Apr 10

Free Online Storage Roundup

posted by: Connor Wilson

There are many services today that allow you to upload your files and share them anywhere. Ranging from backing up your PC with a download-able application, or simple online user interface, all these sites can do you some good. All of these sites offer free storage of at least 1GB, but there are usually paid options for better features. (more…)


Apr 9

Review: Slappa Velocity Pro Laptop Backpack

posted by: John Vincent Hilario

My first thought on the Slappa backpack was how great the design was. Definitely aesthetically pleasing, the Slappa Velocity Pro Laptop Backpack is also as durable as they come. The backpack’s padding will let no harm come to your valuable laptop and protected my 13-inch laptop computer with its “super padded sleeve” (it’s worth mentioning that this ‘sleeve’ is in the laptop compartment which is also padded). (more…)

Mar 22

Review: SponsoredReviews.com

posted by: Alex N

SponsoredReviews.comSponsoredReviews.com is a website that offers a unique service which brings together bloggers and advertisers. Usually the business of an advertiser contacting a blogger to do a review takes some time and can often lead to missed connections and other issues of reliability. SponsoredReviews.com eliminates this problem by connecting bloggers and advertisers together in a simple and efficient way. The website gives bloggers the opportunity to write honest reviews of a product, website, etc and the advertiser gets the benefit of this review. The benefits include direct linking from the review itself, its search engine statistic results, and create a word of mouth.

The website offers a low transaction fee compared to other review website and only gives the job to well known bloggers that receive a lot of traffic, which pretty much makes it a guarantee that the review will be viewed by a lot of people. The layout of the website is simple and economic which allows for easier usability. The sign-up system Sponsored Reviews uses two types of accounts, Bloggers and Advertisers. This is smart because it doesn’t really let any mix-ups happen through miscommunication. Overall Sponsored Reviews is a great way to connect advertisers and bloggers together for writing reviews.

Feb 24

Dragon Naturally Speaking 9 Review

posted by: David Wilkinson

I was the lucky winner of TheBlogJoint’s competition, that was held just a few weeks ago. I thought it would only be fitting if I was to post my experiences and opinion on the product here, after having had time to tinker away with the product. What did I win? Dragon Naturally Speaking 9 of course! (more…)

Feb 20

Trendio.com — ‘The news-worthy stock exchange’

posted by: John Vincent Hilario

trendio.gifAs the headline “the first stock exchange on headline news” suggests, Trendio.com is a speculative stock market game, where instead of the expected investing into companies, the twist is that the stocks are ‘words in the media’, meaning people can ‘invest’ in what makes the news on a daily basis. At first glance, the homepage is very professional-looking (given the bright colors are a part of their appeal) with links to news in sports, politics, business, technology, entertainment and current events. The stock graph of the most current news is what you notice first and to its right, a list of words. As of February 19th, 2007 10:32 AM U.S. Pacific Time, the current stock graph was the Chelsea soccer team, while the list of highest selling words were from ‘Mark Martin’, ‘Kevin Harvick’, ‘Gun Laws’, ‘ConAgra Foods’, ‘Tatiana Golovin’, ‘Lindsey Graham’ to ‘Adam Sandler’. It’s safe to assume that there’s somewhat of a randomness to these stocks, which can presumedly be compared to unanticipation of actual stock markets. (more…)

Jan 31

Review: Chambal.com

posted by: Alex N

chambal-logo.gifChambal.com is a website that allows you to compare prices on a variety of different products. The types of products that are available include books and electronics. If you are looking for a good price on a product that falls under these categories then this is a great website. It searches through other websites looking for the best prices on an item. The search results include a good number of websites including Ebay and PriceGrabber. This shows that Chambal uses a lot of web sources to gather the best prices. (more…)