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How To Save A Wet Cell Phone 2007-03-02 14:29:40 Just a quick post today...hopefully a useful one. I think there's two camps of cell phone users, those that take real good care of their phone and those like me who drop their cell phone a lot. As I type, my phone currently has a huge crack across its front and its been there for quite awhile now. I should replace it but nothing else is wrong with the phone! The LCD works just fine (both exterior and interior) so I just keep using it.OK, maybe I'm also lazy and cheap.Anyways, in my regular dropping of my cell phones, occasionally it happens in the middle of the street on a rainy day. Lucky for me, so far, it hasn't fallen directly into a puddle. If it does, the warranty is void and the phone company knows what you did.But, if you're not so lucky and it happens to you (or your kid throws it into the toilet), have a look at this article on wikiHow that provides as much help and instruction as possible on how to save it (if it can be saved).
I Have A Lot More To Learn About Adsblacklist 2007-03-01 10:54:46 So I've been using AdsBlackList for a little while now. Actually, more to the point, I've been putting MFA (Made For Ads) sites on my Google Adsense Competitive Ad Filter list and just using AdsBlackList to keep track of all the MFA sites I see on ProductCritic.I've read a few blog posts and related comments about it not working or reducing overall revenue. I'm not sure I've seen a reduction in revenue yet (still too early to tell) but I might try an experiment in the second week of March to see what happens when I remove the sites on the Ad Filter list.Still, I'm debating with myself because my main purpose for putting those sites on the list is not just for increasing revenue (since some posts say that Google already puts in the highest paying ads automatically since that's the best for Google...which makes sense). My main purpose for putting the sites on my filter list is that I hate MFA sites and everything they stand for and I think that I'm doing a disservice to people vi
The Worst Digital Cameras Ever 2007-02-27 22:19:46 I just stumbled across an article by Digital
Camera HQ talking about the worst cameras ever. Although written in October 2006, some of the cameras are still on the market so watch out! In no particular order, the writer calls out these cameras:Canon Powershot A70Sea Life DC500Kodak Easyshare OnePolaroid PDC-5080Pentax Optio E10While I was surprised by the Canon A70 (as I've always been happy with my Canon's), further details revealed a major glitch in the camera and Canon had to offer free repairs for it. It's the one camera that has driven many people away from Canon's ever since.I'm certainly not surprised by the inclusion of the Pentax Optio E10 though. Of all the cameras on ProductCritic, it has the lowest ProductCritic Score of 63. Not surprisingly, the second lowest score on the whole site goes to its cousin, the Pentax Optio A10 which received a 69. That definitely tells me that Pentax doesn't know how to make a good point & shoot...although I believe that their dSLR's fa Read more:Cameras
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Build A Website Using Ruby On Rails That You Can Be Proud Of 2007-02-26 08:04:59 ProductCritic is developed with the Ruby on Rails framework. This entry will give some insight on how this came to be.My experience with web apps started with ASP and later onto ASP.NET. I found ASP.NET a huge improvement over ASP but after working on a few sites I still found it lacking.Specifically one thing ASP.NET does not have good support for is nice URLs. I'm sure there are ways to do it but I never found a good solution to removing those ugly .aspx page extensions. Also, the page/form centric model that ASP.NET uses is a bad design for medium to large sites I find. No matter how hard I try I've always found my ASP.NET based sites always becoming a bit of a mess if they take off in size. There were many other problems and things I just didn't like about ASP.NET so about a year and a half ago I began looking for an alternative.I got interested in working with Ruby on Rails after seeing the original screencast. I'll never forget thinking "who is that crazy danish guy ye Read more:Build
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Second Worst Invention Ever? Cell Phones 2007-02-23 20:32:13 IT Week has a summary of a survey done in the UK asking what is the worst invention ever. Believe it or not, Cell Phones
came in second just after Weapons!Here's the full list:Weapons (35%)Mobile Phones (17%)Nuclear Power (9%)Sinclair C5 (9%)Television (9%)The Car (6%)Cigarettes (6%)Fast Food (3%)Speed Cameras (3%)Religion (2%)I have no idea what the Sinclair C5 is but obviously it's some British thing that's really bad! I also don't know the audience they were asking for this survey but I'm obviously different than that target group as I love my TV and my car.I actually don't think Cell Phones
are bad at all (which is why they are one of the products reviewed on ProductCritic)....what is actually bad are some Cell Phone users!
