Archived Web Services Reviews

Pros: Easy to set up, free
Cons: Can go down & not take changes

I have a life outside Epinions, yes, it's true. It occupies almost as much time as this site does, and it has become something that I love to do. I Sweep. What is Sweeping you say? Well, to some, it's getting onto lists and webpages that list a...

Pros: fun and informative look at Disney attractions
Cons: you may not get some of the jokes

Iago & Zazu's Attraction of the Week, located at http://www.emuck.com/aotw/ is a website of entertainment as well as a place the glean little-know facts about various attractions at Disney World in Florida and Disneyland in ...

Pros: Some fun categories; potential for interesting discussion
Cons: Much poor quality writing; unclear objectives; venomous reading groups; no customer service; delayed payment

I’ve been through some interesting cities and towns here in the Wild Wild West of the Internet, but the strangest has to be a site called Bright Idea, once a bustling little hamlet, and now little more than a ghost town.

A quick summary of my...

Pros: Donations to charity, open participation, community
Cons: Complex, still in "preview" stage

“Zealot” is not a word that carries charitable connotations for most of us. Yet, “charitable” is exactly the word that would have to be ascribed to the Zealots at www.zeal.com.

I first learned of Zeal.com through one of their banners at the...

Pros: free, enormous list of titles
Cons: depends on the kindness of readers for content

One of my favorite activities is reading. It always has been. When I was younger I was blessed with the ability to speed read, and I frequently read as many as a dozen books a day. As I started getting older, I started having some problems with my...

Pros: Easy to use; fast results
Cons: none

Stop! Before you purchase another book online, visit www.AddALL.com to get the best deal. AddALL.com is a search engine of sorts to locate books online. It is a free service that will list for you where the book you are looking for is...

Pros: Easy to navigate, lots to choose from
Cons: Needs music

Are you looking for a website that deals with just “love cards”? You know the ones that you can email to your lover, or your husband or wife or even to someone you feel are special in your life. Look no further I have found a great website for those...

Pros: So many choices of cards
Cons: There are so many choices it is hard to chose which card to send

Waited until the last minute to send your Christmas cards and now don't have time to send them by snail mail? No problem. Angelwinks electronic card site to the rescue. This year Angel has 147 pages of Christmas cards, wallpapers and Christmas puzzles...

Pros: Easy to Navigate, Cute little Funbug voice
Cons: Slow to post weekly winners

I have been introduced to most of the sites on the web through one source...my daughter Chalathra! If you look at our epinions homepages you will see that she joined one day before me, and then coerced...uhhh asked me to join too. I guess you might say...

Pros: Fast, easy and fun
Cons: have to wait about 30 days to revisit one of their surfing web sites

Have you ever heard of Trocamania? It’s a program that has been around for several months and is one of the easiest pay-to-surf, pay-to-read e-mails, paid-to-do-surveys, paid-to-answer questions program there is!

What is...

Pros: Selection, Service, Protected by TRUSTe
Cons: Personal information may be bought, sold, given, donated, or bequeathed to others

Dateline: The North Pole

Santa sits by the fire in his office, head in hands. The big guy is a wreck. He is wearing stained long johns, can’t remember his last bath, and stopped cutting his bourbon with eggnog hours ago. The...

Pros: Finding long-lost friends with ease.
Cons: Not all the graduating class has internet access

Ever wondered what happened to so-and-so? Ever wish you knew how to get in touch with your old high school friends and regret losing touch with them? Now you can find many of them on the internet.

CLASSMATES.COM is one of the many high...

Pros: Many patterns in every category from A-Z.
Cons: none except wished I had found this site sooner.

I have found the best and cheapest place to buy wallpaper.
It is on the internet and you can shop from the comforts of your own home.

The name of this site is American Blind And Wallpaper Factory (ABWF).
They stock over 200,000...

Pros: Great for children. Promotes creative thinking
Cons: Not enough hours in a day....

My six year-old daughter, Kayla, is learning how to navigate her way around the internet. We created her own directory on Internet Explorer so she can easily access the parent approved sites she is allowed to visit.

As such, I have been...

Pros: Kellogg's site; Earn points for fun stuff and earn your school money too!; need parental permission if under 13
Cons: Wish I'd known about this sooner

Hmmm, what was this on the cereal box? Something about a secret code inside the box. Hmmm, and who are these two characters, EET (a horse) and ERN (a piggy bank), backpacks on with their apple and Game-Boy? Hmmm, this had not caught my eye before ~ only...