The great thing about Quality-Reviews is that it has a few authors that aren’t shy about expressing their opinion. I also think it is in the best interest for everyone to get a wide range of opinions on various products and software.

If you guys/gals have any questions feel free to contact me.

Have a Nice Day,

Jay

Some of the great features of AudioDig.net is the fact that I don’t have to listen to the tiny 30 sec. sample that iTunes and many others give you. I like the option to listen to the whole song. You can signup there for free and create your own playlist which is a really nice feature. I like that it gives you the ability to embed it into your website for free which I’m contemplating doing it here for you guys/gals. Another feature that it has is the ability to download the song if you’d like. I haven’t done this but a friend of mine says it works really well. My preferred use is to just listen to the songs while I sit here on my computer with out actually having to dig up the cd’s or paying for the download through iTunes.

If I do end up really liking a few songs from an artist then I’ll usually just end up purchasing the cd or downloading their album from Yahoo Music. But there is always the option to download the song from AudioDig.net if you want.

If you want to have a look at this website. Check it out at http://www.AudioDig.net. Or you can search for an artist or song you like below and see what AudioDig.net comes up with.

Rideville allows you to change the color of the forum depending on your preference. I also like the fact that it provides a vast variety of categories that will truly help you find exactly what you’re looking for. I do have to admit, one of the downfalls that I noticed about the forum is the lack of activity. Despite it being a very good automobile forum it has yet to reach its full potential.

http://www.Rideville.com

That’s why Quality-Reviews is gonna start putting in some overtime when it comes to locating and summarizing various useful products. We want to keep you informed.

T-mobile Dash

I managed to pick one of these babies up about 6 months ago and I wanted to write a little review on what my feelings are on the T-Mobile Dash Smartphone.

Well, to start out with, it’s about 100x better then my previous flip-phone, the Samsung t219. I hated that phone and everything about it. The speaker quality was horrible, the phone felt extremely cheap, it got the worst reception imaginable. Plus, within the first 3 days after I bought it the screen cracked while I had it in my pocket. Well, what can you expect from a cheap “Pay as You Go” phone?

So you must imagine when I purchased my T-Mobile Dash, I was quite impressed with it. It had the majority of features I was looking for in a phone. Not all the features work as great as I’d like, but they do work. Here’s a breakdown of the features, and what I like and dislike about them.

Wi-fi: The fact that it even has wi-fi is a plus. Also its fairly easy to get connected to a network. The downside for me is I HATE the browser it comes with. It’s restrictive. No flash or anything. I found that you can bypass this crappy browser by purchasing NetFront and using that. That’s an amazing browser in my opinion.

Bluetooth: Good, really no complaints with this. Very easy to setup my bluetooth headset. Fairly easy to connect to another phone with bluetooth and share files. Overall the feature seems to be pretty good. No complaints here.

Windows Mobile: I used to own a Toshiba PDA a while back that had Windows Mobile on it. I liked it. The thing I disliked about it is that the speed of the browser leaves something to be desired. The Dash seemed to have minimized the sluggishness the Windows Mobile O.S. used to have. The memory can be bogged down by just opening up apps. Even when you close them they don’t totally get removed from the system memory unless you clear it yourself. Very annoying at times, but I’ve gotten used to just clearing the memory every once in a while. Sometimes features act a little quirky with Windows Mobile, but that’s what we’ve come to expect with a Microsoft O.S.,  lol.

Camera: It’s alright, 1.3 Megapixels is pretty good quality for a phone. Better then the old phones that didn’t even come close to a megapixel. I wish it was a little bit better considering there are some phones that are now doubling the megapixels this phone has. It’s good but not great.

Battery: The battery life is very good. Its estimated talk time is 5 hrs, but I usually get quite a bit more then that. 6-7 hrs. talk time is about average for me.

An aspect I’m very impressed with is the sound quality. I’ve tried quite a few different PDA’s and smartphones that don’t even come close to the sound quality of this smartphone. The speaker phone is loud and crisp. The phone size isn’t a very big deal for me. It’s comparable to the size of a blackberry. Often people ask me if I have a blackberry, cuz they look very similar.

Overall I’m very impressed with my T-Mobile Dash. It’s got the features I want and the quality I want. I recommend it to really anyone interested in something more then your average flip-phone. The price isn’t too bad, especially if you get a contract with it. You can find one at Amazon for only $28 if you get a new service plan. Here’s a link to that.

v8 Fusion was released fairly recently and I have to say I’m not impressed. I decided to pick some of this stuff up thinking, ‘Ok, this stuff is good for me and if it tastes anything like v8 splash then I should like it.’ Well, it doesn’t even come close. It adds a full serving of fruit and vegetables in each 8oz. glass. Honestly, If you can choke a 2oz. glass down I’ll give ya props. I can’t remember for sure which kind I tried, but it really doesn’t matter cuz I’m not trying another one.

I thought v8 Splash was good, but supposedly not as good for you as they advertised. With only 10% juice and high fructose corn syrup, they felt they needed to try and step up their game with the new release of v8 Fusion. I really don’t care if it has a million percent of your daily value of fruits and vegetables if its inedible it does you no good.