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Not Sure What Type Of Camera To Buy? 2007-02-22 07:22:24 I read a lot of forum posts on Yahoo and CNET and a lot of the questions are very general in nature and are usually of the type "What is the best camera?" or "What camera should I buy?"This is a very difficult question to answer because, like cars, the type of camera you buy depends highly on what you will use it for, how much you want to spend, etc.About.com has a very simple Digital Camera
Selector Quiz that may help you by at least pointing you in the right direction about which cameras you should do some research on (of course, you should then do that research on ProductCritic). I tried the quiz acting as different types of buyers and I think it retured fairly decent advice...although it said I should get an advanced camera instead of the dSLR that I thought it would recommend given my answers to the quiz.If you are looking to buy your first digital camera and are a little intimidated by all the choices, do yourself a favor and take the short quiz.
The Easiest Way To Understand All Those Camera Functions 2007-02-20 14:08:38 Although many of us have digital cameras, how many of us really know what all those camera terms like f-stop, aperture, and ISO mean? I own a Digital SLR (Canon 20D) that has almost every imaginable setting but even on my pocket camera (a Canon SD500), I can adjust some of these settings.It's taken me awhile to understand what all these terms are and how they affect the picture I'm taking (I still don't have a full grasp of it all) but that took a lot of time as I learned through lots of trial and error. Each of these settings affect the other settings and all these combinations can definitely be overwhelming to learn.Photonhead.com has a load of fantastic tutorials on how to use a digital camera:Beginner's Guide to PhotographyDigital Camera
Buying GuidePhotography TipsPhoto EditingBut, the very best thing on Photonhead is SimCam which is an online Film and Digital Camera Simulator. It gives you the ability to play around with things like f-stops and apertures, take a "virtual pic Read more:Understand
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Get Full Referral URL's Despite Using Analytics 2007-02-19 14:50:33 As I've mentioned in previous posts, I'm completely addicted to the stats generated by ProductCritic. Maybe it's just the fact that we gain knowledge on areas we need to tweak for the site (and we're tweaking on an almost daily basis).Besides the server logs (which I don't check all the time), we use Google Analytics
as our main source of information about visits to the site. Analytics provides a large amount of data and first time users of this tool can easily find themselves overwhelmed.Although I look at almost all areas of Analytics from time to time, I mainly focus my daily stats fix on two areas. The first is Visitor Segment Performance/Referring Source. I want to know where visitors to ProductCritic are coming from. It's been quite useful as we've immediately been able to determine when someone links to ProductCritic and where that link exists.The second area that I use in Analytics is Search Engine Marketing/CPC vs Organic Conversion. Although we currently don't use Adw Read more:Referral
Use Your Cell Phone Without Getting Irradiated 2007-02-16 12:59:10 Since my previous post on Highest and Lowest Radiation Cell Phone
s, CNET has updated their Lowest Radiation Cell Phones list. I've listed them below along with any relevant ProductCritic scores:LG KG800 Chocolate (ProductCritic Score = 66)Motorola Razr V3x (ProductCritic Score = 81)Samsung SGH-t809 (ProductCritic Score = 73)Bang & Olufsen Serene (Samsung SGH-E910)Sanyo RL-4930Helio DriftNokia 3250Samsung Sync (SGH-A707)Samsung Jitterbug Dial (SPH-A120)Samsung Jitterbug OneTouch (SPH-A110)Samsung is obviously doing something right with 4 out of 10 spots on this list. Although the LG KG800 Chocolate generates the least amount of radiation, maybe you get what you pay for as it currently sits near the very bottom of all the Cell Phones on ProductCritic.
