” again. [...]

iPhones for Everyone!

Let’s suppose for a minute that you are a customer of Sprint, Verizon, or T-Mobile and you want an iPhone. Chances are that you’re still caught in the death grip of your current service contract, and unless it’s about to expire, you’ll probably have to lighten your wallet by a hefty $200 to cover the [...]

Falcon: The 65nm Xbox 360

Even though the Xbox 360 is statistically speaking the current leader in the next-gen console wars, it’s pretty far from perfect as many disappointed users will gladly tell you. From the beginning, the console has suffered from a variety of problems: some overheat and die, some scratch discs beyond repair, and all of them make [...]

10 Reasons I Hate iTunes

I have steadily grown more and more frustrated with iTunes, the oh-so-loved application of millions; its feature set is basic, it’s dreadfully slow, not to mention bloated, and worst of all, it has polarized the media player market to such an extend that I often wish it had never been introduced.
The first time I [...]