Someone made a good point about v8 fusion. It tastes exactly how your garbage smells. I can’t speak for all the flavors but I’ll bet money that the other ones aren’t much better. v8 has completely failed with the new fusion fruit/vegetable drink. Its not cheap either, it costs around $3.50 to $4.00 a bottle. I wouldn’t waste my money on this, and I recommend you don’t either, unless you like liquids that come back up after you drink ‘em.

It should have a disclaimer on it saying: WARNING: Not for people with strong gag reflexes!

All I can say is: “Yuck!” to the New & Nasty v8 Fusion (What were they thinking?)

I went to my local Target a month or so ago and picked some of this stuff up. To be exact it’s the Turtle Wax Ice Liquid Clay Bar. It says right on the bottle that it will remove contaminants like tree sap and paint over spray as well as minor scratches and swirl marks. If it does even half of that I’d be happy, but no, it doesn’t do any of that.

I purchased it for the sole reason that I had minor tree sap on my car. I thought that by purchasing a near $20 16oz. bottle of this stuff it would solve that. I do have to say that after 2 hrs of hard scrubbing that it did get some of it up. But when I say hard scrubbing I mean it. I bet you water would have done just as good of a job as this product and I wouldn’t have any streaks and residue after, like this product did. All I can say is this product is worthless. It’s the equivalent of soap and water.

There’s cheaper products that do a better job then this one. This product is worth $4 maybe $5 if you ask me. Definitely not the $15 or $20 sticker price.

I purchased the Toshiba Gigabeat in 2006 right when it came out. I’m happy to say that I did really like it. There are definitely some really nice features about the gigabeat. I want to highlight the pros as well as the cons of the gigabeat.

First off, Toshiba did an excellent job at providing the customer exactly what he/she wanted in the way of accessories for the Gigabeat. It comes with a cradle that you can set it in to transfer music and charge the battery easily and effortlessly. Also provided with the Gigabeat was a remote which makes it easy for you to have the Gigabeat in your pocket and still be able to have control over your music without taking it out. I’ve purchased quite a few mp3 players that didn’t come with these useful additions Toshiba provides.

This mp3 player has a nice amount of space with a total of 40 GB. More then enough to store all your music, unless you have a severe music addiction. It also has nice sound, I really liked the SRS WOW feature. It definitely makes a huge difference in quality. It offers a ton of different equalizer settings, 28 to be exact. It provides a decent amount of battery life with around 16 hrs. per charge. Not too terrible.

One thing I didn’t like about the Gigabeat was the fact that it didn’t allow video. It lets you upload your pics on there and view them in very good quality but no video. Why? I don’t know. Another con is that it doesn’t have a radio. I never listened to the radio much on my other mp3 players but I do like the feature. It’s just a feature you like to know you have. Or, at least I do. The Gigabeat is kinda thick also. Nothing big but it would be cool if it were a tad bit thinner. Last but not least I didn’t like that anything you transferred to the Gigabeat through Windows Media or the Gigabeat room were immediately encrypted when they got put on the device. I didn’t like it for the reason it made it difficult for you to transfer the songs back to your PC hard drive if you needed to and listen to them there.

Overall, I have to say I’m pretty impressed with this Mp3 Player. Toshiba has come out with a nice product in the Gigabeat. I have since upgraded to the Zune. But the Gigabeat will always have a special place in my heart.

Take a look here, if you’re interested in the Toshiba Gigabeat

I’ve used my fair share of micro flash drives in my life, but none have been as difficult as this one. Here’s a short list of what I don’t like about it, I’ll go into further detail down the page. 1.) It feels very cheap and junky. | 2.) The U3 software on there is horrendous. | 3.) Slow & Software is intrusive.

I couldn’t really pass this deal up when I saw it at Walmart, on sale for $14. 4 GB is quite a bit for such a small device. Yeah I know they now make 32GB micro flash drives, but it’s still a good chunk of space. With that being said I purchased it and brought it home hoping to put some backup files from my computer on it.

Right away when I plugged it into the USB slot I noticed it was not stable at all. It disconnected itself in the middle of a transfer more then once and I also noticed that it auto-runs multiple programs that are pre-installed on the device. Very annoying. I have never used a USB flash drive that has software that’s so annoying and intrusive. I find it running in the background of my PC even though I never started the software.

Conclusion: It’s made from very cheap plastic that makes it feel as if you could break it pretty easily. The software is by far the most annoying problem of this device. Plus it’s slow and unstable in transferring. So all around I’ve found it to be a piece of crap. It kinda surprises me because I used to think Sandisk made fairly good products.

As you may have guessed, I returned the device a week after I bought it. I have heard, though, that you are able to uninstall the software on the micro flash drive. I never looked into this because I was also unhappy with the other facets of this product and will wait to purchase a massive 32GB in the future.

In conclusion, the value of the new Goodyear Eagle GT tires is great. For my car these tires retail at $139 each. Right now I can’t really say how well these tires are gonna hold up with increased mileage and weather conditions, but hopefully they’ll hold up well. I’ve been driving on these now for about 3 months and so far absolutely no complaints.