Paraphrase Archive

  • Review: EOS wireless speaker system

    Review: EOS wireless speaker system

    Posted on November 2, 2009 | No Comments
    EOSTo paraphrase my favorite Jack Handy quote, "If the Vikings were around today, they would probably be amazed at the number of wireless audio solutions we have." Hopefully said Vikings would read reviews of said wireless audio solutions here at CrunchGear, since we've covered a fair number of these things. Today we're taking a look at the Eos wireless audio solution. "Named for the Greek goddess of dawn, Eos lets you put great music all over your house -- without the hassle of wires." Read on for the whole review!

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  • Rock music is dead, and all the Rock Band in the world won’t save it

    Rock music is dead, and all the Rock Band in the world won’t save it

    Posted on October 27, 2009 | No Comments
    In the interest of bringing Ron and Fez’s fantastic radio show topics to a more tech-minded audience, I propose the following: games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band, while fun and, generally speaking, “good,” will not save rock music. Rock and roll, for all intents and purposes, is dead. Bear with me for a minute, [...]

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  • Video play-by-play: The first seven minutes of the new sci-fi TV show ‘V’

    Video play-by-play: The first seven minutes of the new sci-fi TV show ‘V’

    Posted on October 26, 2009 | No Comments
    To paraphrase the great Joe Rogan, from last Saturday's UFC 104, I don't watch much TV, maybe the Discovery Channel here and there to see a documentary or two. I bring this up because I've been told to write about some TV show called “V,” and the beauty is that I have no idea what it's about! My first thought was, “V For Vendetta? Oh, no? Oh, well, then yeah, not a clue.” Apparently it's a re-make of an old sci-fi show. Thankfully, though, ABC, the network where this show will air here in the U.S., has just posted the first seven minutes online. Let's watch it, together!

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  • Survey: Apple products totally popular with the rich kids

    Survey: Apple products totally popular with the rich kids

    Posted on October 7, 2009 | No Comments
    Growing up, was there anything worse than being called a rich kid? Granted, it was probably just a case of petty jealousy—I wish I had a power wheel!—but man oh man did the rich kid win no friends. Fast-forward a few years, and the rich kid isn't just flaunting his new lunchbox and Spider-Man sneakers, no sir: he's driving a brand new car and checking his Facebook on his shiny, new iPhone 3G S. Or, a long way of say the obvious: Apple products are popular with kids from wealthy parents.

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  • iPhone App Review: Navigon Mobile Navigator for iPhone

    iPhone App Review: Navigon Mobile Navigator for iPhone

    Posted on August 17, 2009 | No Comments
    navigon-mobilenavigator_iphone_reality-view-pro_02 It is time to ask the age-old question: Are our cellphones ready to replace standalone GPS units. Sure we've all done a little work with cellphone mapping services and we've all mucked about with Google Maps while driving (which is very dangerous). But are cellphones and iPhones in particular ready to knock the old GPS box off of the dashboard? To paraphrase Molly Bloom in Ulysees, "yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me and I think you can replace your GPS device with an iPhone and software like Navigon's Mobile Navigator for iPhone are making it much simpler yes I will Yes."

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  • A rebuttal, in which Chrome OS is praised, and no disparaging remarks are made

    A rebuttal, in which Chrome OS is praised, and no disparaging remarks are made

    Posted on July 9, 2009 | No Comments
    google-chromeJohn pooh poohs Google Chrome OS, just like he pooh poohed the Palm Pre. John's a smart guy, and has some good insights into the technology world. But on the issue of Google Chrome OS, I think he's wrong. Google isn't in the operating system market, it's in the software services market. The easier Google can make it to get to their hosted applications, the more customers they'll have. To paraphrase Larry Ellison's famous quote, "the web is the operating system".

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  • 24 songs: Woman ordered to pay $1.92 million to RIAA

    24 songs: Woman ordered to pay $1.92 million to RIAA

    Posted on June 19, 2009 | No Comments
    Stan Lee couldn't have created a more hated super-villain than the Recording Industry Association of America. It's the ultimate heel stable. Get this: a woman in Minneapolis, Jammie Thomas-Rasset, has been ordered to pay $1.92 million in damages for downloading and sharing 24 songs. That works out to about $80,000 per song. Clearly the RIAA deserves props. Mad props.

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  • Palm Pre: An also-ran

    Palm Pre: An also-ran

    Posted on May 28, 2009 | No Comments
    An "also-ran" is, literally, "a horse that does not win, place, or show in a race." The world loves an underdog but it never loves an also-ran. It forgets about an also-ran. And so we reach nearly the end of Palm Pre madness and I'm afraid to report that after all the magic, all the tears, all the joy the Palm Pre will be just another phone. It won't save Palm, it won't change paradigms, and it won't send the iPhone hegemony crashing to its knees. The Palm Pre will launch with a whisper, not a bang.

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