Articles are rated on a scale of 1 to 5 Geekheads. Ratings are represented by the appropriate number of Geekheads.

Example: Five Geeks (a rating of 5 out of 5)

There is a ratings table similar to the one below at the top of every review for quick reference. The rating categories are linked back to this page as well.

There will be two ratings for each hardware, software, or product review:

Q U A L I T Y
How good the product is . . .

	1 Geekhead - Extremely poor. Bad product. Poor performance, useless, doesn't work correctly, horrible user interface, too difficult to navigate.
	5 Geekheads - Excellent. Good product. Good performance, very useful. Proper documentation. Works up to its claims. User friendly.

G E E K N E S S
How "geeky" the product is, how complex and robust it is . . .

	1 Geekhead - Very simplistic. Doesn't support a lot of customization. No new and exciting functions.
	5 Geekheads - Revolutionary. Allows a lot of customization. Complex features. Worth showing to your friends.

Book reviews are rated on Geekness and Readability:

R E A D A B I L I T Y
How well the book is written, how easy it is to understand . . .

We judge readability on two inter-related criteria: how well the book flows and how easy it is to understand.

Chapters or sections that jump back and forth from technical to non-technical make it difficult to follow the technical discussion and hard to remember what's being discussed. If a book is written poorly, with bad grammar and sentence structure or with too much undefined jargon, the reader spends too much time just trying to figure out what a paragraph means, let alone learning a new software package or programming language. A combination of bad flow and bad writing can make a book on a good topic suitable only for propping up a monitor or keyboard.

	1 Geekhead - Almost certainly useless to you. The book is written poorly and doesn't teach you anything. Very hard to get through.
	5 Geekheads - A masterpiece. The book teaches you everything a hardware or software manual would (even though most geeks don't read manuals!), but is actually interesting and easy to read.

GEEK.COM PICK AWARD
This product is worthy of greatness . . .

When a product truly impresses the reviewer, we bestow upon it the Geek.com Pick Award.

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