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Casio Cassiopeia EM-500 Color Pocket PC (Slate Blue) Average Customer Review:  Electronics US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France Editorial Review The Cassiopeia EM-500, Casio's follow-up to its E-100 series of personaldigital assistants, closely mirrors the E-115 but offers a few changes. Thebiggest change is the move to using MultiMediaCard (MMC) memory over the morestandard CompactFlash memory slot. The postage stamp-size MMC cards offer neededmemory expandability (as the EM-500 comes with only 16 MB of internal memory,compared to the 32 MB of the E-115), especially if you plan to use the EM-500 asa portable MP3 player--one of its many multimedia capabilities. While MMC over CompactFlash limits the ability of the EM-500 to use many PocketPC peripherals, we were willing to overlook that once we got a peek at the EM-500'sgorgeous TFT screen. This very bright, very colorful (65,536 colors, to beexact) display shines beautifully when you're playing games or watching mobilevideo player clips, which run along at a respectable 15 to 20 frames per secondwith the EM-500's 150 MHz MIPS processor. The thick EM-500 (about twice the thickness of the Palm Vx) offers standardCasio programmable buttons to bring up the menu, calendar, and contacts, as wellas a navigational D-pad, which is great for gaming. In addition to functioningas a stereo MP3 player (when using the included headphones), the EM-500 alsoworks as a voice recorder, allowing you to dictate reminders for yourself orvoice messages to send with e-mail. Casio promises six hours of battery life,but we often were able to get seven or more as long as we left the backlight onmedium brightness. With its IrDA port, the EM-500 can communicate with wireless devices, and itsUSB connection provides speedy data transfer--even installing programs largerthan a megabyte took only a few seconds. Despite the limited memory and the lack of CompactFlash support, the powerfulprocessor, excellent display, and long battery life make the EM-500 acompetitive entry into the Pocket PC market. --J. Curtis Pros:
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Game Boy Color - Teal Average Customer Review:  Game Cartridge list price: $69.99 US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France Reviews (26)
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New York Times Sunday Crossword Omnibus, Volume 5 (New York Times Sunday Crosswords Omnibus) Average Customer Review:  Paperback (22 February, 2000) list price: $12.95 -- our price: $10.36 (price subject to change: see help) US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France Reviews (3)
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i2Go eGo 96MB MP3 Player (Blue) Average Customer Review: Electronics list price: $349.99 US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France Editorial Review The i2Go.com eGo portable digital audio player brings the technology of MP3 to your car. The eGo transforms the car stereo into a new-generation Internet appliance. The i2Go.com eGo also offers interactive features such as mp3mail, mp3chat, and e-mail2Go, which allows you to convert e-mails into audio and record responses or notes as MP3 files. These capabilities enable you to listen to and respond to e-mails, catch your personalized sports or stock reports, or listen to a self-devised musical play lists while you commute. The Web site of i2Go.com also has a complete menu of information that you can download daily to your eGo. With the eGo player you get a compatible software package including i2Go mp3agent. With the i2Go mp3agent, you can browse your local computer drives for MP3 music or news reports, then drag and drop the files onto the player. You can also drag and drop files that are already on the player or copy them back to your hard disk. The i2Go mp3agent also reads and writes MusicMatch play lists, allowing you to enjoy MP3 music when you are at your PC. The eGo features an LCD screen that becomes more intense in direct sunlight and is backlit under low-light conditions. The eGo mounts in the car the same way you would mount a radar detector, on the windshield or visor. Along with the mounting kit, you receive connectors and an adapter so you can power your i2Go.com eGo from the cigarette lighter. With the ability to add another CompactFlash slot, your eGo can expand in memory up to 680 MB and beyond as the technology matures. The processor inside the eGo is also flash upgradable, so you can update it when i2go.com makes improvements. ... Read more Features Reviews (8)
