Brian Armstrong's Reviews


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Posted almost 4 years ago for Safari

Apple continues to innovate with Safari, it's fast, beautiful, a really well written browser for mac. The only thing preventing me from using it are a lack of some features like mouse gestures which Firefox offers through plugins. Overall, I like Safari a lot, it's a close call but doesn't quite beat Firefox for me.

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Posted almost 4 years ago for Firefox

This is currently my browser of choice on Mac (although I'll be looking closely at Chrome when it comes out too). The biggest benefit of it are the plugins which let you add time saving features like mouse gestures. Safari is faster to load on Mac and has some other small UI improvements I like better than Firefox, but Firefox wins (just barely) overall in my book.

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Posted almost 4 years ago for Firefox

Great example of good software. One of the best thing about it is the wide range of plugins people have developed for it.

However, Chrome has now become my default browser and I think has edged out Firefox for the #1 one.

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Posted almost 4 years ago for Chrome

Fast, clean, efficient, easy user interface. Great product.

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Posted almost 4 years ago for Internet Explorer

Even in it's latest version, internet explorer is slower and has way more bugs than competing browsers.

It's also a major annoyance to web developers around the world who have the frequent experience of finding that their website looks correct on every browser EXCEPT internet explorer (again, due to it's bugs and loose adherence to standards). With each new version of internet explorer that is released, they create more work and lost productivity for companies around the world who have to spent more to get their websites working correctly in yet another broken version.

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Posted almost 4 years ago for FeedBlitz.com

Found this service difficult to use and not worth the money.

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Posted almost 4 years ago for Aweber.com

Expensive but reliable service. Very limiting, poorly designed, difficult to get emails to look right. Rss-to-email feels like a bolted on afterthought.

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Posted almost 4 years ago for Feedburner.com

This free option (now owned by Google) is quite good and reliable. It lacks a few options however, like scheduling of emails and ability to automate sending of the opt-in email.

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Posted almost 4 years ago for AnnualCreditReport.com

This appears to be the original and "official" site created to get free credit reports - and in that sense it's probably the best. It is by no means easy to use though. The Experian report worked on the first try, however TransUnion and Equifax both displayed messages saying they were unable to bring up the credit report online and I should mail in a ton of documents to get it by mail in 3 weeks. I started over and tried using a previous address and got Equifax to work. TransUnion is still a no go. It's a very buggy and rudimentary system, but this is the best I've found.

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Posted almost 4 years ago for yelp.com



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