Andrew Evans

Member since: Jul 22nd, 2005

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How would you change MySpace? (Download Squad)

Dec 6th 2005 12:05PM MySpace profiles generally seem as bad or worse than the old GeoCities pages. Tiled background images that make text unreadable, eye-searing colors and bad fonts, videos and music that lock your browser for a good minute just for linking to someone's page, and flashy banners and other animated crap really just make it a bad experience. Honestly, I can't stand the site because it just has too much poorly-used crap. I'm waiting for a good, Web 2.0 social networking site. 43people is headed that direction, Facebook is simple and nice, but Orkut, Friendster, MySpace and a bunch of others are the ones balancing out the bell curves, IMHO.

Are you still using IE 5? (TUAW.com)

Oct 26th 2005 3:56PM Flock, yo's!

Ask TUAW: What's your favorite note-taking app? (TUAW.com)

Oct 2nd 2005 1:32PM Text Edit, definitely. Quick, easy, searchable via Spotlight, and fast. As a college student, I have to take a lot of notes. I have one text file for each of my classes, which I append to during the lectures. More on my system here.

Silly Survey Sunday: What's in a name (revisited)? (TUAW.com)

Sep 26th 2005 12:19AM My 15" powerbook is named Shiny. It is beyond gender.

Poll: What's your Mac rig at school? (TUAW.com)

Aug 23rd 2005 10:17AM 15" Powerbook w/ Superdrive 250GB External hard drive Yamaha PSR290 Portable Grand / MIDI Controller HP Deskjet 5740 (recieved free from Apple) I'm using just about everything. iCal / Missing Sync with palm pilot to keep track of appointments / homework, iMovie & iPhoto for the crazy trouble my friends & I get into, Garageband (and hopefully soon Logic Express) for homemade music, Safari for blogging, Studio MX and Adobe CS2 for graphics. It's awesome.

Ask Download Squad: What's the best alternative to Microsoft Office? (Download Squad)

Jul 22nd 2005 12:57PM I use TextEdit for my word processing needs. I love its speed and unbloated feel. For the rare occasion where I need a spreadsheet or presentation, it's NeoOffice/J. It has everything I need for free. I may purchase KeyNote, since I have a communications class this year. I really wish all the office suites would pare things down a bit, though. NeoOffice and Word both take a long time to load, even on fast machines, and their UI's could learn a lot from Aqua.