Facebook has reached over 400 Million users recently, so most of you if not all of you have heard about the new changed Facebook has made to their user interface. I waited until Today to do a review on it because I just recently got the new Facebook UI. Slowly Facebook is giving users the new layout. As of today, a lot of people got it, only a few are left to get the new design. I’m sure by the end of the week, everyone should have the new layout!

First Thoughts:

Once I opened facebook.com when I got the new layout, I immediately was impressed by the simpleness that the UI provided. The old facebook was clunky, slow, and most of all, hard to use. This new facebook is simple, easy to use, and most of all, it looks really nice. I don’t know why people are complaining about it, It is a huge improvement from the old.

Problems:

Only had one minor problem. When I go on facebook.com and then click on a post or someone’s profile and then return back to facebook.com, sometimes it says that there are no posts on the homepage. This does get a little annoying, but I would much rather have this bug than other bugs the old facebook has had.

Overall, The new Facebook is very good, which in a way is rare. A lot of people hated Facebook’s previous pages, but I think finally they made a great job on the new Facebook layout. Awesome work.

Everyone does Whats In My Dock, and I recently made a video on Whats in my iTunes. Although, not too many people have done a Whats in my Dashboard post. Earlier today, TechnoBuffalo made a Whats in my Dashboard blog post, so I decided to do one myself!

This is in order from most used dashboard applications to least used:

RadarInMotion

I use RadarInMotion pretty much everytime I check into my dashboard. I Check out my local radar, US radar to see what other weather might be heading my way, and just to see what places are getting hit with snow, rain, etc. It shows radars from all over the world so if you don’t live in the US, you can still use this application. The Radars are shown from either Weather.com or from the NOAA. I recommend the weather.com radars since they look nicer.

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24 iPhone apps. All in One iPhone app. You’d probably be thinking it’s $23.99 or something like that, right? Think again. All you pay is $0.99 in the app store. Download Link here. At first, I thought the 24 games were probably quick games that maybe are beatable within 1-5 minutes, but I was proven wrong immediately once I started playing the first game. All the 24 games are full versions of games, not demo’s or anything of that sort. Definitely a must buy, you’re paying about four cents per game!

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Now, you might be wondering why I am reviewing this particular device. I am doing this so that you are not confined to one MP3 player. You might think that the iPod is the only and the best media player ever but Sony has really buckled down into creating a device as wonderful as this. It has a bright and crisp 3.5 inch screen, and Sony even sells accessories for it in its online store or its Sony Style stores. It has video playback as well, only you have to format it into a specific format, not all formats will work. This device produces excellent sound and produces excellent video quality.

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As most Facebook users know, every time the layout changes on Facebook, there’s bound to be a whole lot of issues. Because of change, lots of users will tend to dislike it (where’s that dislike button now?)  There are plenty of noticeable changes that are instantly seen right on the front page. READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>

The first time I really got into Call of Duty was when I started playing on a server with a few friends around May of last year. I was on a laptop running Windows playing Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare at the time, but now I am finally reliving the memories on the Xbox 360 version of the game. Comparing to the latest game in the series, Modern Warfare 2, there are a bunch of changes, some little and some big. First off are the maps in Modern Warfare. I absolutely love the maps in Modern Warfare because they are not so big and not so small. The menu in Call of Duty 4, in my opinion, is a little uglier and more cluttered than the one on Modern Warfare 2. One of the thing I do miss from Call of Duty 4 that isn’t in Modern Warfare 2 is some of the guns I used take longer to get. That isn’t a bad thing, per say, but it was nice to have my favorite guns at an earlier level. The multiplayer was definitely more stable and not as full of hacks as Modern Warfare 2 has at this point in time. All in all, this game is a really good game and definitely something to play around with if you have been stuck on Modern Warfare 2 these past few months.

Customer Service is something that no Geek wants to deal with, doesn’t matter what company it is. But, we all have to deal with it, whether we like it or not. Lots of people have been debating on Twitter as to which company has the best customer service. There were people who debated that Verizon, Comcast, and Apple have the best. Other people debated that Verizon, Comcast, and Dell are the worst for customer service. I actually called every single one of these companies at one time or another throughout my geek career so i’ll go through each and every one of these companies, and then give them a rating out of 10 points. 10 is really good, 1 is crap.

Verizon

Verizon’s customer service in my book, is almost non-existant. Pretty much every time after I ended a call with Verizon, nothing has been resolved. So it’s almost as if they don’t have customer service. Since I already made a post on Verizon’s service, refer to this post as the story as to why I don’t like Verizon’s Customer Service.

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Even though I cancelled my service with Verizon a few months ago(best thing I’ve ever done), it seems as if everyone else I know always seems to have some sort of issue with Verizon. I’ll start off by saying my experiences with Verizon, and then go on to saying why I actually made the rant. The only Verizon product i’ve used throughout my lifetime is Verizon DSL. I switched to DSL in about 2006 and was pretty happy with Verizon. Really, up until the point of switching out of Verizon, I didn’t have much of a problem with them. Their service worked, however, their customer service was so bad, Dell would probably laugh at them. Why? Simple. Because Verizon’s customer service IS laughable. The last time I got decent customer service from Verizon was when I was calling to GET Verizon. Their “help” is a joke.

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A few months ago I reviewed the early stages of EchoFon for the Mac. It had great potential but at the time but it didn’t have all the features a normal twitter client would have. However, since then, the App has improved greatly. The user interface has changed completely, and more features from Twitter have been integrated in new versions of the Application.

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Almost everyone I know has heard of Twitter to some extent, but the problem is that all too many of them don’t know what it is exactly or what it does. They seem to think it is for stalkers and always ask why they would care what someone had for lunch. These people just don’t truly understand the true potential of Twitter. Am I the only one who has people constantly asking me about what the point of Twitter is? I guess I am the ‘tech geek’ in the family (and friends for that matter), but I’m sure some of you are too. Does anyone else feel bothered when people don’t understand Twitter?

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