Kodak Is Struggling...Is It Really Surprising? 2007-02-15 15:37:06 The BBC website has a short article with the headline "Kodak
to cut an extra 3,000 jobs". The article notes, "Struggling US camera company Eastman Kodak is to cut at least 3,000 extra jobs this year as it continues efforts to fully adapt to the digital age."Since they made all their profits on film, Kodak was slow to warm up to the digital camera age. Instead of jumping ahead of the pack, they spent more resources on advancing the quality of film (and, in my opinion, proceeded to stick their head in the sand).Still, once a giant like Kodak decided to get into the digital camera business, you'd expect that their brand alone would sell cameras...and it does (although not as well as Canon or Nikon).Given the quality of Kodak cameras, is it really surprising to anyone that Kodak has the lowest workforce they've had since the 1930's? I've listed a couple Kodak cameras that we've aggregated reviews for on ProductCritic:Kodak EasyShare C743 - ProductCritic Score = 63Kodak EasyShare Z650
The Secret Behind "More Megapixels" 2007-02-14 15:45:17 When I bought my first digital camera, I didn't know much about how many megapixels the camera should have. I went for the most megapixels I could get within my budget.Now that I've bought a few more cameras, I've learned that how many megapixels a camera has plays a very, very tiny part in the final quality of the pictures. I currently have a Canon SD500 (7.1 megapixel) and a Canon EOS 20D (8 megapixel) but when I look back at the pictures I took with my Canon G1 (3 megapixel), it's interesting to note that the pictures are every bit as good as my current cameras (I've included one with this post...the elephant scared the crap out of me). I took my Canon G1 to Africa in 2002 and of course I would have rather have had something like my Canon EOS 20D but I'm not disappointed in the resulting pictures that I have from that trip.The NY Times has a good article debunking the megapixel myth. As they state:But one myth is so deeply ingrained, millions of people waste money on itevery y
Block Your Ads. Get Better Stats. 2007-02-13 08:59:06 As part of the added value of ProductCritic over other review aggregator competitors, we add reviews and products manually (instead of using a spider or bot to scrape review sites). We believe that the quality of review summaries, the overall coverage on a product, and the summary review scores (and therefore, resulting ProductCritic Score) are much higher than with automatic scraping.On any normal day of working on ProductCritic, I probably reload the page 20-30 times depending on how many products and reviews I'm adding. This has a negative affect on the stats that you see on Google Adsense and Analytics because your pageviews are added to the total thus giving you inaccurate statistics. Since I'm such a stats addict, I wanted to remove my own pageviews of the site.Since I use Firefox, I installed the Adblock add-in. It's a great add-in for blocking all ads or specifically chosen ones. I actually don't block ads from other sites because I want to see what ads other sites, blogs, Read more:Stats
CNET's Top 7 Megapixel Cameras - January 2007 2007-02-12 07:04:31 CNET's Editors' Top 7 Megapixel cameras are listed below along with their ProductCritic scores:Canon Powershot SD800 IS (ProductCritic Score = 81)Sony Cybershot DSC-T10Sony Cybershot DSC-T50 (ProductCritic Score = 79)Canon Powershot A710 IS (ProductCritic Score = 83)Sony Cybershot DSC-T30Nikon Coolpix S7cKodak EasyShare V705 Sony Cybershot DSC-H5 (ProductCritic Score = 78)Canon Powershot SD550 (ProductCritic Score = 85)Unfortunately for us at ProductCritic, this list highlights all the work we still have to do as four of the nine cameras on this list do not yet have their reviews aggregated on ProductCritic. We'll be working to get these onto the site as soon as possible.
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Startup Lessons From ProductCritic - Why We Run Linux 2007-02-09 14:37:52 This is part two of StartupLessons
from ProductCritic
. Part One can be found here.Deciding on the operating system that will host your application has a huge ripple down effect on the rest of your system. There is effectively two options you can choose. Windows or not-Windows which is effectively Linux
but not always.Choosing Windows will almost certainly lead to IIS, SQLServer, and C#/VB.NET and choosing Linux will almost certainly lead to Apache, MySQL/PostgreSQL, Perl/PHP/Python/Ruby. Yes, you can run ASP.NET under Mono and you can run Ruby on Rails under Windows but doing so I find is an uphill battle. If there is anything that I have learned is that working in the preferred environment makes life a lot easier.The preferred environment means using the software in the same environment that it was built in. If you work in QA this is a bad idea because little bugs will go unnoticed but as a user it makes things far easier.Luckily, both OS's have platforms for their preferred en
Follow up to Memory Cards for Digital Cameras 2007-02-08 06:22:47 As a quick followup to our previous post on Fast MemoryCards
and DigitalCameras
, I wanted to call attention to an article by The Photography Bay that provides all the details that you should need about which memory cards to purchase to get the most out of your digital camera.It's a very well written post that's clear and concise. Whether you're a beginner or a "prosumer", I think you'll get something out of it.
