Need for Speed: Carbon Review

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(More customer reviews)In this game, you race on city streets, with light traffic, and police who sometimes chase you. In the career mode, you complete a series of races to take over territory. There is also a series of challenge events, and various multiplayer options. The city looks great, and it is fun to race through it really fast. However there were two issues with the game that bothered me.
First, it crashes a lot, at least on my new MacBook Pro. I almost returned the game as unplayable, because it seemed impossible to get through one of the first races in career mode without crashing (the software, not the car). Fortunately, I discovered that if I disconnected my external monitor, I could get through this race (and then resume playing on the external monitor for a while until the next software crash). Don't ask me what causes this behavior.
Second, the career mode seemed too easy, and therefore a bit boring. I could win most races on the first try. (Due to an unfortunate incident unrelated to the game, I had to stop playing after completing only the first third of the career mode. Also I didn't try the multiplayer. So maybe it gets more challenging.) Cars seem to be indestructible (except that you lose a canyon race if you drive off a cliff). The only hard part is to evade the police, which is kind of tedious. You have teammates who are supposed to help you in races; I could never figure out how to use them, but I didn't need them.

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Korean Computer Keyboard Cover for Laptops and Slim-Line Keyboards Review

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(More customer reviews)I occasionally need to type in Korean for work, and needed a Korean keyboard for my company laptop. But couldn't put stickers on the keys. I saw this on Amazon and decided to give it a try.
This isn't a custom keyboard skin for one specific laptop: It's designed to fit a range of slimline and laptop keyboards. As such, it's very thin and shallow, resting on top of the keys and not going too deeply around them (but deep enough that it stays in place). It's molded for beveled keys, which helps. I don't know how many models it fits, but it fits both my HP/Compaq 3910p and my old Toshiba Satellite like a glove.
Now, does it work? Yes, and quite well. I'm able to type without any difficulty. It flexes very well, and hitting one key doesn't force adjoining keys down. If I had one complaint, it would be that the skin shifts slightly during extended typing. This is a minor annoyance, as I don't use it all the time.
Please note that you don't get an absolutely perfect fit on keyboards with trackpoints in them (like my HP). The trackpoint prevents the skin from settling completely onto the keys around it. You could probably fix this by punching a hole in the correct spot to allow the trackpoint to poke through the skin.
Got a laptop and need to periodically type in Korean (or other language -- I imagine their other skins are just as good)? Don't want to put stickers on the keys? This product is worth a serious look.

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Adobe Acrobat Professional 9 Upgrade from Acrobat Pro Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought this to put on a brand new, virgin MacBook Pro. I already had a full version of 8.1 on my previous MacBook which is why I bought the upgrade. Being new to Macs, I installed this and all of my other initial software under the watchful eye of a "Genius" at a local Apple store. We were both suprised when the 9.0 upgrade installation did not demand proof of the 8.1 full version.
A few weeks later, I discovered that I was unable to print PDFs from my other applications. They would appear to print but I was never asked for a filename and they ended up jammed in the Adobe printer's print queue never to be coaxed out. I got an Indian support person on the phone first thing in the morning. She was clearly reading from a script and either incapable of or uninterested in listening. After 25 minutes of muffeled heavy breathing she decided that my 9.0 installation CD was somehow corrupted and put me in another queue to get a replacement sent to me in "about a week".
Meanwhile, I needed the missing functionality. I tried several itterations of installing and uninstalling 8.1 and 9.0 in different orders. Finally I uninstalled everything, put all adobe installation folders in the trash and started fresh with 8.1. After all, it worked on my former MacBook which was only a little more than a year old. It should work on this one right? Wrong. Same problem.
I called Adobe technical support again. After 28 minutes on hold, they hung up on me. I called back. After 55 minutes on hold, I got another Indian who told me I had been waiting in the wrong queue. The person she transferred me to (after another 5 minute hold) told me that, since I was asking for 8.1 support, whe would have to initate a "support contract" and charge me at least $39 to talk to me.
No more Adobe products for me. Never!

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