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Sony CCDTRV87 Hi8 Camcorder Average Customer Review: Electronics list price: $699.99 US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France Editorial Review The Sony CCD-TR87 offers image stabilization, a 2.5-inch swivel LCD screen, and Laser Link output. It records in Hi8 video format and uses a 0.25-inch CCD with 470,000 pixel pickup. This camera also provides a 20x optical/360x digital zoom to bring you closer to the action. The new NightShot with slow-shutter feature improves picture quality in the NightShot mode, allowing you to capture infrared images in total darkness (0 lux). Audio features include high-fidelity stereo recording and output as well as a built-in speaker for added convenience. The Sony CCD-TRV87 also offers six-mode program autoexposure and an array of fader and picture effects. Equipped with Sony's Laser Link feature, you can just aim the Sony CCD-TRV87 at the LaserLink receiver on select Sony TVs from up to 16 feet away, press "Play," and enjoy your videos directly on your TV--without wires or cassette adapters. Other convenient features of the Sony CCD-TRV87 include a built-in video light, Control-L (LANC) editing interface, 16:9 widescreen recording, edit search, and end search. With a rechargeable InfoLithium battery that features an AccuPower meter, this camcorder offers a long recording time. ... Read more Features Reviews (12)
Being the Hi8 line leader the previous year -- before that cheapening began -- the TRV87 is therefore Sony consumer analog video at its best, crammed with every feature Sony ever put into that format.It's all here -- the Hi8XR format (440 lines of vertical resolution, which in side to side comparison with DV's 500 lines is almost impossible to differentiate), LCD viewing, digital special effects, on-board lighting, Super Nightshot, photo mode, full titling, a wide range of pre-programmed exposure modes, Laserlink...it goes on and on. Yes, granted, the chassis is that classic "handful" TRV size, so this Sony isn't quite as cute and sexy as those teeny current DV palmcorders - but it provides video that is just as good, and costs a lot, lot less.This machine is destined to be a classic, in the same category as the infamous Sony TR101 (their first serious Hi8 machine from almost a decade earlier).
Pros:Many special effects such as:infrared, black and white, cartoon like effect, and a couple others.It also has 16:9 recording but distorts the picture when recording.It has an excellent playback speaker when watching videos you have already taken on the 2.5 " LCD screen. It also has about 5 digital effects such as slow shutter or flashing pictures.The photo option lets you create a slide show easily and allows you to use the fade features such as overlap really easily.The battery that came with the camera lasts me about 1.8 hours using the LCD screen and about 2 hours using the black and white viewfinder.This is a surprise, because I thought it would only last an hour with the LCD screen.This camera also lets you record TV just like a VCR which is a nice feature if you like to edit videos.I also like the feature that lets you put words on the screen as you record.The stereo sound recording on this camera is great.The LCD screen is also crystal clear and is easily big enough to see what your recording. Cons:Grainy picture in low light condition.However, if you use the light on the camera, it drastically improves the grainy picture.The zoom gets really pixely at anything zoomed in more than about 180 times.The camera is larger and heavier than the new digital ones.The manual focus can also be tough to work but it isn't too bad. This is an excellent camera.I would recommend it over the digital ones just because you get a lot more features for your money and the quality of the picture isn't all that different. ... Read more Asin: B00004S90N |
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Remembrance of Things Past Average Customer Review: Paperback (01 September, 1982) list price: $64.00 -- our price: $40.32 (price subject to change: see help) US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France Editorial Review Marcel Proust whiled away the first half of his life as a self-conscious aesthete and social climber. The second half he spent in thecreation of the mighty roman-fleuve that is Remembrance of ThingsPast, memorializing his own dandyism and parvenu hijinks even as herevealed their essential hollowness. Proust begins, of course, at thebeginning--with the earliest childhood perceptions and sorrows. Then,over several thousand pages, he retraces the course of his ownadolescence and adulthood, democratically dividing his experiencesamong the narrator and a sprawling cast of characters. Who else hasever decanted life into such ornate, knowing, wrought-iron sentences?Who has subjected love to such merciless microscopy, discriminatingbetween the tiniest variations of desire and self-delusion? Who elsehas produced a grief-stricken record of time's erosion that can alsomake you laugh for entire pages? The answer to all these questions is:nobody. ... Read more Features Reviews (74)
Kind of like the ARTHUR INMAN DIARY, but not written by a huge bigot (like Arthur Inman). And Proust doesn't kill himself in the end. Mike