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Startup Lessons From ProductCritic - Save Server Costs 2007-02-07 02:46:35 We thought it would be interesting to share some of the technical decisions we made with creating ProductCritic
. In this first of a series we talk about the hardware running the site.ProductCritic runs on its own VPS (Virtual Private Server) supplied by SliceHost. A VPS allows a single machine to emulate multiple machines. What this allows is a service provider like SliceHost to own a high end server and then slice it down into any number of smaller less powerful servers and then rent those out to customers.It's a really great because you get your own rock solid piece of (virtual) hardware running in a secure data center with fast network connections at a very reasonable cost. Since you own the entire slice you can install anything you want on it. You also don't have to worry about anybody else wrecking the server when they install something because only you have access to it. Since the service provider is running very little software itself not much every changes on the server Read more:Startup
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Kill Bad Ads From Your Site And Increase Your Revenue 2007-02-05 17:46:27 I can't stand all those Made For Ads (MFA) sites that are all over the internet. You know the ones I mean. They are sites that have nothing on them but more ads. These sites are absolutely content free and add nothing to the Internet community. They are the cockroaches...wait, leeches is better, of the Internet. I don't even want to link to one of them here because I can't stand giving them any more attention then they deserve.Don't you hate it when you look at your Adsense stats and see clicks that pay you less than 10 cents? Sometimes, you'll get clicks that pay you 1 cent! I've learned that many of these clicks come from ads that are actually MFA sites. You only get a certain number of people clicking on an ad in a certain day and you definitely don't want that click wasted on an ad that pays 1 cent!So, what can you do about them? First, you need to find them. Maybe there's an easier method to do this but I do this manually. I reload my page (at ProductCritic) and view the A Read more:Revenue
Now I Remember Why I Chose Canon Over Nikon 2007-02-03 23:05:51 I have a Canon
20D, a DSLR, and a Canon SD500, my pocket camera that I can carry around with me everywhere. I've always been partial to Canon digital cameras ever since my first one, the Canon G1 (of the G-series, I still like the G6 better than the G7).While working on ProductCritic, I've read almost all the reviews for the latest Nikon
cameras and, given their fantastic reviews, I had started getting a little nervous that maybe I should be switching brands. On ProductCritic, Nikon has currently captured 3 of the top 5 ratings spots:Nikon D200 (ProductCritic Score = 92)Canon EOS 20D (ProductCritic Score = 91)Nikon D80 (ProductCritic Score = 91)Nikon D70/D70S (ProductCritic Score = 89)Canon Digital Rebel XT (ProductCritic Score = 88)A post on Engadget entitled "Nikon fesses up to new CCD malfunction problems" shook out the remaining doubt in my mind. It details the latest CCD failures with some Nikon models. Granted that in 2005, CDD problems hit almost all major brands (including Ca Read more:Remember
Your Rank In Search Results...How To Compare Against Competitors 2007-02-02 15:09:04 Since launching ProductCritic last month, I've learned a lot from other bloggers about various terms and tools that you should use to optimize, improve, and gather information about your site or blog.What is SERP? It stands for Search
Engine Results Pages. SERP tools help you gather information on where your site ranks on the search engines for various search terms. My favorite SERP tool is Shoemoney's Serps Script. It's really free, fast, has nothing extraneous, and works great for comparing where ProductCritic ranks against its competitors. I also use it to compare the rankings for ProducCritic against one of the largest technology review sites on the Internet....CNET.Not surprisingly, for a site that only launched a month ago, ProductCritic doesn't rank at all for the generic and most popular keyword searches like "digital camera review". What is surprising to me is that some of the "long tail" terms (I'll post a blog entry on short tails, long tails, and hittail next week) ran Read more:Compare
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Ten Most Popular Cell Phones of 2006 2007-02-02 05:26:48 Wirefly is the #1 seller of cell phones and plans in the US. They recently announced their Ten Most Popular Cell Phones
