Archived Computers & Internet Reviews

Pros: Worthwhile project, free screen saver, relatively small application, pretty colors!
Cons: A little RAM hungry, data sets take forever if you have an older machine

Back in 1968, Jocelyn Bell, an astronomy graduate student at Cambridge University, was analyzing some data from a radio telescope when she discovered a regular signal in all of the background noise. She and her advisor, Professor Antony Hewish, jokingly ...

Pros: creating your own & saying whatever you want in the card
Cons: the upgraded version is too difficult to navigate

I've always been sort of a creative person,so when my daughter gave me this CreataCard program shortly after I became "computer addicted" I found myself making card after card for everyone I know for whatever occasion came up, Then we gave her...

Pros: Low cost removable media drive, low cost media, low MB/buck ratio, works with the major OS unsure about Linux though, easy set up
Cons: Drive failure fairly high

There are many nice things about this drive. 2.2 Gig of storage, $39 for an additional cartridge, fast access and seek times, removable media, compatibility with many OS, and easy setup and portability... plus there are many options for setup such as...

Pros: Time for cable and DSL!
Cons: All free ISPs are doomed.

Don't even bother surfing this section. Any good national free ISP company has failed. 1stup is outta business on the 12/10/00, and was providing free service to about half the companies on this page. It was also the best, providing reliable,...

Pros: TIME WASTER
Cons: TIME WASTER

The name sez it all on this one. Well almost all. It does not say that you could probably scratch here for 5 nights and never get a penny.

I have not tried that yet. What I did try was scratching until I had reached every level. I figured...

Pros: Free
Cons: Usually unstable and buggy.

*** Updated 1-3-2001 ***
Although two players have exited abruptly, it’s not the end of the Free World as we know it. There will be replacement ISP’s to reinstate those vacated by 1stup and SpinWay.
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Pros: local company
Cons: complete lack of service

I am a computer and internet newbie, only being on-line for the past six months. Being such I asked many friends about which Internet Service Provider (ISP from here on) they would recommend. The overwhelming majority of them suggested Escape. I...

These are programs that you are almost guaranteed to get some money each and every month. I have checks hanging on my refrigerator from all of these places.

All Advantage:

A Paid to surf Program with an ad banner. You can dock it...

Pros: Very useful and informative
Cons: None

BellaOnline.com advertises itself as The Voice of Women on the Web. It is a web site created by women for women. They cover almost every topic you can think of, or have a need for.

The premise for this site is that a lot of...

I bought my first computer in March of 1997. It was a Packard Bell Multimedia C115. I bought due to do affordability not realizing the processor would soon become obsolete. This system came with a 120 Pentium Processor, 1 GB hard drive, 33.6 modem, and a...

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Juno, BlueLight, Net Zero, Alta Vista and Free Internet these are all names of free ISP’s, but which ones are good and which ones are bad? If you are a person that likes to take advantage of these...

Pros: Promises
Cons: NO Service

My wife and I just moved in to our new apartment about two month ago. We started to look for apartments 4-6 month ahead before our lease was over at the place we use to live. Finally we found really nice place and one of the reasons why we picked this...

This one is the fastest download so far.

It is fairly easy to use. It has a small ad banner.

It is called web bullion and is located at webbullion.com

This one has no limit on how much you can earn and it goes by a point...

Pros: Pays you
Cons: Pays you marginally

I wasn't really bought on the idea of receiving money for surfing the web. I thought that surely this was a gimmick. But in reality, the gimmick is no joke. It is no scam or farce. In fact, I received a check for over 30 dollars just yesterday.
If...

Pros: Fast, Simple to Navigate, Regularly Updated
Cons: Lots of Ads, Very Basic Features

The internet is all about the quick and easy! For me, a college student who listens to music virtually twenty four hours a day, seven days a week... most of the time, I don't have time to spend surfing around for what I want. Also, with a growing...