If Proust were alive today, he'd probably be kibbitzing with Hollywood stars or the world's billionaire elites...And not much of this book would change! ... Read more Isbn: 0394712439 |
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Sony DEJ715 CD Walkman (Grey) Average Customer Review: Electronics list price: $169.95 US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France Editorial Review Here's a cheering arrival for CD fans who've contemplated making a shift to a alternative music formats like MP3 just for the sake of skip-free performance. The D-EJ715 boasts Sony's new G-Protection circuitry, delivering a much higher level of resistance to jolts and jerks than any other CD portable we've ever encountered. You can jog with it. You can ski with it. You can skateboard with it. And the thing just keeps on playing perfectly. G-Protection is actually a combination of features--including a memory buffer and variable-speed platter (as found in many other CD and minidisc players) plus a specially refined, quick-reactive laser beam (unique to Sony) that rides out the jolts like nobody's business. Some other CD players with memory buffers cut the high frequency edge off the music, but not so in the G-Protection version. When this circuit is engaged, Sony's excellent CD sound quality remains intact. In the process of rethinking player mechanics, Sony has also downsized components and improved energy efficiency. That's why the D-EJ715 manages to be so slim (just 1 inch tall, 5.25 inches wide, and 5.625 inches deep) and lightweight (6.4 ounces, excluding accessories). That's also why it runs for so long. With the supplied rechargeable nickel-cadmium batteries installed, you can enjoy up to 8 hours of playing time--that's with G-Protection engaged and the CD player placed on a flat and stable surface. (Not incidentally, these batteries recharge in the player in just three hours with the supplied AC adapter attached, a cute trick.) With a pair of AA batteries in place, the playing time shoots up to a maximum of 32 hours. (Early CD portables sucked all the juice out of four alkalines in just four hours.) The LCD screen on the lid of the D-EJ715 includes an icon that shows the remaining battery power. We also like that there's just one slot for installing either rechargeable or throwaway batteries on this model. On some other CD portables, including those that Sony manufactures, the on-board rechargeable cells are the slimmer "stick" variety. To add conventional battery playback on those models, you have to bolt-on or plug in an external battery carrying case--an accessory that's easy to forget and that adds bulk and clutter. If you're into the cost effectiveness and noble ecology of rechargeable batteries, Sony also offers a more expensive, nickel-metal hydride cell (the NH-WM2AA) that boasts significantly longer play time--18 hours max. (The cell is available through a phone number listed in the product literature.) Active users will also appreciate the rubbery, easily gripped carrying case with Velcro-adjustable hand strap and the new breed of sporty "Street Style" headphones supplied with the D-EJ715. Hooking over the ears, with the connecting band curving around the back of your head, these phones stay in place better than those ear bud varieties, have big drivers for better sound, and don't give you the "helmet head" look that comes with headphone bands that squish your hair. A small remote control is built into the two-segment headphone cable so you can easily change volume level, start the disc, or skip forward or backward through tracks while on the run. Return to "play" after hitting the full stop, and disc play resumes where it was interrupted. Smart. There's even a sliding "hold" switch on the remote, so you won't accidentally hit a button when it's stuffed in your shirt pocket. (A clip for securing the remote to your clothes would have been nice; but the remote is so small and light you'll hardly feel it flopping about.) A Digital Mega Bass option kicks up the musical thump--with the supplied headphones, it warmed the sound nicely on the first of two levels. The max setting, however, proved too boomy. Also included is an Automatic Volume Limiter System (AVLS). When engaged, it prevents the sound output through the headphone jack from ever getting too loud--guarding sensitive ears and preventing the inadvertent blocking of sirens, car horns, ringing phones, etc. We found AVLS cutoff point to be perfect for listening in a quiet environment, but it was set too low for situations where there's a fair amount of ambient noise--for example, from passing traffic. And the AVLS is not adjustable Sony has thought of almost everything with the D-EJ715. There's even a combined optical digital-analog output jack for connecting this player to a home stereo system or digital recorder (like minidisc) to make your own music mixes. For both on-the-go and at-home play, this CD Walkman is highly recommended. Pros:
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Anthology Of American Folk Music Volume 4 (Edited By Harry Smith) Average Customer Review:  Audio CD (23 May, 2000) list price: $31.98 US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France Editorial Review Originally released in 1952, Harry Smith's landmark three-volume Anthology of American Folk Music literally instigated a revolution in music--suddenly, this collection of scratchy 78 sides made "folk" cool again (it would stay that way forever after). But Smith--filmmaker, guru, and alchemist--originally intended for a fourth volume of the set to be created. Thanks to Revenant, we have it now--nearly five decades after its gathering. Smith's two-CD collection takes works from the Blue Sky Boys, the Carter Family, Bukka White, Robert Johnson, and a dozen or so forgotten blues and old-time artists, mostly from the '20s and '30s. In the copious liner notes, the late Smith confesses that this volume was "lost" because his original liner notes went missing; he had hoped to create a thorough analysis of how each song's theme was interrelated. Thus, there are some truly great transitions--"John Henry Was a Little Boy" by J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers leads ironically into "Nine Pound Hammer Is Too Heavy" by the Monroe Brothers; Lead Belly's breakup ode "Packin' Trunk" segues into Big Joe Williams's "Baby Please Don't Go." Gorgeous packaging and thorough liner notes by Dick Spottswood, Greil Marcus, Ed Sanders, and others makes this set even more essential. Like so many of the musicians he admired and promoted, Harry Smith's real genius wouldn't be recognized till after he died. Here it is, folks. --Jason Verlinde ... Read more Reviews (8)
Is it worth the hefty price though?
So, if you likedthe original, you know you are going to buy this someday (where else canone find such an appreication for jug band music?).If you are a fan of"Race and Hillbilly" like me you'll give blood to get this. ... Read more Asin: B00004SUA0 |
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The Beast God Forgot to Invent Average Customer Review: Hardcover (30 October, 2000) list price: $24.00 US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France Editorial Review At 67, Norman Arnz is well aware of his narrative limitations: "I daresay that no one understands more than the part of the story that is directly contiguous to them." Yet the conjunction of placement and perception is crucial to both him and his tale. The title novella in Jim Harrison's The Beast God Forgot to Invent takes the form of Arnz's written report explaining the death by drowning of a lifetime resident of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Slow, different, backward--Joe Lacort had been labeled all these andmore since a car accident illustrated "the Newtonian principle that an object inmotion (your head) tends to remain in motion unless acted upon by an unbalancedor unequal force (in Joe's case, a massive gray beech tree)." What Arnz realizes, to his dismay and envy, is that this man "had crossed over a line into an otherness of perception that was unavailable to the rest of us," that his "sense of time has become hopelessly round while ours is linear." Joe's story, told as Arnz circles back and back, questing for original cause, is the story of mapping oneself and one's place in a profoundly captivating--and dislocating--universe. "Maybe," he ponders, "the world really doesn't look like the one I've been seeing all along. That was one of the questions Joe offered." These questions, and answers, are relayed by an astonishing voice: Harrison gives his narrator an oddly intoxicating blend of E.B. White's wry irony and perfectly matter-of-fact precision and Humbert Humbert's solipsistic bravura and edgy suspiciousness. And the other two novellas are equally engaging. In "Westward Ho," a Michigan Native American finds himself on a quixotic quest through Los Angeles in pursuit of a stolen bearskin. An assortment of jaded Sancho Panzas aid (I use the term loosely) Brown Dog in his search. Sentimental without being trite, the story soars easily above potential "small-town Indian, big city" limitations. "I Forgot to Go to Spain" returns to a first-person narrator, a glib biographer suspicious that "the language I was using to describe myself to myself might be radically askew." Harrison is a rare beast, an author whose ideas are at once grand and simple. His prose is so tantalizingly right that you might be tempted to gather his sentences and fling yourself into their midst, just for the sheer pleasure of it all. --Kelly Flynn ... Read more Reviews (10)
These stories begin in Minnesota.They always come back there. Worth your time, if only to meet people who should go on and reoprt back "beyond the end"....
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