of 2006. I've provided the list below and, as usual, the ProductCritic scores associated with each phone.Cingular RAZR by Motorola (ProductCritic Score = 81)T-Mobile RAZR (ProductCritic Score = 81)Verizon Wireless RAZR (ProductCritic Score = 81)Cingular Sony Ericsson z520a/z525a video phones (ProductCritic Score = 80)T-Mobile Motorola v360 (ProductCritic Score = 80)Verizon Wireless Motorola v276 (ProductCritic Score = 77)Sprint Nextel Motorola i850 (ProductCritic Score = 70)Sprint Nextel Motorola i710Cingular Motorola v220 (ProductCritic Score = 65)T-Mobile Samsung T309 (ProductCritic Score = 62)It's amazing how Motorola just dominates the list and the RAZR rules the top three spots. It was a sexy phone when it was first released and it should be no surprise that it's so popular now that you can probably get it for $50 with a plan.Additionally, it also shouldn't b
Does A Fast Memory Card Matter For Your Digital Camera? 2007-02-02 05:23:57 When you buy a new digital camera, they usually include a tiny memory card (e.g. Compact Flash or SD Card) that is big enough for you to immediately try out the camera and fill it with....5 pictures. For most cameras on the market, you will want to purchase a much larger memory card. These days, depending on the megapixel capabilities of your camera, I would suggest a minimum of 512MB or a 1GB card. On my 8 megapixel Canon 20D, my 1 GB card allows me to take about 230 pictures (in jpeg format) before I have to empty the card. Unless I'm specifically taking a day for improving my photography skills, that makes it very convenient to take the camera out for the day and usually not have to worry about running out of room on my card.Memory
cards (of which there are many different types) come in a variety of prices as well. Should you be spending the extra money for these "ultra fast" cards?Here is a good article from BobAtkins.com that gives you a lot of information about memory cards for Read more:Digital
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Yahoo Challenging Google Adwords 2007-02-02 05:22:55 PC World has an article about Yahoo
's revamped Sponsored Search. I haven't tried GoogleAdwords
yet as I'm still trying to figure out what keywords I'd use for ProductCritic. Since Yahoo only has 22% of the US search market vs. Google's 63%, you might be able to buy keywords for cheaper with Yahoo's Sponsored Search. Since you can't use Adsense and Yahoo ads together on the same site (even if they don't appear on the same page), I'm sticking with Adsense until I have a much better sense of what's working and what isn't.One of the tools I'm using to determine the best keywords is HitTail. I'll provide more details in a followup post detailing some of the tools and sites I'm using the manage this blog and the main ProductCritic site.
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Is This The Best New Way To Promote A Site? 2007-02-02 05:17:17 This blog exists to promote our main site, ProductCritic. We're quite open about this and the name of this blog should be clue enough.As I've written about previousely, we use a variety of strategies to promote the growth of ProductCritic. I've just started to use another method that I'm hoping will help gain some backlinks from the second most popular search engine...Yahoo!How do you do this? Use Yahoo! Answers. I've started reading some of the questions in the Consumer Electronics category (specifically Cameras, Camcorders, and Cell Phones). There appear to be quite a lot of questions in the form of "Which of these digital cameras is the best?" and "Is the Nikon D40 better than the Canon 20D?"I provide honest answers to questions that I know something about and provide a link to the relevant products on ProductCritic and their ProductCritic Scores. I believe this can genuinely help people answer their questions while at the same time providing a plug for ProductCritic. I'll kno Read more:Promote
Get The Most Out Of Your Digital Camera...Take This Free Course 2007-02-02 05:12:38 The original motive for starting ProductCritic was because we were tired of the hassle of keeping track of all our research before we bought a product. In fact, the current three categories of consumer electronics that we provide review aggregation for on ProductCritic were chosen because we had recently bought a camera, camcorder, and cell phone.So, part of this blog is also about the products that we cover. I definitely consider myself a very amateur photographer who really enjoys the creative outlet that photography brings. Although I'm not sure that my own photography skills have improved a lot, my pictures have turned out better just because of my current camera, the Canon 20D.In order to actually improve my skills (and not just my tools), I've recently started going through one of the best free online photography courses I've found. From instructor, Jodie Coston, it's very well written and gives good background information behind the instructions.The 10 lessons are broken dow Read more:Digital
, Camera
CNET's Overhyped Cell Phones 2007-01-29 17:49:07 CNET's Overhyped Cell Phones
lists four cell phones that don't quite live up to their hype billing. In no particular order, they are:Motorola Q (ProductCritic Score = 77)LG VX8500 Chocolate (ProductCritic Score = 75)Bang & Olufsen SereneMotorola RAZR V3i (ProductCritic Score = 81)Note that ProductCritic doesn't have a score for the Bang & Olufsen. Although our aim is to have as comprehensive a database as possible, we are trying to target the brands and models that people are actually considering (since that's the whole point of making ProductCritic as useful as possible for people). I've never even heard of the Bang & Olufsen and at a $1000 price point (which CNET calls out), I doubt it's a phone that many people are actually considering.I actually don't think the Motorola's or the LG are too hyped given their ProductCritic scores but I guess if the hype really points people to a high expectation, then the ProductCritic scores are definitely disappointments. I don't q
Our Simple And Free Method For Submitting Sitemaps 2007-03-06 07:20:25 Creating sitemaps for your site is a very important part of ensuring that the search engines can spider your site easily and know the most about its pages. You can view ProductCritic's sitemap at http://www.productcritic.com/sitemap.xmlAt ProductCritic, we mostly care about Google and Yahoo! since these two sites combine for more than 80% of the search traffic to the site. If you have not done so already, you should set up your sites at both Google Webmaster Tools and Yahoo! Site Explorer:http://www.google.com/webmasters/toolshttp://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.comOnce you've set up your sites and verified that you own them (I've found that the easiest way to do this is to upload their generated html file to your site vs using a meta-tag), it's time to create and upload a sitemap.When we first launched the main site, we tried some free sitemap generators (just do a search at Google and you'll find a ton of them). The free online one that we found was the best was XML-Sitemaps
.com. St Read more:Simple
Are You A Linux Geek? You'll Love These Phones 2007-03-07 14:04:24 The Ministry of Tech blog has a post listing The 5 Hottest Phones
for Linux
Fanatics. All these "phones" are built on the Linux platform and in theory, should enable communities to be created around them to customize their functionality.Listed below are the phones (and their ProductCritic Score if available):FIC Neo1973Sony mylo (ProductCritic Score = 67)ROAD S101K HandyPCMotorola A1200 (ProductCritic Score = 83)Grundig B700The Motorola A1200 (also known as the "Ming") has pretty good reviews but the Sony mylo has quite mixed ones. This is probably because the mylo really isn't a phone in the traditional sense in that you can only make calls if you're connected via Wi-fi and use Skype...it doesn't have the traditional cell phone capabilities (and therefore the monthly fees or contracts).
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Why You Need A Guest Blogger 2007-03-12 06:59:08 We've committed to posting a blog entry at least 4 times a week. So, where were we last week? Well, Gerry is away on vacation and I've been sick.Although we've only been doing this for a short time, it really highlights the need for every blog that is trying to be professional to prepare for a guest blogger during the times that you just can't post and entry!
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Testing Great Firewall of China 2007-03-12 06:22:39 John Chow just posted a blog entry about his very successful blog being blocked by the GreatFirewall
of China
. Well, I decided to go and try it out to see if either this blog or ProductCritic (the main site) was also blocked.From the results, it looks like ProductCritic is available (yay!) but for some reason this blog is blocked. I've included both images from the test result.I'm not sure how much I can believe the results because Google Analytics shows that I've been getting hits from within China to this blog. Maybe the analytics data is wrong? Also notice that in the 'available' image, at the bottom, it actually says that the last test was 'blocked'. Something is definitely odd with this test.It's not that big of a deal to me as access to the main ProductCritic site from China is what is actually important to me.
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CNET Editor's Top 7-Megapixel Cameras 2007-03-13 06:10:38 The latest batch of pocket point-and-shoot cameras boast 7-Megapixels of goodness. Of course, lots of megapixels really doesn't mean better pictures but CNET has listed their top 7-Megapixel cameras.I've listed them below along with each cameras ProductCritic Score (as long as they are listed in ProductCritic).Canon PowerShot SD800 IS (81)Sony CyberShot DSC-T10 (77)Sony CyberShot DSC-T50 (79)Canon PowerShot A710 IS (83)Sony CyberShot DSC-T30Canon PowerShot A550Nikon Coolpix S7cKodak EasyShare V705 (75)Sony CyberShot DSC-H5 (78)Canon Powershot SD550 (85)It's always interesting to me how CNET rates their products compared to the summary score that we calculate from all the professional reviews on the Internt. Note that the 10th spot on CNET's list is the best rated of them all according to the ProductCritic Score. I think the SD550 is a great camera so I'm not surprised it's actually got the best reviews from experts. I'm also not surprised that Kodak has the lowest score of the t Read more:Editor
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